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simonthelwall.bsky.social
@simonthelwall.bsky.social
Equal parts amused, ashamed and proud that I know this particular line of code off the top off my head on a Sunday morning.
November 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven
and
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
November 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
You wouldn't have guessed, would you?
November 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
'teach itself' ... 'knit together the stuff of intelligence ' whatever tf that means. Absolutely not. Infuriating.
November 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
... Humans design a learning algorithm and prepare the training data. Then they leave the algorithm in the dark of a data centre for a couple of months, during which time it gradually recombines each of its billions of moving parts, knitting together the stuff of intelligence."
November 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
And then you start looking at ultra-marathoners! E.g. 268 miles from the Peak District to the border of Scotland! Completely insane.
www.thespinerace.com/race/montane...
Spine — The Spine Race
www.thespinerace.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Definitely en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student..., see under History
Student's t-test - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Those are some rather beautiful guouls
October 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Training helps, but don't look at the 10 km distance
October 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Resting before a run can improve performance, but only up to a point
October 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I've pulled the data and analyses into a quarto report here: simonthelwall.github.io/runner_repor...
The code for the report is here: github.com/simonthelwal...

Some highlights:

I've done a lot of running this year:
October 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM