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Book review: The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks
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Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale's personal journal. I also write a programming blog. And a tumble log. Contact me at wzdd.blog@lardcave.net RSS feed. Aug 24, 2014. Book review: The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks. Possible subtitle: The Rubber of Beards. Possible alternative subtitle: It seems that the player got played! Stop yawning. The fate of the galaxy is at stake. Frustration is a good summary of the whole book. Banks is aware enough of the genre's tropes to mock them (the names of the spaceships are g...
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The Warp Drive of the Ancient Mariner
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Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale's personal journal. I also write a programming blog. And a tumble log. Contact me at wzdd.blog@lardcave.net RSS feed. Feb 21, 2013. The Warp Drive of the Ancient Mariner. But why drives on that ship so fast,. Without or wave or wind? The air is cut away before,. And closes from behind.'.
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Mini-est digital photo frame
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Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale's personal journal. I also write a programming blog. And a tumble log. Contact me at wzdd.blog@lardcave.net RSS feed. Apr 26, 2015. Mini-est digital photo frame. Photo frame from a Christmas cracker (this was the best part), tiny LCD from iTead. Generic Arduino. Next step would be wireless.
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Poker solved by artificial intelligence
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Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale's personal journal. I also write a programming blog. And a tumble log. Contact me at wzdd.blog@lardcave.net RSS feed. Jan 10, 2015. Poker solved by artificial intelligence. Heads-up limit hold’em poker is solved.
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Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale's personal journal. I also write a programming blog. And a tumble log. Contact me at wzdd.blog@lardcave.net RSS feed. Apr 1, 2013. Dear Tesco customers: stop eating my butter.
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Life goals of our washing machine
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Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale's personal journal. I also write a programming blog. And a tumble log. Contact me at wzdd.blog@lardcave.net RSS feed. Nov 18, 2014. Life goals of our washing machine. 1 Do not, under any circumstances, let my owner open my door until I say so.
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AI Events calendar
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Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale's personal journal. I also write a programming blog. And a tumble log. Contact me at wzdd.blog@lardcave.net RSS feed. Jun 26, 2014. I’ve started a calendar for AI events and conferences: https:/ fitzroydale.org/AIEvents.ics. At the moment it’s just an ical version of the AISB weekly bulletin. But I may add other things later. It’s updated roughly weekly. URL has changed as Google makes it hard for me to log in through my VPN.
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Constant-rate gravity-fed drip irrigation
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Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale's personal journal. I also write a programming blog. And a tumble log. Contact me at wzdd.blog@lardcave.net RSS feed. Jul 21, 2014. Constant-rate gravity-fed drip irrigation. You’re going on a short holiday, but while you’re away London’s going to have the hottest day of the year. And you don’t want to torture your plants. One thing you can do is set up a gravity-feed drip watering system using drip irrigation spikes. First, take your first bottle and cut it. When enough water has d...
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Android's permission request dialog is in the wrong place
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Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale's personal journal. I also write a programming blog. And a tumble log. Contact me at wzdd.blog@lardcave.net RSS feed. Aug 8, 2015. Android's permission request dialog is in the wrong place. Any Android user will be familiar with the problem: you decide you need an app, do a search for it, pick one you like, maybe look at the screenshots and read the reviews, and finally press install to be greeted by this:. Select desired app from list. Press Accept on the permissions request. The s...