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/machine learning
- 26.01.20 That Was The Week That Was — 26th January 2020
With a new commercial piece of work starting next week, which will see me working in Processing, my thoughts turned to having to switch …
- 26.01.20 An Epidemic of AI Misinformation
An Epidemic of AI Misinformation Interesting read on the current state and overpromise of AI.
- 20.01.20 That Was The Week That Was — 19th January 2020
This week I did something I've been meaning to do for a long time — I went to the cinema on my own, in the day time. For many, the cinema …
- 15.12.19 That Was The Week That Was — 15th December 2019
It seems next year the theme is one of collaboration if this week's phone conversations is anything to go by. The last few weeks have been …
- 24.11.19 That Was The Week That Was — 24th November 2019
On Thursday I travelled to Glasgow to speak at the inaugural Silicon Swalley — an event organised by Filament PD, who I haven't seen for a …
- 17.10.19 Can a Machine Learn to Write for The New Yorker?
Can a Machine Learn to Write for The New Yorker? Fascinating article in the New Yorker about the current and future state of machine …
- 17.09.19 That Was The Week That Was — 15th September 2019
At the start of the week I found myself firing up Fusion 360 to create a better case for my Git Deploy Notifier which I had built the …
- 16.09.19 A Simple Colour / Texture Map Creator Using Processing
When I'm working in Houdini or other 3D software, I might need to use an image as a colour map texture which can then be applied to a …
- 14.08.19 Adobe Alternatives
No longer will you find Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator on any of the Macs I use. You will find Premiere but that's only kept around in case …
- 24.06.19 That Was The Week That Was — 23rd June 2019
It felt like I had put a sign across my website to say "open for business", as this week seemed to be all about new work enquiries, so …
- 09.06.19 That Was The Week That Was — 9th June 2019
Headed to Heidelberg on the Tuesday as I was speaking at a Trend Micro Partner Talk event the next morning. I was giving the keynote as …
- 17.03.19 That Was The Week That Was — 17th March 2019
There seemed to be a big German theme this week. I had an email from an agency in Germany asking if I would be available to speak at an …
- 05.04.18 This book changed my coding for the better
Apart from a night school course in learning Pascal, I’ve never done any formal training in programming. Whilst being self taught is great …
- 11.02.18 Make it Shine: Rendering 3D Objects Made in Processing
For a few years now I've been creating physical objects from data — using Processing to essentially terraform an object such as a sphere, …
- 07.01.18 I often keep 3D printing failures as I think there’s an inherent beauty in the …
- 01.12.17 Same model as before but this time uses the colour information saved as part of …
- 03.10.17 Proofs arrived of my neural network made chairs poster. Available online later …
- 29.09.17 After a second training round, chairs are getting better.
- 29.09.17 Making a poster of my neural net generated modernist chairs.
- 28.09.17 Neural Network Generative Modernist Furniture!
- 26.09.17 Neural Net Generated Brutalist Architecture. With more training these are …
- 25.09.17 After better filtering the training set, training again the brutalist …
- 21.09.17 Brutalist training.
- 21.09.17 Still more training needed and I need to ditch some of the training set images …
- 20.09.17 More training iterations and I'm starting to get somewhere. Need more images in …
- 20.06.11 Making in the browser: using a web browser to make physical things
A few years ago Andy Clarke did a presentation called Walls Come Tumbling Down where he talked about the idea of designing in the …
- 21.06.10 How do we "lend" our digital stuff?
Over the last year or so I've been gradually getting rid of my physical DVD collection and one-by-one ripping each film to disc. When I …