benjamin.computer

I was fortunate to be selected to take part in the December Data Study Group at the Alan Turing Institute

I've been thinking a lot about Hackspaces recently

What is the first year of a science PhD like?

A computer nerd's guide to travelling Japan.

So I've been learning Rust and I've found a great use for it in real research.

Debugging neural networks with a little pdb and pytorch

I've been learning about BGA, surface mount soldering and hotplates

I've started working with PyTorch to find 3D parameters of objects in images

I just finished Planescape Torment.

Flickr has changed.

Everyone loves the 80s!

So I've submitted the thesis, had the viva, gotten the result and it's the end of a two year stint at trying bioinformatics.

The first themed area at Electromagnetic Field Camp - The Cyberpunk Cybar

I've been working with my friend Will on some FPGA graphics demos.

Sequences appear a lot in biology, as you might expect.

I decided to improve on my old hydroponics setup, with some proper pumps, pipework and the EMF tilda badge.

I figured I'd see what all these wetlab biologists are getting up to and give it a go myself.

For some reason, HacDC has a scanning electron microscope, and it might just work

How can we go from a list of amino acids to a full 3D structure, using just a neural network?

Electron microscopy data is getting pretty big in the bioinformatics world at the moment.

I've been spending most of my time these days learning AI and biology.

The second part of building a 3D scanning dome.

I've started writing an Android application.

I'm keen to scan quite a few objects and I figured building a proper scanning rig would be a good start.

I bought a miniSpartan3 a long time ago and now it's tricky to get them to work but I've found a way.

How do you improve an existing project for a long term study of animal behaviour

So in addition to getting married, helping plan a move to the USA and learning all about bioinformatics, I've been working a lot with word2vec, tensorflow and various word vector counts to figure out similarities between verbs.

So I'm getting married.

It's no secret that I'm not a fan of social media generally.

My WebGL engine, PXL.js hit v0.1.0 and it's not too shabby but I've learned other things besides programming.

EMFCamp happened this year and I helped out with the First Aid Team.

Two years ago, I built an ePRF system for EMFCamp.

At QMUL, we are a CMake shop.

I try to make it every year to BSides.

I've been working on a project here at QMUL for a while now, utilising Fortran90, CUDA and a library called OP2.

I've been meaning to play around with Go for a while.

I recently visited Brussels for the FOSDEM Conference.

A while ago, my partner expressed an interest in theremins.

Watches in general fall into one of two categories - a tool to tell the time, or a fashion statement.

I wrote quite a bit about the Trans-siberian trip I recently went on.

I've never been to Defcon or The CCC Conference or Blackhat, so I felt it was finally time to take the plunge.

One of the first jobs I've worked on for Queen Mary University is a small program to compared two ordered lists.

Myself and Tom Wyatt were approached by the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures this year to help with one of the demos for the lectures; a giant game of Tetris to be played on the side of the Shell Building, Opposite the London Eye.

UTOPIA is a collection of two programs and set of plugins written in Python.

I was asked to help out with Target's latest marketing campaign; a set of mobile games running through WebGL, called Bullseye's Playground

I've been playing around with RFID Rings for a while now.

More like Seven Languages in Seven Months!

Hellicar and Lewis and I were asked by Lexus to take EchoForms to their launch event in Paris.

Anyone who volunteers for St John Ambulance or similar, or works with the ambulnance service will know that patient report forms are a sort of necessary pain-in-the-backside.

I've been interested in large pixel displays for a while now.