MythTV and Freesat
Or- how to make TV worthwhile if you happen to have a leftover Sky dish on your house. So when I moved in to my current university digs, the previous tenants had left a few things behind. Notably, they’d had Sky. So we had a Sky box in the living room and a dish on [...]
Building Backchat, Part 2
Or: How I learned to give up on projects. Okay, so, Backchat was hugely interesting as a project. Eventually, I produced a set of graphs using the classifier that showed sentiment over time. These graphs aren’t too accurate but are fairly good at showing how things were going. However, after this I pretty much dropped [...]
How to fix voting by popularity
At SURHUL, the Student’s Union of Royal Holloway, University of London, we have a problem. I’m sure it’s not an uncommon one, particularly at student’s unions. Our electoral system is essentially a popularity contest. Manifestos, campaigning and student outreach have very little impact on the results. Many positions are uncontested and whoever runs wins by [...]