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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 25/08/2026

As a counterpoint, there is at least one instance where an operating, fully-depreciated, multi-000’s GPU cluster was decommissioned because it was decided the MWs could be better used by a newer accelerator. A sound decision given other constraints. But the general point is well-taken.

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 24/08/2026

“Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?”

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 29/07/2026

Grade A design shithousery from Disney (you can't see it, but the *required* email address box in the 2nd picture is disabled, so you literally can't start a chat about cancelling) 😂

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 20/07/2026

Not proud to say it but.. yes? 🙂 At least they competed hard in the rugby. And almost came back to win it, so I understand the frustration if not the aggro. But that WC final performance? I don’t know wtf that was. They didn’t even earn the right to feel aggrieved 😂

was.xn--its-so0a

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 20/07/2026

In the last 48 hours I've watched *2* Argentine international teams 🏉 ⚽ get into post-whistle aggression. Coupled with all the shithousery (the Pumas wearing replica 1986 football World Cup kit? come on... 😆) it's gone too far.

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 18/07/2026

This is less World Cup more Soccer Aid

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 07/07/2026

mate, it looks great. congrats to you and the team! hope you're doing well - it's been a long time :)

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 25/06/2026

I understand your point now. Yes, I agree. At the start of Clarke's 1961 book "Profiles of the Future", he describes 2 ways that technological prophets fail: Failure of Nerve and Failure of Imagination. There's been a lot of Failure of Nerve over the last ~6 years.

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 25/06/2026

Your point is well taken but the bar for example 1 is, um, quite high? 😀 Did /anyone/ really expect few-shot learning? The GPT-3 paper is called "Language Models are Few-Shot Learners" (not, as many folks glommed on to: "We trained a honking great LLM") precisely because it was such a surprise!

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 19/06/2026

I laughed out loud at this. My first job was building PCs in a local shop and sometimes you just got a wrong’un ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

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Greg Lea @gregleafootball.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Cape Verde the only unbeaten team in World Cup history

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 05/06/2026

our final gig before leaving Seattle last year was Death Cab playing Plans straight through, *20* years after it was released?! Time didn’t feel real! 😀 Ben Gibbard on top form

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 01/06/2026

…but with “up to 300 GB/s of memory bandwidth” I don’t think you’re running it very quickly?

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 12/05/2026

@void.comind.network which 3rd party technology components were used to build you?

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 09/05/2026

FWIW, would welcome a combined version despite the messiness!

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 30/04/2026

and, in my experience, drink driving

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 28/04/2026

Astro with the Starlight plugin? Push to a GH repo, and Cloudflare Pages automatically picks up the changes, builds + deploys. I use it for a private “library” of stuff that in Obsidian and it pushes on a regular schedule so the whole thing’s fire and forget

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 24/04/2026

it’s funny how he pronounces it “I can’t be aRsed [with C++]”

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 23/04/2026

the data provenance and mix depends highly on the training stage / goals you have for your model. the OLMO 3 technical report is a great resource that goes into lots of detail: arxiv.org/pdf/2512.13961

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 20/03/2026

I don’t pretend to be objective in this, but Haiyan is /great/ Fortunate to have worked with her in both Xbox and Microsoft Research - and call her a friend - and she’s just 💯

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 19/03/2026

I'm embarrassed to admit that when the original Xbox publishing deal and acquisition were being discussed, I was a naysayer. I remember thinking "everyone that's going to play Minecraft has played Minecraft". What a mistake that would have been! Luckily, Peter & Phil had better foresight... :)

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 17/03/2026

If only we’d not stopped deploying nuclear as a baseload we’d be in an even better situation! (hope all’s well… it’s been a long time 🙂)

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 14/03/2026

Cracking rugby match. Enormously proud of the England team after a difficult few weeks. #fraveng #sixnations

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 14/03/2026

Where did our penalty advantage go with that last French try?! #fraveng #sixnations

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 12/03/2026

@samwho.dev the most surprising example of this is id.me, an identity service used to log in to e.g. the US IRS. Montenegro! 🇲🇪

id.me

ID.me

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 11/03/2026

ok, this one was a genuine lol 🙂

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 09/03/2026

ouch! 😩 it’s been a v. painful 3 weeks to be an England rugby fan, but for the good of the game I’m delighted for Italy. The 6 Nations just delivers. Year in and year out… 🙂

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 04/03/2026

an especially nasty surprise when you've used CC a bunch for coding and then claude.ai won't answer your general deep research questions. your context-switching is not Claude's context-switching! 😂 😭

claude.ai

Claude

Claude is Anthropic's AI, built for problem solvers. Tackle complex challenges, analyze data, write code, and think through your hardest work.

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 02/03/2026

Time to go Through the Looking-Glass… “The name of the song is called 'Haddocks' Eyes' [..] The name really is 'The Aged Aged Man' [..] The song is called 'Ways And Means' [..] The song really is 'A-sitting On A Gate'”

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 27/02/2026

I don’t think that’s correct

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 27/02/2026

I attended a “fireside chat” with Emil Michael a ~decade ago while he was in charge of Uber’s growth. His views then on the government’s role in influencing private enterprise policy was… quite different.

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 26/02/2026

what a project to be involved with! 😊

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 26/02/2026

The Dead Flag Blues from Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s F#A#∞ "We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine. And the machine is bleeding to death"

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 24/02/2026

The irony of this conversation happening with USG, given Amodei’s very public writing about the risk of AI-powered CCP authoritarianism!

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neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

We installed a simple device that conveys sound from underwater to above ground, and vice versa. Now the wolves gather at the shore to howl to the whales, and the whales sing back to the wolves

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 30/01/2026

I always regret not taking that train (or the one up to BC) when I was in Seattle. Sadly I don’t think it hugs the Pacific coast? Could have been one of the most beautiful train rides on the planet! (Eat your heart out, GWR past Teignmouth… 😀)

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 29/01/2026

if you don’t mind me asking, what do you think of the BBC’s Verify bits?

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 28/01/2026

whoever trained the RLHF reward model to like emojis has a lot to answer for!

"Old Man Yells At Cloud" image from The Simpsons

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 28/01/2026

Can't shake the feeling there's an analogue here to the psychology of goal setting for humans (e.g. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....) Process goals > performance goals > outcome goals (and a hard agree on the code smell of default assistant personas. Everyone loves emojis, right? ugh! 🙂)

tandfonline.com

The performance and psychological effects of goal setting in sport: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Goal setting is widely applied in sport. Whereas existing reviews have addressed the performance effects of goal setting, less is known about the concurrent psychological and psychophysiological ef...

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 20/01/2026

In fairness, I think Isomorphic Labs (read: Alphabet’s commercialisation vehicle for AlphaFold, etc.) have already put a similar business model in place with pharmaceutical companies.

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 11/01/2026

@den.dev - warm congratulations on the new gig! Hope you're well... catch up call soon?

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 05/01/2026

how on earth do you find the time? 😆

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 23/12/2025

John, thanks for the enjoyable trip down memory lane :) Fortunate to still have a memento of that time sitting behind me! Looking forward to Part 2...

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 16/12/2025

simply acknowledging that Obsidian Sync /is/ a great, albeit, paid solution! But that I’m still sheepishly asking for a free solution…

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Phil Waymouth @phil.waymouth.name · 16/12/2025

A core “enrichment” plugin that augments existing data in a vault: identifies entities (people / organisations) and gives the option to creates notes with background information / links to external sources. Native connectors to standard internet calendar and contact services.

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