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@diveintomark Persistence is the key. Eventually, you'll be able to use the argument "if I get one I'll stop asking for it". about 6 hours ago from Tweetie in reply to diveintomark
R: making difficult things simple and simple things impossible. about 11 hours ago from Tweetie
@gappy3000 yep, the redback is very venomous, but fortunately not too aggressive. about 11 hours ago from Tweetie in reply to gappy3000
@ChrisDiehl Probably about 3-3.5cm. I was too keen to get up close with a ruler. :) 6:01 PM Nov 13th from Tweetie in reply to ChrisDiehl
Found a very serious redback living in my shed. Largest I've seen. http://yfrog.com/bb93862740j http://yfrog.com/j5p7qj 5:19 PM Nov 13th from Tweetie
@dwf Congrats! Keep in mind that we've got PhD programs here in Australia too. ;) 3:19 PM Nov 13th from Tweetie in reply to dwf
@boscoh More or less difficult, do you think, than getting modern dancers to a science lecture? 12:09 PM Nov 13th from Tweetie in reply to boscoh
Thinking about how to explain naive Bayesian spam filtering to high-school students. Having trouble recalling what I knew back then. 1:49 AM Nov 13th from Tweetie
@dwf "... plus a constant!" :) 12:57 AM Nov 13th from Tweetie in reply to dwf
Some of these maths jokes are terribly funny: "You might be a mathematician if you think fog is a composition" http://bit.ly/UXlmT 12:40 AM Nov 13th from Tweetie
Fixed point theorem: Put a map of where you are on the ground. Exactly one point on the map is directly above the point it represents. 6:55 PM Nov 12th from Tweetie
@arthegall "first contact with git" as in "take me to your remote origin"? :) 4:04 PM Nov 12th from Tweetie in reply to arthegall
There would be a certain poetry in changing the name of Google's new language "Go" to "Issue 9": http://bit.ly/4nGa46 4:03 PM Nov 12th from Tweetie
I must say though, free Internet tethering from my phone did a lot to cover the gap while we waited. 12:16 AM Nov 12th from Tweetie
Finally! We have the interwebs at home again. 12:15 AM Nov 12th from Tweetie
@chris_deal Select the text of the email, right-click and run it through text-to-speech for extra awesome. 6:36 PM Nov 11th from Tweetie in reply to chris_deal
... and the rush to get everything done before for Christmas break begins! 3:07 PM Nov 11th from Tweetie
@lizbt One word: Firefly. 2:29 PM Nov 11th from Tweetie in reply to lizbt
Reading through books on Choquet theory and I feel like a kid in a candy store. So many sweet (and hopefully applicable) results abound. 2:28 PM Nov 11th from Tweetie
Struggling to twist my head around some functional analysis. Not sure if my half-remembered undergraduate classes are helping or hindering. 8:21 PM Nov 10th from Tweetie

Name Mark Reid
Location Canberra, ACT, Australia
Web http://mark.reid....
Bio Research fellow in statistical machine learning. Dad, guitarist, ruby and clojure dabbler.