For reasons unknown to myself, I stumbled home late Saturday night/Sunday morning and on a whim it hit me: fractals in JavaScript! An hour later I had the following set running, slowed largely by an initial misstep relying on the Raphaël vector graphics library which turned out being dog-slow for my purposes. I reverted to [...]

I usually refrain from blindly reposting things that are making rounds across the blogosphere however this is too tantalising to pass up. I’ve often wondered what I would do in such a hypothetical situation, so now I know. Click to view full size.

Aside: Love the viral advert in the footer.

I’ve recently become sensitive to a slight increase in the revenue model I’m choosing to coin Revenue Skimming. No doubt it has an existing name; I am simply unaware of it.
Revenue Skimming is the technique of adding a superfluous charge on top of an existing transaction. It is distinct from simple up-selling as the additional [...]

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

I’ve used this quote as the footer to my posts on a particular forum for a [...]

Deriving patterns from weighty datasets is a rather fun problem that requires dusting off the mathematics textbooks. This wonderfully succinct and informative article outlines the steps involved in applying SVD to the problem of recommendation/suggestion systems. Although widely applied already, I can’t help but consider potential untapped applications for such techniques.
Hopefully I’m not kept awake [...]

Providing value from customer one
Thriving communities support even the most flawed premise. The classic chicken and the egg problem must always be kept in mind. Even ideas that are inherently social need to provide significant value in their own right when there are only a handful of users. The idea must sustain itself for long [...]

Continuing the theme of self indulgent reminiscing, I have fond memories of spending days as a child consumed by the multimedia authoring tool HyperCard and its spiritual successor (read: clone) HyperStudio. These environments were built upon the index card catalogue metaphor augmented with hyperlinks, multimedia, rudimentary database features and scripting to fill in the gaps [...]

Congratulations to my mate Dan (”Boy”) and team for taking out Best Film in The University of Sydney Filmsoc short film competition for Semester 1, 2009.

Today, I texted my college boyfriend to tell him how terrible I felt about cheating. He replied saying he was so relieved because he had been cheating on me with a girl in his dorm. I was talking about my math exam. FML
On receipt of the above quote, a common response may be “what’s FML?” [...]