Saturday, 24 September 2016

Chorlton graffiti

A fence with spray paint, saying 'Le monde est à nous'. The word 'nous' has been crossed out and replaced with 'vous'.

Monday, 19 September 2016

Didsbury under the Martians.

The roof and upper storey of a house, covered in bright red vines.
The same vine-covered house from a different angle.

Sunday, 11 September 2016

Machine Translation

This is interesting, although it skips over some of the details.

Kind of raises the question though, why is machine translation still so rubbish?

Okay, so much more training data is needed. But maybe also machine translations enter an uncanny valley as they get better.

Machine Learning is Fun Part 5: Language Translation with Deep Learning and the Magic of Sequences

Thursday, 1 September 2016

Oof. D-lock around the wheel, cable lock was on the frame, I guess....

A mountain bike wheel with disk brake rotor, D-locked to a fence. The wheel is buckled, with several spokes bent, and the tyre is flat. A stub of a cable, neatly cut, is still attached to the D-lock. The rest of the bike has gone.

Sorry, reading that again it looks a bit victim-blamey, that was not my intent.