rowanajmarshall

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by rowanajmarshall 2mo ago
Building out a housing heatmap of England and Wales (Scotland and Northern Ireland publish housing data differently, working on getting them integrated! https://housepricedashboard.co.uk
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by rowanajmarshall 5mo ago
Every now and again someone will open a "American Diner" here in London, then have normal opening times and serve basically the same food every pub serves, only with more milkshakes. Like, no. I want my American-style hash browns,
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by rowanajmarshall 5mo ago
I recently visited my brother in Spokane (we're British, he moved out there a few years ago) and we went to Frank's Diner, still in it's original 1906 railcar. Not my first diner experience, but by far my favourite. Diners ar
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by rowanajmarshall 6mo ago
Europe is a gigantic manufacturer of vast quantities of goods. It has not deindustrialised at all.
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by rowanajmarshall 6mo ago
Two choropleth map projects I've wanted to make for a while: https://housepricedashboard.co.uk - shows a visualisation of house prices in England and Wales since the 90s, with filters for house types, real vs nominal, and c
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UK chip startup Fractile to expand UK operations with £100M investment(datacenterdynamics.com)
1 points by rowanajmarshall 7mo ago|0 comments
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by rowanajmarshall 8mo ago
Already a feature, you can switch between nominal or inflation adjusted in the Change View panel - https://housepricedashboard.co.uk/?tab=change&start=2014&end...
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by rowanajmarshall 8mo ago
Ah shoot, it's not .com, it's .co.uk. So https://housepricedashboard.co.uk .
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by rowanajmarshall 8mo ago
I actually wrote a webapp to show this, check it out - https://housepricedashboard.co.uk/ London house prices are falling quite a lot in real terms.
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by rowanajmarshall 8mo ago
https://rowanajmarshall.co.uk . There's a couple fun stuff in there, including some recipes I like, links to stuff I wrote, and a live sleep meter.
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by rowanajmarshall 8mo ago
I've been practicing with Claude Code and creating a webapp I wished exists every time I've moved house - https://housepricedashboard.co.uk I've spent a lot of time combing through Rightmove and Zoopla getting a
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by rowanajmarshall 8mo ago
As much as I appreciate the difference between literal infinity and consumers' demand for software, there's just so much bad software out there waiting to be improved that I can't see us hitting saturation soon.
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by rowanajmarshall 8mo ago
I think the downside is the developers who love the action of coding managed to accomplish several things at once - they got to code, and create things, and get paid lots for doing it. AI coding makes creating things far more efficient
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by rowanajmarshall 8mo ago
They're pretty extraordinary, but funny thing is the expensive bits of London (central, west, and bits of north) have fallen the most in real terms over the last decade!
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by rowanajmarshall 8mo ago
Ach, sorry! iOS is the one common platform I don't have easy access to.
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Show HN: 25 years of house prices in England and Wales(housepricedashboard.co.uk)
15 points by rowanajmarshall 8mo ago|6 comments
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by rowanajmarshall 1y ago
Then you should also look at Wayve (self-driving cars, $1 billion Series C), Lighthouse (travel and rental data, $370 million Series C), Highview Power (novel energy storage, £300 million). Lots more too. I won't deny that the UK speci
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by rowanajmarshall 1y ago
> Good luck getting a farm-tech startup funded, no-one will take a punt. There are so, so many examples of British agtech companies getting funded: https://www.lettusgrow.com/blog/2020/1/9/press-releas
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by rowanajmarshall 1y ago
> There was not only no dishwasher, there was literally no space for a dishwasher. This is just London, out of the 8 years I've spent here, 3 of them were spent with a dishwasher. Tbh I've got a dishwasher now and barely use it
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by rowanajmarshall 1y ago
I run a Mistral model on my phone!
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by rowanajmarshall 1y ago
> Replacing blue collar workers for robots hasn't been super duper great. That's just not true. Tractors, combine harvesters, dishwashers washing machines, excavators, we've repeatedly revolutionised blue-collar work, made
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Pope Francis has died(bbc.co.uk)
221 points by rowanajmarshall 1y ago|18 comments
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Green belt site near M25 to host Europe's largest AI data centre(cityam.com)
1 points by rowanajmarshall 2y ago|0 comments
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Demand for Software Is Different(rowanajmarshall.co.uk)
1 points by rowanajmarshall 2y ago|0 comments
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by rowanajmarshall 2y ago
Why would a bad dependency ratio mean we stop using industrial fertilisers? If anything it's the opposite, using more fertiliser and technologies to cope with labour shortages.
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by rowanajmarshall 2y ago
He can be both an excellent business/technical mind, and a massive asshole with a fragile ego. Hell, you could argue those things go together more often than not!
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Move over, Devin: Cosine's Genie takes the AI coding crown(venturebeat.com)
3 points by rowanajmarshall 2y ago|0 comments
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by rowanajmarshall 2y ago
A few ways: * I run a 5K over lunch or after work 2-3 days a week. Very good for clearing my head when working on something tricky. Also fantastic for getting through audiobooks! * If it's a nice, quiet weekend and friends are free, we
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UK 2021 Census data, mapped(ons.gov.uk)
4 points by rowanajmarshall 3y ago|0 comments
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by rowanajmarshall 3y ago
At least in the UK we do - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/exceptions-to-copyright DeepMind was also founded here, 5 years before OpenAI was.

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