Henry C. Blanchard

Generally undertaking cool shit.

- Founded @UgandaMarathon
- Lecturer
- Raised £3m+ for charity
- EiR, @UniofStaffs, @santanderX
- Lead trainer, @e_nation

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@Strife212 i wonder if there would be an... incredibly slow consciousness in there though. One thought stretched over a million years of hand draw matmuls, ethereal.

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@lawrencenewport often thought the same - really admire his principles and values

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@PhilipJohnston @SpaceX i wonder about the retail entry eligibility dropping from 50k to 2k - undersubscribed institutionally, or just vibes?

Either way, something weird has to happen to the economy/geopolitics for it not to be 10T by 2030. I'm buying any and all dips 😋

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@nickcammarata @Aella_Girl That’s such a good way of putting it. Prob add patio11 to the list below too

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@ATabarrok I only discovered this via 3 Body Problem books, but really stuck with me

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@peterrhague several coffees deep!

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@nivi real library of babel vibe in those 1T weights

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@emollick Reminds me of the Betty Crocker effect - we like to add a layer of complexity (json prompting, manage your context window, /level99 skills nonsense) to make us feel like we’re still “making”/“coding”, and still a layer of skill above the unwashed masses who are using AI

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C&H taught me so many words as a child too!

Though I’m UK based so didn't understand what a “faucet” was (called a “tap” here) and kept mispronouncing it fuck-et, which understandably caused my mum some amount of distress.

(And faucets come up a surprising amount of time due to Calvin’s plumbing mishaps!)

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@DefenderOfBasic i voted thumbs up, but in a "thumbs up, you should def do this and it's fine" fashion

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I'm really surprised (as ex-big4 who never did much 'real' accountancy work for soletraders/smbs) just how feeble the enforcement options seem to be for HMRC.

Firms/individuals seem to be able to phoenix themselves to avoid fines/oversight, and consequences/recourse against those falsely claiming chartership are pretty limited.

In a way, surprising we don't see *more* of this!

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Claude Mythos - $25/$125 per million input/output tokens confirmed.

SWE-bench-verified benchmark:

Is software cooked?

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@Malcolm_Offord I disagree with many of reform’s policies but I’ve liked this because you’re right about the perverse incentives in the uk tax system, and I hope parties in power tackle this soon.

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@MPrinParr @SebJohnsonUK All the best people are!

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@PhilipJohnston @Starcloud_ @nvidia There he is!! Massive congrats.

Excited to hear people say “but no one knows how cooling them will work?!!11¡?” as fresh clean tokens pour down from LEO

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Qwen 9b has absolutely no chill.

Overthinking like a 15yo trying to text their crush

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@tunguz it's doubtful you were aware of my awesomness... until now. but here I am! (phew)

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@robkhenderson I so rarely see this recommended, but agree: 10/10. the easter egg about 'roswell high' indicating maybe the whole dinner was already shifted from the start was great - did you catch it? (also r.i.p nicholas Brendon who passed away last week)

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@WorkflowWhisper Playbook

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@TJiMTS haha me too!!