Category: Blog posts
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In defence of solo cinema
Why does society find it strange if you go to the cinema on your own? I realise February 2021 is not the best time to be asking this question. Here in the UK, at…
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Mr Bayes and Mr Hall, part I
This post was one of a series of three I wrote about the Monty Hall problem, and how Bayes’ Theorem can help to solve it. I wrote them back in 2020 as part of…
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Cryptic crossword
I had a big idea for this post. It was going to be an interactive crossword, embedded in the post that you could fill in right here. I made the crossword, with a vague travel…
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Explaining my thesis, part II: the breadth-first search
This post was originally posted on my attempt at a science communication blog, Probably Interesting. I moved it over here in March 2026 so I could have everything I’ve blogged about in one place.…
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Everywhere I’ve been
I’m back! In fact, I submitted my DPhil nearly a month ago. The reason there’ve not been any posts yet is I haven’t known what to write. (If you have any ideas, the contact…
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Explaining my thesis, part I: the phase transition
This post was originally posted on my attempt at a science communication blog, Probably Interesting. I moved it over here in March 2026 so I could have everything I’ve blogged about in one place.…
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Quiz of the year
I thought my last post would be the last one of 2020, which is why I finished it with a Christmas greeting. But I had a lone weekend without the need to do thesis…
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Shotover Country Park
Hmm, how do I feel about this post? On the one hand, I said that I wouldn’t encourage people to travel for as long as there was a pandemic. On the other, government advice…
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… this time for real
I’m writing this from Edinburgh. It’s not the first time I’ve been in Edinburgh since I started this blog: once I was here and chose not to write about it for several reasons which…
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COVID: update
I don’t have a huge amount of time to write a post this week, for reasons that I won’t go into this week but will hopefully tell you about next week. (I know, very…