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How I spent New Year’s Eve.

Here’s to a 2018 full of as many kitty cuddles and roaring fires as your heart desires. Oh, and maybe some blogging too.

#2018 #kitties #fires

This is our cat shelf. It's where we keep our cat when we're not using it.

#kitten #cat shelf #a shelf for cats

I feel that Google has had some real high quality doodles recently.

#Google doodle

Like the human brain, Excel has 'cells'. In Excel, as in the brain, these 'cells' are organized in 'columns'.

For those worried about missing out on the newest hip thing in ML, fear not: now there’s Deep Excel.

#Deep Excel #machine learning

BTW for everyone who’s wondering, Snickerdoodle is adjusting to England just fine.

(This is a joke here because nobody is wondering anything about me or my cat, but at work 98% of people ask me how my cat is doing before (or without) asking me how I am doing. So there you go.)

#kitten #not a kitten anymore #but still a kitten to me

An table from a long, odd, thought-provoking, and amusing article on floating point roundoff errors.

#computer science #cosmetic rounding #Excel

So I live in London now! With a residence permit and a bank account and everything! I have a lot of pictures, here’s a few from just this Saturday when we saw some interesting buildings.

I’m working at a tech startup doing research-y things that may or may not involve the word “DATA”. On the weekends I do incredibly cultured things like go to museums and take train trips to the countryside and drink tea. My cat is here. My boyfriend is here. Sometimes it’s not raining.

Life is pretty good.

#London #real actual life update #DATA

By the way, my life is actually kind of interesting now (and pretty different from the last time you heard regularly from me), and I keep intending to start blogging* again to document it for all and sundry. Who knows, maybe this will actually happen?!

* Is it still cool to say “blogging”? Should I say like “snapinstatweeting” instead?

#snapinstatweeting #you heard it here first

Did you know

in the Coursera logo

there is

a DUCK

???

#coursera #logo #duck #you probably do know #you probably don't care

A splash of color on a gray day.

#street art #fall in Corvallis

And is there more American a restaurant than the diner? More democratic than the supposition that a ladle of chili between a pancake-fold of egg covered by fried potatoes, served on linoleum countertops with water in red Coca-Cola cups, is, indeed, the highest culinary art?

Robert Frost’s Poetry Is Like an Omelet Stuffed With Chili

There are many reasons why I miss Williams, and many of them are restaurants, and one of them is definitely the Blue Benn.

#breakfast #Blue Benn #Robert Frost #Williams College

I think I've finally realized why some people hate cilantro. It's because they're eating it in freaking herbal salad mixes with arugula and baby kale and dill. If my only encounter with cilantro was as a gustatory smack in the face while eating a turkey sandwich, I'd probably hate it too. Eat it on your banh mi or in your salsa like a god-fearing American, dammit.

Cilantro seriously does not go with dill.

Postscript: Apparently, the real reason people hate cilantro is that they're genetically predisposed to be overly sensitive to unsaturated aldahydes, the poor souls. Here's an amusing citation that is both not Wikipedia and also contains the interesting factoid that "a lot of journalists are non-tasters", which I think says something about society but I'm not sure what.

#cilantro #AKA coriander

Me: i was thinking of starting blogging again so i can feel less guilty about never talking to my family

Sister: Hahahaha yeah

You have to do one or the other

Me: it's true, and blogging seems easier

#family #watch this space

Learned today: Portugal consumes of 13 sardines per second during June. That’s a lot of sardines.

Via Roads & Kingdoms, the best website on the internet bar none. I’m pretty into their breakfast series.

#Portugal #sardines