Author: danny

tl;dr : push social networks back, Post stuff to your own space first, link to it, worst case copy & paste the content across, with a link. Retain some control, easily done. I regularly post on Facebook and Twitter, occasionally on (many) other social networks. I really like being able to communicate with friends and acquaintances, have fun, share ideas....

You’ve probably followed the developments in Deep Learning in a similar way as I have. Exciting. Naively picking up – win at Go, or more recently, protein folding. That is clever. You may not have had so many years of cynicism about the AI effort. God Damn [1]. I read a lot of fiction books about robots, way before you...

/ Backstory below, but here is how I was able to get WiFi working on a Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla Server install (this is mostly from memory, apologies for any slipups). I’ve since installed ubuntu-desktop, seepic. Bizarrely, the server install iso is lacking some very small components necessary for WiFi. These can be found in: libnl-3-200_3.4.0-1_amd64.deblibnl-route-3-200_3.4.0-1_amd64.deb libpcsclite1_1.9.0-1_amd64.deb wpasupplicant_2.9-1ubuntu8_amd64.deb (The key...

tl;dr :machine learning has to be realtime. TensorFlow lite devs need a little history. So much for my determination to get back into regular blogging. Reboot, again. So, like I expect most people that work around technology that are past their first flush, and pragmatists everywhere, I’m not a specialist. But that’s not to say delving deep into any subject hasn’t...

Some Conspiracy Theory Bits Below Oh, where to start, I live in Italy. Personal experience, mostly just low-level inconvenience. I do generally go out a couple of times a week, desire for human company. But I have gone for weeks on end without anything more than a ciao before. We went to Lucca mid-February, she spent an hour in close...

I haven’t been buying many books in the past couple of years, mostly due to lack of funds. But as well as web-native docs online, there are also loads of books around as PDFs. If they’re associated with a particular project I’m working on, I’ll drop them in a folder there, typically ~/[project]/references. If not they should get dumped in...

Made a quick little electronics prototype yesterday, sounds an alarm when you touch your face. The idea being to train you to do it less often, hence reducing the transfer of infectious microbes from your hands to your mouth/nose/eyes. Demo vid, schematic & description: https://github.com/danja/touch-sensitive/ Inspired by Dr Daniel Reardon (Astrophysicist gets magnets stuck up nose while inventing coronavirus device).

Caveat : I’m no expert on this, but has worked well a few times. I was first shown most of these tricks by a guitar builder at the London College of Furniture, since then have applied them and picked up other bits, learned a bit from practice. This is a friend who plays jazz guitar, really likes a guitar I...