Well, it’s been rather a long time since I wrote a blog post. I’m not beating myself up over it – I did finish a PhD in the intervening months! More on that another time. For now, let me whisk us back to the middle of the merry month of May, at which time you … More Business in Basel
Last year, I went to the Movement Disorders conference in Madrid, to present my PhD work as a poster. This year I took a poster to the same conference which was being held in Copenhagen, and I took Nicholas with me! Sunday We set off for the train station with a little trepidation, as there … More A Copenhagen Caper
I recently entered a “Three Minute Thesis” competition at my university. Delightfully, I was awarded the judges’ first prize! Trying to fit the principles behind my PhD into such a small amount of time and one static slide was a surprisingly challenging task. I really had to sharpen my thinking about which were the most … More Three Minute Thesis
Back in February, I received an email from my university’s campaigns team. They’d heard that I’d had an “interesting career path” (History BA to Computing PhD is certainly that!), and wondered if I would be interested in talking about my experience of coming back to university for postgraduate study. I decided to challenge myself (socially … More My strange career path: an interview
On the homepage of my website, I describe myself as a “computer science PhD student”. That’s because I am. But I have a confession to make to you: I don’t know much about computers. Let me explain. I am a data scientist and a programmer: I write code, I play with data, I use this … More Computer basics: a hardware murder mystery!
A couple of weeks ago I went to the International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases in Gothenburg, Sweden. I was presenting a poster on my Parkinson’s research. This was my third conference, my second abroad, but the first that I was attending on my own (without colleagues). It was also my first time going … More My First Solo Conference
I’ve been doing a computer science PhD and I have a particular interest in AI. Over the last few years I’ve tried quite a lot of different podcasts to keep up to date with relevant developments and discussions. This is a personally curated list (that I’ll aim to keep updated) of the podcasts that have … More My Top Tech Podcasts
A couple of weeks ago I went to a conference in Madrid: the Movement Disorder Society Congress. This was my first conference abroad, and in fact my first visit to Spain! I was presenting a poster on my research using AI to detect Parkinson’s disease in brain scans. I was quite nervous about the whole … More A Spanish Escapade
I recently gave my first talk at a conference. This was only a couple of weeks after I had attended my first conference and presented my first poster. Yet somehow here I was, giving a half-hour talk to a room full of neurologists on “AI in Neurology”. It wasn’t quite as intimidating as it might … More A Talk at the Beach
A little while ago, an old friend of mine got in touch with me to ask about the feasibility of a project she had in mind. “I made this account for weird image based memes,” Lucy said. “I wondered if there was a way to make like a bot that spews out stupid little pithy … More AI Text Generation for Memes
Cryptic Meg 