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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....

[work-in-progress] Functional tuplespace? I know quite a few folks around here have the same problem as me when it comes to making something: getting sucked into making tools to make (tools to make…) that something. Same phenomenon whether it’s a coding project or a wooden spoon. But I might now be taking it up another level – making a methodology...

A bit of a brain dump. It might turn into a tutorial one day. For now, a ramble. The title of this post is a hat-tip to Peter Norvig, author of a significant essay, Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years. While I can’t disagree with many of his points there (most are spot on), I do reckon he makes the...

51, old fart 😉

The other week I bought an axe head (€9 from hardware shop in Castelnuovo). Good steel, hand-forged, and I thought it might work as a carving axe, something I’ve been wanting for a while. So today I made a handle for it. Like so: A while ago I cut and debarked a bit of fresh ash for the purpose, but...

PS. I’ve worked on the code a bit more and split it out into its own project at github, fuwiki. For a bit of xmas play I’ve put together a minimal wiki that only uses (jQuery-rich) web pages and a SPARQL server. It’s only at the rough proof-of-concept stage (I just this minute got it working, rather pleased so decided...