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Kaggle causality hacking contest

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Caspar

Big data is already a lot like magic. Based on your spending habits Mastercard are supposed to know that you are getting a divorce before you do, computers are better at predicting good vintages than wine experts, facebook and google … Continue reading →

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Announcing the uMotif Parkinson’s Tracker

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Caspar

Apologies that the site has been a bit quiet. We have been busy on a new project. A smartphone app for tracking Parkinson’s disease.  A year ago I gave a talk about the Boozerlyzer at the European Quantified Self conference. … Continue reading →

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Toxicity of drugs

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Caspar

This diagram illustrates the legal classification of drugs has very little to do with how lethal they are. DEA Drug Schedules (2004) | TruthTheory. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet … Continue reading →

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Buddy can you spare a dime bag?

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Caspar

Psychopharmacologist Ethan Perlstein wants your help to build his own meth lab. He needs $25,000 to get started and has turned to the internet to help him out. Using the science crowdsourcing site Rocket Hub he and his lab colleagues … Continue reading →

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From pothead to POTUS

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Caspar

As you may have seen everywhere else on the internet a new biography of Barack Obama calls him out for his days as high school stoner. Not only was a heavy user but he had a habit of intercepting joints … Continue reading →

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YourBrain is going Nowhere

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Caspar

The Nowhere festival takes place in Spain from 3rd to 8th July. I’m going and maybe you should come too. It is in the middle of a desert and it’s a festival made by it’s attendees. If you’ve heard of Burning … Continue reading →

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Quantified Self & Boozerlyer in the Economist

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Caspar

The Economist has a nice article about the Quantified Self movement and their recent conference in Amsterdam. The Boozerlyzer gets a passing mention. THE idea of measuring things to chart progress towards a goal is commonplace in large organisations. Governments … Continue reading →

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Beware the Bromo-Dragonfly

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Caspar

One interesting new thing I learnt at the SSDP-UK annual conference this weekend is that Bromo-Dragonfly is extremely dangerous. Bromo-Dragonfly is a very highly potent psychedelic, so called because of the shape of its molecule. It is one of the … Continue reading →

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Boozerlyzer beta!

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Caspar

It has taken a while but our first beta version is finally available. Beta Version 40  Speed & reliability improved. Can now edit and delete drinks. New data plots – drinks per session or over last week – scatter plots … Continue reading →

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Drugs Quote #020 – William Shakespeare

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Caspar

Since today is Shakespeare’s [approx birthday] and death-day, here he is explaining alcohol. MACDUFF Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed, That you do lie so late? Porter ‘Faith sir, we were carousing till the second cock; … Continue reading →

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