The Present and Future of Large Language Models in Theory and Practice
Notes from a few sessions at this one-day workshop held at the UCL AI Centre, Holborn on 13 March 2023.
Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate (to your) Own Site
I have affinity with the IndieWeb principles (own your data, build for the long web, etc). I also enjoyed sharing using Twitter, and I enjoy sharing using Mastodon apps. What to do? There's a term for that: PESOS.
Four seasons with an EV
We wanted to get a feel for what a realistic range is like as the days grow warmer, and cooler. So we logged the numbers for the whole of 2022. Here they are.
Our dog, Skitters
After 14 years of adventures, we said goodbye to Skitters on the morning of Wed 11 Jan 2023.
Brighton to Scotland EV road trip stats
We completed a 1,623 mile electric vehicle trip where we were dependent on public charging infrastructure. Here are the stats.
Rust's future combinators
The Rust Future module defines many ways to chain and convert futures. This post summarises a few common ones as a reference table.
Tides twice a day
The best explanation I’ve heard for why there are tides twice a day appeared on The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry podcast.
The RSS monthly is excellent
A recommendation: the Royal Statistical Society Data Science newsletter is up there as being one of the best things I subscribe to.
Rude Wordle
I was late to Wordle. One of the first I did, and failed to guess, left me thinking it was quite rude, and insulted the user when they failed to guess the word.
Fireworks and dogs
Sharing our home with a noise phobic dog makes for a troubling bonfire night (or fortnight). Things have been improving for us, and this is a record of what we’ve tried.
