ZX Spectrum computer

Spectrum ZX. Credit: Peter Macdiarmid

> Hello, I’m AI Lawson.

I build things. I teach. I learn.

I want to understand how AI works, not just how to use it.

This site is my public notebook. A place to share ideas, experiments, projects and the journey.

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> Who Is Doc

My name is Andrew Ian Lawson. Online, I often go by AI Lawson — partly because those are my initials, and partly because of the direction my work has taken.

People usually call me Doc. It started as a nickname intended to mock me at school. When I got to university, I decided to reclaim it for myself. Since then it's become something I'm genuinely proud of.

I learned to code aged 9 on the ZX Spectrum pictured above. By 11 I was writing Z80 assembly language, adding up binary by hand on paper and working through machine code one instruction at a time. That little nerd has never really changed.

Today I'm a physicist, programmer, educator and lifelong learner. I'm fascinated not only by using AI, but by understanding how it works and building systems that solve real problems.

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