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7 October 2019 by Martin
AI / ML, Opinion

Opinion: Five Percent Accuracy

Police forces in the UK have recently been criticised for using facial recognition systems some claim to be “dangerously inaccurate”. The House of Commons Science and Technology committee recently called for trials to be suspended until relevant regulations are put in place. Some of these systems have demonstrated just 5%…

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4 October 2019 by Martin
Find My Bricks, Lego

Deploying Leaflet Maps

I use Leaflet, an open-source JavaScript library, as the engine for the interactive portion of my website. If you head over to the find-bricks part of my site you will likely realise you have used a Leaflet app before, most likely for its intended application of mapping. In my app…

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2 October 2019 by Martin
AI / ML, Find My Bricks, Lego

Site Launch – MartinBuilds.com

It started with a  joke. Not my joke, but a good one. To some, this is not a joke. It is a convoluted neural network similar to the TV show Silicon Valley’s Not Hotdog app The Vision The aim of this project is to deploy a complete AI solution using…

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23 September 2019 by Martin
AWS, Technology

AWS Free-tier CPU Limits

Having enjoyed many projects on my home PC and Raspberry Pi, I am now taking advantage of AWS’s trial free-tier to see how far I can get on a web app project I have in mind. Below are some of my initial observations. Free Tier Hours I was aware that…

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21 February 2018 by Martin
AI / ML, Data, Technology

My Automated Machine Learning Tipster Bot, on a Raspberry Pi

I programmed my £30 Raspberry Pi to automate picking football tips using machine learning techniques, which you can follow on twitter @PiBot_predicts

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14 July 2017 by Martin
AI / ML, Data, Technology

The Sport of Programming

I dabble in the sport of programming and train my first Neural Network on a gaming-laptop GPU

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31 January 2017 by Martin
Technology

It’s just not worth buying computers at the moment.

How Brexit and memory price hikes have destroyed the market for buying performance computers

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4 January 2017 by Martin
Technology

The Compute Landscape at the Beginning of 2017

For years the IT industry has accepted Intel as the only viable option. At the beginning of Intel’s reign the consensus was: “yeah Intel CPUs are way better than anyone else, let’s buy lots”. But now the feeling is: “oh, another incremental upgrade from Intel. What’s AMD up to? Ah…

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2 January 2017 by Martin
Data, Technology

Hacking Tennis for luls and profit

As with many tech nerds, although employed in a specific area of IT I like to dabble in others in my free time. My most recent dabbling has been in data science. Although I say “science” I’m afraid my intentions are less noble than the word implies. I’m more interested…

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5 December 2016 by Martin
Technology

The Myths and Marketing of Moore’s Law

Moore’s Law won’t end. Even when it ends it won’t end. The Law follows that more components can be crammed into an integrated circuit with developments in technology over time. However transistors are getting so small that current leakage becomes a greater issue. In short this means there needs to…

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2 December 2016 by Martin
Opinion, Technology

time to take Java seriously again?

Like many Computer Science graduates Java was the first language I’d say I really learnt. Sure I’d dabbled in C and VB but Java is where I first wrote meaningful code beyond examples from the text book. Again like many Computer Science graduates, I turned my back on Java pretty…

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2 May 2013 by Martin
Technology

I Can Has Super Powers?

Technology should give us super powers. Still waiting for flight and not holding my breath for invisibility but predicting the future is getting better all the time. Big Data isn’t about “big” data. Its orders of magnitude lower than what the Large Hadron Collider spits out in a day. But…

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