Hi! I'm a Data Scientist, Programmer, Homebrew Computing Enthusiast, Neuroscience Student, and Musician from Hemel Hempstead, near London in the UK. I'm also interested in local and national politics, and novel political and economic ideas.

This site hosts news, downloads and links related to my current projects.

Well, I predicted the loser!

Submitted by Ben on Sat, 18/05/2013 - 23:58
Ireland Losers

Well, I just enjoyed the Eurovision Song Contest. Here are my predictions for the lowest ten. Norway (my choice for winners) came fourth, which I think was pretty good!

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Predicting Eurovision with Country-Level Regression

Submitted by Ben on Thu, 16/05/2013 - 07:46
Norway to win

There seem to be a few people out there attempting to predict the Eurovision this year using this technique or that, from the Guardian's tongue-in-cheek averaging out of past results, to Cold Hard Facts using a Bayesian predictive model. I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring, with yet another equally fuzzy model. I don't expect to do as well as CHF, as I banged mine together in 5 minutes.

I'm backing Norway this year.

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First version of Easy Games Ladder uploaded to Github

Submitted by Ben on Wed, 03/04/2013 - 13:24

Right, I've uploaded the very first version of the Easy Games Ladder to Github.

You can see it in (extremely limited) action at http://www.bencollier.info/squashladder, and the repository is at http://www.github.com/bmcollier/easy-games-ladder.

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Latest news on the COLLIER-1

Submitted by Ben on Sun, 10/03/2013 - 14:37

Well, I've had a frustrating weekend! The EEPROM programmer which I bought from China turned out to be a load of rubbish, so I've sent it back and I'm building my own EEPROM programmer with an Arduino Uno.

I'm also taking the opportunity of the time it'll take to get that working to get some new kit in. I'm still sticking with the Z80 for the time being, I don't want the additional trouble of wiring in the 6809 for the moment.

Read more for component list and the first program written for the COLLIER-1!

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