Tom White

Electromagnetic Field is a hacker camp that takes place every two years, near Ledbury in Herefordshire in the UK.

I first came across the Very Slow Movie Player on Mat Kelcey’s blog in 2020, who was inspired by the original by Bryan Boyer.

My Electromagnetic Field 2024 highlights, in rough chronological order: On Thursday I volunteered as an entrance steward, and in the bar.

[This post was originally published on the Pangeo Blog.]

Forty years on since I received a ZX81 as a Christmas present, I’ve got it up and running again.

My younger daughter Lottie is 16 today, and I gave her a square card with \(2^4\) on one side and \(4^2\) on the other. \[2^4 = 4^2\] This is the only solution to \(a^b = b^a\) for whole numbers \(a\) and \(b\).

Five years ago, in Hadoop for Science I wrote about how three trends - open data, notebooks, and distributed data frames - were converging to make it easier “for scientists to analyse large amounts of data, on demand and in a way that is repeatable, using…

Yesterday I went to Bristech.

I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) in February last year.

After nine and a half years, today is my last day at Cloudera.