• If you use ChatGPT to help you learn things, you’re an idiot.

    Well, you might not be, but you’re certainly not understanding what these systems do.

  • DofE 2023

    It’s late April which means once again I enter the national cat-herding competition. The challenge – set 13 students off on three days of camping and walking to complete their silver Duke of Edinburgh.

  • Got a refund from the TV Licensing people!

    A completely non-serious bit of waffle about me sticking it to the man.

  • Almost UV light from RGBW LEDs

    So it turns out the RGBW LED light strip in my living room has some almost-UV component to its blue light. It is almost UV enough to make some things fluoresce quite vivid colours.

  • According to Fitbit, gardening is cycling

    One of FitBit’s more useful features is its ability to automatically detect exercise. I think it uses a combination of your heart rate and how the device is moving. The pattern of motion and heart rates must be categorised by FitBit so the app can tell the difference between “swimming” and “running”, etc. It’s not…