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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 5h

Love my A1. Must try more procgen stuff like this.

Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 6h

My favourites include: 633 This train has been delayed by a wartime bomb near the railway 698 This train has been delayed by horses on the railway 809 This train has been delayed by lightning damaging this train but above all 653 This train has been delayed by a supermarket trolley on the track

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 6h

If you spend any time on the UK's (alleged) rail services, (a) I'm sorry, (b) you may be amused by this fixed list of delay reasons you're probably at least somewhat familiar with: wiki.openraildata.com/index.php/Da...

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 6h

Nice. Sometimes I follow the "just forward-declare what you're using rather than touching Windows.h" model, but this is a bit more principled.

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 6h

Ohhhhhh I'd forgotten Xlib. Thanks guys, who's ever going to use 'None' in a program.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

20th anniversay of stb_image is next month

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also discovered fuzz testing! What a career.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/10/2026

deep insight into the British id contained in this banknote poll result www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Found this in my code the other day 😄. I religiously sandbox Windows.h into one or a few cpp files so it can't contaminate other code, but that's harder to do with single header libs. // Almost three decades of this bullshit... #undef min #undef max #undef RemoveDirectory ...

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yep, not many have made it since Lewis Hamilton. Even in NZ karting, Liam Lawson's parents had to sell their house.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Have mixed feelings about all the (British mostly I guess) drivers with incredibly wealthy parents though. Limits my sympathies a tad.

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"blah blah blah civil service efficiencies blah blah blah benefit cuts for work-shy layabouts blah blah massive tax cuts that encourage so much growth they pay for themselves" It never really changes, does it.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'seven women...have told the Guardian they are survivors of domestic abuse carried out by key figures in the anti-immigration street patrol movement. All have chosen to come forward to make the public aware of the patterns of violence behind this new form of activism.'

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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols

Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jesus, Apple TV. What is it with you and this Matchbox movie.

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 06/10/2026

Anyway, London already has a laser-based defence platform.

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hellhole latest.

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hannah Fry overthinking the traitors and I'm 100% here for it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=twDv...

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How would Alan Turing have played the Traitors?

YouTube video by Hannah Fry

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

mistakes were made

california post headline: california squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition

photo depicts a squirrel in mid-flight from a tree branch, apparently about to attack an owl who has the most "are you fucking KIDDING me" look in history

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've called you all here today to give you some difficult news.

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Yining Karl Li @yiningkarlli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

More fun old CineFex finds: this amazing ad in the June 1997 issue from Blue Sky Studios looking for interested applicants. I think this must have been in the middle of production on their "Bunny" demo short, well before the first Ice Age went into production.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 03/10/2026

More than 20 NHS trusts in England have stopped using Palantir’s waiting list tools, according to FT analysis that casts doubt on widely cited claims about the success of the controversial data project led by the US software giant. as.ft.com/r/6c8844ae-e...

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Over 20 NHS trusts have ditched Palantir waiting-list tools, analysis shows

FT findings prompt fresh probe by statistics regulator into health service claims over controversial data project

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 03/10/2026

Electricity generation per person in the United Kingdom has fallen by a third from its early-2000s peak. Globally, electricity generation per person has grown by more than 50% this century. In the United Kingdom, things have moved in the opposite direction.

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Today is just 100% typical: departed eight minutes late due to late incoming train, then we just bleed time for no apparent reason until Coventry, and then it's always +5 minutes delay to Birmingham International, yet they can never adjust the time table for this.

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm just so bone-achingly tired of stressing out about the connection to TFW's Mach train at Birmingham due to Avanti delays. Every single time. Despite a 23 minute cushion! How is it possible to run a 1:20 hour service with such consistent 20 minute+ delays? It's just insanity. </rant>

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But I give your hungry lion about 30 seconds with a group of apex predators

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Maksim Kalutskii @maksimkalutskii.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Excited to share our new preprint! 📜 Here, we used CALVADOS and ultra-CG models to show how the kinetochore establishes a robust attachment to the dynamic microtubule end. Spoiler: IDRs 🧵 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mike Tomlin, 19-year head coach of my NFL team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, spent the last twelve of them building a Minecraft city 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h_p... Looking forward to the reveal that Mauricio Pochettino gets away from it all with Animal Crossing.

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EP 1: ROOFTOPS, PENTHOUSES, AND URBAN LIVING

YouTube video by Mike Tomlin

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not to mention different ways to come at the various problems, plus LLMs have proved just inherently more powerful. Plus, as we've learnt from decades of Computer Graphics, explicit always wins! NeRFs/Splats being only the latest example.

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Could not agree more, but was kind of hoping I was wrong, as my last startup pivoted to world models. (From VFX ML/LLM tools more aligned with explicit creation!) And I wish those guys well. But my gut says that approaches that align with existing content creation pipes have much more leverage.

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I get my amusement at British sporting events by shouting out "No!" and "That is simply ridiculous!" after each line of that song. And then there's "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" 🤦‍♂️

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Paint me like one of your french etc. etc.

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Phew. It's been a tough day! (It's 9:40am.)

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Could they stop playing silly buggers and bring them here please.

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LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Imagine a computer that took so long to boot, the mean time to failure (MTTF) was…shorter than the boot time! ASCI Q, the supercomputer, failed every 6.5 hours from 2002-2003. It also, worryingly, took as much as ~8 hours for a whole-machine reboot!

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 28/09/2026

This year's record setting El Niño will impact many different parts of the world, with some experiencing severe drought and others flooding. In a new analysis at The Climate Brink, I explore what impacts happened during past events and which are most likely to occur this year

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The impacts of this year’s record-shattering El Niño

El Niño will drive severe drought from Indonesia to the Southern Africa and northern South America, with wetter winters from the US Gulf Coast to Southern South America.

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

£1.78/litre petrol. Thanks America! You've somehow made things even worse than the initial hit from Russia's war on Ukraine. Plus another wave of inflation just as things were getting back on track. And soaring bond yields because everything follows treasuries.

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's worth visiting Faraday's grave in Highgate Cemetery if you're ever in the area. Plus William Clifford, William Friese-Greene (great monument) and Douglas Adams. (Also some guy called Marx.)

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering Short video for now - I might do a longer one later? youtu.be/-Su9YrcazRk But there's ALL the details in the paper, and you can always Use The Source, Luke for the really deep info. github.com/tomforsyth10...

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DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering - six minutes version

YouTube video by Tom Forsyth

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026

This is actually hell, right?

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