It’s the end of the year and I fancy writing something about it! I had planned on writing about all the things that happened during the year. However I probably should have blogged more if that were the case. Instead I will focus on why I left my old job in the Autumn.
I’ve been watching two programmes recently about robots and specifically about the artificial intelligence of
robots: Humans on Channel 4 and Westworld
on HBO.
I’ve had a lot of ups and downs over the past few months…….. I joined a trampolining centre!
As part of my personal project for Spring, and to coincide with the UK 2015 General Election, I decided to create some bots that mirrored the main party candidates and translated their tweets to Jive. They are still running so you can find them on Twitter: Ed Jiveaband, Nick Jivegg, David Jiveron.
One of the more interesting problems that I faced was how to prevent special Tweet Entities being erroneously translated by the Jive translator. You may be asking what is a Tweet Entity? Let me explain about them first and then go on to explain how I can tackle such a problem.
Throughout March and April of 2015 I have been busy working on a pet project with my friend Ricky Shelton. The idea was simple. Make the politicians running in the 2015 UK General Election more electable by having them speak Jive.
At last!! Almost…………
This week we put the final touches to the bathroom remodel. Here’s the final (almost final) bathroom.
I spotted this recipe for spicy chicken wings on Google+ and thought I would give it a go. I wanted to put my own spin on it which is why I opted for chicken legs instead of wings and modified some of the ingredients. I also didn’t want to buy thirty chicken wings! The recipe does use ketchup but bear with me, it’s not that bad.
One of the exciting events to happen this year is that we are buying our first house. We are moving just down the road in Bristol to a three bedroom terraced house. The house itself is a Victorian house that has been recently renovated so needs minimal work once we move in.
I have become very addicted to streaming video and TV series in particular. Netflix has been my go to choice for this. Although I also still enjoy traditional methods.