Items of Interest

Kate Open Rehearsals

I had the pleasure of attending the open rehearsals for the theatre production Kate in Volcano Theatre in Swansea last week. The play premiered at the National Eisteddfod in Cardiff this year. Check out some more of my photos of the play here.

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Cool Thing Of The Week: Rockstar Programming Language

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A dynamically typed Turing-complete programming language in the form of 1980's rock song lyrics!

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Cartography Playground

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Cartography Playground is a great interactive site that demonstrates various algorithms and techniques used in modern cartography such as clustering and generalisation. Tools on the site allow the user to interact with the various models and options.

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AI Proves Fibromyalgia Exists

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Researchers have used machine learning and AI to identify a brain signal model that characterises Fibromyalgia, despite the some doctors believing that Fibromyalgia does not exist. The signature model can be used for assessing therapeutic mechanisms and predicting treatment response at an individual patient level.

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Program The Blockchain

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Program The Blockchain is a site with a range of blockchain code tutorials. Topics on the site range from blockchain basics to tutorials on how to write an ERC20 Token contract and createing state channels.

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AI Finds Waldo

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U.S. creative agency RedPepper has built a Raspberry Pi powered robot arm with AI image recognition which can successfully find Waldo. The system uses OpenCV to extract the faces from the image and Google Auto ML Vision cloud service to match the faces to Waldo model. No word as of yet on whether Waldo's British older brother Wally has escaped the robot overlords :-p

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Meteor Showers From Space

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This is a fantastic interactive website that allows you to view numerous meteor show formations within the solar system. You can even zoom in and move around, i.e. space travel! :-p

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Retool

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Retool is a drag and drop tool that lets you create web based apps to manage data. It aims to allow you to build internal tools easily with a set of building blocks.

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Piano Activities

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This week NAWR had the pleasure of realising Philip Corner's Piano Activites piece with Volcano Theatre in Swansea. Volcano had an old piano that had succumbed to wood worm and was due to be thrown away. Instead, the colloboration between Volcano and NAWR resulted in the piano giving its final public performance on Swansea High Street! Check out the rest of the photos of the piano's destruction here.

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