Archives of ArtificialIntelligence

Santiago – first few days

I’d better log our first few days before the crazyness of signing up to the programme kicks off on Monday. Emily (my fiancée) is also blogging for her TinyEars StartupChile project. We arrived safely on Wednesday after 18 hours of travel – BA treated us well (reasonably comfy seats and reasonable food). We were hustled […]
13 years ago

Heading to StartupChile

This is a quick update – we’re flying tomorrow to Santiago for 6 months of the StartupChile project ($40k funding, no equity, hundreds of projects flying in from all over the world). If you’re interested in taking 6 months to build your own project I’d suggest you take a look at applying to the next […]
13 years ago

Five new Brighton businesses

Earlier in the year through Matt Weston a group of us met, funded by the Innovation and Growth Team, to start a peer-group for a set of four (wait for it…) new businesses. The group was successful – and for several of us it led to the realisation that our plans at the time weren’t […]
13 years ago

StrongSteam alpha, HackerNewsLondon, Startup-Chile

I’m a little behind with the blogging so here’s the short version. StrongSteam has been under constant dev for 2 months, we’re close to putting up the first AI tools behind a few Python demos (hopefully it’ll be up next week). I’m talking on this at HackerNewsLondon tomorrow night. We haven’t (quite) finished the demos […]
13 years ago

strongsteam – an “AppStore for A.I. and data mining tools”

Kyran and I are starting work on a new project – strongsteam offers a web API with artificial intelligence and data mining tools. The goal is to make it easy for you to do things like: get the text out of images using optical character recognition determine whether two images look the same and if […]
13 years ago

High Performance Python tutorial v0.2 (from EuroPython 2011)

My updated High Performance Python tutorial is now available as a 55 page PDF. The goal is to take you on several journeys which show you different ways of making Python code run much faster (up to 75* on the CPU, faster with a GPU). UPDATE As of October 2014 I’ll be teaching High Performance […]
13 years ago

“A.I. in the real world” 2011 lecture at Sussex Uni

I’ve just given my yearly lecture at Sussex Uni talking about Artificial Intelligence in the real-world. It details some of my exploits over the last 10 years. The presentation is below, I’ve also linked to some of the videos below. A.I. in the Real World – Sussex Uni lecture March 2011 View more presentations from […]
14 years ago

Review for Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook (Packt, 2010)

Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook (Amazon US, UK) is a cookbook for Python’s Natural Language Processing Toolkit. I’d suggest that this book is seen as a companion for O’Reilly’s Natural Language Processing with Python (available for free at nltk.org). The older O’Reilly book gives a lot of explanation for how to use NLTK’s […]
14 years ago

Packt’s new “Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook”

I’m rather excited to have received a review copy of Packt’s new NLP book “Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook“, it is based around Python’s Natural Language Processing toolkit. I’ve been using the O’Reilly book for over a year, I’m curious to see what’s different between the two. I’ll post a full review once […]
14 years ago

Visualising Lanyrd’s social connectivity graph

Over the weekend at BarCampBrighton5 I demonstrated a quick visualisation that Kyran and I built over breakfast in Berlin last Friday. It looks like: To see it yourself open Bar Camp Brighton 5 Visualisation using Chrome or WebKit (it’ll work in Firefox but might be rather slow). It is interactive so it is worth opening, […]
14 years ago