Alan Woodward
profw.bsky.social
Alan Woodward
@profw.bsky.social
Computer Scientist with particular interest in cyber security & quantum technology.
It’s all about how you ask the question - promising developments in having LLMs act like real experts. Break problems down and challenge answers arxiv.org/pdf/2512.24601
arxiv.org
January 16, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Troubling developments - personal freedoms are so valuable please pay attention to the efforts to erode them.
Happy for the police to hang on to your phone, laptop and cloud data indefinitely without even a requirement of reasonable suspicion? Such laws and proposals look dry on the page but erode personal freedom. Cracking debate this afternoon in the House of Lords: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
Parliamentlive.tv
House of Lords
parliamentlive.tv
January 15, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Is it better to have many smaller data centres or fewer large ones - interesting balancing act as described by @zsk.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Honey, I shrunk the data centres: Is small the new big?
Huge data centres are being built to handle AI computing but some experts say they aren't necessary.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 15, 2026 at 3:12 PM