Tag: projects


Creating a tool to help answer yes/no questions in Irish, a language without words for "yes" or "no"

I had the pleasure of spending a couple of months this summer interning at the ADAPT Centre in Dublin City University, working with the GaelTech team of Dr. Teresa Lynn and PhD candidates Abigail Walsh and Meghan Dowling, on resources and tools for Irish language

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30 Day Music Challenge: What music I listen to vs. What I think I do

The following image was floating around the internet this month (in varying degrees of blurriness): The goal is to share a song on social media for each day of the month of April matching the respecting description. Being the wannabe music fan I am, I

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Coireacht - Our 3-Hour-ish Hackathon Project at HackYourWayDay

On Friday the 10th of February, myself and my compadre Cian Ruane took part in the HackYourWayDay hackathon in the NDRC that we had seen publicised around the place the previous week. The hackathon was themed around Eircodes, which are Ireland's new controversial postcodes. I'm

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Parsing Project Euler Progress with PyOCR

I do a lot of problems on Project Euler. It is a really cool site full of mathematically-flavoured programming problems that are too difficult for me. My homepage right now keeps some live stats about my progress on Project Euler and some similar sites. Unfortunately,

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dia-log, a diabetes management system

Context I have type 1 diabetes. It's not a big deal, there are much worse afflictions that can hang on a person. Diabetes just means the occasional pain in the arse (sometimes literally xo). I am supposed to get up early, eat 3 steady solid

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