/blog/p/ Recent content in Ps on Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Thu, 15 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/p/interdisciplinarity/ Thu, 15 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/p/interdisciplinarity/ Even before you go to university, we are told to pick a single field of study. While fields are beneficial for ease of discussion, they limit our view of what we can do with our knowledge and skills. A good example of rejecting these boundaries is Cambridge, at which you do not study undergraduate Physics or Biology, you study Natural Sciences. This is because there are no hard boundaries between the sciences. /blog/p/allwikipediaplots/ Sun, 09 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/p/allwikipediaplots/ Since January I have created a tool which allows for the creation of a database of Wikipedia edits, Namespace Database. As I now have this database I have been able to create the following plots. This is a work in progress, and will evolve over time :) 💡 Tip: Click and hold the images to zoom Glossary Namespace A namespace on Wikipedia is the section that the page is in. /blog/p/fatliberation/ Tue, 30 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/p/fatliberation/ On normalising fat bodies in media vulture.com/2018/07/guy-branum-wants-to-see-more-real-fat-people-on-tv Intersection of fat liberation with queer liberation bitchmedia.org/post/fat-liberation-is-totally-queer How gender affects how people view weight dropbox.com/s/ir5f7nyn5a5y180/part-time%20fatso Unlearning fat bias humanparts.medium.com/7-ways-to-uproot-your-anti-fat-bias-54f01d76ec3b Common microagressions that fat people face huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/fatmicroaggressions-fat-shaming-tweets_n_4453060 Matt McGorry on gaining and losing weight for Hollywood and the work that privileged people should do humanparts.medium.com/my-journey-toward-radical-body-positivity-3412796df8ff “My life wouldn’t be easier if I were thin. My life would be easier if this culture wasn’t obsessed with oppressing me because I’m fat. /blog/p/wikipediaplots/ Mon, 15 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/p/wikipediaplots/ Since January I have created a tool which allows for the creation of a database of Wikipedia edits, Namespace Database. This page highlights the best plots from my database of talk page edits. All of the plots can be seen here. 💡 Tip: Click and hold the images to zoom Glossary Namespace A namespace on Wikipedia is the section that the page is in. Most people only know about the article or main namespace, where the articles are. /blog/p/coronavirustodostrategy/ Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/p/coronavirustodostrategy/ As of today, I’ve been in self-isolation for two weeks. Two surprisingly productive weeks I’m proud to admit. Over this time, I have worked towards the following strategy to keep me on track and motivated. Every night, make a to-do list for tomorrow. This harnesses the productive energy that I have during late nights and helps roll it over into the morning. When things are completed, move them to the done list for serotonin and accountability. /blog/p/advertsineurope19thc/ Sat, 07 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/p/advertsineurope19thc/ Industrialisation was a sweeping force in 19th century Europe that changed the way people thought about the world. British companies had been perfecting their advertising through the century and finding innovative ways to get their customers attention (Hahn, 2014). As it did this, the advertising industry was simultaneously mirroring and shaping society. It mirrored, as people need to be able to parse the narrative of the adverts quickly, but also shaped, as adverts aimed to define an ideal that society should work towards - an ideal which includes the product they are selling. /blog/p/azuresubdomains/ Fri, 17 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/p/azuresubdomains/ Up to now I have been updating this website by pushing to production and seeing if anything broke. As I now have a blog that I would like people to read, I can’t afford to break my website without realising. Unfortunately, local files don’t accurately represent a static site, as absolute links don’t work. I had a couple of options to solve this: Running a web server that was only exposed on a local network Very cool but would be a project in itself Pushing files to a folder Would work but would need to change all links to have /beta/ in the path beta. /blog/p/langviews/ Tue, 07 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/p/langviews/ To propose a new emoji to the Emoji Subcommittee of the Unicode Consortium, one needs to provide evidence that the concept in question is internationally notable enough to become an emoji. Many sources are commonly used like Google Trends and social media, but these suffer from only accounting for English or a select few languages. To evaluate the importance of a concept across many cultures there needs to be a way of uniquely identifying a concept and some way of conveying its importance in the language of that culture /blog/p/autohotkey/ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/p/autohotkey/ AutoHotKey is a tool for automating repetitive tasks, most commonly for easy text replacement as you type. Correcting common misspellings and inserting mathematical notation is made easy with short scripts that are simple to write and can be useful forever. Setup Download the current version of AutoHotKey, I’d recommend V2 however this guide is written for V1. After downloading it should create a script for you called AutoHotkey.ahk. You can place this anywhere but I put it in my Documents. /blog/p/whyimap/ Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/p/whyimap/ Since mid-October in my free time I’ve been adding roads and houses, benches and fire hydrants to OpenStreetMap. When I started, I didn’t expect it to turn into the hobby it has become. With now over 300 trees added and 150 buildings added or modified, OSM is something that I interact with daily. It started out as a curiosity, could I change the map so that my house was accurately represented? /blog/p/vscodeoverssh/ Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/p/vscodeoverssh/ Microsoft have already dethroned Notepad++ and they are coming for Samba. It’s no longer necessary to mount remote volumes, as VS Code allows you to interact with files over SSH as if they were local. This is a giant leap forward, allowing you to keep using themes, formatters and extensions on a remote machine. Windows Source: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh Ensure VS Code version is >= 1.35 (May 2019) /blog/p/holisticfacialrecognition/ Sat, 19 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/p/holisticfacialrecognition/ Abstract The nature of holistic processing is a key channel of enquiry and this review focuses on three papers which each examine a different facet. These findings demonstrate that upright and inverted faces are processed differently and that there is a link between processing features with their surroundings and the face as a whole. Keywords: Holistic processing, Face recognition, Learning, Composite Task Introduction Unlike other objects, we tend to view faces entirely at once (Tanaka & Farah, 1993). /blog/p/lipreading/ Wed, 15 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/p/lipreading/ Lip-reading mainly concerns discerning non-audible words solely from facial movements. This is a task which seems very hard to do as the only visible aspects of facial movement are the lips, teeth, height of the jaw and partially the tongue. This information is formally codified in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) which lists the possible phonemes the human mouth can produce. The chart includes one character per sound, and it is separated into vowels and pulmonic consonants. /blog/p/what-is-art/ Thu, 27 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/p/what-is-art/ Art is often seen as something which is undefinable, as it seems impossible to reconcile architecture with a poem, or a sculpture with a dance, under one universal definition. Because of this, common definitions of art seem so broad that it seems that anything at all can be art. Arthur C. Danto aimed to “find a definition of art everywhere and always true.” Danto spent his life searching for a suitable theory and created many fundamental essays which laid the groundwork for subsequent theories.