Education had been dead for 40 years when the Speaker landed on Earth. Due to relativistic space travel the Speaker had received the Speakers signal only 4 months ago, the Speaker himself just 28 years old. While he is treated with respect usually only afforded to a priest, Andrew (named Read more…
Something I had been meaning to do for a long time was write a quick script to scrape Reddit comments. A chap has beaten me to it and you can find the code here: https://github.com/ctaggart878/redditscraper. During lunch today I had a little play with it the script (and I mean quick!). Read more…
I had toyed with the idea that the UK wide porn filter might lead to a Civ style golden age leading to new forms of governance. My thinking behind this was that the everyday man might find themselves less distracted and lead them to do great things. However, an article Read more…
El Presidente Willets established a dictatorship in 2010. It proved very unpopular but an attempt to establish economic stability within the cities of knowledge was declared successful (by El Presidente himself) in 2015. During the period of economic reform the city-states of Oxfordonus, Cambrigion and Ruslustratid Groupus were allowed to stay Read more…
Some people are just blessed with the gift of explaining things. This was really useful http://blog.echen.me/2011/08/22/introduction-to-latent-dirichlet-allocation/
Getting my head around topic modelling has certainly made me feel stupid. I think part of the problem is that I am just so used to the paradigm I have for searching electronic documents (when I ‘Google’ something), that I am unable to think about exploring documents any other way Read more…
I’m still thinking about analysing the personal corpus. I have a basic app written in R that can retrieve, store and analyse data. Retrieving and storing data is easy, but how exactly do we analyse it? I guess that’s where I’m at with R. I’m OK at coding things up. Read more…
As we all know, a world wide revolution started in 2015 and marked the transition of most of the world’s governments from a ‘citizens participate equally‘ style (which we of course now know they did not participate equally and served as ample material for Charlie Chaplin the II’s film ‘The Read more…
Bah Humbug. I feel very annoyed at everything. Firstly I’m finding R a difficult language to penetrate. I’m getting there, its just hard. There are lots of resources and people willing to help you get to grips with the tool, but getting to grips with the tool isn’t the problem., Read more…
I quite often write letters to artists whose work I enjoy and I always remember those who find the time to reply. While I have fond childhood memories of receiving letters and emails from my favourite actor (thanks Cam Clarke) or band (thanks sense of belonging) I don’t remember as Read more…
