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Justin Cormack

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Tech and pictures of nature. Suffolk, UK

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I presume its the stages where you have to trawl the datasets to identify people and locations

01.03.2026 13:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Time for a blue cat?

01.03.2026 12:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Cologne cathedral being all gothic in the rain

Cologne cathedral being all gothic in the rain

It was the first place I ever visited in Germany. Changed trains there the other day, its odd the cathedral is so close to the train. Must spend some time there again!

26.02.2026 08:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

No, I mean its just maths.

25.02.2026 14:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We didn't design the competencies of LLMs, they are emergent from weird properties of big matrix multiplication on language.

25.02.2026 09:54 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Made the cover of @acm.org with "A Decade of Docker Containers", recapping much systems work! Docker grew so fast in those early days that we never got a chance to write an academic paper about it, so this has been a long time coming cacm.acm.org/research/a-d... w/ @justincormack.bsky.social djs55

24.02.2026 23:01 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

I saw some down the road and didnt take a picture!

22.02.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

yes! had it for lunch today!

21.02.2026 18:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Walberswick railway station - Wikipedia

Its not that easy to get to from London!, although there was a railway line from Halesworth in 1994 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walbers... that is now gone! Still would have been a bit of a long journey I would think.

21.02.2026 18:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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L`Autre Polish-Mexican Restaurant | Mayfair | England A cosy London restaurant serving traditional Polish dishes as well as Mexican favorites. It`s unique magical atmosphere with over 70 years of history offers enjoyable home made dining for family, frie...

There actually is a Polish Mexican restaurant in London, with a French name... www.lautrerestaurant.co.uk

21.02.2026 14:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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USA travel advice FCDO travel advice for USA. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

The travel advice has nothing about this kind of treatment www.gov.uk/foreign-trav...

21.02.2026 14:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...

Hard to overstate the excellence of this long-read from @shaunwalker7.bsky.social on the Western and Ukrainian intelligence run-up to Russia's full-scale invasion: the Iraq War's legacy, Zelensky v Zaluzhny, the geopolitical forces that shaped what followed. Awesome work, wonderful writing.

21.02.2026 05:21 πŸ‘ 149 πŸ” 63 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 7
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AI Won’t Automatically Make Legal Services Cheaper Applying the AI as Normal Technology framework to legal services

related in a way to this piece on second order effects of AI on lthe law www.normaltech.ai/p/ai-wont-au...

20.02.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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One of the highlights of the IndiaAI Impact Summit, this phenomenal panel hosted by OpenUK brought people who really understand open source together to dig deep into resilience and sovereignty. With Amanda Brock, @anastasiastasenko.bsky.social, Jimmy Wales, Dr Laura Gilbert, and @mishi.bsky.social

19.02.2026 14:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It's a last look around the old school before primary closes forever Islington Council said Highbury Quadrant had to shut due to a shortage of pupils

My first London primary school, Highbury Quadrant, closed last year www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/its-... - although my memories of the school dinners were not those of the people quoted in the article! The teachers were great though.

18.02.2026 10:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Large AI models are cultural and social technologies – Henry Farrell

Also ignores some of the more interesting stuff on the left that is engaging eg @himself.bsky.social et al henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod...

17.02.2026 16:28 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Japan’s largest toilet maker is undervalued AI play, says activist investor Toto should invest more in its sideline in the chip supply chain, Palliser urges

β€œToto is not the first ostensibly non-tech company in Japan that has become part of the AI boom. Ajinomoto, better known for soup stocks, uses resin derived from its expertise in umami flavourings to make insulation material between chips and motherboards.” www.ft.com/content/4252...

17.02.2026 10:35 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

as a kid that was my favourite jigsaw, was quite difficult

17.02.2026 09:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Missed the last few minutes on Thursday but enjoyed the rest!

14.02.2026 10:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
An orange suede glove with a fluffy lining, on an antique woodern hand with very long and pointy fingernails. The price is 99 (euros)

An orange suede glove with a fluffy lining, on an antique woodern hand with very long and pointy fingernails. The price is 99 (euros)

glove

08.02.2026 12:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
An espresso and a very neat lemon meringue tart on a silver tray

An espresso and a very neat lemon meringue tart on a silver tray

Morning!

07.02.2026 10:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

tawny owls are most chatty in the winter.

05.02.2026 20:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A barn owl out hunting

A barn owl out hunting

havent seen any since October

29.01.2026 16:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thinking fast, slow, and super slow How mathematicians train their intuition

Thanks to @cedricchin.bsky.social for arranging a group call with @davidbessis.bsky.social definitely going to be reading his book about how maths is really done, see davidbessis.substack.com/p/thinking-f... for a taste

29.01.2026 14:41 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

those little disks were so cute! Had one in pcmcia form

28.01.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Everywhere I see this it gets truncated to "Bytecod Alliance"...

28.01.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There were occasional vomit books in UK libraries when I was a kid. I always assumed it was a glue/binding related thing but I dont know.

27.01.2026 09:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ha yes!

26.01.2026 10:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A mountain view in Switzerland looking towards Interlaken between the two lakes.

A mountain view in Switzerland looking towards Interlaken between the two lakes.

Interlaken is a funny place! Pretty much invented Swiss tourism back in the day. Stayed near there a while back - you an see Interlaken in the distance form where we were.

25.01.2026 11:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A pebbly beach with a wave breaking over the sea. Blue sky and clouds

A pebbly beach with a wave breaking over the sea. Blue sky and clouds

on the beach

25.01.2026 10:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0