Chris Leicester
bigstilton.bsky.social
Chris Leicester
@bigstilton.bsky.social
Displaced Lancastrian. Science, software development and education career from FORTRAN to C#. European in spite of BREXIT.
Hey, I subscribed to TWS but didn’t see a link or any info on the book?
July 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Musk is sour and wishes he had a neck like Farage’s because he’s unable to emphasise his speeches like Farage’s super strong head nods.
January 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The cost would have been significantly lower per tax payer had this been managed carefully over the previous government’s period in power. It’s a matter of priorities.
December 30, 2024 at 11:39 PM
The £13.8bn needed to fix the NHS could be raised by every one of the 37.4m UK tax payers paying £1 each day for one year and 4 days. Clearly some of us may not be able to afford an extra £1 a day but many of us could afford more.
December 30, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Wait. What? You got the date wrong. Oh. You haven’t, sorry. The season too 😀.
December 29, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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Cafes jumped on the craze and started serving “uranium sundaes” and “uranium burgers”. (They did not contain actual uranium.) To understand why there was there so much excitement about uranium in the 1950s, you have to understand energy density. zionlights.substack.com/p/energy-den...
December 27, 2024 at 2:00 PM
The other “tube of gas” worth visualising would be the tube of CO2 one’s vehicle leaves behind above the road. Google Maps/Waze could depict the aggregate tube diameter in real time at all points of a highway (with assumptions about EVs of course).
December 26, 2024 at 6:14 AM
If new AIs coded with our abstractions, we can review their intents but I guess if they coded “to the machine” (with their own creatively) what tight efficient code could result and how would humans then check their intent?

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December 22, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Modern languages provide beautiful abstractions from processing hardware but they are there to help humans construct and express their intent to other humans as well as their compilers and the hardware…
December 22, 2024 at 11:40 AM
This is interesting for me because I’ve pondered how AI would have eventually taken my software development roles but in particular coding…
December 22, 2024 at 11:38 AM
I’ve revised my views about Laura K and bias towards the Conservatives. It appeared blatant to me when Boris J was PM but more recently I challenged my own bias and give her the benefit of doubt. But opening a statement with “quite frankly” is a giveaway that she’s about to speak her own opinion.
December 15, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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December 11, 2024 at 3:25 PM
My neural parser recovered within 2 blinks of my eyes.
December 11, 2024 at 6:05 PM