And so it’s that time of month again, that instinctive feel that I’ve not written here for a long time and should keep up with it.
So, what’s new with me?
Not much to be fully honest. Our team came third in the GLSW night hike. (Route to come when I write that bit of the website…)
My interests are slowly moving back towards OSM from other stuff, although I have got quite a few good books that keep getting in the way of doing work for OPLS… I feel I’m letting Tom down, must really focus on it….
I’ve been attending the lectures at UCL for 6th form science students recently, the first in this term was on Deployable Structures. The lecture was a bit dry, essentially explaining what one is (think umbrella) and why they’re useful (small size for transportation), issues and different types.
The second was on the solar powered car that the engineering department built and raced across austalia. It was a genuinely interesting lecture, giving details on the core aims the car must reach (efficiency being the core priority, which requires low weight, efficient motors, low air resistivity etc)
This week was the magic of computer science, and how the methods used in magic tricks (mostly the card puzzles) is actually highly useful in CS. Many of the shuffling tricks are actually efficient sorting algorithms. More on this to come, once I’ve researched this a bit more to refresh my mind of the terms.
I have to say it was a little unfair for non-student adult nerds to go into the car lecture and ask difficult technical questions