With months of historic location and temperature data captured, this blog covers how to train a machine learning (ML) model to predict where my cat would go throughout her day. For the impatient, you can skip directly to the prediction web-app here. With some inexpensive hardware (and a cat ambivalent to data privacy concerns) I wanted to see if I could train a machine learning (ML) model to predict where Snowy the cat would go throughout her day. Home based location and temperature tracking allowed me to build up an extensive history of which room she used for her favourite sleeping spots. I had a theory that with sufficient data collected from her past I'd be able to train an ML model to predict where she was likely to go in the future.

It's the little moments that get you. Skeletal oak trees lining starkly frozen meadows. It is very strange to play a modern big-budget video game and to be taken back to childhood memories, to places that feel somehow imprinted on the psyche. In this way, Forza Horizon 4, the latest open-world driving sim from Leamington Spa-based developer Playground Games, may be the most emotional racing game I've ever played. Since the arrival of the first title in the series six years ago, each Horizon has featured a densely detailed, near photo-realistic reproduction of real-world geography.

If you're an Apple Watch owner, you might be wondering why there's no Spotify app for your favorite wrist computer. Developer Andrew Chang aimed to remedy that oversight with his own app, Snowy. Back in February, though, Chang was contacted by Spotify, who thought that the app, then called Spotty, was too much like Spotify in its name and interface. However, the company must've been impressed with Chang's work. Now it's hired him to work on an official app.