I recently mentioned that I was working on an FOI project to find out what Copilot agents were being built by local government. It is still very early days, and only a handful of councils have resp...

I have been quietly working away on a few things. Firstly, I soft-launched the FOISA advice/guidance site that I was working on. It is not yet how I would like it to be due to GDPR issues. It’s tri...

I was reminded again last week of a quote that entered my life almost 30 years ago. Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! The “bear quote”, as it is now kn...

I am lucky enough to have a flint hand axe that is many thousands of years old. It is a long way from being a museum-grade specimen and holds litte value. Today I sat in the sunshine and used it to...

I trained another 2B parameter LLM from scratch today. Am running SFT now, but I am excited that the base eval shows I have noticably improved on the last run on a number of key benchmarks: Here i...

After a couple of days of experimenting, I’ve finally got semantic search deployed and working on a test build. It was remarkably easy in the end. I started by section/paragraph chunking the decis...

I had a lovely couple of days away on the South Coast this weekend for the steam gala on the Swanage Railway. It was amusing how people defaulted to my partner being the train nerd - they were forc...

I am continuing to make good progress on proofreading the FOISA project, to the point that I will soon be in a position to publish. The shadow briefly returned at the weekend, but there is no shad...

I am still well ahead on my sprint plan, so have allowed myself some time to play about with other things. Parish Councils Finally got round to finishing collating a list of all the parish council...

I trained a 2B parameter LLM from scratch today. I named it Trionyx, and rather fittingly, whilst it was training, my partner found a Trionyx fossil whilst looking for sea glass. This is the third...