I've heard good feedback from my undergrad students about how Jon Sterling publishes his 1A Discrete Maths lectures in a structured online form using his own Forester tool. As my sabbatical comes to an end, I've started prepping my own Foun…
Pedro Sousa has put his first preprint paper online, on the topic of improving weather prediction using satellite foundation models! "Earth observation embeddings are effective sub-grid descriptors for probabilistic weather downscaling" (al…
Two paper updates this week! The first is that our GETMobile article on micro-NPUs got published in the ACM SIGMOBILE magazine. This is a shorter, more digestible magazine version of the paper from last year. Great work by Josh Millar! Then…
This website is written using the OxCaml language extensions from Jane Street, so I can experiment with zero allocation frameworks written in OCaml. Since David Allsopp released oxcaml-minus39 a few weeks ago, I've updated to that. This fir…
Josh Millar lead an article just out in GETMOBILE on our work from last year on benchmarking micro-NPUs to help make sense of the growing number of dedicated, ultra-low-power 'neural network accelerators'. There are lots of hidden embedded
I had a bunch of infrastructure work I had to get done this week, and so I went headsdown hacking to sort out both TESSERA and the Evidence TAP this week! I spent it moving a petabyte of TESSERA embeddings onto Source Cooperative, taking a
I was in Ireland most of the week attending to family matters, so another quieter weeknote! My picture of the week is that the Pembroke College Cambridge banana tree has, err, sprouted real bananas, so I'm trying to pluck up the courage to
I returned to Cambridge during the nice lull after the exams and graduation rush, and enjoyed a very pleasant week indeed catching up! I examined my first viva in the Faculty of Law, ran a TESSERA stall at the House of Lords, saw exciting r…
I reluctantly disembarked from the NatGeo Endurance on Thursday and returned from the Arctic to find the UK in the grip of a proper heatwave! The train home almost undid me with the temperature transition of ~40C; in the end I think the Lon…
I'm away up north right now, so just a brief update! We're on the NatGeo Endurance off the coasts of Greenland and Iceland variously. We saw a polar bear strolling off after munching on a seal! And a huge pod of bottlenose whales (!) in the…
A blistering heatweave threw everything off this week; we even had a big power cut through central Cambridge that drove many of us to seek haven in gelato shops. While melting, I spoke at CHIA's annual conference in the Cambridge Union on A…
It's London Climate Action Week in the midst of a searing heatwave, which was a good backdrop for the Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum meeting (the first outside the US!). The venue was the Jellicoe where ARIA is based up on the top floor with…