Louis Maddox

Combinatorially curious. Foreword Deployed Ongineer @Havelock_AI

[Louis Maddox @permutans]

2025 year in review is up 🪩 https://t.co/GfKdkW6D0h

On dewarping, schema inference, and embeddings

[Louis Maddox @permutans]

@thomasmurphy__ 3 letter microparty shine so bright

[Cristina Criddle @CristinaCriddle]

scoop: Anthropic has installed forward deployed engineers in the US National Security Agency to help deploy Claude Mythos for cyber offensive operations w/ @AsiaLens

[Tim Hua 🇺🇦 @Tim_Hua_]

This graphic looks terrifying kudos to whoever made it.

[Louis Maddox @permutans]

The #WordOfTheDay is Pexico, coined by @Jimfam on the growing Mexican food scene in Peckham 🇲🇽🌮🌶️ https://t.co/bv89xIV4vk

[Louis Maddox @permutans]

Bread Stall goat’s curd, chorizo & gremolata my GOAT

[Financial Times @FT]

MP sues Musk’s xAI in UK test case over fake sexual images https://t.co/rxuGplwqy0

[Louis Maddox @permutans]

Not yet really established the level of irony my DJI crossbody is operating on tbh

[Louis Maddox @permutans]

The worst case scenario of such confab. is where a bug report is received & announced to be a "known issue" (trivially true because the bug report makes it known), as GitHub began doing

In this case I woke up to a fix (glorified 503) only after rejecting a claim it was unfixable

[Louis Maddox @permutans]

The false certainty LLMs are giving everyone about technical troubleshooting is awful (got lied to by a tech co's technical support today who claimed to have passed my query on to a "senior engineer" and now IDK if that was just someone using an LLM or what)

[Vik Paruchuri @VikParuchuri]

Someone sent me this unreadable soap label last year. I just tried it with our new model - now you, too, can read the ramblings of Dr. Bronner.

[Louis Maddox @permutans]

@LukeDeNatale who’s the vyzee cover by ? 🫨

[ben @ CVPR @contraben]

Big congrats to the @ideogram_ai team on v4.

We tested it blind against @GeminiApp 3.1, Grok @imagine, and @bfl_ai FLUX.2 [max] with

>10 professional designers
> across 240 images

Quick thread on it's strengths and how to prompt it 👇

[Louis Maddox @permutans]

Timeline cleanse

[Google Gemma @googlegemma]

Meet Gemma 4 12B!

A unified, encoder-free multimodal model designed to bring high-performance intelligence directly to your laptop, and released under an Apache 2.0 license.

Bridging the gap between edge efficiency and advanced reasoning. Here is what’s new with Gemma 4 12B: 👇

[Louis Maddox @permutans]

All Day I Dream About Tiella Trattoria

[Louis Maddox @permutans]

TIL there's a Rust MCP SDK `rmcp` https://t.co/zNzXoNPda3

[Louis Maddox @permutans]

@burntsushi5 So sorry to read this Andrew ☹️ Glad you're on the mend!

[Louis Maddox @permutans]

The indignity of being derailed by consumer grade deps <<<

[Louis Maddox @permutans]

Interesting, TfL Go now offers to “personalise recommendations” to let you know about upcoming fare caps https://t.co/IwhqHJeB6D

[Fernando 🌺🌌 @zetalyrae]

Incredibly grim.