Category Archives: Academics

TOS letter

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Steve

To: team@piazza.com Subject: Terms of Service issue Hello. I just thought that I should inform you that I have decided not to use your service after getting good feedback from a colleague due to what I consider a ridiculous clause … Continue reading →

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IWOCA and StringMasters 2010

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Steve

The last week of August I was in London for two workshops. The first workshop was the “small conference” type of workshop – the International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (IWOCA). The second was the “break-away groups and problem-solving” type of … Continue reading →

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Almost a month later

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Steve

For 12 days of the last month, I was in Kwazulu-Natal. Dalene and I had our 3-year wedding anniversary on 12 August, so the day after that, we flew off to Durban at an insanely early hour, and spent two … Continue reading →

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Quiet on the home front…but 14 news-bites

Posted on March 21, 2007 by Steve

So, the blog has been slow. Some people make posting to their blog every day, or every week, at least, a priority for them. Others only do it when they’re in the mood, and that often gives one a little … Continue reading →

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At last – acknowledgement

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Steve

Huzzah! My advice to all and sundry is, it seems, not totally worthless. Yann Guermeur, “Large margin multicategory discriminant models and scale-sensitive \Psi-dimensions” (yeah – that’s kind of what some of my Masters degree was about): “It is a pleasure … Continue reading →

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Ernst and Ethel Erikson

Posted on January 31, 2007 by Steve

Well, I don’t know who they are, but man am I glad that they were philanthropists (or someone close to them). It turns out I am the lucky recipient of a R10 000 bursary from the Ernst and Ethel Eriksen … Continue reading →

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New book

Posted on October 13, 2006 by Steve

Cool! Dalene gave me a copy of “God created the Integers”, edited by Stephen Hawking as a gift yesterday. I hadn’t heard of it, but it looks totally fascinating. It’s thick, so it’ll probably take a long time to work … Continue reading →

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