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Dec 8, 2021

Setting up Tensorflow with Docker

For the last five years, I’ve seemed to have a more-or-less annual fight with my Linux workstations over installing CUDA to keep on doing GPU-accelerated musical machine learning research with TensorFlow and Keras.

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Nov 22, 2021

Building Synths in NoiseCraft

In this tutorial you’ll follow simple plans to create different electronic sounds and then use your knowledge to create a synthesiser. To create the synthesiser you’ll use NoiseCraft, a website that lets you build your own synthesiser by connecting together modules that create or modify electronic sounds.

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Aug 14, 2021

How to get started with research writing

Now’s the time of year that I get started with a new crop of Honours, Master and project students at the ANU School of Computing and at the UiO Department of Informatics.

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Aug 2, 2021

Magic Lanterns in Canberra

Over the last few years I’ve been invited to perform at several concerts with Martyn Jolley as part of his Heritage in the Limelight project. Martyn and fellow researcher Elisa deCourcy have been exploring magic lantern slide projection from a historical perspective and for creative re-use.

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Mar 16, 2021

Shape-shifting robots in the wild: the DyRET robot

Imagine running on a cement footpath, and then suddenly through dry sand. Just to keep upright, you would have to slow down and change the way you run. In the same way, a walking robot would have to change its gait to handle different surfaces.

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Jan 10, 2021

Laptop Music Coding with Gibber

This is a workshop designed for students who have never done any coding before to start by making some computer music! Here’s the description:

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