The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

I keep on forgetting I have this. Here's me looking quite happy after trying the Coventry VLR last week.

One week left in Nottingham. Crazy how fast time flies by....

Dissertation update: aaaa, but less aaaaaa than before

Eyeballing - We've had 8 years of business investment 15-20% lower than it was set to be. Eight years of missing £30bn a year. We might now have an economy with £250-300bn more economically useful stuff. GDP 2-3% higher. More revenues. And all the other effects!
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So, to recap: the suggestion is: the UK creative industries grant open access to all their historic and future work and IP, without payment, to the brains behind a nascent industry that just tanked $1tn in a couple of hours. Sure. Seems great.

Interesting mention of how C is still very much the language of (at least the legacy) open source community in this article. Obviously not everything is getting rewritten in rust anytime soon (though the push for memory-safe languages is important).....

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Didn't get as much actual work done today as I'd have hoped. I did, however, make a studio clock light up. So it's not all bad news :-)

Thanks to the magic of Rust, my exam timetable constructive heuristic now runs in less than a second. It's able to take a bunch of exams and produce a viable schedule for them, avoiding any clashes.

Obviously a lot more to do (it's my dissertation project) but very exciting....

If OR Tools has 100 haters I am one of them, if OR Tools has 1 hater then that is me, if OR Tools has 0 haters then I am dead

An insight into the world of the final year dissertation.....

I said I wouldn't....but here I am. trying this platform out. Let's see if I use this for any longer than I did threads ;)