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Recent writing from the studio, the archive, and the general mess of making things.
A rambling and indulgent treatise on the nature of art and the confusing and terrifying act of creation
I’ve always felt compelled to create things. The idea of creating and presenting a thing, physical or virtual, always felt like some sort of magic – the evocation of something from nothing, the act of transmogrifying and combining one or more things to instantiate something else. I’ve never been particularly picky about my materials, or…
Staplers and Ghosts and Weasels and…
In which Addam isn’t paying attention…
Where I End and ADHD Begins
There’s a gap in between There’s a gap where we meet Where I end and you begin And I’m sorry for us The dinosaurs roam the earth The sky turns green Where I end and you begin Where I End and You Begin – Radiohead The ADHD brain goes where it pleases. I have very…
Me and Myself
In which Addam’s brain isn’t feeling the love…
Shed Load
In which Addam finds a spider…
Do Small Things
You have an aunt, or a sibling, or a bezzie don’t you, who you love to pieces but is basically an anal douchebag? You know, the one that, when they walk into your house, tries to conceal palpable distaste at the general disorder and disarray. Like they’re suppressing the mental gag-reflex. You kinda don’t want them to…
Chinese Whispers Graph Clustering in Python
I needed a simple and efficient unsupervised graph clustering algorithm. MCL is a bit heavy for my needs and I was after something that was available in pure Python (because of environment access and compatibility issues) pretty much immediately. There isn’t exactly a lot of choice! I stumbled across Chinese Whispers an elegant and simple solution. I…
Does Word2Vec Dream of Semantic Sheep?
I played with Google’s magical word2vec neural network some time ago. I found it interesting but I had no immediate use for it, so I filed it in the ‘must remember to check this out further’ section of my disorganised brain. More recently I found myself wrestling with topic modelling resulting in a near terminal…
Internet Advertising Ethics – the gorilla in the room
Much has been said of late about the rise of the adblocker and what it means for the future of the advertising industry and, more worryingly, the internet. I’ve largely kept my gob shut on the subject of advertising ethics up until now since it’s not very fashionable to stand up for the evil advertising community.…
17 seconds
I don’t know exactly how long it takes to read the 50 or so words attributed to me in a recent Guardian article, but I doubt that it equates to 5 minutes, probably more like 17 seconds, meaning that I still have the larger portion of my 5 minutes of fame to come. What wonders…