mort’s mythopœia

After a slew of HDI related items, a quick MirageOS note.

I have to confess to being quite pleased to having a couple of HDI-related papers accepted recently (even if we can’t even get proper reviews on the original HDI paper – recently judged out-of-scope for the third time, even though the Special Issue in que…

A little while ago, before I’d done the smart thing and got myself a case for my Nexus 4, I dropped it a couple of inches onto a hard surface at the wrong angle.

For a little while I’ve had this site running as a MirageOS unikernel, shadowing the main site hosted on GitHub.

As noted previously, this site is basically a Github-hosted Jekyll site at present, though one that can be built as a Mirage unikernel.

Looks like I get a chance to run my mouth off again :) Upcoming HDI research seminar, organised by Cambridge Big Data/Digital Humanities.

Turns out others were listening too – notably the USA’s DARPA.

It’s always1 nice when someone notices what you’re doing, and I was pleasantly surprised recently to find that someone had indeed been watching.2 Specifically, it appears that someone at MIT Technology Review has noticed the work of me and some of my pals:

In a fit of blogging mania, here’s another one literally barely days after the previous one.

Thanks to an invitation from Hitesh, I recently got the chance to revisit my old stomping ground at Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Specifically, I’ve left Horizon and the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham to (re-)join the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory.

I finally decided to sit down and get the shiny new merlin mode for OCaml working with my emacs configuration.