Landlords are not providing a service and are not “housing providers”. They are extractors of wealth.

Plugged this absolute beast in for the first time in ~10 years. Lot less useable as a bedroom amp than I remember.

Perhaps slightly less exciting than a general election announcement, but it looks like I’m off to DAFx in September to present some of the final bits of work done during my PhD! Huge thanks to Damian Murphy for sorting the logistics.

Working in tech as of late:

So basically all estate agents will now be saying “The landlord can’t ask for more than is advertised….but if you ‘want’ to offer a bit more, you’re application is probably going to be the one accepted”. The state of the housing market In this country is an absolute racket.

Everyone knows Labour are going to win the election, but if you’re feeling like there’s no point in voting as the outcome is a foregone conclusion, I’d like to draw your attention to something really radical that is on offer tomorrow: 1/8

someone finally made leetcode for machine learning, and it's everything we hoped it would be just solved the first exercise: computing a matrix-vector product without any tensor operations (only python lists allowed) deep-ml.com

The if-then-else monster. Bloated functions that take dozens of kwargs. When you read the code you can't even tell what runs because the cross-product of all the configurations is beyond human comprehension. Majority of the paths are deprecated, unsupported, or unadvisable.

Who thought finding a decent suit for graduation would be so difficult. So far I’ve only really looked at Moss Bros. Any other suggestions for decent/reasonable priced suit brands?

Apparently something is coming home? Whatever it is, I hope it gets returned safely.

Dr. Turner will see you now.

Excited to publish a Python package that turns Andrej Karpathy's "A Recipe for Training Neural Networks" into easy-to-use diagnostics code! 🔧 No more randomly poking around in your custom PyTorch DNN to debug it. Get simple diagnostics for your neural nets 🫶 #PyTorch 1/

*sigh* The perils of being a renter. Landlord wants the house back so we’ve got two months to find somewhere else to live 🙃🙃🙃.

back to school this week and back to reminding people that one of the coolest things my advisor did was write a course on how to build PyTorch from scratch if you want to become an expert on deep learning, can't think of a much better place to start than MiniTorch:

Within a week of getting our Section 21 notice we’ve managed to find and sign a tenancy agreement for a new house. Hopefully tomorrow we’ll be booking moving vans etc….just in time for me to swan off to DAFx for the week.

Last week was 𝐃𝐀𝐅𝐱 week. Send me your freshly presented paper via github.com/mcomunita/AFX-… so that I can update our big repo of scientific literature on audio effects 🤟

🚨 Open to New Opportunities🚨 Due to a company restructure/downsizing of the R&D team, I have sadly been made redundant. I’m looking for positions where I can bring my skills in Audio DSP, ML, and Spatial Audio. I am open to positions in both industry and academia.

Sorting through a bunch of old dusty boxes. Blast from the past eh Nick Sermon 🎺🎵🎼