Here’s my very positive experience from a two week European road trip in Ioniq 2020 (new for me, owned for about a month now): * We drove 2971 miles and spent almost £110 on electricity with average consumption of 5.1 mi/kWh. There are a lot of free chargers available (rapid chargers at McDonalds and Lidl, hotel chargers… Continue reading EV Road Trip
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Looking for similar point and click games
I’m in a constant lookout for humours, sofa friendly point and click/adventure games. Please send me a suggestion if you know one. Here’s the list of game I played. I hope it gets indexed for you to find when you are on a quest to find a new game. I highly recommend all of the… Continue reading Looking for similar point and click games
imagemagick and ffmpeg cheat sheet
Make a sprite from photos magick.exe *.jpg +append sprites_P0100.jpg Resize all images in place magick.exe mogrify -resize 380 *.jpg Crop images in place magick.exe mogrify -crop 3200×3200+400+400 *.jpg Make and scale video from images ffmpeg -i DSC_%04d.jpg -c:v libx264 -vf fps=25 scale=800:800 alpin_400.mp4
Smart Home DIY on a tight budget
After twenty years of reading about smart homes I decided to finally make mine smart(-ish) as well. I’m working to reuse as much of existing infrastructure, so I can spend as little as possible. At the moment my system consist of: * hub * four google assistant speakers * hive thermostat * cctv camera *… Continue reading Smart Home DIY on a tight budget
Case Study: Using Machine Learning to find my Teddy Bear
Problem For the last 8 years I’ve been travelling with my Teddy Bear (Optymis) taking “selfies” of him whenever I go. The result is a massive collection of photos like those: I wanted to find them all to create an album. My wife and I accumulated a lot of photos – my Google Drive shows… Continue reading Case Study: Using Machine Learning to find my Teddy Bear
Tensorflow 1.5 with AVX2 support on Windows
Here’s a whl file with Tensorflow 1.5rc0 with AVX and AVX2 support. So grab the file and say goodbye to Your CPU supports instructions that this TensorFlow binary was not compiled to use: AVX2 message. Whl was built using Windows 10, Python 3.6, Cuda 9.0, Visual Studio 2015. Link to tensorflow_gpu-1.5.0rc0-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl
Tensorflow 1.5 built with AVX support
TL;DR – download tensorflow 1.5 with AVX support from the link on the bottom of this post When running machine learning code on a new hardware using libraries available on PIP we are not using all capabilities provided by our cpu: 2018-01-10 09:35:05.048387: I C:\tf_jenkins\home\workspace\rel-win\M\windows-gpu\PY\36\tensorflow\core\platform\cpu_feature_guard.cc:137] Your CPU supports instructions that this TensorFlow binary was not… Continue reading Tensorflow 1.5 built with AVX support
How to unbrick cc3d
Great tutorial using STM Flash Loader Demonstrator tool: http://www.southquay3d.com/index.php?route=news/article&news_id=9
Geek way of buying silver wedding rings
Disclaimers: 1. this post mentions my shop. 2. I’m sure we offer a great deal! If you are looking preparing for a wedding and you want to keep it real (i.e. don’t want to copy celebrities in their race for overspending) then consider buying Silver Wedding Rings instead of gold. Here’s why: * you want… Continue reading Geek way of buying silver wedding rings
Adding wildcards to Google AIY actions on Raspberry Pi.
I’ve been playing with Google AIY on raspberry pi for nearly an hour now and I love it. If you are lucky you can get your kit from issue 57 of The MagPi Magazine. Google provided a python based example app that recognises the command you spoke to the box and runs your action. The… Continue reading Adding wildcards to Google AIY actions on Raspberry Pi.