hēg denu
The old english words from which my name is derived, hēg 'hay' + denu 'valley'.-
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Thesis progress
While working on my thesis dissertation, I regularly commit changes to a code repository. This gives me peace of mind – I push the repository to a couple of different servers – and allows me to easily go back and … Continue reading
Posted in Mathematics, Research
Tagged Hacker News, Ph.D. Thesis, The Original Takeaway
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Explain it simply
Given what I’m doing at the moment. Yesterday’s xkcd comic is a perfect fit. As the quote often attributed to Albert Einstein (I’m not sure whether he said it or not) goes: If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t … Continue reading
The beginning of the end
Today I officially started writing my Ph.D. dissertation. That’s to say, I created a latex document, organised a bit of formatting and the structure for chapters and what-not. Then I actually starting writing. This was really just re-writing some work … Continue reading
Spanish surnames
This is just a quick post about spanish (or perhaps “latino”) surnames. Following of from yesterday’s My eight surnames. I’ll call this a spanish thing, but it extends all spanish speaking latin american countries, as well as Portugal and Brazil … Continue reading
My eight surnames
Yesterday, Andrea and I went to see the new spanish film, Ocho Apellidos Vascos (Eight Basque Surnames). Image source. An incredibly funny film, but with a lot of references that you need to have grown up here to understand. I … Continue reading
Montserrat
Last Sunday, Andrea and I took a trip to Montserrat. The mountain in central Catalunya that’s so popular that it’s a (very common) girl’s name. We drove to the base of the mountain and took the cable car up to … Continue reading
About talking to mathematicians
This week I read a couple of blog posts relating to mathematicians. The first is How to talk to a mathematician from Math with Bad Drawings (by Ben Orlin), and the second is titled Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused (and … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Mathematics
Tagged Math with Bad Drawings, Mathematicians ∩ Programmers
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Starbound
A few weeks ago I discovered the game Starbound. It’s a new (as in not finished) platform adventure game by a developer called Chucklefish. It was released a bit before Christmas as a beta, which is to say that they’re … Continue reading
The Silent Partner
Evan’s recent viral success was the final push that he needed to get his new web site off the ground. I am happy to announce that the-silent-partner.com is now live. I think the site looks great, thanks to design and … Continue reading
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