This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending the ACM’s A.M. Turing Centenary Celebration in San Francisco. It was a fantastic event, as one audience member put it – “it’s like opening a computer history book and having all of the characters step out of the page”. The celebration featured a diverse range of… Continue reading Celebrating the life and work of Alan M. Turing
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Extension experiment
Just recently I’ve been using Google Chrome more and more as my primary web browser, but there’s one thing that really frustrates me about it. I tend to have a lot of tabs open, with around a dozen or so “would like to read” tabs and a widely varying number of tabs related to my… Continue reading Extension experiment
Training an artificial neural network
A few days ago I handed in the second assignment on my Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) module. The task was to train an ANN to detect attacks vs. normal access in the logs of a simulated military network. The data came from KDD Cup 99, of which we used a reduced set for the assignment.… Continue reading Training an artificial neural network