Jon Reades
@jreades
Prof of Geographic Data Science & HoD @ CASA, UCL. Python, Housing, Neighbourhoods, Industrial location, and Text. Sometime DB, MTB & 🍄 nerd. Co-auth: “Why Face-to-Face still matters” (
Scotland delivering on the little pleasures of variable weather after months of frankly terrifying sun in London.
What new devilry is this? First, why are tech companies obsessed with LoTR? This in-school, anti-shooter drone company is apparently called ‘mithril defence’. Second, whaaaaat??? A “nest” of drones that fan out in the event of a school shooting to recon and, potentially, ram into shooters. 1/2
Those of us who sometimes [1] use AI to shorten our long-winded emails… [1] Probably not enough according to colleagues.
Can I just say how simultaneously amusing and heartwarming it is to get an invoice printed on a dot matrix printer with tear-off strips? My main interest here is which part of the process is still tied to 1986/7.
And @casaucl.bsky.social has a new home! Goodbye 90TCR and hello Maple House
@casaucl.bsky.social’s Thomas Murat kicking things off in his #AAG26 session about simulating bus-mobility.
The R&R benefits of the festive season and some quality time in the Highlands have not survived past the first five minutes of contact with my MS to do list. But here’s a nice photo of a Scots pine from that period.
Quick visit to see the extended family’s new neighbours before getting started on the festive cooking. 🏴🦫
@casaucl.bsky.social @ the #V&A Storehouse before stepping it up a bit with classic arcade games for an end of term 🎉
I’m going to push out the boat a bit further: the 2011 OAC shape file download from #GeoDS includes scores for the subgroups but the 2021 CSV doesn’t… 🤨
Struggling to know what to do with all the money coming in from the royalties on my book. Irritatingly, I still think it’s a damned good book.
With the exception of the background all of this is dynamically generated from the CLI in ffmpeg — my Rube Goldberg node+Python+Ocen pipeline can auto-generate/-update pre-recorded videos from Reveal.js slides and an audio track. Quite proud of that even if it was likely a poor use of time.
This just feels like it needs a GIF. Ok, really I just want to know how someone who didn’t know enough to answer a question about their grant could have made it to the interview stage.
Randomly selected example of why UPRNs don't solve the data issues around joined up housing research in the UK: looks like two units sharing the same (building?) UPRN and therefore missing the parent/child relationship. Guess I should be happy they point to the same building at least!
In which, like an idiot, I knock my ski pole 20’ down a 35° slope covered with loose ‘boulders’ of mixed ice and snow and have to knock in toe- and finger-holds using only my boots. Photo courtesy of my partner, who was laughing at me most of the time.
Massively unimpressed with @WalthamForest for their treatment of Hackney Brewery. If losing one local business is unfortunate, and two is carelessness, what is four? cc @walthamforestecho.bsky.social
Nice to be walking through here without the anxiety of a massive UG intro to geography chat to teach though.
Getting underway at our UKIERI workshop on the challenges raised by smarter city tech for the study of mobilities in Indian cities. @casaucl.bsky.social
Because I can’t cope with any more news, here’s me demonstrating that, if (iff?) you watch enough gardening shows, you learn the importance of marking out and buy yourself some biodegradable orange spray-paint and a string for drawing circles. To be filled in later.