Simon ThompsonQuantum Computing in Finance: review of a review of a…Herman et-al have (late 2023) produced an excellent review of the state and prospects of Quantum Computing in Finance. I am going to cherry…Apr 2Apr 2
Simon ThompsonLEFT of field! New work on AI.Not my work sadly! This blog is a really short review of two good papers I found this week. First a venting preamble…Nov 30, 20231Nov 30, 20231
Simon ThompsonSynthetic data for language modelsMy old team at BT Labs has now managed to get permission for the publication of a paper about one of the projects that we were working on…Nov 25, 2023Nov 25, 2023
Simon ThompsonUK Quantum Missions:Mission 1 :By 2035, there will be accessible, UK-based quantum computers capable of running 1 trillion operations and supporting…Nov 23, 2023Nov 23, 2023
Simon ThompsonAgainst LLM understandingThere is an argument I am hearing and reading that LLM’s must have understanding in order to be so proficient at next word prediction.Nov 19, 2023Nov 19, 2023
Simon ThompsonHabilis and Sapiens make some dataThe main text of this blog is the motivating note that I wrote to formulate some ideas that I shared with my colleagues at BT. This…Oct 12, 2023Oct 12, 2023
Simon ThompsonFrom Managing Machine Learning Projects : intro to Chapter 2.Managing Machine Learning Projects (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Managing-Machine-Learning-Projects-Deployment/dp/163343902X/) was released to…Sep 26, 2023Sep 26, 2023
Simon ThompsonWe’re going to use ChatGPT even though it’s dumb and dangerous.There is a polished version of this hosted at:Sep 22, 2023Sep 22, 2023
Simon ThompsonTwo great reviews for Managing Machine Learning ProjectsI’m very proud of these.Jul 7, 2023Jul 7, 2023
Simon ThompsonDavid Marr vs. The LLM’sDavid Marr died young (35) and died a long time ago (1980). Even so, in the years after his death he had a massive influence on AI. Marr…May 22, 2023May 22, 2023