Dominic Orchard http://dorchard.co.uk/ A blog of life, interests, reasearch, articles, and projects. en-us http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=46 Dominic Orchard Read the full post]]> Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:10:52 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=46#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=45 Dominic Orchard Book recommendation

Time for another book review folks. This time it's a Russian dystopian science-fiction classic - We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. I discovered this book a couple of months ago when browsing a books... Read the full post]]> Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:33:28 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=45#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=44 Dominic Orchard Some thoughts...

Yesterday the specification for OpenCL 1.0 was released. For those who don't know what OpenCL is here is a summary quote from the specification: "OpenCL is an open industry standard for program... Read the full post]]> Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:27:06 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=44#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=43 Dominic Orchard Read the full post]]> Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:16:55 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=43#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=42 Dominic Orchard Read the full post]]> Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:01:30 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=42#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=41 Dominic Orchard Read the full post]]> Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:21:34 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=41#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=40 Dominic Orchard (Walking \cap Social Engineering) = Tailgating

This little doodle is based on a bizarre late night conversation between James Willmoth and I. Hope you like it Jim!... Read the full post]]> Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:13:29 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=40#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=39 Dominic Orchard Read the full post]]> Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:51:06 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=39#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=38 Dominic Orchard Revenge of the vowels

I almost did a "sea" joke... aren't you glad I didn't! For the non-computer geeks out there: there are two reasonably popular programming languages called Perl and Caml. The "fun ride x = ... "... Read the full post]]> Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:37:28 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=38#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=37 Dominic Orchard 3 weeks of PhD done so far.

So I have been doing my PhD for 3 weeks now and am really enjoying it. It's a great feeling to finally get to read and enjoy all the things I have been keeping on the back-burner until now. At ... Read the full post]]> Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:51:12 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=37#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=36 Dominic Orchard Book recommendation

This brilliant hard science fiction novel by Greg Egan is as much gripping as it is intelligent and thought-provoking. Egan combines transhumanism, consciousness, multiverses, extra-dimensional... Read the full post]]> Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:39:48 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=36#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=35 Dominic Orchard Falling share prices: Even log scale graphs can't make it look good.

Just a quick update of what's going on for me at the moment. I moved to Cambridge last Thursday and have until the 6th of October before I start in my department so I am just getting settled in, meeti... Read the full post]]> Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:53:53 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=35#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=33 Dominic Orchard Essay + domain

I have decided to post an essay I wrote last year that outlines three emerging technologies in the fields of nanohealing, solar energy and neuron control. I really enjoyed researching these topics - w... Read the full post]]> Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:19:11 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=33#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=31 Dominic Orchard Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day

Ahoy! Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day (shouldn't that be hyphenated?). For all those Facebook users, if ye want some midday mirth you can change your Facebook account language to "English (... Read the full post]]> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:57:26 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=31#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=30 Dominic Orchard Photos from my trip to Brussels

Recently I went on a fun trip to Brussels to basically soak in the culture for a few days. It was great fun- my friend and I serendipitously visited during the national beer festival which provided us... Read the full post]]> Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:10:50 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=30#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=29 Dominic Orchard A time lapse

A time-lapse of me doing a bit of comic book drawing for fun. The drawings and concepts are copied from the Amory Wars comic book series.... Read the full post]]> Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=29#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=28 Dominic Orchard Read the full post]]> Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=28#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=26 Dominic Orchard Read the full post]]> Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=26#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=25 Dominic Orchard Read the full post]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=25#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=23 Dominic Orchard Read the full post]]> Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=23#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=21 Dominic Orchard Read the full post]]> Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=21#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=20 Dominic Orchard An extension to ActiveRecord::Base to complement the to_xml method

While working on a project recently using the Ruby on Rails framework, I required full XML serializing and deserializing of my models (database tables) for an information services layer. I discovered... Read the full post]]> Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=20#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=19 Dominic Orchard Read the full post]]> Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=19#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=18 Dominic Orchard Read the full post]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=18#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=13 Dominic Orchard Read the full post]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=13#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=12 Dominic Orchard My day in 3 nouns

I have been figuring out some tricky bugs in a fairly sizable and complex Ruby on Rails app I am involved in and found some well hidden but potentially serious bugs that have slipped through the net. ... Read the full post]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=12#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=11 Dominic Orchard Read the full post]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=11#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=10 Dominic Orchard Poster presentation of research

An A1 poster designed by myself summarizing research carried out by Daniel James and I in the area of robot navigation and control during Summer 2007 (see Research section). This poster was a requ... Read the full post]]> Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=10#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=9 Dominic Orchard A subset of my work from AS-level Art (2003)

Module 1 : Still life drawings/paintings Module 2 : Hands Module 3 : Brazillian/African statues ad abstractum ... Read the full post]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=9#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=8 Dominic Orchard A painting/oil pastel/pencil piece

This is a piece of art I created back in 2003 when I was still at school using a mixture of acrylic paints, oil pastels and pencils. Feel free to express your interpretations! ... Read the full post]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=8#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=7 Dominic Orchard Guide and modified code for the latest versions

For a project I am using wxHaskell for some GUI and graphics things, so I went to install it. But I found that, once downloading the latest source for wxWidgets (December 2006) (2.8.0), that I couldn'... Read the full post]]> Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=7#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=6 Dominic Orchard Lazy lists and Sieve of Eratosthenes method in SML

Example of lazy lists in SML, using Sieve of Eratosthenes method to produce a lazy list of prime numbers. Code structure Lizt = struct datatype 'a lizt = empty | cons of 'a * (unit - 'a li... Read the full post]]> Sat, 05 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=6#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=5 Dominic Orchard A short conversion algorithm in Scheme

This is going to be a brief post of a small program that I wrote in Scheme (a dialect of Lisp). It converts a propositional formula into conjunctive normal form I hope that this may be useful to some... Read the full post]]> Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=5#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=4 Dominic Orchard Anti-aliasing lines and polygon area calculation

#content { height:none; min-height:100%; } Introduction This article sprang from a problem put forward in "The New Turing Omnibus" by A.K Dewdney, specifically from chapter 29, related to ca... Read the full post]]> Wed, 05 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=4#comments http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=3 Dominic Orchard The first post

Hello all, This is my new website up and running. I tried to keep the website as simple as possible so that there is not clutter around the content. I hope the design works out fine on all browsers (... Read the full post]]> Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 http://dorchard.co.uk/index.php?id=3#comments