Welcome
I'm David Llewellyn-Jones, a Research Data Scientist for The Alan Turing Institute at the British Library in London. I occasionally crave adventure and a good thunderstorm.
I'm interested in programming, privacy, maths and graphics. I'm a proponent of open source, open research, and end-users' right to privacy and control. I strive to contribute to a circular economy.
This site has been capturing my thoughts and outputs on these topics since 1998, including my software, research and random musings.
Want to know more about me? Here's a personality sketch written by a psychologist when I was in school.
“David is of high intelligence, although lacking in true creativity. He has a need for order and clarity, and for neat and tidy systems in which every detail finds its appropriate place. His writing is rather dull and mechanical, occasionally enlivened by somewhat corny puns and by flashes of imagination of the sci-fi type. He has a strong drive for competence. He seems to have little feel and little sympathy for other people and does not enjoy interacting with others. Self-centered, he nonetheless has a deep moral sense.”
Wow. Harsh. But disturbingly accurate.
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News
6 May 2024 : Some new presentations #
I've updated my presentations page with a few new recent items: "Benchmarking AI applications on GPUs" (Foundation Models Reading Group), "FOSDEM conference overview" (REG Tech Talk) and my upcoming presentation at Durham HPC/AI Days on "Matching AI Research to HPC Resource through Benchmarking and Processes".
6 May 2024 : Gecko dev diary pause #
As I explained in my latest post, I'm pausing my Gecko dev diary for two weeks while I attend Durham HPC/AI Days 2024 and sort a few other things out in my life afterwards. I'll be back up and writing daily again from Saturday 18th May.
5 Feb 2024 : FOSDEM'24 presentations #
I've uploaded my slides for my two FOSDEM presentations last weekend to the Presentations Page.
7 Jan 2024 : Halls dedecked #
Christmas is over for another year. Time to remove the decorations, physically, virtually and mentally. So I've deactivated the snow storm shaders and snowflake animations and returned the site to its standard state with galaxies, bokeh and other assorted frivolities.
22 Dec 2023 : Merry Christmas! #
As I write this it's nearly Christmas. It's the first day of my Christmas holiday. Outside here in Cambridgeshire it's mostly very windy — the last gusts from Storm Pia — and although I miss the Finnish snow it still feels festive and optimistic. And now it's snowing on the site too because that's what happens on this part of the Web at Christmas.