R access library for Tessera. Contribute to ucam-eo/geotessera-r development by creating an account on GitHub.

This post is for geospatial foundation model builders, cloud data engineers and other technical specialists who want to learn from, or replicate, our work optimizing the production of TESSERA embeddin...

Reflections on the end of my sabbatical, with a reading list on societal change, Tessera's embeddings finish converting, Scrutineer continues to find security fixes galore, good news from Scotland.

A good news paper in the Journal of Applied Ecology, using airborne LiDAR over Cairngorms Connect to map 2.65 million young trees and finding deer management is working.

Working through dClimate's wall-to-wall v1.1 Tessera embeddings, and finding threatened species near you with the Dash of Life.

New preprint defining attack dimensions for Brain Computer Interfaces and an analysis framework called EEGle.

A refreshed set of Part II and MPhil projects, split between environmental science problems that need computer science, and more conventional systems and programming languages topics.

Stdlib-only OCaml URL helpers for the free, no-key Real Dental Costs open data API: U.S. dental procedure cash prices by state and what Medicaid actually paid dentists per CDT code (HHS/CMS T-MSIS ...

Deploying Alpha-Omega's Scrutineer on a VM, driving its scans with a local GLM 5.3 on my Mac Studio, and thinking through practical workflows

Thinking through how the conventional OSS security embargoes no longer buy us time, and what open source maintainers might do instead to respond

TESSERA 1.0 is now fully available as Zarr with global RGB previews, a weather downscaling preprint, and Evidence TAP gets a public website with progress on the downloader and parser.

Porting the FoCS lecture notes to Forester, including transclusions and stable section URLs, and a live OCaml toplevel compiled into the browser.

New paper showing that a frozen TESSERA embedding improves probabilistic weather downscaling, improving local temperature and wind predictions at never-observed sites.

GETMobile micro-NPU article and package calculus published, TESSERA embeddings conversion using Fargate Spot, and starting to shift to Forester for teaching.

How the OxCaml overlay's guard packages keep incompatible releases out, and how to contribute to it with your own packages.

Resource-constrained, MCU-scale neural processing units have emerged to provide real-time inference within milliwatt-scale power budgets.

A petabyte of TESSERA embeddings moves to Source Cooperative, and Taposaur's GROBID metadata index and capability-based downloader take shape for Evidence TAP, while Eio gets some native Windows support.

Images show how beaver dams and ponds provide a refuge for other wildlife and help humans in dry conditions.

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An OpenUK openness interview, prototyping the Evidence TAP site with exe.dev, Windows eio support finds a user in Forester, and a new grant for optimising ranger patrols.

Back from the Arctic into a heatwave, hacking on Eio for the TESSERA sync engine, the Conservation Evidence team demoing at Parliament, and TESSERA on stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris.

OCaml Code-generation Toolbox

On the NatGeo Endurance

Spoke at CHIA's annual conference on AI for a changing world, as well as the first Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum outside the US, and started moving TESSERA's embeddings onto Source Cooperative.

My notes from the first Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum gathering outside the US, up on the top floor of the Jellicoe; covering Source Cooperative's open data economics, Argentina's invisible settlement...

The FreeBSD CI workers get slower over time. Is this a build-up on ZFS snapshots or something else?

A love letter to the golden era of computing.

A humanist bookface, reimagined for the web.

Ten years of the CCI with Sir David Attenborough, Andrew's Royal Society Environment Medal lecture, and the third PROPL at PLDI, while wrapping a local DeepSeek agent in OCaml and a first stab at getting Eio fleshed out on Windows.