It's #rustlang time: www.meetup.com/rust-and-fri... . Super-pleased to announce our first set of talks for a little while 😀 . Please do come along and also watch out for the second talk to be announced ...
Digital illustration of a forest creature. She has a human-ish face and body, pointy years, and tree branches growing out of her head. Her chest, shoulders and arms are covered in patches of bark. There are colourful birds sitting on her arms, shoulders and the branches on her head. She's smiling down on a little blue bird sitting on her hand.
Doodles! #illustration #fantasyart #digitalart
These sessions are just f2f chats, but watch out for some possible presentations later in year.
We try to be open to different peoples preferences / availability, so as usual we are running an evening Pub session on Wednesday and a daytime coffee session on Friday.
Evening Pub: www.meetup.com/rust-and-fri...
Are you #rustlang curious? Perhaps you want to chat in a relaxed environment with others who are also curious and/or know about it? If so, please consider coming along to one of the rustandfriends.org sessions in Edinburgh next week.
Photo of a crochet hook made from spalted birch wood, sitting on a dark surface between some greenery and a petrol-coloured crochet star
🧶 I only learned recently that 'spalted' wood is simply wood that's started rotting already, so it gets some interesting patterns from bacteria starting to break it down. This crochet hook was unwittingly made from spalted birch.
#crochet #yarncrafts #woodcarving #whittling
Photo of a crochet hook made from oak sitting on a dark surface. The handle of the hook has a very elegant curve and is still covered in the original grey/green bark with dark bands around it.
Photo of the bottom end of the crochet hook which shows a very pretty ring pattern.
🧶 The very first crochet hook I ever carved, oh, back in the summer of 2019, was this little number from an oak branch I found while hiking. It's aged beautifully and I'll never get tired of looking at the pretty, pretty end grain pattern.
#crochet #yarncrafts #woodcarving #whittling
I finally got round to writing-up a thing I did over xmas using Lidar heights to visualise possible impact of sea-level rise on Edinburgh: youtu.be/7-W-LEc9GPQ
Much kudos to GeoMob Edinburgh / Peter Creasey for making me aware of these datasets, and to the Scottish government for producing them!
If you want to defeat the far right, you need a real alternative, not a more moderate version that panders & parrots but offers nothing to address real issues.
Congratulations @greenparty.org.uk, Hannah Spencer, @zackpolanski.bsky.social & the people of Gorton & Denton
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...
Also, thanks again to @skyscanner.net for hosting us! 🍺 🍕
We're once again fortunate to be over-subscribed 😀, but please do register as there can sometimes be people who drop out nearer to the time.
If you can't make it, please register at luma.com/scotland-mlops to find out about future meet-ups first.
Well. After a January that seemed to take years, February is almost gone in a blink 😅, and it's time for our first #MLOps of the year on Wednesday!
This time we'll be hearing from Assulan Nurkas on "Scaling Fine-Tuned LLMs: Processing 200k Daily Reviews at Trustpilot"; luma.com/1eolb1o5
“is there a technology that the left is excited about?”
Trains. We love trains, actually
love a bit of continvouclous morging
ai;dr
AI; didn't read.
Book title: “So you want to own Greenland?”
Book targeting 🎯 is becoming incredibly fine-grained nowadays…
Every American needs to watch this:
summary of data about fosdem over time e.g. 2025 had 1105 events and 390h of videos.
A couple of hours and $8 of Claude later (!) I added a mini-blog to my fosdem site: fosdem.houseofmoran.io/blog/.
I do have *other* reasons for doing this, like summarising data changes, but was also a good way to decompress after a very busy #fosdem weekend 😅.
I've been coming to #Fosdem since 2019; the bad (still) isn't all that bad, and the good is still very good. Many thanks to all the organisers and volunteers for making this possible 🙇♂️.
www.houseofmoran.com/post/2026-02...
Digital illustration of a red-bearded bee-eater. The bird has a curved slim beak, and a bright orange and pink 'beard' surrounding it. Its body is green, and the inside of its tail is yellow. The tips of its wings and tail are dark grey/brown.
Here's a Red-bearded Bee-eater for day 27 of #Birbfest
#Birbfest2026 #illustration #sketchbook #birds
This will be another great talk on running AI at-scale, following on from talks like “Scaling an LLM-Based Product Feature at Zoe" from Danny Boland last year.
If these sorts of things interest you then please join the group where you'll get first-dibs on announcements: luma.com/scotland-mlops
We're starting-off this year in #MLOps with a great talk in Feb from Assulan Nurkas ( luma.com/1eolb1o5 ) : "Scaling Fine-Tuned LLMs: Processing 200k Daily Reviews at @trustpilot.bsky.social".
Many thanks also to @skyscanner.net for hosting + sponsoring us. Hope to see you there!
Digital illustration of a common kingfisher sitting on a branch. This is a female, whose wings and head are just a tiny bit more muted turquoise than the bright blue males. It's got a long pointy beak for catching fish, and an orangey chest and belly.
#Birbfest, day 25: I feel very lucky to have seen kingfishers a few times in the wild, just because in Edinburgh they like to jump out at unsuspecting people passing by running water. Such a joy to behold!
#Birbfest2026 #illustration #sketchbook #birds
As a kid who grew up with Mr. Rogers, this legit made me emotional.
Digital illustration of a little nuthatch on a branch. It's got a peach-coloured belly and blue-grey back and wings, a dark grey beak and black stripe going over its eyes.
Nuthatches are cool because with their go-faster-stripes and them constantly being upside down for some reason they always look like they're Very Seriously Going Somewhere. #Birbfest, day 23.
#Birbfest2026 #illustration #sketchbook #birds
