Here are two jarring facts. The chancellor has just appointed a special Covid corruption commissioner to examine an eye-watering £7.6bn of dodgy and fraudulent contracts awarded for Covid equipment, and the PM has just appointed as cabinet secretary Chris Wormald, who is the top

I can echo this is a good approach. It’s been quite successful in using third party APIs, certainly gets you producing testable code quicker.

I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop (The exact same laptop that could just about run a GPT-3 class model 20 months ago) The new Llama 3.3 70B is a striking example of the huge efficiency gains we've seen in the last two years

Just dropped: The State of Fintech 2025. The age of the Fintech Hyperscaler. Fintech companies are growing faster than incumbents and will soon be the largest companies in their category. Includes - Every bank job title will have an AI Agent team replacing labor. The first

Here's a fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x faster. I'll also explain some database internals and how databases implement joins. Let's dive in!

I (finally) wrote up my thoughts on "Founder Mode" and the Brian Chesky morality tale about how he turned around Airbnb culture. This has made it into the Silicon Valley water table; it must be dealt with. Let's find the nuggets of gold under all the 💩. charity.wtf/2024/12/17/fou…

If you are serious about performance engineering, this paper is a must read .. Eytzinger layout based binary search with prefetching is used in TigetBeetle AFAIR and this enumeration has been used in a number of implementations of heaps, segment trees and binary tree data

Currently playing - “it’s time”, Jackie McLean. 1964: McLean, Hancock, Haynes, Tolliver. Great transitory time for jazz. What’s not to like?

Device looks wonderful. Fully open stoics , including hardware. Great modularity and what looks like repairability .

Darren Cahill and James Blake supporting Djokovic. Jannik Sinners coach, Australian Darren Cahill stated what Tony Jones said was totally inappropriate and especially after what Djokovic went through in 2022 and he has the right to ask for an apology.

DeepSeek R1 appears to be a VERY strong model for coding - examples for both C and Python here: simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/27/ll…

Sweetie ⁦Camilla Tominey⁩ as the late, great Madeleine Albright said, there is a special place in hell for women who don’t support other women telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/0…

So much on my unvisited TL about new approaches to hashing. Great reads.

My valentine’s discovery for you all. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ cover of “Heartattack and Vine”. youtu.be/hNpynLVxJas?si…

keep an eye on Bartosz Milewski 's The Dao of Functional Programming .. some selective pages from the ToC .. link: 👇

This and the head of the thread are worth reading for founders. Moats are back.

An investor was in my TL complaining about big tech leaving the AI field open. But it is things like “agentic” applications where they will succeed. Remember the wardley maps, as LLMs become commodities, the value is up the stack.

Happy Paddy’s Day! ☘️☘️

The Khan Academy Engineering Career Development guide is still my favorite articulation of what it means to be a great engineer and a great teammate.

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