Pac man’s 30th birthday on Google

wee young chua — Sat, 22 May 2010 07:17:37 +0000

Cheers.

Django forms method GET and POST

Sentiment Analytics in Django

wee young chua — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:37:11 +0000

Been busy with lots of stuff – especially with work. Thus, unable to update as frequently as I would like. Sorry ya.

Anyway, been catching up with some backlogs. I did a simple conversion of part of my FYP into python (django). And have hosted in here: http://analytics.weeyoung.com/sa/analysis.

Well, what it does is you submit some words and it breaks them up and see the overall sentiment of your words.

Still lots of parts not done. lots of breakages. still figuring out which is better – drawing with matplotlib or jquery. Analysis of the words are still immature (e.g. no spelling checks)

But its a start! Looking into consolidating with rss feed. Found this site useful and will try it out.

All in all. If there’s anything u like to see, or any ideas. Feel free to let me know @ weiyang13@gmail.com..

Cheers.

Black Swan

wee young chua — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:06:08 +0000

No amount of observations of white swan can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan can refute that conclusion. – David Hume (1711-76)

Was reading “What the Dog Saw” by Malcolm Gladwell and came across this quote which I found pretty enlightening.

From my perspective, things are unpredictable, especially human nature. Its also similar in a certain sense to the quote on “What will go wrong will go wrong”. I guess I am the type that will prepare for the existence of the black swan than continue hoping that all swans remain white.

Cheers.

IPad vs the Rock

wee young chua — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:58:03 +0000

Apple Ipad vs Rock

Think I’ll skip the Apple Ipad. i dunt need a bigger iphone. I’ll stick with my Itouch till something better comes out.

Natural Language Processing in Social Robotics – Video

wee young chua — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:38:54 +0000

Based on my previous post,

heres the video..

My verdict is.. its decent.;)

FYP – Natural Langauge Processing in Social Robotics from wee young chua on Vimeo.

Natural Language Processing in Social Robotics

wee young chua — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:38:25 +0000

Sorry guys.. been busy the last few weeks.. especially with my FYP – natural language processing in Social Robotics. But im finally done and later, i’ll upload a video on it.

Continuing from my other post on training-acoustic-model, i have developed a workflow for my FYP.

basically. its on using a sentiment analysis engine to develop emotions realtime and parsing values to text to speech (TTS) system and a machine servo for head expression through serialization.

and here is it.
Overall Work Flow

Deep Green – The robotics pool player

wee young chua — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:05:20 +0000

After deep blue..

There’s deep green! Its a robotics pool player. and from the video. i can only see it winning within 1 turn.;p

Here’s the main website about it!

and a youtube video as below.

“Playing Pool is easy -- Playing Pool well is extremely difficult”

Motoman

wee young chua — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:25:26 +0000

Came across quite a number of videos on Motoman. With two humanoid arms, it can be programmable to do a range of items.. Pretty cool. =D

below are some videos of what motoman can do!

Motoman SDA10 robot assembly:

Motoman DIA10 robot material handling:

Motoman assembles camera:

Motoman Robot Makes Okonomiyaki:

The Amazing Motoman Serves a Tuborg:

Yaskawa Motoman plays taiko drums:

Playing drums, cooking, assembling .. Whats next?

Really cool stuff!

Building a robot army, one cuddly bot at a time

wee young chua — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:14:32 +0000

Little Ken Robot

Found this on Guardian Blog,

The Guardian Robot can respond to your daily twitters, do sentiment analysis and know if the twitter message is sad or happy. Pretty cool ya.

Its main components are Java as programming language, some servos, PIC and others. The code can be found here. I definitely take a look and explore my own possibilities.

Here’s a video of guardian robot in action:

Ken Lim’s Guardian Robot from InsideGuardian on Vimeo.

Updates on Acoustic Model

wee young chua — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:32:53 +0000

hm. i started a scibd account where i can show my presentations and documents. Url is found here. I uploaded the acoustic model chart at here. Original article can be found here.

hmm. will upload more articles to scribd as time goes by.

yup. and sch has started. been trying to settle some stuff.Â I have started a CMS to promote robotics in general, and hopefully social robotics. CMS can be found here.