24/04/2020
How time flies when you’re having fun, we’re personally really blessed to live in a safe bit of the World, with more than enough space, and access to nature… thoughts with those in more challenging environments. I’ve regrettably bought a digital copy of Final Fantasy 7 Remake, would have really liked a hard copy, but you know things been what they are… sure there will be enough cheap versions knocking…
04/04/2020
Seeing that Uncharted 4 is being given away to PSN users for April, I thought I’d play the preceding Uncharted games first 🙂 I’ve always considered Naughty Dog titles to be a little too linear for my liking, let’s see how this assumption weighs up. Nevertheless, I’m up for giving the first trilogy a while, always heard great things about it; my games buyer use to describe it as a…
27/03/2020
Terence McKenna’s Time Wave Zero concrescence, time speeding up So much happening hard to believe it’s nearly the end of March Maybe this is time passing quickly to compensate for the slow passage that will commence from today 23rd March 2021, when we as a family began our COVID19 self isolation https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/23/kiwis-go-home-new-zealand-to-go-into-month-long-lockdown-to-fight-coronavirus Everything seems crazy and beyond satire with Trump, and Borris on other side of the Atlantic. Civil Wars,…
19/02/2020
For my birthday my best mate (aka son) presented me with some cash to buy a game. Rather than pick up a transient title that I’d play in passing I ordered the latest kit from HardKernel; the merging of two of my favourite pass times, Linux & Retrogames, then awesome handheld Odroid-Go Advance… & it arrived at the weekend 🙂 It only took half an hour to put together; the…
Hard to believe it’s actually the year 2020! It’s a date used historically in sci-fi, and particularly a Cyberpunk RPG game I loved as a teen… so excited for the Cyberpunk 2077 title that’s coming in September! Games I’ve been playing: Modern Warfare – today reached level 155 in Season 1; heaps of fun, but the updates have been a nightmare having to download DLC packs multiple times Sekiro –…
24/12/2019
Always looking for new projects to play with I thought I’d tag this for next year when looking for something to do! 30 Challenging Open Source Data Science Projects to Ace in 2020 Overview Check out our pick of the 30 most challenging open-source data science projects you should try in 2020 We cover a broad range of data science projects, including Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision, and much…
22/12/2019
I’ve friends into fantasy football leagues, not something that I’ve played in the past, but it got me thinking that it’s all information based, and that there must be heaps of data available. This led me on a search where I’ve found a great full updated database SQFIFA Over the time I’ve played with Python one thing has eluded me, scraping data. So I thought this a great opportunity to…
22/12/2019
My gaming time has been taken up by Modern Warfare on the PS4, intense Multiplayer skirmishes, the regular updates from launch have kept it interesting. The variety of maps and game types is huge, although I’ve been playing primarily Domination. Progressing through the levels and weapon grades, I’ve tried out a select variety of weapons; focusing on short range quick to sight high damage, and recently sniper rifles. I’ve played…
07/12/2019
Today inspired by a Twitter post discussing why there wasn’t a game like Rez for the Occulus Rift, I decided to dust off an XBOX 360 and kinect to play Child of Eden. Now I remember distinctly buying the XBOX 360 bundle when it was new… due to the 360 RROD issues I think I actually bought 2 of them; but currently they’re just another console gathering dust whose main…
06/12/2019
Today I experienced my first bricked Solid State Drive. Bad news; is that I lost months worth of finished propensity models. Good news; it was at work, nothing personal… and all backed up to OneDrive 🙂 I thought they lasted close to forever, so I’ll be sure to backup everything this weekend, suggest you all do the same!
So @Twitter had given me an update, the issue is someone is trying to hack my Twitter / Blog / Gmail accounts; so my email wasn’t updating on my handset??? Now have access to email and can see that twitter have suspended @GamerGeekNews for ‘multiple copyright infringement notifications’, for tweeting links to TechRadar pages that I never had any interest in 🙁 I’ve removed TechRadar from my feed, & apologised…
27/11/2019
5 hours or so ago my Twitter account was suspended 🙁 Usually it gives me a prompt to enter my phone number… but not today! I have been suspended a couple of times lately due to re-tweets of ‘how to stream some sporting event for free’; if this is the case again I’ll have to look into how I can prevent my bot from sharing those in the future. Let’s…
I’ve curated my Twitter feed to keep me up to date with my interests, and I’m stoked that other people enjoy the same things that I do & decide to follow my feed too. I cover a variety of technology, data science, and gaming interests… things that I like. Now before I drop make this point don’t get me wrong; I love animals. I’ve been a vegetarian, sometimes vegan, for…
09/11/2019
Here’s a copy of the code I have working for the OpenAI GPT-2 1558M model A couple of changes to the source code that were required to get it to execute: tensorflow-gpu==1.12.0 wouldn’t work, updated to: !pip3 install tensorflow-gpu==1.16.0 interactive_conditional_samples.py updated to: model_name=’1558M’ https://github.com/AmbiguousError/gpt-2/blob/master/GPT_2.ipynb
09/11/2019
I had to see what the GPT-2 1558M model thought of Death Stranding, here’s a Guardian article I sourced the first couple of paragraphs from: Death Stranding review – Hideo Kojima’s radically tough slow-burning epic Model prompt Death Stranding defies convention, focusing on “connection” over combat and (almost) removing the notion of restarting a mission when things go wrong. Case in point: I failed to plan a delivery route and…
09/11/2019
Excited to hear about the release of Open AI’s 1.5 Billion GPT-2 model, had to take it for a test drive. Couldn’t produce a trained model on my own text as yet, but I did manage to load the 1558M model into Google Colab and run a couple of conditional samples. I grabbed the text from a Guardian articles on the flooding in Doncaster: Severe flood warnings remain in Midlands…
01/11/2019
My Raspberry Pi Python Twitter bot stopped posting last night. After I had strong words with it, and told it to pick up its game I deleted the cache database file and let it rebuild the history. This is something that I really need to fix, as my PiHole shows that my bot has made approx 191,383 calls to the twitter api in the last 24 hours… touch wood I’m…
27/10/2019
Hardware issues with my Linux box, wanna be gaming rig. A single Windows 10 partition is kept for a one reason; Elite:Dangerous. But for the past 6 months I’ve not been able to play, Windows crashes each time I open it up. I know I’ve had overheating problems in the past, installed a couple of new cooling fans and heaps of silver thermal paste, but today I bit the bullet…
27/10/2019
PS4 ejecting disks automatically fixed by tightening the manual eject screw… this was a real challenge to find; I even doubted that the instructions were correct for my PS4 model… one of the times when the light on my phone came in useful. This solution seemed to have worked until this afternoon when it repeated; will have to tighten a couple more revolutions 🙂
18/10/2019
Updated to Ubuntu Budgie 19.10… and no reboot! Windows could learn so much from Linux do-release-upgrade -c didn’t work, but a visit to Synaptic Package Manager and installing all of the upgrades worked a treat 🙂 Now to explore the new updates… Everything Important Associated to Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine/ Now I’m not going to format my hard drive just yet to enable a faster boot time by enabling LZ4…