About Me

I am James Briggs, a data scientist and software engineer based in Scotland, UK.

I work as an AI Engineer at Graphcore.

Previously I have been:

  • A Data Scientist at OmegaLambdaTec GmbH in Munich, Germany. Working on many projects spanning energy, engineering, and retail.
  • A software engineer and part-time sysadmin working in High Performance Computing and code optimisation at the University of Cambridge in the Stephen Hawking Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (COSMOS supercomputer group) and later in the Research Software Engineering Group.
  • Physics student: I have a master and bachelors in Computational Physics from the University of Edinburgh.
  • Bass guitar teacher.

This is my personal blog where I write about programming, machine learning, and data science. My other interests are music, astronomy, language learning, travel, and photography.

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