A whole group of friends from Wellington and a couple from Australia came to Christchurch recently. For snowboarding, and for our alternate event to Burning Man…. Melting Man. Helix DJed at Nitrate, with some of the WDC there to support him on the Saturday. We travelled to Flock Hill station on Sunday, and on Monday […]

Next week I’ll be speaking at the unconference Bar Camp Christchurch, on not one, but two things. First my PhD work and second about the Singularity. Seth, the founder of Interclue, invited me along, since he’s interested in tech/singularity stuff and thought it’d be a nice opportunity to spread the idea to those that hadn’t […]

I promise I won’t do this often, but this poem from this book sums up the first half of this year for me.

My life has fallen down
around me before
–lots of times,
for […]

You can ask Panda_pitt or Mundens, I had an idea about making a meme where people video themselves catching and then throwing a ball (or something) in a youtube video. It has no purpose, but it’d be fun to watch. And you could make a web-app mashup with google maps to show where the ball […]

There is something exciting about clean slate. The potential it holds.
As a kid I used to ridiculously excited about buying stationary for school each year. All that blank paper, waiting for thoughts and ideas to placed upon them. Even now when I go to book stores, my favourite area is not the fiction shelves, the […]

Those Japanese have the craziest game-shows! Although I do admit this is also pretty cool too…

via jwz.

I feel like I need one these woolen suits:

From Joshua Dalsimer

I wouldn’t normally post a job position on my personal blog, but my supervisor is having trouble finding someone with Matlab skillz.
Basically someone in the university has got some research funding to do some grid computer, and my supervisor wants to get a whole lot of Self Organising Maps and Multilayer Perceptrons (both a type […]

Well, it’s been ages since I wrote on here about what I’m up to generally with life - so I thought I’d give everyone an update.
PhD
No, I’m afraid you can’t call me Dr. Pitt yet. I’m still writing my thesis and getting a few bits of analysis out of the way. I’m aiming for the […]

If your a New Zealander and have any interest in supplements/vitamins then please check this out.
The NZ government is trying introduce regulations that will require supplements to go through an expensive approval process and result in:

Prices for New Zealand Vitamins and Supplements will increase between 30% and 100%
Approximately 60% of your favourite New Zealand product […]