I’ve recently been taking a closer look at the Streamlined Energy & Carbon Reporting (SECR) guidelines. While we currently produce figures on CO2 emissions in Energy Sparks we’re no…| Lost Boy
“FAIR” (or “FAIR data”) is an term that I’ve been bumping into more and more frequently. For example, its included in the UK’s recently published Geospatial Stra…| Lost Boy
A paper was published this week by Stefaan Verhulst, Andrew Zahuranec and Hannah Chafetz called “Moving Toward the FAIR-R principles: Advancing AI-Ready Data”. The paper sets out to do …| Lost Boy
This is the second part to a post I published earlier this week in which I summarised some things I learned about working with half-hourly energy data. I’ll be updating that shortly with a few extra details and clarifications. This post will be a summary of some things I’ve learned about energy meters and metering. … Continue reading Falsehoods this programmer believed about energy meters→| Lost Boy
It is common for energy generation and consumption values to be presented as half-hourly readings: giving 48 readings over the course of a single 24 hour period. This is the type of data we’re working with on a daily basis in Energy Sparks. I thought I’d share a few things that I learned about working … Continue reading Falsehoods this programmer believed about half-hourly energy data→| Lost Boy
I don’t normally review things here but a few people expressed an interest in how I got on with this, especially as I was planning to use it with Ubuntu. So here we are. Be warned, I know not…| Lost Boy
Another of my annual end of the year reflections. Like last year its taken me until February to finish. This post is likely to be of little interest to anyone else, but I enjoy doing them and they&…| Lost Boy
Some idle thoughts for a Friday afternoon. I was just taking a look at Source.Plus a dataset of public domain images for training Foundation models. It’s a project of Spawning.ai which is working to build “data governance for generative AI”. I have some thoughts on the tools they’re building, but that’s not what I’m writing … Continue reading What does community-driven data governance look like?→| Lost Boy
Jack Hardinges and Elena Simperl recently published a taxonomy to describe the data relevant to AI models and systems. Their goal is to help to better distinguish between the different types of data relevant to developing, using and monitoring AI models and systems to help to better distinguish them and thereby add some nuance to … Continue reading Comments on “A data for AI taxonomy”→| Lost Boy
We had some performance issues last week. Entirely of our own making but not in the usual way. We nearly DDOS ourselves by sending out emails. We do a lot of analysis in Energy Sparks and, to be honest, some of it needs optimising. Tickets are in the backlog and we are exploring solutions. Anyway, … Continue reading How to accidentally DDOS yourself→| Lost Boy
When I look across the various “open” communities in which I either participate in or monitor, there’s a lot of recurring issues. For example, sustainability is a common issue acr…| Lost Boy
It can be hard to comment on a lot of tech news without coming across like Apu taking a bullet for a big tech platform. But a few aspects to the current debate around the new StackOverflow deal with OpenAI have irked me, as reported in TechCrunch and The Register and debated on Mastodon. So … Continue reading Acceptable answers only→| Lost Boy
I’ve been playing with Downpour recently. It’s a lot of fun. You could explain what Downpour is by comparing it to something like Hypercard. By combining text, images with some basic in…| Lost Boy
I like to follow bots on social media. Not the ones posting spam, misinformation or trolling replies. The ones that post algorithmic art, content and other fun things that brighten up your timeline…| Lost Boy
