Here's a hypothetical scenario: The world's strongest man, Tom Stoltman, has to lift a single link of a floating wind mooring chain. Are you betting on Tom or the chain link? Read the article here.
Quick instructions on how to install the "pyFAST" python-toolbox (from OpenFAST) for Spyder. Instructions here.
Floating Offshore Wind (FOW) is still very much in its infancy. As such, we are at an interesting time where many different and sometimes wacky concepts are being floated (pun intended). These will undoubtedly reduce in number as the industry matures but each design hopefully serves to better inform the next. In this article I will go through some of the less main-stream designs and concepts.
The biggest question in wind energy: If a wind turbine really was a windmill, how much flour would it produce? Calling wind turbines "windmills" is a pet peeve of mine. All things considered it is a quite harmless mistake but it got me thinking about the above question. How much flour would a modern WT produce? How many WTs would it take to feed the UK? Have a Read of this pointless question here.
RL required the formalisation of lots of aspects of the learning experience humans take for granted. In this short article, I discuss one such aspect, the "Credit Assignment Problem" and how it can provide a useful lens for reviewing our own goals. Read it here.
Another woodblock print mashup. This time it was Fine Wind, Clear Morning, another work by Hokusai. See it here.
An article on why it's unfair to compare Olmpians from different sports by their medals won. This was originally posted to LinkedIn. Have a read on this website.
An article on 6 less obvious reasons why modelling wind turbines is hard. This was originally posted to LinkedIn. Have a read on this website.
I created a video using the IEA 15MW reference turbine and Google Earth Pro "drone" shots to try and put into perspective just how large modern wind turbines are. See it here.
I think I'll take a stab at blogging. New page for them here.
In the first blog post, I give some highlights from a virtual AI showcase I attended.
Something completely different to usual. I mashed up The Great Wave of Kanagawa with a wind turbine. See it here.
In this post, I explore who the funniest regular guests on the TV show QI are. This is via a novel method, using an Artificial Neural Network. This post is heavily science-communicative and hopes to inform the reader about how ANNs operate, as well as answer an entertaining question. See it here.
Using Python, an online tool was automated to be run with different input data. Utilizes Selenium to auomate multiple runs of a simple solar-power estimator tool. See it here.
Using Python, running times for Mens 5,000 m (5k) and 10,000 m (10k) were compared. The plot aims to show the trend in results for these 2 events and, when the user's own times are plotted, provide an insight into whether their times' are broadly on track. Plotted using Bokeh for interactability. See it here.
Using Python, a data-logger and data analyser were created to track interruptions caused by having to answer the office door and intercom (utilizes Run window and bat files). It's neat.
Update on the script from the last post, Mutual Destination Mapper. Updated to show the source airports on the map and in the hover boxes. Additional behind-the-scenes updates. See it here.
Using Python, the potential destinations available to 2 travelers leaving from 2 lists of airports are plotted on Google maps. The destinations are coloured to show if the destination is mutual, only for traveller 1, or only for traveller 2. See it here.
Using Python, the notes played on a guitar for a given track are plotted as a heatmap of the fretboard. You won't believe how it turned out.
Using Python, the translation of a chosen language for every sentence of a given page is inserted after the English. See it here.
