Month: November 2018
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Perranuthnoe Beach, near Penzance
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Prussia Cove, near Penzance
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After a series of setbacks, I'm determined to enable #challengerobin to continue. I'm off to meet Robin off his train and get him on-track, skipping the first clue. And his brother Owen's joining in, too... https://danq.me/2018/11/09/challenge-robin-2/#waypoint-plan
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#challengerobin After the sleeper train was cancelled Robin ended up on a series of regular trains and now isn't expected in Penzance until several hours after originally planned. Some modifications may be needed... https://danq.me/2018/11/09/challenge-robin-2/#waypoint-curveball
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#challengerobin hit a disaster early on: Robin was to find sleeper train tickets in a puzzle box, but a growing storm (see pic) has caused the train to be cancelled. What now? https://danq.me/2018/11/09/challenge-robin-2/#waypoint-disaster
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#challengerobin pushed-off in earnest with a blue-plaque-treasure trail around London and then back to Paddington station... but it looks like things are about to go very wrong... https://danq.me/2018/11/09/challenge-robin-2/#waypoint-gardens
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#challengerobin Robin finally made it to his contact and has been given a clue - a map to a Kensington street and instructions on what to do when he gets there: https://danq.me/2018/11/09/challenge-robin-2/#waypoint-gbk
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Challenge Robin II
Following the success of Challenge Robin earlier this year, Robin's sent out on his toughest adventure yet...
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Found GCGNNT We Would Like To Thank...
This checkin to GCGNNT We Would Like To Thank... reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. In hindsight, visiting this cache might have been a mistake as a storm was beginning to roll in, but I got there before things got TOO hairy! I was in the vicinity preparing an adventure-trail …
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Geohashing expedition 2018-11-09 51 -3
This checkin to geohash 2018-11-09 51 -3 reflects a geohashing expedition. See more of Dan's hash logs. Location
Field near Whitefield Rocks, Langley Marsh. Google Maps says its a nowhere-place but OpenStreetMap suggests there's a footpath right by the hashpoint.
Participants
Dan Q
Plans
Okay, I'm going for it! I'm driving … -
A 5am start and a 230-mile drive sounds like a great way to start off my part in #challengerobin 2. Stay tuned for updates/sleepy off-kilter photos...
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IndieWeb Comic
Yulia (hag.social)
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Drowning cow saved by 'mermaid' on 200-mile swim
A drowning cow was rescued from a river by a passing "mermaid" on a 200-mile swim of the Thames.
Lindsey Cole splashed into the river in a wetsuit, tail and hat at Lechlade, Gloucestershire, on Friday. She is raising awareness of the environmental effects of single-use plastic.
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Shadows Out of Time
Dan adapts the Bodleian's Halloween CYOA adventure gamebook into a Twine/Chapbook powered piece of interactive fiction for your browser. Play it now!
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Hands on with neural-network toolkit LIME: Come now, you sourpuss. You've got some explaining to do
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How well does the algorithm perform? Setting it up to work in LIME can be a bit of a pain, depending on your environment. The examples on Tulio Ribeiro's Github repo are in Python and have been optimised for Jupyter notebooks. I decided to get the code for a basic image analyser running in a …