Who Am I? on James Robb

The 29th of August is approaching and more and more blogs and opinion pieces I see are discussing the case for and against Iceland having accession talks with the EU.

While visiting a friend recently he mentioned that he dropped his tablet and hasn’t been able to get it to turn on since.

Each new generation of LLMs delivers a smaller leap than the one before.

I recently wrote an opinion piece I had published on Vísir’s website (a popular news outlet in Iceland).

Introduction # One of the first things I needed to do this year was find a new job.

Introduction # The last big project I worked on during my time at Yellowbrick was a brand new observability stack for the core product, an OLAP data warehouse.

My master’s thesis is based on my paper Nested, but Separate: Isolating Unrelated Critical Sections in Real-Time Nested Locking.

Björn Brandenburg and I introduced a novel fined-grained nested-locking protocol for real-time systems under clustered scheduling.

Sigurður Helgason and I explore in our bachelor’s thesis, Identifying Combinatorial Structures for Binary Strings and Set Partitions, how to build combinatorial specifications for avoidance classes of binary strings and set partitions.

Let’s start with the final product!

I created a convolutional neural network and a set of complementary utilities for optical character recognition with two classmates in my Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course at Reykjavik University.

In collaboration with others in the Pirate Party of Iceland, I created Safety Valve.

Introduction # I built a word clock in the Icelandic Language as a Christmas gift for my wife.

My father and I purchased a 1977 Kawasaki KZ650 in need of some TLC from some family members in southern Manitoba after I had expressed an interest in motorcycles.