Howdi, I'm Andrew, but most people call me Bolster
- Senior R&D Manager (Data Science) at Synopsys Software Integrity Group
- Director, Treasurer @ BSides Belfast
- among other things
Recent Writings
- 28 Feb 2024 » Farewell Farset
- 19 Feb 2024 » Generative AI: Impact on Software Development and Security
- 17 Jan 2024 » Jupyter Environment Management for Dummies
- 18 May 2023 » Pulling Election Count data out of Google Sheets for fun and democracy
- 01 Apr 2023 » StayCation2023
- 27 Mar 2022 » Wrangling NI House Price Index Data
- 04 Jan 2022 » Lies, Damned Lies, and Data Science
- 26 Nov 2021 » Generative Adversarial Procrastination
- 10 Nov 2021 » UUIDs and You
- 22 Jul 2021 » Counting Tabs and Background Tasks: Taunting Goodharts Demon
- 10 Jun 2021 » Response to TOG's Third Eviction
- 01 Jun 2021 » Apache Arrow in 5-10 Mins
- 24 Mar 2021 » Dr StrangeBot: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust Machine Learning
- 20 Oct 2020 » A Stranger in a Strange Land: Data Science Onboarding In Practice
- 19 Oct 2020 » Tell me about your Programmer - Robopsychologist and other careers that don't exist (yet)
- 08 Sep 2020 » Back to reality
- 23 Jun 2020 » Merging Git Repos for Archival Purposes
- 22 May 2020 » Pragmatic Data Science; When Unstoppable Math meets Immovable Ethics
- 26 Apr 2020 » Is Your AI Ethical?
- 04 Mar 2020 » The Importance of Active Learning in Data Science and Engineering
- 18 Feb 2020 » Mosquitto (MQTT) Emon Pi (Open Energy Monitor) Forwarding Bridge
- 17 Feb 2020 » Headless Pi Configuration with Multi-Wifi Remote Access
- 21 Nov 2019 » Python Script as a Reliable Service
- 17 Jun 2019 » Data Art: Creative Collisions and Getting out of your comfort zone
- 17 May 2019 » And Now I Am 31
- 23 Oct 2018 » Unfeeling Fire
- 22 Oct 2018 » Daily Dated Untitled Jupyter Notebooks
- 09 Apr 2018 » Hackaday Unconf Dublin Talk: Socially Accessible Computing
- 24 Oct 2017 » My Basic (Python) Data Science Setup
- 28 Sep 2017 » Legal Considerations for Trusted Defence Autonomy