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…
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…
Incremental Games are a recently recognised genre of video game that is popular on mobile phones and browser game sites such as Kongregate with the simple goal to earn as much ‘currency as possible. The currency itself can take many forms, but is basically an integer that is increased by Read more…
Exploring your social media networks with Graphing tools such as Gephi is quite easy, the hardest part is working out what you want to explore and how you will get the data. As a starting point I’ve collected a few simple recipes for network graphs. I’ve done all these on Read more…
Anita Sarkeesian is a media critic currently responsible for the production of the video series Tropes vs Women in Video Games where she presents commentary and analysis about gender representation. This Tumblr blog post of hers features a small collection of some of the tweets directed to her on an Read more…
Perhaps you may work in an environment where you can see immoral/unethical actions that are justified with the saying ‘I was following procedure’. Maybe you see the people at the top of your organisation creating procedures to tie staff to their authority and ideology? Some people I know would say Read more…
When I am writing my slides for a presentation, recording a video to help a student with a piece of work or finishing a bit code to my latest ridiculous web project I am constantly thinking ‘Who will I sacrifice this to?’ There are many gods scrambling for my content, Read more…
