12/13/2021
My distro cycle continues, back to Debian I go. Installing my old SSD’s into my new box, Ubuntu wouldn’t load correctly with the display unusable… Manjaro funnily enough was OK. After recently backing up my Home directory it motivated me to make a clean OS install. I’ve read great things of Mint over the years, claims of its usability and security, but I didn’t last one day until I switched…
08/02/2020
Reading a Reddit post about new a new version of nano being releases, and between the vi/vim sysadmin comments someone mentioned how nano keyboard shortcuts can be edited 🙂 I’ve tried vim many times, and the commands don’t feel intuitive, nano has been the editor I’ve fallen back on since first using Linux; pico as it was known back when I used it at Uni on Unix. Even though I’ve…
08/02/2020
I came across a model that intrigued me enough to trial last night, a machine learning model that speed runs through Super Mario Brothers, cool eh? Here’s the git uvipen/Super-mario-bros-PPO-pytorch Introduction Here is my python source code for training an agent to play super mario bros. By using Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm introduced in the paper Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms paper. Talking about performance, my PPO-trained agent could complete…
06/14/2020
Not sure why I haven’t got around to writing any shell commands / scripts in the past… here’s my first Bash :p Here’s an alias to check which country my VPN is connected to in 3 steps: ifconfig.me call to set IP address to a variable shows the IP address checks the IP variable on whois truncates the output to the ‘address’ output to see location alias whoami=’todays_ip=$(curl ifconfig.me) &&…
02/19/2020
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…
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…
10/13/2019
So this weekend my Twitter bot dropped this link onto my feed: Firebase ML Kit: AutoML Vision Edge I’m currently working with auto ML in a professional manner, trialing both H2O and Azures Auto ML packages, so this piqued my interest! Having built mobile apps before in the early days of Android, and looking for a project to play with again, the timing of this was perfect. I’m still messing…
10/07/2019
I search enough for useful Linux terminal commands, I usually rely on command history, but thought I’d start recording them here. Here are a couple for starters… Search recursive folders for files containing keywords, returning file name grep -r -l “linux” Search command history for keywords, history number returned history | grep linux Remove history line 2001 history -d 2001 Run code in background from terminal – I can’t believe…
06/22/2019
Today I discovered a new genre of game… and I’m hooked. DOTA Underlords DOTA Underlords is now available to play for free on Steam as Early Access; and from what I understand there will be no charge going forward, only for aesthetic additions. Dota Underlords is a new stand-alone game that pits you against seven opponents in a battle of wits that will have you building, combining, and leveling-up a…
06/15/2019
Tl;Dr Super Mega Space Blaster Special fun pick up and play shmup available on Steam for less than a dollar that also runs on Linux. I’ve paid heaps more for games I’ve played less. A compulsive fun title. Super Mega Space Blaster Special is a modern take on the retro arcade space shooter. It is a fast-paced frantic blast of a shoot ’em up (shmup) with bullet hell elements. Played…