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Deepmind’s AlphaStar crushes best StarCraft 2 players

Jan

24

2019

So today’s Deepmind’s StartCraft AI, named AlphaStar neural network AI thoroughly trounced a couple of top StarCraft players. The first set of matches against Dario ” TLO ” Wünsch (StarCraft II player from Germany. TLO is a former Brood War and Supreme Commander player currently playing for Team Liquid.). AlphaStar beat TLO 5 games to ...

PHP on Linux authenticate users with a Windows Server Active Directory 11

Aug

8

2018

A common request when building INTRANET web applications is to have users use only one common shared set of login credentials. Typically in most small and medium businesses this means that logging into a Windows Server of some kind to access the network. Windows Servers use Active Directory (AD) ,which is basically Microsoft’s glorified LDAP ...

Easy battery powered Mailbox Door IoT sensor using ESP32 36

Apr

16

2018

This post is how I took my rusty (literally) old mailbox and made it into a battery powered smart mailbox (an IoT device) , that sends you an SMS (text messagE) or MQTT alerts, and in the process how I learned about Arduino and particularly the ESP32 chip which lets us relatively easily setup with minimal ...

Running Mosquitto MQTT on Windows 10 super easy 26

Mar

29

2018

So I’ve been playing with IoT lately, using platforms such as Arduino ,ESP32, Raspberry Pi and when it comes to being able to have these devices communicate with a hub or server, the de facto standard is to use a MQTT server and protocol . Unfortunately, prior to Windows 10 finding a native Windows version is ...

Raspberry Pi Zero W LED matrix stock ticker code and demo 4

Feb

28

2018

So I was recently intrigued by Raspberry Pi Zero W, it’s small ARM-based Linux PC with integrated WiFi and ability to connect shields (known as Hats or pHats in Raspberry lingo) , got me thinking what kinds of interesting applications could I use it for. After coming across the Scroll Phat HD in my electronics ...

code for MySql / MariaDB to trigger / signal external script from database 4

Sep

7

2017

One feature I often wish MySQL / MariaDB (I’ll refer from now to just MariaDB referring to both) had was the ability to trigger or launch an external script or open a socket connection to some external site; on a database event. Perhaps using a stored procedure in other words generate a signal /event to ...

WordPress linux backup script to offsite NAS via Rsync 5

Jul

29

2017

Here’s a simple straightforward bash | shell script that I use for this SITE to easily and routinely backup my Entire Wordpress Site , all its folders and plugins , and the corresponding database. Of course there are dozens of WordPress Backup plugins (such as Backup Buddy; Updraft Plus; BackWpUp ) that do this ...

Lazarus – Discover Windows, Mac & Linux cross platform Development IDE 5

Apr

21

2016

If you’re a developer of a certain age (say north of 35) you will likely have worked with or heard of Visual Basic and to a lesser known extent Delphi IDE (Integrated Development Environment) development platforms. These development IDE’s, were very popular in the mid to late 90’s and ushered in an era or rapid Windows applications ...

PHP 7 is here! 1

Dec

2

2015

It looks like the latest edition of PHP has been released, PHP 7 , and it brings a lot of new enhancements. Its biggest new capabilities are vast speed improvements, rumor has it that its on par with Facebook’s proprietary HHVM project (PHP JIT compiler). There’s a nice write up here over at Kinsta.com of PHP ...