Nick Thorne
nickthorne.bsky.social
Nick Thorne
@nickthorne.bsky.social
Veteran of the UK TV and mobile tech industry. Still developing.
Another great @nickshaxson article. Apart from the politics, I am not even sure the UK govt even knows how much it spends with them. I would choose alternatives eg @digitalocean just for the simple fact that you can control the spend.

www.ft.com/content/30d6...

Oddly X won’t let me even post this
February 20, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Our advent calendar management is a shambles.
Morning of 18th:
16 and 17 unopened
18 already opened

🤦
December 18, 2024 at 7:09 AM
Ah, so Google’s Willow quantum breakthrough has one slight issue in that we don’t have any way to validate it’s 10**25 year equivalent calculation results 🤔

scottaaronson.blog?p=8525
The Google Willow thing
Yesterday I arrived in Santa Clara for the Q2B (Quantum 2 Business) conference, which starts this morning, and where I’ll be speaking Thursday on “Quantum Algorithms in 2024: How Should…
scottaaronson.blog
December 11, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Adventures in Python multi threading land today
December 4, 2024 at 8:52 AM
“He’s the guy you call to make sure you don’t make a billion dollar mistake”

NotebookLLM said in the podcast I made from my CV 🤔😂

Notebookllm.google.com
Notebookllm.google.com
November 28, 2024 at 3:59 PM
“Luck is just preparation waiting for an opportunity”
- Ross Brawn

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story
The ultimate underdogs. Jenson Button and Ross Brawn tell Keanu Reeves the incredible, adrenaline-fuelled story of how, for one amazing season, Brawn GP turned F1 on its head.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2024 at 8:38 PM
This morning’s reflective writing (a first for me) brings home the difficulty of combining curiosity with focus.

There is so much fun stuff going on in tech at the moment and I want play with all of it!
November 18, 2024 at 8:42 AM