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
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…
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…