Early Nightfall

As much as I like Youtube and the likes (e.g. Tudou) after spending some time today browsing through Youtube, the truth of this XKCD comic definitely hit home…

The other day I was looking for the train schedule to London, and decided to buy the train tickets online. I had never done that before for train tickets, so I was curious how it was going to work; for the National Express bus you simply get an e-ticket, which you print out and show [...]

The other day I was analysing a large-ish sparse matrix (250×250), and I needed to get a “birds’ eye view” of the matrix to see if I could find a pattern in the positions of the non-zero entries. At the time I didn’t know about the cool Matlab spy command, otherwise I would simply have [...]

Last week I finally finished something that had been lingering on my todo list for the last few months: update my JabRef Export filters.
They had been ‘almost done’ for months, but I never sat down to finish them properly. The main improvement in the filters is a significant speed optimization when searching large tables [...]