I have been interested in the idea of neuroplasticity for a while now. It seems to be a very positive idea about the brain. The brain can rewire - sometimes very quickly - to handle new …
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A new draft script for Pelican
Self learning Spanish
I did Spanish in school a long time ago until I was 15 years old. I have made a few attempts to learn it properly since then, but have not managed to succeed yet …
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Over the last couple of summers Cathal has done some classes for kids at local college. The classes are aimed at children who are interested in things like Science and Maths, but there is …
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Hyperefficient
Hyperefficient
I am going to try some small experiments based on reading this book.
The first one will be based on the idea of structuring a work session. I am going to try this …
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Get the most common words from Spanish
Results will depend on the corpus used. I am not interested in accuracy, so just got a Spanish corpus from nltk.
- figured out which words were junk …
Learning Python
Not the Hello World! version
A list of resources and practices to get python beyond the basics
The book
I am using Fluent Python by Luciano Romalho as the starting point. I bought this …
read moreNotes on The Man from the Future - fission
The fissile material was Plutonium. It was in the shape of 2 hemispheres with a central core of Berillium and Polonium - the initiator. The initiator's job was to produce some neutrons to start the …
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Sous Chef GPT
I wanted to see if I could use Chat GPT to become a better cook. I tried the Sous Chef GPT that Open AI produced themselves a while ago. I told …
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This is an idea from Daniel Dennett's book Intuition pumps and other tools for thinking.
The idea here is that a little kid could say something like the above and not really know what …
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