Data Scientist by day, geek tech gamer junky by night.
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…
11/09/2019
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_1558M.ipynb
11/09/2019
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…
11/09/2019
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…
11/01/2019
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…
10/27/2019
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 🙂
10/18/2019
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…
10/17/2019
… or partial ones at least 🙂 Firebase Auto ML I’ve managed to create a simple Android app using Firebase Auto ML, that now detects Paw Patrol pups with a decent success rate. This success would have blown me away a year ago, sad now given exposure to Auto ML and Google’s sophisticated tools I just think this is ok… but I do have a couple of hypotheses to test…
10/13/2019
2 new cheap PS4 games to my collection this weekend, and I actually went into the store to pick up both of them… if the price was right Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands I picked this up at launch, but returned it the same week as it wasn’t doing it for me at the time. As there’s a new version [containing all DLC?] I picked up a second hand version…
10/11/2019
After our trip back to the UK and finding Amazon Echo’s and Google Home devices ubiquitous my wife felt a need to have one, and darling that I am I bought her an Amazon Echo for her birthday… it has been bugging me ever since. I’ve set up a Pi-Hole on our home network to prevent most adverts being shown… but I still know it’s listening :p So I was…