In the novel Death's End author Liu Cixin describes the difficulty of storing information that will last for a hundred million years. USB...

One of the ways I like to look at Deep Neural Networks is as a series of filters. A filter removes some unwanted components from a signal...

One of the most bizarre and archaic aspects of the Australian electoral system is ballot paper ordering. From the AEC website: The...

Over the summer I completed one final research project to finish my Master's. My goal was to understand the information bottleneck...

The CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 (Canadian Institute For Advanced Research) are two classic datasets for training and testing image recognition...

On Friday I was invited to give a short presentation to UN Youth Australia on getting graduate positions. The slides are posted below....

A basic rule of mathematics is that it should seek to illuminate, not obscure. A complicated concept should be understandable by a...

Like many, I was disappointed with the Australian Government's decision to double tuition fees for students taking courses in humanities,...

I've decided to a release a few projects that I've worked on over the last year and a half. Most of these are better described as...

In January I attended a course on infectious disease modelling as part of the AMSI Summer School. The rapid spread of COVID-19 made this...

In a previous post, I received a comment which mentioned an interesting thought experiment: The China Brain. The idea goes as follows -...

In The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences Eugene Wigner declared 'The miracle of the appropriateness of...

In Western Australia it an offence to possess more than 50kg of potatoes, unless you are a member of the Potato Corporation. Challenging...

I've always liked book lists. That doesn't mean I can write them: advertising doesn't come naturally to me, and summaries are a lousy...

A slime mould is an amorphous blob of unthinking biological material, capable of extraordinary acts of creative planning and navigation....

Those that know me will know that I've run a couple blogs over the years - this marks the first time I've decided to do so under my own...