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Salah Kouhen

Salah Kouhen

A PhD student at Oxford. Interested in turbulence, physics generally and a mix of many other things.

Making that one Windows wallpaper in Unity

Making that one Windows wallpaper in Unity

Environments in virtual reality are amazing. Most of us have walked around cities and mountains that exist only in 1s and 0s. I have many ideas for projects I would like to complete in the future and some of those would look much better placed in a virtual world. So,

Where do people find the weather hardest to predict?

Where do people find the weather hardest to predict?

In a previous blog post I showed where the weather deviated the most from the monthly average. In this blog I am going to combine those fields to make a map of where I think a local would find the weather hard to predict. What do I mean by predicting

Automatically sending diary prompts to my mum

Automatically sending diary prompts to my mum

For Christmas I was bought The Daily Stoic Journal by my lovely mum. This provides stoic writing prompts for a diary. Things like “What is my purpose in life?” or “How can I keep my mind clear from pollution?”. I don’t consider myself a stoic but the prompts should

Where is the weather most variable?

Where is the weather most variable?

My PhD is about the predictability of the weather. To me, predictability means the rate of ensemble spread. Ensemble spread is how quickly computer simulations starting with similar weather disagree with each other. You could also think about it as how predictable a robot would find the weather. But what

Politics in the Milky Way

Politics in the Milky Way

What's your perfect profession? If you could pick out of every job that has existed or will exist, what would you do? I know my answer. I would be an archaeologist. That may seem odd since the profession already exists and I am in an apprenticeship to become

Snake in 3D

Snake in 3D

Use WASD to move! During dead moments in the late 2000s, think airport lobbies or bus stops, Snake on my Nokia phone would always come to the rescue. A few years ago I wondered why I had never seen a 3D version of the game, one that controlled like the

John Conway's Game of Life

John Conway's Game of Life

Conway's game of life was born in 1970. It is hard not to come across it at one point or another. The idea is that simple rules result in unpredictable and often beautiful chaos with emergent order. You start with a grid of cells, some of which are