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I finally got round to writing-up a thing I did over xmas using Lidar heights to visualise possible impact of sea-level rise on Edinburgh: youtu.be/7-W-LEc9GPQ
Much kudos to GeoMob Edinburgh / Peter Creasey for making me aware of these datasets, and to the Scottish government for producing them!
If you want to defeat the far right, you need a real alternative, not a more moderate version that panders & parrots but offers nothing to address real issues.
Congratulations @greenparty.org.uk, Hannah Spencer, @zackpolanski.bsky.social & the people of Gorton & Denton
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Also, thanks again to @skyscanner.net for hosting us! 🍺 🍕
We're once again fortunate to be over-subscribed 😀, but please do register as there can sometimes be people who drop out nearer to the time.
If you can't make it, please register at luma.com/scotland-mlops to find out about future meet-ups first.
Well. After a January that seemed to take years, February is almost gone in a blink 😅, and it's time for our first #MLOps of the year on Wednesday!
This time we'll be hearing from Assulan Nurkas on "Scaling Fine-Tuned LLMs: Processing 200k Daily Reviews at Trustpilot"; luma.com/1eolb1o5
“is there a technology that the left is excited about?”
Trains. We love trains, actually
love a bit of continvouclous morging
ai;dr
AI; didn't read.
Book title: “So you want to own Greenland?”
Book targeting 🎯 is becoming incredibly fine-grained nowadays…
Every American needs to watch this:
summary of data about fosdem over time e.g. 2025 had 1105 events and 390h of videos.
A couple of hours and $8 of Claude later (!) I added a mini-blog to my fosdem site: fosdem.houseofmoran.io/blog/.
I do have *other* reasons for doing this, like summarising data changes, but was also a good way to decompress after a very busy #fosdem weekend 😅.
I've been coming to #Fosdem since 2019; the bad (still) isn't all that bad, and the good is still very good. Many thanks to all the organisers and volunteers for making this possible 🙇♂️.
www.houseofmoran.com/post/2026-02...
Digital illustration of a red-bearded bee-eater. The bird has a curved slim beak, and a bright orange and pink 'beard' surrounding it. Its body is green, and the inside of its tail is yellow. The tips of its wings and tail are dark grey/brown.
Here's a Red-bearded Bee-eater for day 27 of #Birbfest
#Birbfest2026 #illustration #sketchbook #birds
This will be another great talk on running AI at-scale, following on from talks like “Scaling an LLM-Based Product Feature at Zoe" from Danny Boland last year.
If these sorts of things interest you then please join the group where you'll get first-dibs on announcements: luma.com/scotland-mlops
We're starting-off this year in #MLOps with a great talk in Feb from Assulan Nurkas ( luma.com/1eolb1o5 ) : "Scaling Fine-Tuned LLMs: Processing 200k Daily Reviews at @trustpilot.bsky.social".
Many thanks also to @skyscanner.net for hosting + sponsoring us. Hope to see you there!
Digital illustration of a common kingfisher sitting on a branch. This is a female, whose wings and head are just a tiny bit more muted turquoise than the bright blue males. It's got a long pointy beak for catching fish, and an orangey chest and belly.
#Birbfest, day 25: I feel very lucky to have seen kingfishers a few times in the wild, just because in Edinburgh they like to jump out at unsuspecting people passing by running water. Such a joy to behold!
#Birbfest2026 #illustration #sketchbook #birds
As a kid who grew up with Mr. Rogers, this legit made me emotional.
Digital illustration of a little nuthatch on a branch. It's got a peach-coloured belly and blue-grey back and wings, a dark grey beak and black stripe going over its eyes.
Nuthatches are cool because with their go-faster-stripes and them constantly being upside down for some reason they always look like they're Very Seriously Going Somewhere. #Birbfest, day 23.
#Birbfest2026 #illustration #sketchbook #birds
I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.
I just donated to Pizza to the Polls to help keep Democracy Delicious this year - you should too! #democracyisdelicious polls.pizza/donate
Zoo Halle Tower
Graffiti showing “snow”
Congestion/delay/cancellation map of Germany
Cat interested by something in the garden
After six trains bouncing around the snow in Germany, back to watching the cat be excited about something in the garden
We will be eeeeasing-in to 2026 with a daytime #Rustlang ☕️ session in January 😎.
Please do come along, especially if you've not been before. The atmosphere is pretty chill and no need or expectation to be an expert in Rust (or any language).
Hope to see you there!
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Wandering in the snow at dusk
We list virtual #tech events that include community participation: opentechcalendar.co.uk
Whatever your reason for preferring virtual tech events - public health, children, care duties or remote location - check us out.
If you know of any good virtual tech events let us know!
Cities in Germany broken down into which quadrant they belong to (North-East, etc).
As it often the case when I am in Germany, the topic of (painful) train travel came up, and in particular: is it quicker to go North↔South than East↔West? Me being me, I wondered if I could answer this with data: geo.houseofmoran.io/posts/2025-1...
Many thanks again to Peter Trizuliak for organising these over the past year, and it was great meeting everyone and seeing all of their projects. Till next year!
I finally got round to writing-up / finishing-off my "Makers Gonna Make" session in September: geo.houseofmoran.io/posts/2025-1... 😅
(yes, I am one of those people who just tend to switch to a different type of work over holidays, if I let myself)
