Welcome on Steve Wattam

This document outlines my policies on AI use for my personal work.

Search Google and you’ll find millions of articles devoted to data science as a mathematical pursuit—some data goes in, you do terribly clever maths things, and truths come out.

But it can buy Twitter followers, and that’s good enough, right?

A nice picture of the sun on a map I love my Garmin: when walking or cycling it’s by far the easiest mode of navigation, and the way it reduces navigation to “following a line” is a great thing for safety and ease-of-use.

Meet The Linkatron.

I’ve submitted my PhD thesis, and it’s about time for a holiday.

I’ve spent today configuring a cluster, and part of that involved setting up net booting with support for local changes.

A year ago, I became a cyclist.

Way back in the days of my undergrad, Carl Ellis started an IRC channel for the good folks of Lancaster Uni’s computing society.

If you’ve worked with text data long enough, you’ve probably come across issues with garbled characters and character set incompatibilities.