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This post is the capstone of the most long-running series on my blog. In December 2024 (!), I started reading Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)", and worked through it carefully. Being who I am,...
I worked with a guy for twenty years. I knew his three daughters by sight and watched them progress and graduate from the school system that employed their father and me. I knew this guy's wife, his father, his mom's health history. I...
Light orange Dark orange My latest homescreen. Digitally minimal.
Telling yourself it’s okay while sobbing is such a hard task, but achievable nonetheless. Convincing yourself it’s not as big as you think it is, is kind of tricky when you’re brain already hopped in and out of that rabbit hole 20 times...
Bruegel’s Children’s Games (1560) has some lovely detail if you look closely. There’s a new tech leader in the NHS which means whatever he thinks about design, UCD or designers will probably trickle down at some point. I am listening...
Clearing the checkpoint for white guys in their 20s (apparently)
Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1157/summer-witchcraft
Hello from New Orleans, where of course it is hot: the kind of weather that makes everthinig move in slow motion. Or maybe it just makes me move in slow motion? Either way I’m a few days overdue for a mid-year update to Supporters. I’ve...
I have no idea what the odds were on getting THE SAME "Lucky Day" book — on a San Francisco Public Library book that currently has a hold/waitlist of 80+ people on it, but if this doesn't count as a genuinely lucky moment for me, I'll...
I am sitting on the pier, fuelled by an espresso, just having completed volume 2 of Solvej Balle’s story On the Calculation of Volume. Volume 3 is sitting next to me ready to be cracked open as I wait for a friend to arrive from the...
my whole life i have taken the wrong stuff seriously and the right stuff not seriously enough and when i have taken the right stuff seriously it has been "too seriously" because it has been taken unseriously by everyone else, so now, so...
This was an email from a few weeks ago. I showed to to someone else and asked them to read it out. They did the same thing as me. ‘Long delays, big plans’. That’s branding right there.
Today I was chatting with Irina and Trilly about implementing the skills framework for product managers at NHS England. Irina had a great idea: she pointed out that the framework didn’t emphasise experimentation enough. There’s a lot of...
I love getting likes, shares, and all that. I also enjoy charting things. Thus, I charted some data from my fediverse instance that is also a blog. As well as being a bit of the fediverse, this account is also a single-user #WordPress...
Count Binface, in announcing he will run in the farcical Clacton by-election against Nigel Farage, makes a compelling pitch to voters on the BBC's Today programme:→ YouTube