When I was born in 1989, the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere was 350 parts per million. 350 parts per million is also considered the safe upper limit for atmospheric CO2, giving rise to the climate group 350.org, which was founded in 2007. Today atmospheric CO2 is around 407 …

I have updated the design of the website! This started off as 'drop in a new Pelican theme and be done' and grew into a micro-project to do while confined to my parents house over Christmas (pandemic etc). I also watched lots of medium-to-terrible TV (GYNOTOPIA, SERIOUSLY?), which is a …

One of the nice things about having your own website is that you can do whatever you want. Today I am going to recommend/describe some podcasts I listen to. I usually do this directly to whoever speaks to me after I find a new one, but now I can …

I made this tweet several months ago: (This website is now an elaborate mechanism for me to retweet myself.) In theory apeiroto.pe counts as a personal research page, but it's not of the "glorified CV" variety I was thinking about when I wrote the tweet. When I started apeiroto …

This is a 'how to do something' sort of blog post, I might write about why later. The something is running a social network for my friends. The starting point is probably run your own social, which covers a lot of the 'why' and some of the 'what'. Chances are …

My parents are not originally from Dublin. My father came to Ireland from Chile in the 70s, and my mother came from Wicklow a bit later. In both cases the rest of their family stayed behind for the most part, so visiting family has always meant travelling. My family regularly …

This post is about the paper Yes, but Did It Work?: Evaluating Variational Inference by Yuling Yao, Aki Vehtari, Daniel Simpson, Andrew Gelman, which will appear at ICML 2018. I'm going to try to summarise/explain the paper in my own words, largely for my own benefit. I'm also going …

I'm continuing my tradition of summarising conferences I attend. Previous posts: NIPS 2016, NIPS 2015, AAAI 2016, ICML 2016. I also went to AAAI 2017 to present my work on unitary recurrent neural networks, but didn't write a summary. This was my third time attending NIPS, but my first time …

Here are a bunch of WIP pictures of the Bloodseeker (Dota 2) cosplay I did for MCM London Comic Con on the weekend. This is the first non-Halloween costume I've made, and the first non-trivial sewing project I've done, so it's far from perfect, but I'm pretty happy with how …

We return for another installment of Stephanie Summarises a Conference. My previous work in this area is NIPS 2015, AAAI 2016, and ICML 2016. I was pleasantly surprised at NIPS to be asked if I was going to write one of these again. Apparently someone somehow found my blog. Ignorance …