Bah, humbug.
A little earlier I nonchalantly and lazily microblogged using the oh-so-professional channel of my Facebook status about something that slightly irritated me whilst watching the news. Here was what I wrote:
One attempted act of terrorism: Almost 24/7 news coverage. Thousands of scientific breakthroughs every day: Not even a few minutes of airtime. No [...]
Archive for the ‘shameless self-promotion’ Category
Media coverage, skew, and general not-in-the-Christmas-spirit ranting
Posted in controversial..., cool physics, film / tv / music, outreach, psychological ponderings, shameless self-promotion on December 27, 2009 | 10 Comments »
The obligatory book post
Posted in artsey, book reviews, shameless self-promotion on December 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
You all knew it was coming, so here it is:
My art book is now available… which means I’m a published artist, and one step up from a starving artist
This version is in Spanish, I’m working on getting an English version published but that may take a little while. But the pretty pictures really [...]
Learning to draw by understanding human vision processing
Posted in BCI, artsey, shameless self-promotion on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m feeling in an artsey mood pending the release of my ART BOOK <- Yes that is a shameless plug. So I got thinking about what our brain actually does when we try to draw things.
Specifically, why is drawing lifelife objects difficult, especially from memory?
I like to draw, and I often come across [...]
More UKTA presentation fun!
Posted in outreach, shameless self-promotion, transhumanism on October 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I gave a short presentation to the UK Transhumanists on Saturday about something I termed Massively Multiplayer Online Research Project Science (MMORPS). The briefing was to give a summary of Michael Nielsen’s talk on Open Source Scientific Collaboration given at the Singularity Summit. Several of us spoke at this meeting, the aim to give a [...]
I got interviewed for Pop Sci mag at Singularity Summit…
Posted in conferences, outreach, shameless self-promotion, transhumanism on October 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
…and here is the link:
Singularity Summit 2009: The Faces of Singularity – Pop Sci article October 2009
I am number 6 of 7 in the line-up of photos. It’s an absolutely terrible photo, but I wasn’t feeling 100% that day, and I got the camera shoved *right* in my face!
I don’t know if it’s actually [...]
UK Transhumanists patiently listen to me ramble about QC for 2 hours!
Posted in BCI, outreach, psychological ponderings, quantum computing, quantum spookiness, shameless self-promotion, transhumanism on September 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Anyone want to watch me embarrass myself royally as I try to explain quantum computing and AI at the UK Transhumanist meeting? Thought so! This is the first of about 10 of these videos, they should all be linked from this one via YouTube.
Warning: The talk is over 100 minutes long and contains intense scenes [...]
Presentation on Quantum Computing to UKTA
Posted in BCI, psychological ponderings, quantum computing, quantum spookiness, shameless self-promotion, transhumanism on September 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’m giving a talk in London on the 12th September to the UKTA (UK Transhumanist Association) for a regular event known as UKH+. There will be discussion sessions before and after the talk in a lovely nearby pub (The Marlborough Arms).
The talk will be about quantum computing: What quantum computers can do, and more importantly [...]
Supercool talks
Posted in cool physics, fun and games, outreach, shameless self-promotion, superconductors on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So we’ve had a week of University Admissions open days and activities days here in Physics land. Here are a couple of pictures where I’m giving a talk entitled ‘Supercool Computers’ to AS level students (16-18).
We typically show some demonstrations with Liquid Nitrogen, verify that gases do not follow the ideal gas law using [...]
