One of the most interesting talks I attended at Hadoop World was by Revolution Analytics. A couple of months ago they released a set of open-source packages to Github which marries their ‘R’ statistical programming language to the power of Hadoop. As well as running R programs across Map/Reduce it includes support to work with …
It’s been a few weeks since I last posted… I’ve migrated this site to a new home and done a bit of spring cleaning. You can expect more interesting analysis of social media data shortly. I’ve compiled quite a bit lately just because I started capturing data and then forgot to switch it off! In other news; This site …
Site Update: NGINX, CloudFront, Hadoop World, AI Class Read More »
Lately I’ve been postulating ways to get some meaningful data out of social media like Twitter. While half paying attention to a Formula One race in the background on the TV, I twigged on to an interesting experiment. I generated a Formula One relevant filter to use with the Twitter Streaming API, whereby Twitter would …
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Recently I have been revisiting projects from the past – hundreds of little toys, gadgets, fragments of code. One example of that I’m going to talk about here… In the infamous MMORPG that is World of Warcraft, there are many vanity items that are intentionally a massive time sink to acquire. Obtaining these items can …
Flying, Fishing, Time-saving Bots in World of Warcraft! Read More »
Recently I was ranting about Slicehost being assimilated by Rackspace and how bleak its future seems. I have a few virtual machines hosted by Slicehost and tried out Rackspace to see what I was in for. Deeply saddened by their service I started looking for a new home. Linode looked promising at first – native …
This post is a bit of a brain-dump detailing exactly how/what/why, if you just want the juicy bits skip to the bottom 😉 I’ve been a loyal user of the Apache Web Server for some 10 years. Working on everything from custom server modules (in C) all the way through to bog-standard use cases like …
I’ve been an Slicehost customer for years, and I vividly recall that the sign up process went something like this; Sign up in the website and enter billing information (1 minute), Create a simple VM with Fedora (5 minutes), SSH into the machine and start using it (<1 minute), So basically within 7 minutes of …
A couple of weeks ago I migrated my home computer to Fedora 15 featuring the new GNOME 3 user interface among other significant changes. At first it was quite a struggle to get used to, I almost rolled back to Fedora 14. After persevering for the first few days it got easier to work with, …
UPDATE: Google have finally provided a native Linux client, just login to http://music.google.com/ and click ‘Add Music’ to install it. Last week I received a Beta invite for Google Music. I jumped straight onto it only to meet the message “Music Manager is only available for PC and Mac”. Being an avid Linux user I …
One of the biggest challenges in writing a Bot (autonomous character) for an MMORPG is the navigation. You have a few choices, ordered by complexity; Steering: Quite simply, given a destination you steer the character towards that point. If it gets stuck you try jumping, reversing, strafing left/right. This is obviously the most primitive form of …
Navigation Mesh path finding in MMORPG Bots (updated) Read More »