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Sam Stokes

@samstokes.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy

Immigrant, mixologist, engineer. Interested in feedback loops, abstractions, nuance. I move JSON around | ex LaunchDarkly, Honeycomb, LinkedIn, Rapportive 🌉 bridged from ⁂ hachyderm.io/@samstokes, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Sam Stokes @samstokes.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

#特に意味をなさない猫の計測 My cat decided to pose next to a ruler, does this count?

A mostly brown Siamese cat reclining next to a 2ft aluminium ruler, showing that the cat in this position is about 16 inches long.

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Sam Stokes @samstokes.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Successfully made the world's worst rhythm game

Screenshot of white text on black saying:
doof?
doof!true
doof?
doof!false

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Sam Stokes @samstokes.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

It's also helping build intuition for how modern LLMs work. Although they're a lot more sophisticated in every way, they still have a lot in common with my toy implementation. For example, there's evidence that they can regurgitate large parts of their training […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A visualisation of a neural network recognising handwritten digits. On the left are several example images. In the middle are the network weights, which look like greyscale mountain ranges on a map. If you squint some of them look a bit like parts of digits...?

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Sam Stokes @samstokes.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

I've been writing a toy neural network library as a hobby project, and I've got to the point where it can recognise handwritten digits pretty accurately. Because this is a learning exercise, I'm visualising the training process and network weights, and it's […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]