Blog Archive

• Apr 11, 2025

  The business of the AI labs

• Feb 14, 2021

  US equity valuations

• Nov 2, 2020

  How close is England to covid herd immunity?

• Apr 1, 2020

  L1 regression solved six ways

• Mar 22, 2020

  Coronavirus lockdown: balanced on a knife edge

• Mar 1, 2020

  Predicting international house prices

• Apr 11, 2019 • Finance

  Is Bitcoin a junk asset?

• Mar 25, 2019

  Do children make you happy?

• Mar 28, 2018 • Finance

  Making money in cryptocurrency without price risk

• Apr 10, 2017 • Finance

  Being concrete about the benefits of tax efficient index investment

• Apr 8, 2017 • Finance

  Tax-efficient and financing-efficient UK individual investing

• Apr 5, 2017 • Finance

  The case for leverage in personal investing

• Apr 4, 2017 • Finance, Javascript

  Portfolio mean-variance optimisation in the browser

• Dec 29, 2016 • Java

  Faster ordered maps for Java

• Aug 18, 2016 • Java

  4 things you didn't know you could do with Java

• Jul 12, 2016

  A Cambridge Computer Science degree summarised in 58 crib sheets

• Jul 4, 2016

  Datastructures for external memory

• Jan 25, 2016 • Java, Solutions

  Compression of floating point timeseries

• Nov 30, 2015 • Java

  Easy publishing to Maven Central with Gradle

• Nov 22, 2015 • Java

  Max's DataBase Interface

• Nov 14, 2015 • Java, JVM, Unix

  Beware: java.nio.file.WatchService is subtly broken on Linux

• Sep 3, 2015 • Java, JVM, Unix, Windows

  Asynchronous and non-blocking IO

• Jul 15, 2014 • Java, Ranting

  Quirks of the Matlab file format

• Dec 6, 2012 • Solutions, Windows

  Rpath emulation: absolute DLL references on Windows

• Sep 30, 2011 • Assembly, Haskell

  GHC-specific Alias Analysis for LLVM

• Sep 10, 2011 • Haskell

  Constraint Kinds for GHC

• Jul 6, 2011 • Assembly, Unix, Windows

  The Sad State of Symbol Aliases

• Jul 4, 2011 • Assembly, Windows

  Everything You Never Wanted To Know About DLLs

• Apr 4, 2011 • Apple, Solutions

  Fixing "files could not be moved" error in Boot Camp Assistant

• Mar 29, 2011

  Security implications of PEP 383

• Mar 8, 2011 • Apple, Haskell, Solutions

  How to build 32/64 bit fat (universal) binaries

• Jan 28, 2011 • Haskell, Solutions

  Solving GHC iconv problems on OS X 10.6

• Jan 19, 2011 • Haskell

  The case of the mysterious "thread blocked indefinitely in an MVar operation" exception

• Jan 18, 2011 • Haskell

  Interpreting GHC cost centre stacks

• Jan 18, 2011

  Blogging is hard, let's go tweeting!

• Apr 11, 2010 • Linkage, Real World

  TEDxCam Hackathon

• Apr 3, 2010 • Haskell, Solutions

  Ditaa support for gitit

• Jun 11, 2009 • Chinese

  Remembering The Hanzi

• May 11, 2009 • Haskell

  Constraint families

• May 10, 2009 • Haskell, Papers

  New paper: Types Are Calling Conventions

• Dec 7, 2008 • Solutions

  OMake and Literate Haskell

• Nov 11, 2008 • Bitesize

  Bitesize Functional Programming: Universals As Existentials

• Nov 11, 2008 • Apple, Solutions, Windows

  Upgrading An Unactivated Windows Install To Parallels 4.0

• Aug 31, 2008 • Haskell, Solutions, Unix

  Hackage Releases Made Easy

• Aug 11, 2008 • Haskell, Summer Of Code

  Compiler Plugins AngloHaskell Talk

• Jul 21, 2008 • Haskell, Summer Of Code

  Compiler Plugins For GHC: Week Six

• Jul 14, 2008 • Haskell, Summer Of Code

  Compiler Plugins For GHC: Week Five

• Jul 5, 2008 • Haskell, Summer Of Code

  Compiler Plugins For GHC: Weeks Three and Four

• Jun 23, 2008 • Haskell, Summer Of Code

  Compiler Plugins For GHC: Week Two

• Jun 14, 2008 • Haskell, Summer Of Code

  Compiler Plugins For GHC: The First Week

• May 8, 2008 • Haskell

  Free Monads In Haskell

• May 1, 2008 • Apple, Solutions

  Fixing File Associations Eaten By Parallels Desktop

• Apr 27, 2008 • Haskell

  FizzBuzzing With Type Families

• Apr 24, 2008 • Haskell, Summer Of Code

  The Summer Of Code, or Compiler Development for the Masses

• Mar 13, 2008 • Bitesize, Haskell

  Bitesize Functional Programming: Comprehensive Comprehensions

• Mar 3, 2008 • Ruby, Solutions

  Google Images Plugin For Corripio

• Feb 27, 2008 • Haskell

  FizzBuzzing At The Type Level

• Feb 24, 2008 • Haskell

  Raytracing With A Single Haskell List Comprehension

• Feb 14, 2008 • Cryptography, Solutions

  Breaking The Running Key Cipher: Part 2

• Feb 5, 2008 • Cryptography, Ranting

  In Defence Of Clipperz

• Feb 3, 2008 • Apple, Solutions, Unix

  Leaving Windows Behind

• Oct 20, 2007 • Solutions, Unix

  Using Cygwin on Windows Vista as an Administrator

• Oct 13, 2007 • Ranting

  Google 0wn5 Me

• Oct 7, 2007 • C#, JVM, Scala

  C#-Style Events In Scala

• Sep 30, 2007 • .NET, Ranting

  NOD32 IMON Component Is Just Plain Dangerous

• Sep 8, 2007 • .NET, C#

  Arbitrary Restrictions On C# Generic Constraints

• Aug 29, 2007 • Java, JVM

  Todays Java Atrocity

• Aug 25, 2007 • JVM, Scala

  Implementing The Disposable Pattern In Scala

• Jun 20, 2007 • Cryptography, Solutions

  Breaking The Running Key Cipher: Part 1

• May 14, 2007 • Assembly, Linkage

  Uninformed Journal Volume 7 Released

• May 11, 2007 • Javascript, Solutions

  Fixing Experts Exchange With Greasemonkey

• May 9, 2007 • Haskell

  Cute Haskell Code

• May 7, 2007 • Ruby, Solutions

  Frustration + Lazyweb = Results

• May 6, 2007 • Ranting, Ruby

  XMLHTTPRequest + Authentication = Frustration

• May 3, 2007 • .NET, Bitesize, F#

  Bitesize Functional Programming: Active Patterns

• May 1, 2007 • .NET, Solutions

  Global Hotkeys With .NET

• Apr 27, 2007 • Assembly, Solutions

  So, Does Anyone Even Use All These Darn CPU Instructions?

• Apr 24, 2007 • Haskell, Ranting

  Haskell Records Considered Grungy

• Apr 21, 2007 • Erlang, Solutions, Unix, YAWS

  Building YAWS For Windows