Andreas Varotsis
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Weeknote - 2024-W35
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Reflections on post-holiday productivity slumps and UK’s AI education gaps. Exploring tools for converting scientific papers to HTML and AI-powered front-end development. Thoughts on social media disinformation, crime perception, and the allure of new note-taking apps. Plus, intriguing reads on slow productivity and necromancers in space.
Sep 1, 2024
Weeknote - 2024-W34 (2024-08-19)
week-notes
On productivity during holidays, sharing thoughts on Copbot Online, FastHTML, and a new Obsidian plugin. Plus, interesting reads on Llama 3 models and the challenges of “deliverism” in government.
Aug 24, 2024
Copbot Online: bias and variance in AI perceptions of risk
policing
ai
web-development
I built a website to look at whether language models could help articulate (or maybe even predict) police risk assessments for missing people. The conclusion? Eeeeh. Maybe. Ish?
Aug 21, 2024
Quarto Comments, Powered by the Fediverse
I built a Quarto extension!
personal
technology
open-source
I built an extension, and now my blog has fancy comments (and yours can too!)
Apr 23, 2024
Why I’m Contributing to OpenStreetMap for Christmas…
…and maybe you should too!
personal
technology
open-source
geospatial
In the eternal words of The Thick of it, everything that happens in the world has to happen somewhere. It sounds obvious, but so many good pieces of research or analysis…
Dec 20, 2023
Teaching OpenAI to assess risk, with CopBot!
policing
ai
data-science
Looking for the new Copbot Online? Read about it here!
Mar 19, 2023
What’s Happened to Burglary, and does Attending Help?
policing
crime
data-science
It’s nearly 2023, and in the true spirit of Christmas, I’ve used the cheese/wine filled nowhere time between the holidays to pick up an analytical side-project that’s been…
Dec 29, 2022
I’ve migrated to Quarto!
news
I’ve migrated to a fancy new technical writing platform, and I’m a little in love with it
Sep 27, 2022
Hackers aren’t excited about AI (and other bits from CCCamp23)
personal
technology
ai
data-science
So I’m sitting in Berlin airport, waiting to get home from Chaos Communication Camp 2023. It was, to put it bluntly, bloody fabulous… and my god, I’ve missed hanging out…
Aug 20, 2022
Learning GIS in Python - Robbery and Police Searches in Space
crime
geospatial
Using Python GIS libraries to explore the spatial distribution of robberies in London
Mar 12, 2022
Learning R - Exploring the COVID Crime Effect in London
data-science
forecasting
crime
geospatial
I use public London crime data on robbery and burglary to examine where this COVID crime shift was strongest, and whether any specific drivers or correlates can be identified.
May 22, 2021
LAPD Call Prediction for Fun (and Prophet)
data-science
forecasting
crime
Predicting LAPD police call demand using the Prophet time series forecasting library
Nov 5, 2020
Twitter Sentiment Analysis with FastAI
data-science
nlp
Using open source twitter data to explore sentiment in public debate
Sep 10, 2020
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