# Clinton Montague

Developer, learner of things, functional programming enthusiast, hacker, and all round inquisitor.

## Making sense of Bayes rule

### February 17, 2019

Bayes rule has always seemed like witchcraft to me. But today I went through the derivation, and then thought through why it is useful. Suddenly it started making a bit more sense. Thinking about it in a machine learning setting, let’s say that we have a dataset containing cats and dogs, and their respective names. […]

## Starting machine learning

### February 16, 2019

For a few years now, I’ve been sitting here wishing that I knew machine learning. Yearning for a job where I was looking at data and writing algorithms to find patterns and make predictions. But the problem is exactly that. I’ve been sitting and wishing, not learning and doing. True, I did a course on Coursera a […]

### November 1, 2014

$x = \frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4ac}}{2a}$

Everyone can reel it off, it was banged into us at school. Where does the quadratic formula come from, and how can you get at it?

## Generative art experiment 5

### April 24, 2013

I’ve played with visualising the forces between particles that repel each other before, but I thought I’d have a little play around with how I could use that to create something that actually looked good (to me at least!) I put it together on codepen (which is my new favourite tool, by the way) so […]

## The awesometer

### March 31, 2013

I wondered the other day – where is the most awesome place on earth RIGHT NOW? That made me think two things: we overuse the word awesome it would be cool to use this as an excuse to use the Twitter streaming API So I fired up npm, installed ntwitter and within minutes had simple program […]

## Generative art experiment 4: colourful roots

### February 26, 2013

It’s been a while since I’ve posted about anything interesting that I’ve made in Processing. Time to put an end to that! Allow me to present “colourful roots”. It started off as a simple particle system with the usual fade effect, but when I let the particle shrink and stay fully opaque, I was delighted […]

## Photographing the Moon

### January 31, 2012

I’ve recently become obsessed with the night sky. I think that it was Jupiter turning up in October last year which did it. Since then I’ve looked up for Jupiter on a nightly basis, and have become interested in what else is up there too. While I don’t know what most of the constellations are, […]