Article series
I tend to write short-form articles on this site. Some of these I’ve brought together as curated series that can be read together as long-form.
An annotated Lisp bibliography, a curated and commented list of references into the enormous Lisp literature
Bird counting with acoustic sensing, using largely off-the-shelf hardware to drive some experiments in data analytics for estimating bird abundance
A citizen sensing project to explore doing environment sensing with off-the-shelf Arduino hardware
Book reviews, including all those read by my book club over the past years
Recent articles
- Tuesday 20 May, 2025 Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
- Saturday 10 May, 2025 Genius At Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway
- Monday 28 April, 2025 Dragons, Heroes, Myths & Magic: The Medieval Art of Storytelling
- Saturday 26 April, 2025 The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective
- Sunday 6 April, 2025 Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain’s Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
Selected articles
In computer science there are only two kinds of PhD: you just have to decide which one yours will be
… and there’s only one computer science book worth reading twice
Me and my research, how and why to choose (and change) your research topic
How to write an abstract for a paper, a skill every academic and student needs to learn
The experience of self-publishing a scientific textbook, in case you want to do so yourself