A few weeks I had a quick play on a halo/minecraft cross breed game called Murder Miners. It was pretty fun so I decided to check out the developers site, J Force Games. Two things I found interesting on the site. 1 There’s a PC version in development, you Read more…
Getting into R can be quite daunting. It’s a new language to you, programmers are worrying about polishing up their math skills, statisticians are worrying about their programming skills and its hard keeping up with all the new and exciting packages . I found a good way to get myself Read more…
Most educational institutions run a learning management system of some sort to ‘manage learning’. But to ‘manage learning’ means different things to different people and often an LMS just doesn’t offer that piece of functionality you really want. Fortunately there are many tools available to add additional functionality to your LMS and you’ve found that really cool piece of Read more…
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I recently saw a great article on how to create a recommendation system in R by yhat. I thought it looked fun and decided to hook one up myself. Thinking about datasets I started to wonder about recommendation systems that might I might use. The one that immediately sprang to Read more…
Whenever you sign up for an account with Google they try and force Plus on you. Somewhere along the line you’ll accidentally press yes and be sucked in. Fortunately it is possible to keep all your Google profiles (including youtube) while deleting the ‘Plus’ bit. Head to Google.com Sign in Click your name in Read more…
New Star Soccer is basically a bunch of mini games crammed into a football sim. Your role is as a young player starting out and hoping to become the next Ian Rush. You start off playing for a little known team, every match you play presents you with a screen where all Read more…
I’m not a Java developer and don’t have to compile much Java. Unfortunately sometimes I do, and on those rare occasions it usually goes wrong. Today my problem was with Maven 3. I installed using apt-get install maven 3, however when I tried to use the mvn command I got the error “program mvn Read more…
If you grew up in the 90’s in the uk then the chances are you have fond love for two television programmes. CITV’s Knightmare and Roy Walker‘s Catchphrase (I know about that Stephen Muhern show, I mean it’s good, but he’ll never be Roy Walker). While a game based on knightmare already exists (on Read more…
Today I discovered Telenovelas. Telenovelas are short limited run programs similar to soap opera, they are popular in Spanish language counties and they are serious business. I stumbled across a clip on youtube and was instantly hooked. Check this out: I headed to Wikipedia to find out more only to Read more…
