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The Daily ACK: The Trouble with Things
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The often deranged postings of yet another hacker, pretending to be an Astronomer, pretending to be a hacker who has written a book or two for O'Reilly Media. Thursday, August 15, 2013. The Trouble with Things. At the tail end of last month I was out in Portland at OSCON. Where I gave an Ignite talk. On the trouble with things. Posted by Alasdair Allan. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 160; is a Scientist, Author, Hacker, Tinkerer and Journalist. He is the author of a number of books. Alasdair is a f...
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The Daily ACK: June 2013
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The often deranged postings of yet another hacker, pretending to be an Astronomer, pretending to be a hacker who has written a book or two for O'Reilly Media. Friday, June 28, 2013. The Makers of Things. This post was first published in Make magazine. The Makers of Things. Is a short film collection by Anne Hollowday. It documents the work and workshops of the Society for Model and Experimental Engineers. Back in the 1800′s they had the learned society. In the flickering light of a cinema Mike Chrisp wat...
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The Daily ACK: April 2014
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The often deranged postings of yet another hacker, pretending to be an Astronomer, pretending to be a hacker who has written a book or two for O'Reilly Media. Thursday, April 24, 2014. Crowdfunding the recovery of a lost spacecraft. This post was original published on the MAKE Blog. The hackers behind the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project. Have moved on to a different challenge. Not content with images, this time they want to recover a whole spacecraft. At one of the Earth-Sun Lagrangian points. To co...
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The Daily ACK: January 2013
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The often deranged postings of yet another hacker, pretending to be an Astronomer, pretending to be a hacker who has written a book or two for O'Reilly Media. Saturday, January 12, 2013. I heard this morning that. Has committed suicide. He was just twenty six. That's far too young by anyone's measure. I didn't know Aaron well, we had exchanged a few words on a couple of occasions, but I should have had a chance to fix that. He was twenty six and he was at the start of things, not the end. If you feel lik...
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The Daily ACK: Machine Learning in the Real World
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The often deranged postings of yet another hacker, pretending to be an Astronomer, pretending to be a hacker who has written a book or two for O'Reilly Media. Thursday, February 03, 2011. Machine Learning in the Real World. Today I gave a talk on machine learning in the real world at O'Reilly's Strata Conference. Can machines help us make better decisions? During the panel we looked at how machine learning is applied in industry and academia to optimise the use of resources and help with decision support.
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The Daily ACK: The Board Room Hour
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The often deranged postings of yet another hacker, pretending to be an Astronomer, pretending to be a hacker who has written a book or two for O'Reilly Media. Sunday, January 05, 2014. The Board Room Hour. Back in October last year I was out in New York for the Hardware Innovation Workshop. And Maker Faire New York. Where I took part in a panel discussion along with Massimo Banzi. 8212;and chaired by MAKE. 8212;on what's in store for micro-controllers, and what the next generation of board could bring.
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The Daily ACK: April 2013
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The often deranged postings of yet another hacker, pretending to be an Astronomer, pretending to be a hacker who has written a book or two for O'Reilly Media. Tuesday, April 02, 2013. Leaving the ivory tower. Looking out over the Pacific. Is later this week, Thursday the 4th of April. And I've now working on something that's going to swallow my life for the next couple of months. In the short to medium term I'm planning on staying freelance. I've done a number of (some quite infamous. And have done a num...
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The Daily ACK: February 2013
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The often deranged postings of yet another hacker, pretending to be an Astronomer, pretending to be a hacker who has written a book or two for O'Reilly Media. Saturday, February 23, 2013. My latest book, my first not talking about iOS and writing code for the iPhone and iPad, just went to press. It's called Distributed Network Data. And it's hardware hacking for Data Scientists. It's the book of the Data Sensing Lab. And arrives just in time for this year's O'Reilly Strata. Posted by Alasdair Allan.
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The Daily ACK: The Snapchat Leak
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The often deranged postings of yet another hacker, pretending to be an Astronomer, pretending to be a hacker who has written a book or two for O'Reilly Media. Sunday, January 05, 2014. This was first published on the O'Reilly Radar. The number of Snapchat users by geographic location. Users are predominately located in New York, San Francisco and the surrounding greater New York and Bay Areas. Published a report highlighting two exploits. Adding that they had various. Four months previously—none of...
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The Daily ACK: Crowdfunding the recovery of a lost spacecraft
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The often deranged postings of yet another hacker, pretending to be an Astronomer, pretending to be a hacker who has written a book or two for O'Reilly Media. Thursday, April 24, 2014. Crowdfunding the recovery of a lost spacecraft. This post was original published on the MAKE Blog. The hackers behind the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project. Have moved on to a different challenge. Not content with images, this time they want to recover a whole spacecraft. At one of the Earth-Sun Lagrangian points. To co...
