SHDC#7 complete, signup for SHDC#8!
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Simon Ford
May 19, 2008, 4:08:25 PM5/19/08
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Hi All,
SHDC#7 is complete! Great to see some new faces and new projects :)
Actually ended up being a lot of discussion and not much production!
A sumo robot appeared. It turned out one project that was being
planned had been explored by someone else in a previous life (time to
dust that off). Some playing with a cut down embedded python project.
Fiddling with motors and propellers. But mostly chatting, beer and
cake.
So dates for SHDC#8...
* Sat 14th June
* Sat 5th July
Please vote/reply to show your potential attendance and help pick a
day!
Cheers,
Simon
SHDC#7 is complete! Great to see some new faces and new projects :)
Actually ended up being a lot of discussion and not much production!
A sumo robot appeared. It turned out one project that was being
planned had been explored by someone else in a previous life (time to
dust that off). Some playing with a cut down embedded python project.
Fiddling with motors and propellers. But mostly chatting, beer and
cake.
So dates for SHDC#8...
* Sat 14th June
* Sat 5th July
Please vote/reply to show your potential attendance and help pick a
day!
Cheers,
Simon
Jonathan Austin
May 19, 2008, 5:29:30 PM5/19/08
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14th June is best for me, though I can probably make 5th too.
I was sorry I couldn't be there on Saturday - glad it was fun!
Jonny
I was sorry I couldn't be there on Saturday - glad it was fun!
Jonny
Chris Styles
May 20, 2008, 3:11:57 PM5/20/08
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Sorry I couldn't make the one just gone...
Either of those dates for #8 are fine by me...
My project :
I think I'll be repurposing a people counter module to make it an
odometer for my sons pushchair. After a day out I feel like I have
walked bloody miles (I often keep walking to keep him asleep, even when
everyone else has stopped). I'd like to have an actual number for how
far I've walked...
Cheers,
Chris
Hi All,
Cheers,
Simon
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Simon Ford
May 24, 2008, 2:02:52 PM5/24/08
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Sat 14th June is what i'm going with! So put it in your diary, reply
to this thread (or http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/713215/) so we can
contact you, and pass it on to your hacker friends!
Given we seem to be most productive on even numbered SHDC's, this
should be a good one!
Cheers,
Simon
to this thread (or http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/713215/) so we can
contact you, and pass it on to your hacker friends!
Given we seem to be most productive on even numbered SHDC's, this
should be a good one!
Cheers,
Simon
Leif Lindholm
May 30, 2008, 7:36:14 AM5/30/08
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> Sat 14th June is what i'm going with! So put it in your diary, reply
> to this thread (or http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/713215/) so we can
> contact you, and pass it on to your hacker friends!
> to this thread (or http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/713215/) so we can
> contact you, and pass it on to your hacker friends!
Sorry, missed last session due to unexpected foreign travel.
14th sounds good to me - I'll be there.
/
Leif
Jonathan Austin
May 30, 2008, 10:08:32 AM5/30/08
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I should be there as well. Looking forward to it.
tom
Jun 4, 2008, 4:46:39 PM6/4/08
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June 14th is good for me - I'm gutted missing the last few (blames
life's brownian motion).
Do you still have the mindstorm motors kicking around simon? I've got
a lego technic strandbeest that wants to live!
Got some cunning ideas to stop usr news sites (reddit/digg) going
downhill when the dum masses find them. The missing concept could
authority - now I just need the google bot net for an afternoon to
scour the web...
life's brownian motion).
Do you still have the mindstorm motors kicking around simon? I've got
a lego technic strandbeest that wants to live!
Got some cunning ideas to stop usr news sites (reddit/digg) going
downhill when the dum masses find them. The missing concept could
authority - now I just need the google bot net for an afternoon to
scour the web...
Jonathan Austin
Jun 5, 2008, 5:32:47 AM6/5/08
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On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:46 PM, tom <twak...@gmail.com> wrote:
Got some cunning ideas to stop usr news sites (reddit/digg) going
downhill when the dum masses find them. The missing concept could
authority - now I just need the google bot net for an afternoon to
scour the web...
I'd been thinking that linking them in with social networking would give you:
a) Too many buzzwords
b) a system where you see the stuff that people like you (ie, whichever stratum of the dumb masses you belong to :P) like. Maybe have a popularity threshold above which a story that none of your friends noticed would hit your 'homepage' too?
'F-igg' could be the name...
You might find the way XKCD's IRC Channel fixed the low signal to noise ratio interesting:
http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-attacking-noise-in-chat/
tom
Jun 5, 2008, 4:42:32 PM6/5/08
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Yup, thats about the idea! Here's the hacky bit -
1) treat the things that people up/down-mod as their own feed.
2) links accumulate merit based on the user's weighting of the feeds
that carry that link.
3) the merit of each feed is adjusted as people up/down-mode a link.
...
profit ;)
Combines the lifestreams of twitter with the popularity fest that is
digg.
I registered http://feedcake.com last week (mostly because I thought
it was a cool domain, rather than planning to build something on it).
Then again the new google app engine will give you half a million page
loads per month of nothing (if you write in python) ...
On Jun 5, 10:32 am, "Jonathan Austin" <j.m.aus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ratio interesting:http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-attacking-n...
1) treat the things that people up/down-mod as their own feed.
2) links accumulate merit based on the user's weighting of the feeds
that carry that link.
3) the merit of each feed is adjusted as people up/down-mode a link.
...
profit ;)
Combines the lifestreams of twitter with the popularity fest that is
digg.
I registered http://feedcake.com last week (mostly because I thought
it was a cool domain, rather than planning to build something on it).
Then again the new google app engine will give you half a million page
loads per month of nothing (if you write in python) ...
On Jun 5, 10:32 am, "Jonathan Austin" <j.m.aus...@gmail.com> wrote:
tom
Jun 5, 2008, 5:16:00 PM6/5/08
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oops...forgot one
4) people are just show links with high merit (feeds are hidden),
weighted by time I guess.
not sure xkcd's approach is the right way to go - it's easy to say
something uniquely dum, but when lots of people say it, then it means
something.
Neat thing here is that you can give feeds negative weights, so you
can give the xkcd's rss feed lots of negative weights to bury it. Not
that i would - tis the best thing about mon, wed & fris...
On Jun 5, 9:42 pm, tom <twake...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yup, thats about the idea! Here's the hacky bit -
> 1) treat the things that people up/down-mod as their own feed.
> 2) links accumulate merit based on the user's weighting of the feeds
> that carry that link.
> 3) the merit of each feed is adjusted as people up/down-mode a link.
> ...
> profit ;)
>
> Combines the lifestreams of twitter with the popularity fest that is
> digg.
>
> I registeredhttp://feedcake.comlast week (mostly because I thought
4) people are just show links with high merit (feeds are hidden),
weighted by time I guess.
not sure xkcd's approach is the right way to go - it's easy to say
something uniquely dum, but when lots of people say it, then it means
something.
Neat thing here is that you can give feeds negative weights, so you
can give the xkcd's rss feed lots of negative weights to bury it. Not
that i would - tis the best thing about mon, wed & fris...
On Jun 5, 9:42 pm, tom <twake...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yup, thats about the idea! Here's the hacky bit -
> 1) treat the things that people up/down-mod as their own feed.
> 2) links accumulate merit based on the user's weighting of the feeds
> that carry that link.
> 3) the merit of each feed is adjusted as people up/down-mode a link.
> ...
> profit ;)
>
> Combines the lifestreams of twitter with the popularity fest that is
> digg.
>
Simon Ford
Jun 13, 2008, 12:47:19 PM6/13/08
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Not that i trust bbc weather much anymore, but it could even be ok
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/24hr.shtml?id=1419). If it looks nice,
i'm happy to fire up the bbq so bring bbq-ables!
See you tomorrow,
Simon
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/24hr.shtml?id=1419). If it looks nice,
i'm happy to fire up the bbq so bring bbq-ables!
See you tomorrow,
Simon
Robert Jason Meerman
Jun 13, 2008, 1:52:52 PM6/13/08
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I intend to come tomorrow.
I'd have used the Yahoo thingy to tell you as much, but I can't
remember my Yahoo ID or password (and am hesitant to create a new one,
seems wasteful).
I'm going to mess about with thermo-plastics and create some mounting
brackets on my bike for my sensor array / mbed-board, I /am/ going to
get this project started!
- RobM
Simon Ford
Jun 13, 2008, 6:30:28 PM6/13/08
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It is at my house btw. If you need directions, give me an email....
tom
Jun 13, 2008, 7:35:05 PM6/13/08
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I could just do with some burnt meat. won't tempt fate by buying meat
until the day tho!
Anyone got a PowerPC copy of OS X I can install tomorrow? I put ubuntu
onto my laptop and ran into driver issues...
until the day tho!
Anyone got a PowerPC copy of OS X I can install tomorrow? I put ubuntu
onto my laptop and ran into driver issues...
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