Almost eleven
This blog is almost 11 now. I’ll be trying out switching to an android client this year, just to see if it makes any difference in my posting frequency. Meanwhile, here’s a ’test swan'.
Chaos
Of Mir and Meerkats
Breakfast Doodle
Accommodation in Cambridge
About 3-4 times a year, I get asked by students, visiting scholars, and people moving here for work about how to find accommodation in Cambridge. I usually reply by digging up the last few such emails and tweaking my response a little bit but it just crossed my mind that blogging about it might be more helpful. So here are some things I have learned about finding accommodation in Cambridge. I will not cover accommodation offered by colleges; if you are a student, you are probably better off looking at your college accommodation website. ...
Desk Descriptions
It’s been one week since I switched to a sit/stand desk setup. It’s time to report back. I’ve decided to try out a sit/stand setup for the next week. Will report back if it’s worth switching to permanently. A photo posted by Awais Athar (@awais_athar) on Aug 16, 2016 at 7:39am PDT Here are some of the points to note if you switch to a similar setup. ...
three sunsets
the same sun sets each day in different colours
Smart People
Inspired by: I like smart people. — Firuza Pastakia (@firuzap) January 6, 2015
Washes the grave with (dried) silvery tears…
LDA-Based Topic Modelling in Javascript: An Update
I’ve just pushed a Javascript version of LDA on my github account. It’s based on my no-longer-functioning earlier work. For testing, I use a subset of the SMS Spam Corpus available here (and thus take no responsibility of the inappropriateness of the text within :) ). Each topic is represented as a word cloud; the larger a word, the more weight it has in the topic. The source sentences are displayed again with a bar which shows the percentage distribution of topics for that sentence. Hovering on each area in the bar would show you the words in the topic. You can of course replace it with any other text, change the number of topics using the slider, and press the ‘Analyse’ button to see it work. ...
beach blues
holding hands in the blue-grey sea spring is here #haiku
haiku
bright yellow seeds dropped on the table mat ’quite corny, eh?’