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It has been my utmost pleasure and good fortune to have Hugh Leather and Pavlos Petoumenos as my advisers for the past four years. They have made my time as a PhD candidate a deeply gratifying trajectory of learning, curiosity, and occasional hard work. Thank you.

I would like also to thank Zheng Wang, with whom I have collaborated on projects which form parts of this thesis. Thank you to Michel Steuwer for providing unapologetically thorough feedback on select chapters of this thesis, improving them markedly.

I would like to thank my friends and colleagues at the University of Edinburgh, Google, DeepMind, and Codeplay Software whose company I have had the pleasure of keeping. Finally, I would like to thank my dear Ashleigh, who makes anything and everything possible. Hello to Jason Isaacs.