Fake it ’till you make it
Every now and again things align so perfectly you can’t not do something. In the past I’ve dabbled with AI, searching for Lego bricks with limited success. I had recently discovered Unity’s Perception package for generating labelled synthetic “photo realistic” images for AI / deep learning I’m familiar with Unity…
AWS Free-tier CPU Limits
Having enjoyed many projects on my home PC and Raspberry Pi, I am now taking advantage of AWS’s trial free-tier to see how far I can get on a web app project I have in mind. Below are some of my initial observations. Free Tier Hours I was aware that…
My Automated Machine Learning Tipster Bot, on a Raspberry Pi
I programmed my £30 Raspberry Pi to automate picking football tips using machine learning techniques, which you can follow on twitter @PiBot_predicts
The Sport of Programming
I dabble in the sport of programming and train my first Neural Network on a gaming-laptop GPU
It’s just not worth buying computers at the moment.
How Brexit and memory price hikes have destroyed the market for buying performance computers
The Compute Landscape at the Beginning of 2017
For years the IT industry has accepted Intel as the only viable option. At the beginning of Intel’s reign the consensus was: “yeah Intel CPUs are way better than anyone else, let’s buy lots”. But now the feeling is: “oh, another incremental upgrade from Intel. What’s AMD up to? Ah…
Hacking Tennis for luls and profit
As with many tech nerds, although employed in a specific area of IT I like to dabble in others in my free time. My most recent dabbling has been in data science. Although I say “science” I’m afraid my intentions are less noble than the word implies. I’m more interested…
The Myths and Marketing of Moore’s Law
Moore’s Law won’t end. Even when it ends it won’t end. The Law follows that more components can be crammed into an integrated circuit with developments in technology over time. However transistors are getting so small that current leakage becomes a greater issue. In short this means there needs to…
time to take Java seriously again?
Like many Computer Science graduates Java was the first language I’d say I really learnt. Sure I’d dabbled in C and VB but Java is where I first wrote meaningful code beyond examples from the text book. Again like many Computer Science graduates, I turned my back on Java pretty…
I Can Has Super Powers?
Technology should give us super powers. Still waiting for flight and not holding my breath for invisibility but predicting the future is getting better all the time. Big Data isn’t about “big” data. Its orders of magnitude lower than what the Large Hadron Collider spits out in a day. But…
16GB ought to be enough for anybody
The original un-verified quote attributed to Bill Gates in the 80s was regarding 640KB of RAM in PCs so it’s with some hesitation I say 16GB of storage ought to be enough for any tablet computer. A lot of us use multiple devices and keeping copies of our files on…
Will the next xbox be free on a 24 month contract?
Spoiler warning, no. The more I think about it the more gaming seems to suit a cell-phone style subscription model. Suppose you could pay £50 a month and for that you could get unlimited game downloads and playtime. Don’t game much? What if you could pay by…