04/06/2019
The latest Pratchett, and Gaiman, TV adaptation – Good Omens Good Omens, the genius of Pratchett’s with the twist of Gaiman, a collaboration made in heaven & hell. I find it hard to believe this was released in 1990, I’d been reading and collecting Pratchett novels before then, and this was my first intro to Gaiman So now 29 years later we finally have this high budget adaptation of the…
World Health Organization now classifify me, and, and I’m sure many others, as having a ‘gaming disorder’. TechRadar: World Health Organization officially classifies ‘gaming disorder’ as an illness “impaired control over gaming […], increasing priority given to gaming to the extent that gaming takes precedence over other life interests and daily activities, and continuation or escalation of gaming despite the occurrence of negative consequences.” Wait until the WHO look at…
27/05/2019
No more mini bosses defeated today, but two new Sekiro prosthetic tools Where to find Mist Raven in Sekiro Hirata Estate – Bamboo Thicket Slope Idol You’ll find the Mist Raven’s Feathers inside a hidden temple. To access it, go up from the idol, grapple left and drop into a body of water. Swim past the bridge and then grapple to a branch. You’ll pick up an item and can…
26/05/2019
I finally felt brave enough to load back up Sekiro 🙂 I’d left it where I didn’t want to face the Lady Butterfly, and the Blazing Bull was wiping me out in seconds. My reluctance was due to me grinding to unlock skills, but I through Sen and Xp to the wind and bit the bullet. After I’d overcome my fear I got into my stride; running through levels like…
24/05/2019
So something rather strange, although positive, has occurred this week; my Raspberry Pi hosted Python scripts are still sending out around 550 tweets each day, but the tweets are now receiving twice the number of twitter impressions 🙂 As you can see from the chart, impressions have approximately doubled, from ~100 to ~200 thousand each day. This increases the last 28 days to 2.5 million organic impressions! I work with…
23/05/2019
I picked this up What Remains of Edith Finch as one of the monthly games on the PlayStation Network for the PS4, and it’s been sat on my nav bar downloaded for a while. After reading a post on r/patientgamers the other day selling the story I thought I’d give it a try. I found it profound to say the least, but a fabulous medium to tell a story. I…
09/05/2019
EIGHT DRAGONS is an old-school side-scrolling fighting game that takes the classic beat-’em-up action from the eighties and pushes the gameplay and story to a whole new level! There are two ways to play EIGHT DRAGONS – first as a straightforward arcade game. Put your team together, choose your characters and kick ass from one end of Scumville to the other, leaving no bad guy standing in your quest to…
07/05/2019
Tweets from my Twitter account @GamerGeekNews have earned more than 2 Million impressions in the last 28 days 🙂 Not bad for a few Python scripts hosted on a Raspberry Pi.
05/05/2019
Great news from openai regarding their GPT-2 model, they’ve released their 345M parameter version 🙂 GPT-2 Interim Update, May 2019 We’re implementing two mechanisms to responsibly publish GPT-2 and hopefully future releases: staged release and partnership-based sharing. We’re now releasing a larger 345M version of GPT-2 as a next step in staged release, and are sharing the 762M and 1.5B versions with partners in the AI and security communities who…
25/04/2019
Recently read that Chromium still has callbacks to Google, and here I was naively thinking that it was secure Still not sure if Brave makes these callbacks, but that’s tomorrows question 😜 Been using and enjoying @brave from launch on #Android and #linux Recently found that chromium makes call backs to Google, is this removed from Brave?#security — Gamer Geek (@GamerGeekNews) April 25, 2019 So all I keep Chromium about…
09/04/2019
Recently picked up 2 new games for the PS4, Marvel’s Spider-Man and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. I’ve had my eye on both for a while, and as the digital copies are on offer for Easter I thought I’d treat myself. I actually messed up, accidentally purchasing Marvel’s Spider-Man Deluxe Edition while trying to remove it from the digital cart… yeah my wife didn’t believe me either 🙂 Sony refunded the cash…
06/04/2019
Thought I’d ask the Trump Tweets Fine Tuning model a few questions 🙂 All results un-edited Model prompt >>> build a wall to protect against new Mexican people breaking into our country! Wall at our Southern Border is being built by contractors @AgComm Partners & is expected to cost a fortune. So many red tape checks and approvals necessary to build a wall (not an easy task). In January our…
06/04/2019
Currently working on a new bot, gpt-2 117M Fine Tuned on Trump Tweets 🙂 Extracted tweet history from the Trump Twitter Archive, limiting the extract to solely Trump tweets. This gives me over 25k lines to fine tune a model on! It’s currently running and producing some interesting examples, and I can’t honestly tell if they are real or not??? Here are a few examples for now: I know plenty…
05/04/2019
Against my better judgement given issues with past pre-releases I’ve been running Ubuntu’s Budgie 19.04 Dicso Dingo Beta… & it’s awesome 🙂 Everything working after an update using the terminal from Ubuntu 18.10. It seems slicker than usual, assuming this is due to the Memory and CPU optimisations featured in this update. I also like the new look and feel of the file manager. If you’d like to give it…
04/04/2019
Given what I’ve learned over the past few days, and the success of the Trump bot, I thought I’d try modelling the Mike Hosking data again; extracts below 🙂 This is certainly Hosking’s prose style, although the content matter doesn’t match perfectly. I chose the first question to match what I’d asked the Trump Bot to compare output; happy that it has changed and mirrors Mike build a wall ……
04/04/2019
Today I decided to try and turn the gpt-2 model to Trump’s speeches, and the results are scarily successful. Here is the file of the Trump 2016 Presidential Election Speeches that I used Prompts as titles, with generated Trumpesque speeches 🙂 build a wall Build a wall to stop illegal immigration. I want to work with our allies to put the failed policies of the past behind us. We’ve spent…
01/04/2019
Here’s a collection of song samples from the fine tuning lyrics 🙂 Really happy with this as a first cut, although I’d prefer less profanities, so looking to cut curate the import set. So what next? Want to try an see if I can create a new Beetle’s single, maybe try Tolkien poetry, and see how it does with limericks ======================================== SAMPLE 1 ======================================== ICM Rates Excess Mammalian Waste ICM…
31/03/2019
I’ve pivoted with the theme for the text I’m using to fine tune openai’s gpt-2 model, and have picked up a few tips doing so, and I now have Tensorflow gpt-t writing songs 🙂 Steps that I have worked through today: ingesting a collection of lyrics from various artists from a Kaggle soucre encoding and merging the files tweaking the train.py parameters This isn’t going to win any awards. The…
30/03/2019
Using Google’s CoLab [https://colab.research.google.com] I’ve fine tuned the gpt-2 117 model with an extract of text from a kiwi radio host, Mike Hosking I chose Mike not because I ever agree with his opinion, ‘cos he has a distinct writing style. Here’s a link to my GitHub with the files: https://github.com/AmbiguousError/gpt-2 CoLab is symbiotic with Google Drive, and during the fine tune process a large data set that has been…
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…
