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Quantum 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…

9 min readApr 2, 2024

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Quantum Computing in Finance: review of a review of a…

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Simon Thompson

LEFT 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…

6 min readNov 30, 2023

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LEFT of field! New work on AI.

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Simon Thompson

Synthetic data for language models

My 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…

4 min readNov 25, 2023

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Synthetic data for language models

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Simon Thompson

UK Quantum Missions:

Mission 1 :By 2035, there will be accessible, UK-based quantum computers capable of running 1 trillion operations and supporting…

3 min readNov 23, 2023

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Simon Thompson

Against LLM understanding

There is an argument I am hearing and reading that LLM’s must have understanding in order to be so proficient at next word prediction.

1 min readNov 19, 2023

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Habilis and Sapiens make some data

The 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…

6 min readOct 12, 2023

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Habilis and Sapiens make some data

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Simon Thompson

From 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…

4 min readSep 26, 2023

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From Managing Machine Learning Projects : intro to Chapter 2.

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Simon Thompson

We’re going to use ChatGPT even though it’s dumb and dangerous.

There is a polished version of this hosted at:

12 min readSep 22, 2023

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We’re going to use ChatGPT even though it’s dumb and dangerous.

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Simon Thompson

Two great reviews for Managing Machine Learning Projects

I’m very proud of these.

1 min readJul 7, 2023

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Two great reviews for Managing Machine Learning Projects

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Simon Thompson

David Marr vs. The LLM’s

David 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…

8 min readMay 22, 2023

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David Marr vs. The LLM’s

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Simon Thompson

Simon Thompson

Head of Data Science at a Financial Services Consultancy in the UK. These are my personal views, not the views of my employer.

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