Author Archives: Philip Cunningham

The last year has been crazy. Over the last nine months I started and new job at Codeface, attended a Ruby on Rails bootcamp in Manchester, and began studying for an MSc in Intelligent Systems.

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The last year has been crazy. Over the last nine months I started and new job at Codeface, attended a Ruby on Rails bootcamp in Manchester, and began studying for an MSc in Intelligent Systems.

I’ve studied, used, and learned an incredible amount in this period: Ruby on Rails, Linux, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, GNU Emacs, Java, SuperCollider and computer music. Found things I never thought I’d love, or would have been given an opportunity to study again, in the form of statistics and discovered, the hard way, that I profusely dislike taking buses on University routes. Even more life-changing, finally made a permanent switch from Ableton Live to Renoise

That said, having been completely absorbed in these largely technical and intellectual pursuits, I’ve let other areas of my life slide and haven’t really given enough attention to my own health, hobbies or normal-people-stuff (reading for pleasure, what a luxury). These are things I’m going to try and start doing again. I mean, when I lived in Glasgow, I used to go running at 5am in the morning and despite living in sunny Brighton, I’ve barely achieved more than a brisk walk. This is something I definitely want to change and spend less time at the computer.

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Short and sweet euclidean distance lambda in Ruby (1.9+).
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

euclidean_distance = ->(p1, p2) do
Math.sqrt(p1.zip(p2).map {|coord| (coord[1]-coord[0])**2}.inject {|s,n| s+n})
end

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Short and sweet euclidean distance lambda in Ruby (1.9+).
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

euclidean_distance = ->(p1, p2) do
Math.sqrt(p1.zip(p2).map {|coord| (coord[1]-coord[0])**2}.inject {|s,n| s+n})
end

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I made a little visual sequencer in Processing and FM synth in Pure Data. Grab the code on Github. Looks like I'll have to change my screen resolution when I'm screen casting in future. The embedded video looks a little rubbish.
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I made a little visual sequencer in Processing and FM synth in Pure Data. Grab the code on Github. Looks like I’ll have to change my screen resolution when I’m screen casting in future. The embedded video looks a little rubbish.

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puts "oh, hai."

It has been a while since I’ve done any blogging. I used to have several LiveJournal accounts back in the day. This particular blog will act as a scrapbook of code, learning and some of my own personal projects.

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puts "oh, hai."

It has been a while since I’ve done any blogging. I used to have several LiveJournal accounts back in the day. This particular blog will act as a scrapbook of code, learning and some of my own personal projects.
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