Recently I have following some chatter around the data generated around ourselves, Mark blogged about a personal corpus and I enjoyed this post about a person as an API . The central theme I’ve taken from these posts is around things that tell us Read more…
I haven’t had time to try Torque 3D with the Oculus Rift, but it seems a very quick, easy and free way to start developing for my Oculus Rift.You’ll need: Torque 3D : http://mit.garagegames.com/Torque3D-3-0.zip Torque 3d Rift Template: http://mit.garagegames.com/Rift-Template-3-0.zip Oculus VR SDK Read more…
Pupils in the UK who fail to get a C at Maths GCSE are being told they have to re sit exams every year until they pass or reach 18, when they leave education but have to have ‘idiot’ branded Read more…
Recently a user at reddit wrote a post to scrape R comments; I had a play with it here. Today I had a very quick play of combining some stuff I’ve written for the Personal Corpus examination tool with the function Read more…
Around this time every year all my feeds are full of fantasy football teams. I wanted to join in; but I can’t be bothered with football. Instead I’ve created a fantasy team of data exploration tools. Looking back at my Read more…
EDIT: Using Oculus Rift on MAC OS X video post can be found here. This post is a failed experiment on Getting started in Xcode with the SDK. Yloly has left some useful tips to help me in the comments Read more…
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 Read more…
A post over at ReadWriteWeb describes what the author calls a Personal API. The description of the API in the post something similar to what Google has put on it’s Nexus 4, a bit of software that learns where you 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 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 Read more…
