James Harding is a British Airways Airbus A350 pilot. Explore his career, flight statistics, and unique 3D globe visualisations of his flying history.

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Introduction The evolution of multimodal large models is continually pushing the boundaries of what we believe technology can achieve. From the initial QwenVL to the latest Qwen2.5 VL, we have made progress in enhancing the model’s ability…

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It’s been two years since I started working as a software engineer. I sometimes tell my colleagues about a student project I did in my junior year of university, and it’s so well-received that I’m writing…

Or: The Day My Toaster Started Taking Phone Calls

How silicon valley is putting a price tag on your attention - and relationships

For overdetermined reasons, I’ve lately found the world an increasingly terrifying and depressing place. It’s gotten harder and harder to concentrate on research, or even popular scienc…

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has dismissed our fraud claim against Oracle. We disagree with this decision.

...so the malware would finally shut up and run

Donkey Kong Country 2 has a pretty well-known bug in the old SNES emulator ZSNES where some stages have spinning barrels that don’t work properly. One of the earliest pictured here, in the first stage of Krem Quay (third world):
After you jump into the barrel…

LLMs were invented in four major developments... all of which were datasets

I write type safe generic data structures in C using a technique that I haven’t seen elsewhere1. It uses unions to associate type information with a generic data structure, but we’ll get to that. My approach works for any type of data structure: maps, arrays…

Apple's anti-competitive App Store policies are gouging consumers, enabling censorship, and harming privacy-focused developers. We're joining a lawsuit to restore internet freedom.

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Context Engineering is the new skill in AI. It is about providing the right information and tools, in the right format, at the right time.

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