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First edition (is that a comic book thing?) - first and only comic I ever bought.
January 5, 2026 at 12:28 PM
First edition (is that a comic book thing?) - first and only comic I ever bought.
advent of code 2025 day 5. Seemed suspiciously easy, then got this error and audibly chuckled.
#aoc2025
#adventofcode
#aoc2025
#adventofcode
December 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
advent of code 2025 day 5. Seemed suspiciously easy, then got this error and audibly chuckled.
#aoc2025
#adventofcode
#aoc2025
#adventofcode
And not using ggsave() it's a LOT nicer to read... :D
August 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
And not using ggsave() it's a LOT nicer to read... :D
Oof, that one chart was a bit hard to read - focusing on Sheff makes it a bit clearer
August 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Oof, that one chart was a bit hard to read - focusing on Sheff makes it a bit clearer
You can do something similar for rainfall. Every line on the chart is the cumulative rainfall for a previous year, with the heavy blue line the to-date cumulative for 2025. It's not that any single month has been especially dry - it's just a sequence of dry months, combined with hot weather.
August 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
You can do something similar for rainfall. Every line on the chart is the cumulative rainfall for a previous year, with the heavy blue line the to-date cumulative for 2025. It's not that any single month has been especially dry - it's just a sequence of dry months, combined with hot weather.
...so anywhere where the red line goes outside of the ribbon, you're into "unusual" territory. Unusual in quotation marks because it's getting more and more usual. Zooming in on Sheffield shows that 5 of the past 7 months are substantially warmer than average.
August 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
...so anywhere where the red line goes outside of the ribbon, you're into "unusual" territory. Unusual in quotation marks because it's getting more and more usual. Zooming in on Sheffield shows that 5 of the past 7 months are substantially warmer than average.
What with all this weather we've been having, I thought it was about time I booted up the old weather stations scraping script. The chart below shows this year (the red line) versus the historical averages for each of the weather stations. The shaded ribbons shows where 95% of historical avgs...
August 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
What with all this weather we've been having, I thought it was about time I booted up the old weather stations scraping script. The chart below shows this year (the red line) versus the historical averages for each of the weather stations. The shaded ribbons shows where 95% of historical avgs...
Is the newest @decathlonfrance.bsky.social logo supposed to be the “Superset” set theory symbol? Supersets fully contain other sets, a bit like Decathlon contains many sports + equipment. Plus it looks like a “D” I guess.
May 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Is the newest @decathlonfrance.bsky.social logo supposed to be the “Superset” set theory symbol? Supersets fully contain other sets, a bit like Decathlon contains many sports + equipment. Plus it looks like a “D” I guess.
Nobody "enjoys" data in Excel.
March 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Nobody "enjoys" data in Excel.
me v gpt - #AdventofCode edition continues, day 4 update (written in R)
Day 4 was fun - basically a computerised wordsearch. We tried very different approaches for part 1; mine was more abstract and faster, GPT went more brute-force. It LOVES nested loops.
However, on part 2 it struggled...
Day 4 was fun - basically a computerised wordsearch. We tried very different approaches for part 1; mine was more abstract and faster, GPT went more brute-force. It LOVES nested loops.
However, on part 2 it struggled...
December 5, 2024 at 10:06 PM
me v gpt - #AdventofCode edition continues, day 4 update (written in R)
Day 4 was fun - basically a computerised wordsearch. We tried very different approaches for part 1; mine was more abstract and faster, GPT went more brute-force. It LOVES nested loops.
However, on part 2 it struggled...
Day 4 was fun - basically a computerised wordsearch. We tried very different approaches for part 1; mine was more abstract and faster, GPT went more brute-force. It LOVES nested loops.
However, on part 2 it struggled...
Who's better at solving #AdventOfCode ? Me or ChatGPT?
2 - 1 to me so far, but we're through the easy days and GPT's trajectory is looking much more positive.
As a little bit of friendly competition I'm pitting myself against ChatGPT this year for AOC. Who writes the fastest solution wins!
2 - 1 to me so far, but we're through the easy days and GPT's trajectory is looking much more positive.
As a little bit of friendly competition I'm pitting myself against ChatGPT this year for AOC. Who writes the fastest solution wins!
December 3, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Who's better at solving #AdventOfCode ? Me or ChatGPT?
2 - 1 to me so far, but we're through the easy days and GPT's trajectory is looking much more positive.
As a little bit of friendly competition I'm pitting myself against ChatGPT this year for AOC. Who writes the fastest solution wins!
2 - 1 to me so far, but we're through the easy days and GPT's trajectory is looking much more positive.
As a little bit of friendly competition I'm pitting myself against ChatGPT this year for AOC. Who writes the fastest solution wins!