A selection of the coolest, most mind-blowing things I’ve come across whilst studying neuroscience — Pun-intended. At the time of writing, I’ve been studying postgraduate neuroscience at King’s College London for 5 months. When I started, it became clear pretty quickly that it was going to be more of a challenge than I had prepared for. It turns out an undergraduate degree in a political…

Plus setting up S4TF in Jupyter Notebooks! — Swift is not just for Apple Game-playing AI is awesome Swift is not just for Apple! In this article, I’m going to explain how I set up Swift in a Jupyter Notebook, and then how I used Swift to create a Time-Bounded Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm agent that can…

The road to Logos is paved with Pathos… — Whether it’s grief, a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, coronavirus or something else — knowing how to offer effective help to people in traumatic situations can go a long way in ensuring they return to life in a safe and sustainable way. …

Time to be proactive rather than reactive — Chaos Engineering isn’t just something that Dr. Robotnik does; it’s a serious and increasingly common part of the development life cycle. In an ever more dynamic global environment, there is growing pressure to introduce continuous testing to the DevOps toolchain to ensure security and resilience. …

Finding purpose takes work, but these two books are a great place to start. — I have often found myself wondering what the point of it all is. What am I working towards? Who do I want to be? Where do I see myself in five years? About a year ago I started to realise that I couldn’t answer these questions at all, and my…

Almost 20 years later, the Sonic Adventure 2 soundtrack is still incredible — Originally launched in 1998 and 2001 respectively, Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 are two of the first console games I ever played (admittedly I was about 6 years old when I played them). Living in Atlanta at the time, my brother and I initially played both games on the…

“Hello world!” / “안녕하세요 세계!” — Two important things to me are being efficient and being effective. Early in 2020, I decided that I was going to teach myself to speak Korean. I was intrigued by the culture and drawn to the challenge of learning a language that wasn’t European. I didn’t want to fall victim…