Author Archives: Graham

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I make it faster and easier for you to create high-quality code.

Applications and Spelling of Boole

Posted on 2019-05-08 by Graham

While Alan Turing is regarded by many as the grandfather of Artificial Intelligence, George Boole should be entitled to some claim to that epithet too. His Investigation of the Laws of Thought is nothing other than a systematisation of “those … Continue reading →

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Digital Declutter

Posted on 2019-04-29 by Graham

I’ve been reading and listening to various books about the attention/surveillance economy, the rise of fascism in the Anglosphere and beyond, and have decided to disconnect from the daily outrage and the impotent swiping of “social” “content”. The most immediately … Continue reading →

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What’s on the other channel?

Posted on 2019-04-18 by Graham

I run a company, a mission-driven software consultancy that aims to make it easier and faster to make high-quality software that preserves privacy and freedom. On the homepage you’ll find Research Watch, where I talk about research papers I read. … Continue reading →

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Half a bee

Posted on 2019-04-18 by Graham

When you’re writing Python tutorials, you have to use Monty Python references. It’s the law. On the 40th anniversary of the release of Monty Python’s Life of Brian, I wanted to share this example that I made for collections.defaultdict that … Continue reading →

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New Swift hardware

Posted on 2019-04-16 by Graham

The Swift Tower is an artificial nesting structure, installed in Oxford University parks. That or a very blatant sponsorship deal.

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King Arthur: By what name are you known?

Posted on 2019-04-11 by Graham

Why is it we’re not allowed to call the Apple guy “Tim Apple” when everybody calls the O’Reilly guy “Tim O’Reilly”?

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Pythonicity

Posted on 2019-04-05 by Graham

The same community that says: There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it. Also says: So essentially when someone says something is unpythonic, they are saying that the code could be re-written in a way … Continue reading →

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Runtime verification in Erlang by using contracts

Posted on 2019-03-29 by Graham

About this paper Runtime verification in Erlang by using contracts, L.-A. Fredlund et al, presented at WFLP 2018. Notes Spoiler alert, but the conclusion to my book OOP the Easy Way is that we should have independently-running objects, like we … Continue reading →

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There’s more to it

Posted on 2019-03-28 by Graham

We saw in Apple’s latest media event a lot of focus on privacy. They run machine learning inferences locally so they can avoid uploading photos to the cloud (though Photo Stream means they’ll get there sooner or later anyway). My … Continue reading →

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Hyperloops for our minds

Posted on 2019-03-20 by Graham

We were promised a bicycle for our minds. What we got was more like a highly-efficient, privately run mass transit tunnel. It takes us where it’s going, assuming we pay the owner. Want to go somewhere else? Tough. Can’t afford … Continue reading →

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