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Three years
This is how long the war in Ukraine has raged. I remember the day it happened. I was at my old job at Kiwibank, and our entire team had a live stream of Kiev in the corner of our screen, waiting for the tanks to roll in. Everyone and their dog expected it to happen…
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The White Lotus
Season three is back, baby! I’m not much of a tv guy. While I don’t shy away from YouTube, it’s rare that I will indulge in a series. That might change with the White Lotus, one of my favourite shows of the past few years. Despite missing the first half, I was quickly thrilled that…
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Stung
I was bitten by a wasp today. It’s not something I think I have ever experienced, and unsurprisingly, not one I will be running back to repeat. Pain is a hard thing to describe. This particular sting felt like a hot wire poked onto the back of my hand, which is unusual in two ways:…
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Prompting
I have been a fan of language learning recently, and today I think I added a new one; prompt engineering. Not fluent, by any means, but at least I have started. Prompt engineering is a lot of things, but at its most basic, it’s talking to LLMs in a way that maximises efficiency. Think of…
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R1-1776
Perplexity is one of my favourite Large Language, but today, I thought they did something really cool. Many of you may have heard about DeepSeek, a Chinese model that isn’t only incredibly powerful, but startlingly cheap. It only had one downside; it was clearly a propaganda tool. For weeks, there were endless memes in the…
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Alive
Oscar Jenkins, my former school buddy, has been found alive in Russia. For those who don’t remember, Oscar has enlisted to fight for the Ukrainian Foreign Legion, and had been captured two months ago by Russian forces. I wrote about it HERE. My fear was that once captured, the chance of Mr Jenkins staying alive…
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