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When I joined Science Data Processing as Research Data Scientist, there was no data infrastructure that I could just plug into and run a random forest against it. No doubt I’m not the only one with similar experience. I took over a project that someone else has started. My first... [Read More]

Living in Cape Town exposes you to many great things, like great food and beautiful vistas, but also to occasional fynbos fires on Table Mountain. If you live in the foothills of a mountain, as I do, sound of a helicopter flying above might give you chills. There are two... [Read More]

Welcome to the first post of 2018! It’s about asbestos… First, what is asbestos? Well it is a mineral that can be pulled into fine fibres with high resistance to heat, electricity and chemical corrosion. In the past it was a common ingredient in construction materials (caveat: this is at... [Read More]

So what is the opposite of Serendip, a southern land of spice and warmth, lush greenery and hummingbirds, seawashed, sunbasted? Think of another world in the far north, barren, icebound, cold, a world of flint and stone. Call it Zembla. Ergo: zemblanity, the opposite of serendipity, the faculty of making... [Read More]