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Merry Christmas

December 23rd, 2009 No comments

Dear Friends and Family,

The best wishes for the holiday season and the new year.

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How To Get To Work

December 10th, 2009 No comments

Some years ago my family and I moved out of Copenhagen, away from our appartment and into our house. While it was great to get the extra space and not having to sleep in the livingroom, it did introduce a new element into our lives, which I just a few years previously would have forsworn would ever happen: we had become pendlers.

Until we moved I had always used my bikecycle to get to and from work, even when I had just over 20 km – a shower after each trip was required. Living in the city we also very seldom used our car. In fact we did not get one until our second son was almost a year old; now we have two cars and as I wrote in a previous post drive all over the place.

How do I get to work? Having 80 km to Copenhagen kind of rules out the cycling to work business. Initially I took the train, which was nice (when it was on time or ran at all) as it allowed you to actually use you time for something usefull: work, read, sleep, make love – yeah, you wish ;) . At the moment I’m taking my car – properly not very PC these days, but public transportation to my current destination is just not practical.

The driving is actually not that bad. I leave early and hence avoid most of the rush hour traffic on Køge Bugt (a notorious stretch of freeway south of the capital). I’ve just had the handfree Parrot MKi9200 system installed in my car, which apart from allowing me to answer phone calls without breaking the law, also allows me to listen to my own choice of music and more importantly podcasts and audio books.

In an ideal world you would live next to your workplace, like my good friend Han Sen, who is able to walk to work in around 5 minutes, and at the same time you would have an ample amount of space at your disposal. In the real world, this is not always possible. We selected the space and fresh air over proximity and have never looked back. Sure my wife and I may well move back to the city once the children “have left the nest”, but that is another story.

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The Transport Guy

December 7th, 2009 No comments

When I grow old(er) I will think back on this period of my life as being one big road trip, driving the kids from one place to the next and from one activity to another.

Several times a day my wife and I drive from Herod to Pilatus – don’t know if you can say this in English.

Well, it is a good thing I can be online while waiting for them to pack their things :)

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Scientific writing

December 6th, 2009 No comments

I was cleaning out some old CDs the other day, when I happen to stumble over a copy of my master thesis. My thesis was about the mathematical properties of artificial neural networks and I would never have been able to do it without \LaTeX. Try to typeset something like

f_j(x,\theta) = F\displaystyle{\left(\sum_{h=0}^lG(\bar x'\gamma_j)\beta_{jh}\right)},\ h=1,\ldots,l.

in Word. Or how about this

Definition 2.2
For any (Borel) measurable function G(\cdot) mapping R to R and n\in N let \sum^n(G) be the class of functions

\displaystyle{\left\{f:\mathbb R^n\rightarrow \mathbb R | f(x)=\sum_{j=1}^l\beta_j G(A_j(x)),\ x\in\mathbb R^n,\ \beta_j\in\mathbb R, A_j\in\mathbf A ^n,\ l\in\mathbb N\right\}}

The WordPress plugin I have found for typesetting \LaTeX does not do a very good job, so please bear with the above.

I have recently installed MacTeX on my iMac. I have no idea of what I should use if for right now, but it feels good and maybe I should try to finish some of the stuff I’m writing on and try to get it published, even though it will be hard not being in the university community any more.

Let’s just take another few equations for the fun of it :)

\displaystyle{\int_{\mathbb R^n}\int_{\mathbb R} a^\alpha D^{|\alpha} G(a'x - \theta)\frac{|b|^n \hat f(ba)e^{2\pi ib\theta}}{\hat G(b)}\mbox{d}a\ \mbox{d}\theta}
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Meet Scott Guthrie

December 2nd, 2009 No comments

I will be attending the Microsoft Event ‘Meet Scott Guthrie’ tomorrow here in Copenhagen. Should be interesting to hear some of the high lights from PDC09.

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Test from iPhone

December 2nd, 2009 No comments

First I want to apologize for these test posts. I just installed WordPress from the app store and wanted to chech it out.

So far so good. Seems like you are able to actually create posts; now we have to see it the rest is working like e.g. The automatic link to Twitter.

You can save you scribbles to a local draft first, before you actually publish it.

Well, enough of this. Fingers crossed …

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