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I have a long list of things I want to understand and make. Some of the entries on this list are apps. Back during the winter break I thought I would finally get the ball rolling and learn to make a simple android application. Of the apps I actually want

Can a computer write a symphony, can a computer turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece? Well... yes. We have reached an era of AI art and music generation. But what can our silicon friends not do? I give 3 examples that came to mind. The first is mathematical. We

Have you ever noticed that the waves always come towards the shore at the beach? That's quite strange right? A storm out in the ocean will generate waves and they will travel radially outwards from the source, so how come we never get to see the waves coming

In a previous blog post I showed where the weather deviated the most from the monthly average. In this blog I am going to combine those fields to make a map of where I think a local would find the weather hard to predict. What do I mean by predicting

For Christmas I was bought The Daily Stoic Journal by my lovely mum. This provides stoic writing prompts for a diary. Things like “What is my purpose in life?” or “How can I keep my mind clear from pollution?”. I don’t consider myself a stoic but the prompts should

My PhD is about the predictability of the weather. To me, predictability means the rate of ensemble spread. Ensemble spread is how quickly computer simulations starting with similar weather disagree with each other. You could also think about it as how predictable a robot would find the weather. But what