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Natural Language Processing (NLP) Aspects of Machine Learning

Posted on 01/02/2019 by pip

This is part three of an eight part brain-dump of things I learned developing the initial version of the Machine Learning (ML) aspect of SYRAS the Systematic Review Assistant. One of the things which seems obvious in retrospect, but hampered … Continue reading →

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Machine Learning tips I learned making SYRAS Systematic Review Assistant

Posted on 30/01/2019 by pip

This is part two of an eight part brain-dump of things I learned developing the initial version of the Machine Learning (ML) aspect of SYRAS the Systematic Review Assistant. A collection of Machine Learning (ML) tips, gotchas and reminders to … Continue reading →

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Machine Learning evaluation study for SYRAS (Systematic Review Assistant)

Posted on 27/01/2019 by pip

My original goal for SYRAS, the Systematic Review Assistant, was to try to automate the laborious process of reviewing thousands of scientific article references while selecting their relevance to a particular topic of study. During the initial development of the software, once … Continue reading →

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Local development certificates done properly

Posted on 11/06/2018 by pip

Yesterday I finally lost my patience with the developer’s eternal problem of having to skip the untrusted self-signed certificate interstitial warning screens, and so I decided to solve it properly. The problem has got worse recently due to a combination … Continue reading →

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The Toast Test

Posted on 25/05/2018 by pip

A long time ago my friend’s mum’s toaster broke, so she sent it back to the manufacturer. They serviced it and returned it back to her with a note saying it was all working, have a great day! She plugged … Continue reading →

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Introducing Systematic Review Assistant

Posted on 13/04/2018 by pip

I’ve been busy. Since July last year all my spare time has been taken up with a new initiative which I am now proud to launch into “early beta”: a systematic review assistant to help perform the laborious task of … Continue reading →

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Dusted off – Troposphere word cloud renderer

Posted on 25/07/2016 by pip

Troposphere is a word-cloud rendering plugin built in Javascript on Canvas using Fabric. https://github.com/scipilot/troposphere It has a few artistic options such as the “jumbliness”, “tightness” and “cuddling” of the words, how they scale with word-rankings, colour and brightness. It also … Continue reading →

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Trialling the ELK stack from Elastic

Posted on 14/07/2016 by pip

As part of my ongoing research into big-data visualisation and infrastructure and application management tools it came to give ELK a test run to check if it’s suited to my needs. I’ve already looked at a few others (which I will detail … Continue reading →

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PHPUnit-Selenium2 Cheat Sheet

Posted on 29/06/2016 by pip

My PHPUnit-Selenium2 Cheat Sheet Here are a few snippets of how I’ve achieved various tasks, some tricks and patterns in phpunit/phpunit-selenium v2.0 – targeting Selenium2. I’ll try to keep this updated with more techniques over time. Screenshots I wrote this small … Continue reading →

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MOTIf v2.0 – responsive redesign

Posted on 28/11/2015 by pip

After 8 years the MOTIf website was starting to show it’s age, visually at least. While I have performed regular technical updates to keep it browser compatible and futureproofed, we made a fixed-layout decision (rather than fluid) in 2007 and so has … Continue reading →

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