As part of my job in educational technology, I like to tinker with technology to find solutions to problems. I also like to share these tinkering with friends and colleagues. The way I would previously do this involved regularly blogging the things I would make or do. I really did Read more…
I had a go at creating an animated AI-generated monster through the use of Disco Diffusion and EBSyth. The idea is to take a video of someone who isn’t moving too much as a base for the monster. Then take a single frame from the video and use CLIP model Read more…
Recently I came across EbSynth, a program used to convert video footage into a motion painting by painting a single keyframe. I find it interesting that, although AI experts developed the program, it doesn’t do any AI/Machine learning type stuff. Instead, it apparently uses ‘non-parametric example-based methods’. Which I understand Read more…
The anger in this post is targeted primarily at myself but fuelled by finding out some of the best people that could examin my thesis are apparently not experts because they don’t hold a PhD. Understanding technology My PhD thesis, now thankfully nearing its completion, casts a large net in Read more…
I am struggling to write my thesis conclusions, so I wrote something semi-related to help: I’m confused about the exam results and all this talk of magic algorithms. There are a lot of experts saying it is ‘bad’. What exactly is the thing that we are talking about that is Read more…
Taking the correct size of app image for Apples App Store Connect is a pain when using Unity. There are some pretty good tools for creating simulation iPhones and iPads in OS X, but Unity requires you to build the project with slightly different settings – and due to a Read more…
One of my job titles is Lector in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). I struggle with this title, I don’t think I’ve ever actually been told what TEL is, I assume it is similar, or the same as wider HE community would call a “Learning Technologist”, but I don’t know what Read more…
Setting up R for use in Knime is pretty easy, the biggest issue is usually forgetting to install the Rserve package, or not realising that you need additional tools to compile Rserve from Source as Knime suggests you do, chances are you are getting the error: ERROR: configuration failed for Read more…
I have not had much time to ‘techy things’ due to writing up a thesis, finding myself this week with a few hours on a train try something new. I decided , wanted to look at some data tools and techniques that had been on my radar for a little Read more…
A few years ago I worked on the website for a department that specialised in data standards. The majority of the website had been coded before I had taken up the job, it was written in PHP and did all sorts of clever things for the time, it aggregated blogs, Read more…
