Author: danny

I recently got a little bit worried, spending most of many years advocating a timbl world view, don’t try anything clever with your software. Damn you, stupid dannys. Just another kind of foaf:Agent I assume the schema.org has the same world view. You just cut everything down to a shared notion of communication we can understand. Something like HTTP. Still...

Recently I had two poles apart ideas, both probably symptomatic of my recent mania, but please forget  their nativity, please look at them without that. Although I can only describe this way. So one was “Always ON”. I’ve been a bit blabbly forever, enjoyed having a blog. Rare original ideas, but loving to tell people about the nice things I’d...

tldr: SPARQL with a simple templating language gets incredibly powerful. Hateful WordPress, must get my own host back up + silly danny code up again soon (will be hyperdata.it this time around, remind me to make that live soon). Lost half of this doc because WP doesn’t do Job One. Oh sorry, wrong link, but I believe DanC is a...

[draft – publish early/often…] I know this sentiment has been expressed elsewhere, but I thought I should add my €0.02 (if I haven’t already). In short, most Web APIs aren’t Webby. If you need to call it an API you’re probably doing something wrong… Thing is, APIs over HTTP continue to proliferate yet the vast majority have a fundamental flaw :...

a starter for a sci-fi story that came to me earlier during nap, typed madly on waking. Still not got around to starting The Novel, one baby step at a time… Of course it was the Quantum thing that made all the difference. that, followed a week later by the Singularity. Two of the most groundbreaking shifts in the evolution...

Was just prompted to poke into another of my past lives by a tweet which referred to a blog post about the Stoic philosopher Seneca. The blog post in question is a fairly cookie-cut Positive Thinking piece of semi-great/semi-bullshit quoting said philosopher. Don’t get me wrong, I already like Maria‘s material (twitter following), just this one gives me a little cognitive...

Damnit! I’ve just been trying to replace the PSU in the music room computer with an old, working one. Was going fine until I got to a drive connector, SATA on the one I was replacing, doesn’t exist on the older replacement. I checked last night to see roughly how much a new PSU might cost, is in the region...

Chatting to danbri the other night, he was off to see the Specials. I’ve not had a report yet, I imagine they were brilliant. But what came to my mind on his mention wasn’t any of their own tracks, but one by the lead singer’s other project, Fun Boy Three. This performance  of Our Lips are Sealed I rate as one...

The other day danbri brought Recurrent Neural Networks to my attention, linking to the post Lisls Stis: Recurrent Neural Networks for Folk Music Generation. Now although I’ve always had one eye on AI stuff, I missed RNNs. They’re pretty amazing, check The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks.  I’ve been meaning to get back into signals a bit (FFT etc) especially...

If, like me, you are prone to procrastination and/or indecision, you may find the following technique useful. It’s a simple way of choosing which task to do next from a To Do list. It is based on chance, but is novel in that it takes into account your priorities. Requirements : one or two dice, pen & paper, minimal motivation....