29/03/2019
I must be a sadomasochist as last weekend I picked up Fromsoftware’s latest title Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 🙂 As with the other titles I’ve played of theirs on the PlayStation 4 (Dark Souls 2 & 3, BloodBorne) the game play World and levels are in a league of their own, but nothing prepared me for the difficulty challenge 🙂 Now I wasn’t coming into this blind; I’ve recently completed…
22/03/2019
We’ve got to start moving a lot more slowly in the next couple years, because the community can be very toxic for anything we do, as well as the actual products at stake. That being said, I think the community is going to need some great leadership development. If you’re working on a project that has some really good data, the people running it will need people to explain what…
22/03/2019
“with this in mind,” said Dr. Eric A. Bowering, an associate professor of physics at UC Davis and a co-author on the paper. “It’s a very good way to learn about particles that cannot be detected in the real world.” Dr. Bowering and four colleagues studied the particles using lasers that were made with molten steel that was sandwiched by an extremely thin thin layer called a layer of carbon.…
21/03/2019
Another openai project I’ve been playing with is gpt-2: Code for the paper “Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners” Synopsis, you give the bot a text extract and it responds 🙂 I’ve been through the process of creating a local Docker and running this script, I’m far from understanding the complexities bit here is a demo: python3 src/interactive_conditional_samples.py –top_k 40 Model prompt >>> I’ve been through the process of creating…
21/03/2019
I’ve been playing with a couple of openai projects OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. We’re a team of a hundred people based in San Francisco, California. The OpenAI Charter describes the principles that guide us as we execute on our mission. I’m really intrigued by their retro gym projects; teaching an AI to play classic video games… although I haven’t tried this…
27/02/2019
I’ve been wanting to try the Ubuntu Touch phone OS since I heard of it pre-launch, although I’ve never had a device I can use it on; that is until a friend this week passed on his old Nexus 5 🙂 I’m so looking forward to giving this a try, and probably wouldn’t have picked up my OnePlus 6t id I knew this was coming… can’t wait for the day…
17/02/2019
I’ve had an Android phone since the Nexus 1, and haven’t been able to get KDE Connect to work… until now 🙂 https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect Easy as installing KDEConnect from the Android Play store, and I grabbed KDE Connect for Ubuntu via Synaptic… I didn’t know the full name to install it via apt-get 🙁 Think I’m going to use it mose to move files between devices… although the shared clipboard could…
16/02/2019
Made a #RedDwarf Scutterbot from #Lego pic.twitter.com/ctnMADq911 — Gamer Geek (@GamerGeekNews) February 10, 2019 I was quite stoked with this achievement, only a temporary creation as we needed the base for a Sperm Whale 🙂
16/02/2019
My long serving Nexus 5X suffered the impact of a HotWheels car crashing down onto it fingerprint scanner, knocking it unresponsive 🙁 This was just the motivation I needed to pick up a new phone, and I’ve had my eye on the OnePlus 6T since it’s recent release 🙂 I opted for the 128 GB model, as that’s more than I will need in the near future… and one of…
22/01/2019
#FFxv fin… I bought this at launch, finally completed the story #PS4share pic.twitter.com/uyXHSGEpi3 — Gamer Geek (@GamerGeekNews) January 21, 2019 Finally I’ve done it, another Final Fantasy story complete! iirc I picked this up at launch, and only put it down as Elite:Dangerous launched Beyond. I’ve come back to it a couple of times for prolonged sessions, the last nearly a year ago. I wasn’t far from the end; I…
17/01/2019
Just discovered Lutris [https://lutris.net/], a tool to make gaming more accessible and easy on Linux: Lutris is an open gaming platform for Linux. It helps you install and manage your games in a unified interface. Our goal is to support every game which runs on Linux, from native to Windows games (via Wine) to emulators and browser games. The desktop application and the website are libre software, your contributions are…
13/01/2019
Thanks to this tweet from @Kitao as an introduction to Pyxel, a retro gaming engine based built on Python3 I made the English version of the official introduction of Pyxel.#gamedev #IndieGameDev #python #pico8 #tic80 Let's start programming with Pyxel, a retro game engine! – kitao's blog https://t.co/Xob7DnFIjH pic.twitter.com/NzUV5HoJvE — Takashi Kitao (@kitao) November 25, 2018 This ticks 2 boxes for me, Python and Retrogaming; how could I not want to…
11/01/2019
In my quest to get sonic-pi to run on Linux, and also free up a port on my router, I’ve been trying to login to view Raspberry Pi Desktop from Ubuntu… as usual with any Linux endeavor, with limited success; but think that’s the attraction: a puzzle to solve, with a solution out there… I’ve just gotta find it 🙂 I had installed tightvncserver on the Raspberry Pi, and remmina…
09/01/2019
Linux generated techno beats I came across a self published album on Amazon from someone I follow on Twitter of 8 bit notes, and this inspired me to put together a bit of simple techno 🙂 There’s alse another passionate techy on Twitter who hosts a site full of synth and moog samples; so my plan is to get a music editor working and then add in some funky sounds.…
07/01/2019
I updated Anaconda last night… but today it wouldn’t open. Tried to update it with no luck, so tried a clean install with zero success. After scratching my head for a while I edited .bashrc as the alias was entered twice, when I had a brain wave! running alias from the terminal refreshes the aliases and now anaconda-navigator opens 🙂
07/01/2019
Update Ubuntu 18.10 to 4.20 kernel last night, all gone smooth guide here: Update linux kernel to v4.18.7 Update it with files here: kernel.ubuntu 5.0 release candidate already available! 🙂 Just installed 4.20 #Linux #Kernel on #Ubuntu 18.10 all looking good 👍https://t.co/25K5DmM53N — Gamer Geek (@GamerGeekNews) January 6, 2019
05/01/2019
2018 was an intense year personally We moved house and renovated the new place substantially. For a month or so we were living out of a single room, no kitchen or bathroom, and boarded up windows. The place is awesome now, although still a few more things we would like to update, but that can be done over time. We have fibre! 900 MB download speed, this has changed my…
05/01/2019
I’m still processing Dark Souls iii (sad eh?), so today was a Retro Android Platform evening 🙂 MegaDrive: Caliber.50 Playing Caliber .50 on the Genesis Strangest enemy difficulty where tanks explode quickly, enemy rockets fire faster than bullets, and bosses are mega derranged animals. Novel controls with buttons to rotate#retrogaming #Megadrive #SEGAhttps://t.co/DYCP2mxGhO — Gamer Geek (@GamerGeekNews) January 5, 2019 Played via RetroArch on Nvidia Shield Android: Does Not Commute I…
04/01/2019
My darling wife gifted me this amazing little piece of Android based kit: nvidia shield NVIDIA SHIELD TV is the essential streaming media player for the modern living room. Thousands of apps. Thousands of games. The most 4K entertainment. And the Google Assistant built in. It’s awesome for streaming media via Netflix, Kodi, et al, and recently released high spec games (with many for free!)… but what I wanted it…
04/01/2019
As one PS4 AAA title ends with a Western sunset, another with an eclipsed sun In the past couple of weeks I’ve finished the latest AAA title in my collection: Red Dead Redemption 2; and today one that I never thought I’d complete: Dark Souls 3 Both were fun, amazing artistic achievements, but so different. I probably put in as many hours on both games, one I started in November…
