Data Scientist by day, geek tech gamer junky by night.
notepad plus plus for Linux I use notepad++ at work on a windows machine, I find it great for taking notes, and editing SQL scripts on the go. For a long time Geany has been my goto Linux file editor, but it might now get more limited use in the future now that notepad++ is available in Linux, via snap 🙂 Crazy too, that I think this is my first…
May 26, 2018
& today @GamerGeekNews hit the 5k twitter followers 🙂 This was the glass ceiling number that expands the number of Tweeple that I can follow… kinda Sincere thank you to all who reciprocate and follow back, apologies for the stream of posts, but I find them of interest. Here’s the next 5k!
June 13, 2017
Today I received an awesome long awaited new toy that I backed from Kickstarter, a shiny special launch edition Swiftpoint Award Winning mouse The Z Features: –Full RGB lighting and a small customizable OLED screen (see image) –Gyroscope/accelerometer provides for joystick-like use –Force-sensitive clicking that can be customized in the software –Button variations to suite your preference –Feet for “joystick” and “tilting” functions Extras: –Large mouse mat –Machined aluminum cable…
May 9, 2017
Both Android and Ubuntu received official updates today 🙂 Made a clean install of Ubuntu 17.04, everything works well out of the box. Then there’s the compulsory: 17 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 17.04 Was surprised at the size of the Android security patch at over 300 MB to version 7.1.2! All was well until a week later my phone bricked; I pulled it out of my pocket and…
December 24, 2016
Merry Xmas! Our boy is still a little young to geek out at xmas, although last night visiting friends he picked up a controller and gave Minecraft a bash… not bad for one 20 months old 🙂 I’m still finishing off FFxv have picked up Overwatch again looking to actually rank for the first time in season 3 re-installed Witcher 3 to finish off after FF currently downloading the update…
November 11, 2016
I’ve been working my way through Trevor Stephens well written and informative Kaggle Titanic tutorial for R. Competition Description The sinking of the RMS Titanic is one of the most infamous shipwrecks in history. On April 15, 1912, during her maiden voyage, the Titanic sank after colliding with an iceberg, killing 1502 out of 2224 passengers and crew. This sensational tragedy shocked the international community and led to better safety…
October 18, 2016
I received my EFF member tshirt, together with membership card and bumper sticker 🙂 I’ve got back into GTAV, just before the announcement of Red Dead Redemption 2! Been playing a little of one of the free games for October on PSN network Transformers: Devastation, although was very tempted to pick up the original Resident Evil HD remake. I’ve been working on Machine Learning models in R and Python, playing…
September 17, 2016
In a moment of weakness I ordered a Raspberry Pi 3 last week, on the basis that my current original Raspberry Pi is a little too slow. I pretty much stopped playing with it after the USB stick / drive I was using bricked, so this weekend I’ve powered it up again and I’m quite impressed. I’ve overclocked the Raspberry Pi to Pi2 settings, although not sure what this means…
September 15, 2016
I’ve just become aware of Google Cloud; off to migrate a web site and see how it behaves. Can I host python bots on there too? The again I’ve ordered a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ today 🙂 Must reconfigure my orig Pi with this tutorial: tor router
July 9, 2016
http://www.openculture.com/free_ebooks Leaving this as a link to a repository to drop onto my PirateBox