I started playing Hardspace Shipbreakers last night, it’s a really fun space sim game which is quite relaxed and not too aggressie. However, the standout feature is definitely the soundtrack which is absolutely amazing americana/bluegrass style instrumental music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxTyMVPaOXY

So it’s looking pretty bad for the creator of Reflection-70B who posted amazing results. Turns out they really were too good to be true. it looks like they were proxying api requests to their model through to Anthropic. The AI space is full of fraudsters but if this is substantiated, it’s the most brazen example I know of so far.

I’m trying out moving back to hugo and webmention stuff again. I was getting a bit frustrated with the bulk involved with wordpress.

Moody sky this morning on a walk along the seafront in Lee on the Solent.

The sunset was beautiful today as we drove up north to visit my family for the weekend.

Breakfast with a view during our stay in Milton Keynes after visiting Bletchley Park

Had the pleasure of visiting Bletchley Park yesterday to see where Alan Turing and many others did amazing work on early computers and cryptanalysis. As a computer scientist it has been on my bucket list for a really long time so I'm glad to have finally gotten around to it. The bombe machines were fascinating. Mechanical machines (not computers as they were not general purpose/programmable) that brute forced enigma code cyphers by trying different combinations of circuits. They could try 37k combinations in 12 minutes. #BletchleyPark #AlanTuring #computers

It was lovely to head up to London today to meet up with my friend and fellow NLP nerd Daniel. We spent some time discussing some ideas we had for side projects and talked in depth about how web development has become too complex and our desire to build new software with simple stacks with html templates and limited frontend code.

We spent quite a lot of time hanging out in the National Library where there's plenty of space to study and conspire over ideas and schemes. Daniel is something of a digital nomad so it's always nice to get some in-person time when possible. Unfortunately none of our contacts at the Alan Turning Institute were available to let us in today (I mean who can blame them, it's the weekend after all).

home for the weekend, Passford House Hotel #newforest #sunshine #countryhouse