Dr James Ravenscroft / is on Nostr

CTO, NL-Proc specialist, big fan of coffee, food and reading

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2024-12-23 09:05:00

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@nprofile…k304
Your data is always online... there for when I f*** up mine! Repository, repository, how lovely are your branches

2024-12-05 10:30:52

Hello world! Today is the final leg of my “totally an academic I promise” tour and I’ll be joining a workshop on AI explainability and reproducibility at the Alan Turing Institute in the British Library. I promise I will actually take some down time after this.
#Funemployed #Ai #Ethics (https://brainsteam.co.uk/notes/2024/12/05/1733392287/)
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2024-12-05 10:13:47

Hello world! Today is the final leg of my “totally an academic I promise” tour and I’ll be joining a workshop on AI explainability and reproducibility at the Alan Turing Institute in the British Library. I promise I will actually take some down time after this.
https://brainsteam.co.uk/notes/2024/12/05/1733392287/
#Funemployed #Ai #Ethics
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2024-11-18 19:55:13

Just reluctantly put my new AE-10 wind synth down after a long first day of play as my fingers are starting to really ache. Being able to emulate sax, electric guitar or bagpipes and hear it + a backing track in my headphones is magical. Most excited I’ve been about music practice for years.
#music #saxophone #windsynth (https://brainsteam.co.uk/notes/2024/11/18/1731959680/)
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2024-11-16 11:58:11

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@nprofile…4v2g awesome thanks for this. I see reaper is cross platform but seems that kontakt on Linux is a little less straightforward (but still doable with wine)?

2024-11-16 09:20:53

Hey music fedi - I'm planning on purchasing a digital sax/wind synth. I'm an amateur saxophonist of about 20 years. I want to be able to practice quietly and also mess about with music production/recording. I'm currently considering the Roland AE-10. Budget is <£1000 - ideally closer to £500. Software stack recommendations also of interest. #music #MusicProduction #saxophone

2024-11-09 17:24:59

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@npub17l9…fs0v ah good spot on that too thank you

2024-11-09 16:54:53

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@npub17l9…fs0v thanks - I'll fix that link now!

2024-11-09 16:52:29

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@npub17l9…fs0v yes! There's no easy way to get hold of it but there's a user called lambusser on Andy Kirby's #meshtastic discord that is building it and making it available. I've mirrored their latest build here https://memos.jamesravey.me/m/a9V7uyN8bCLrmdBpjvdKhh

2024-11-09 16:26:13

Sticking to today's theme of electrical tinkering, I've added a new stubby aerial to my #meshtastic lilygo t-deck device and written up some notes on how to flash the new experimental firmware https://brainsteam.co.uk/posts/2024/11/09/lilygo-t-deck-plus-updates-and-maintenance1731169410/

2024-11-07 11:31:50

Just registered to attend my first #RepairCafe event this weekend - I've got a Delonghi coffee machine that produces cold water and steam but no hot water but I'm hoping to make it a habit to attend and volunteer my IT and electronics know-how in future #RightToRepair

2024-10-29 18:10:32

Read a pretty grim and conclusive document that suggests we are pretty much doomed when it comes to #climatechange (see https://medium.com/@samyoureyes/the-busy-workers-handbook-to-the-apocalypse-7790666afde7 but massive trigger warning: depressing as all hell)
feeling pretty disheartened by it.
Is anyone collecting ideas or examples of things that we are doing or could do to prevent the end of the world? I'd really love to hear them right now 😔😅 #climatecrisis

2024-10-28 10:01:21

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@npub19lt…qfjk mine was something like £15k pro-ratadover 2015-2022 - ended up getting about £500/mo which meant I could drop down to 3 days at my job and then as inflation got a bit mental (and my research shifted to just writing up) I had to go back up to 4 days a week to maintain my lifestyle. Also didn't help that the uni mis-calculated the monthly amount and "ran out of money" in 2022. Would have had to go back full time but my amazing supervisor 'found' a pot of money to help me near the end

2024-10-19 20:49:59

Took a slightly disappointing trip up to the top of Portsdown hill with my heltec V3 node to see if I could connect to the mesh in Portsmouth. What I didn’t realise is that I needed to disable the WiFi profile on the device from home in order to get Bluetooth comms with my android phone working. Next time I need to reconfigure before I go out… Or buy more nodes 👿
#meshtastic (https://brainsteam.co.uk/notes/2024/10/19/1729370823/)

2024-10-16 09:49:10

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@npub1u95…0kv7 yeah I know the M3 is often pretty bad too... I can work from home but I'm currently driving Mrs R to and From work in Chandlers Ford a couple of times a week so we tend to get stuck 😬