Will Shepherd
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Will Shepherd
@shepwill.bsky.social
Urban water researcher at Uni of Sheffield by day. Rest of time interested in gardening, motor sport, (classic) cars, environment, wildlife,.. Views my own etc.
Although at least the moped riders on L plates should have a CBT, unlike the delivery riders on often equally fast (illegal) ebikes...
February 15, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Top marks for decrypting Darwin's handwriting!
February 12, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Interesting, I'm not familiar enough with the history of the area to know when it was developed, but it's certainly significantly urbanised by the 1890 OS map. By this date the priory seems to have gone (but remebered by Priory Road / Ter. / Ave.).
January 23, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Fascinating sketch. Would be interesting to know how old it is! Maybe early 19th century? I expect Mount Pleasant is the same Georgian building as in this Wikipedia entry en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_P... / this listing historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-....
Mount Pleasant, Sheffield - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 22, 2026 at 5:29 PM
There's not (from memory) much detailed discussion of runoff in the paper. As you say, catchment wetness is important, also soil types and ground cover, then there is seasonality, e.g. leaves blocking road gullies; evaporation / evapotranspiartion. Transient impacts from e.g. building sites.
January 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
In dry weather, hence you can assign more confidence to whether the levels are outside of the expected range. There's a few examples in the results section of the associated paper, the openly accessible version is here eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/19... 2/2
Cloud-based artificial intelligence analytics to assess combined sewer overflow performance - White Rose Research Online
eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
January 14, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Absolutely, there are a lot of parameters affecting rainfall runoff that vary in space and time. The model is trained with past data to give an estimate of expected levels. Essentially, due to the higher uncertainty in wet weather, discrepancies between measured and predicted are more reliable 1/2
January 14, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Thanks. The original work started around 2010 and the previous analytics probably dated back to the early 2000s when I guess there was much less availability of real time rainfall, hence it rainfall wasn't included. The research was phased with a gap between the pilot and commercialisation.
January 14, 2026 at 7:16 PM
This better referenced, but 6 month old, article says similar www.zdnet.com/article/linu.... It's definitely something I'm considering when the extended free Win10 support expires from my otherwise totally useable PC (which is much faster at most tasks than the supposedly higher spec Dell at work..)
Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how
It's not a typo. Linux's desktop share is growing, according to the US government's records.
www.zdnet.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:27 AM
😮 US Department of Xenophobia?
(I wasn't planning on going ther anytime soon anyway...)
January 9, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Using Gemini, it's admitedly terrible at generating a picture to do this, but to be fair if you just ask it 'tell me how to wire a UK electrical plug, preferably with an image' then it gives correct text instructions and shows a correct image from Shutterstock. But you could just Google it...
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
So, an Audi 100 would do 0-100 km/h in 2.8 seconds
November 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM