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You Were There With Me

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You Were There With Me This blog post is a letter of thanks. To someone who I have never met and will never meet. This blog post is a thanks to the spirit of Alan Turing. We have never met, but I feel I know you so closely. From the first time my ex-boyfriend mentioned me to you to the way I would cry when I heard your story. From the colleague and the random American lady on the tube who told me to go to Bletchley Park. To the way I cried at your statue and when I read your story again. I visited Bletchley Park on two subsequent days in December 2023, travelling for 7 hours total on each day and breaking my bank to get there. Worth it. For all of 2024 I felt you were with me. There when I lost my job. There when people told me that it would be impossible to find another job at my stage as a software engineer and let alone in renewable energy. You were there when I worked 12 hours a day for 6 weeks to get my current job. There when I learned Python, along with Margaret Elaine Hamilton,...
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Seasons & Weather: Water in Summer

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Seasons & Weather: Water in SummerI am trying to summarise my last 3 blog posts. It's not going too well. Maybe they don't need summarising. In the last post, I looked at weather in water tech. Seasons and Weather In Water Tech I think one of the key things here was temperature. It is impossible really to separate weather from seasonality in water tech and I can't believe how silly I was to try. But I am glad I tried - because it made me realise how silly I was to even try. So let me summarise them together and see how that goes. Summer In the summer the temperature increases and the heat can change both the way that water behaves in the environment and the way that we consume it as people. On the behaviour front, in hotter weather, water can evaporate more quickly. This can lead to increased need for irrigation from farmers, placing higher stress on demand for water supply. It also means that people need to water their plants more often and irrigate their landscapes an...
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Weather in Water Tech

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Weather in Water Tech One of the major factors in water planning and management - along with seasonality - is weather. One of the most important factors for AI models to be trained on in water technology is weather trends. I wanted to deep-dive a bit deeper and to explore a bit more what weather means in water tech. The three main overview areas that I have for weather in water planning are: Temperature Precipitation Humidity and Wind Variations in temperature affect water evaporation rates and water consumption. Variations in precipitation affect water availability and supply, specifically through rain or snowfall. And variations in humidity and wind can, surprisingly, also affect evaporation and water loss. Again, temperature is very much linked with seasonality as we are looking at people using private and public pools, watering their plants and lawns and gardens, showering more often and using water to cool down. In turn, ice cold water can freeze and can cause pipes to burst; and ...
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Seasonality in Water Tech

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Seasonality in Water Tech Okay so I think the time has finally come for me to address this topic. Properly. Thank you. I mean, this crops up all the time for me. Everywhere I look in my water tech research, it all comes back to seasonality. Seasonality - and weather too. That is why - although this post focuses on seasonality - weather will be coming too soon. Thank you. It seems to me - and I could be wrong - that there are two main areas of trends in seasonality in water tech: seasonal demand changes and seasonal events. Let me see if most of my info can be fitted into these two main areas please - thank you. Here we go. I mean I could probably do a separate blog post on each one. Seasonal Demand Changes So what might we class as a seasonal demand change? Well to be honest with you I do actually think that it is the latter, seasonal events, that I am more interested in. But both are relevant so let me take a look a bit closer - thanks. Exploring Seasonal Demand Changes An example of ...
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Use Your Passion

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Use Your Passion Lady Gaga's new song is her best ever. I have been a fan for half my life - since she came on the scene. I have passed my probation - my immense passion carried me through one of the hardest times of my life - and now I want to figure out where do I go from here. Water research. Day job. Working day to day. Growing as a software engineer. Dancing. Wherever my life takes me next from here - and I don't know what my next great challenge will be - I hope that I will dance. I don't know what my next story will be, but I will hope that I will dance. And so if you have a wish that you can make for me - make a wish that I can dance, dance, dance. But I know what the next story of my life will be. I want to finally give back to the water. I want to take care of what I love the most. This planet and this earth. So I hope my water research takes me further. I would like to make this blog be only water posts but I need it to learn. I need it to grow and vent sometimes...
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What are "Other Broad Factors" that could be considered in water decision making?

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What are "Other Broad Factors" that could be considered in water decision making? AI can be used to help solve "larger and critical problems" in water infrastructure. In my last two water blog posts, I examined and explored what larger and critical problems are. I looked at what these two could mean. I will revise both of these too in subsequent blog posts. However just for today, I would like to talk about; well, basically; I am doing a long form piece on how AI can help in solving larger and critical problems in water infrastructure. And in order to do that, AI needs to know about a few things seasonality - one or two blog posts coming weather - one or two blog posts coming But there are also a lot of other things that water needs to know about. In a nutshell, here they are: Population and Demographics Days of the Week Holidays Environmental Change  Climate Change Water pricing and policies Infrastructure and supply factors (such as leakage) Unusual events (Such a...
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Tibetan Buddhism

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Tibetan Buddhism I want to talk about one of the great loves of my life: Tibetan Buddhism. There are many strands of Buddhism. And even within Tibetan Buddhism there are so many strands. But I am absolutely in love with them. I love everything about Tibetan Buddhism. The prayer flags. The chanting. The temples.  The statues. The mantras. The message of pure, divine unconditional love. But of course that message of pure divine unconditional love is not unique to Buddhism or indeed any tradition. It is who we are.  It is what we already are. It is what we are. My journey with Tibetan Buddhism at least as far as I can remember started with a book called Feed Your Demons. My mum got it when I was fourteen. I was recovering from a serious eating disorder; I have never said this before but I had anorexia in my teens - really serious life threatening anorexia - and recovering from that was definitely the start of an awakening. I feel so very lucky to be me. I feel so very privileged....
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