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Pushing the edge of LLMs and supporting our leadership growth
September 5, 2025
Good grief, I last wrote in January. How the year can fly past when you've got a bunch of fun projects on the go and you're under the press of overload! I...
Increasing success using verified LLM prompt iteration
January 31, 2025
Here I look back at the last 14 months building my RebelAI leadership community and I'll talk on a technique I used in last year's ARC-AGI-1 (AKA ARC AGI...
Happy new year! Overload and winning a race
January 2, 2025
Well - happy new year! The last issue was back in August before I went on my charity car drive (more on that below - we won - again!). Since then overload...
Boosting LLM correctness from 12% to 54% by working on data representation (ARC AGI)
August 30, 2024
Boosting LLM correctness from 12% to 54% by working on data representation (ARC AGI) Further below are 3 jobs including: Python AI Engineer at Qualis Flow...
LLM papers for robustness & the return of the 5-LOWer charity car
August 10, 2024
Curated LLM papers, the return of the 5-LOWer charity car Further below are 6 jobs including: Python AI Engineer at Qualis Flow Ltd Data Scientist at ANNA...
Further leadership notes from PyDataLondon 2024, a new commercial scikit-learn support model
June 26, 2024
Further leadership notes from PyDataLondon 2024, a new commercial scikit-learn support model Further below are 5 jobs including: Data Scientist (FTC - 12...
Leadership advice from PyDataLondon 2024
June 20, 2024
Leadership advice from PyDataLondon 2024 Further below are 6 jobs including: Data Scientist (FTC - 12 Months) Senior Data Scientist Principal Data Scientist...
Successfully dealing with leadership politics, making `apply` in Pandas even faster
June 7, 2024
Successfully dealing with leadership politics, making apply in Pandas even faster Further below are 6 jobs including: Data Scientist (FTC - 12 Months) Senior...
What question should you be asking yourself sooner?
May 31, 2024
What question should you be asking yourself sooner? Further below are 3 jobs including: Data Engineer at Airtime Rewards, Permanent, Manchester, Analytics...
Hiring tips from RebelAI & Fast Pandas advice
May 8, 2024
Hiring tips from RebelAI & Fast Pandas advice Further below are 3 jobs including: Data Engineer at Airtime Rewards, Permanent, Manchester, Analytics Engineer...
Pandas 2 or something else? Predicting on scant data with Metaculus
February 6, 2024
Pandas 2 or something else? Predicting on scant data with Metaculus Further below are 4 jobs including: AI and Cloud Engineers at the Incubator for...
Python's new JIT, value and rogue behaviour in LLMs, on reading a research paper
January 26, 2024
Python's new JIT, value and rogue behaviour in LLMs, on reading a research paper Further below are 4 jobs including: AI and Cloud Engineers at the Incubator...
Experiment with local LLMs with llama.cpp
January 11, 2024
Experiment with local LLMs with llama.cpp Further below are 6 jobs including: AI and Cloud Engineers at the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence, UK wide,...
Leadership lessons from my RebelAI leadership community
December 21, 2023
Leadership lessons from my RebelAI leadership community Further below are 7 jobs including: AI and Cloud Engineers at the Incubator for Artificial...
Develop faster with Python 3.12, profile multi-core with VizTracer
November 9, 2023
Develop faster with Python 3.12, multi-process speed profiling, polars-business and sequencing sourdough DNA Further below are 5 jobs including: Data...
Faster development with Polars and a bit of ChatGPT, plus some leadership tips
October 30, 2023
Develop faster in Polars via better error messages and a couple of leadership resources Further below are 5 jobs including: Senior machine learning engineer...
Completing our charity car drive, LLM lies and logic for kids
September 27, 2023
Completing our charity car drive, LLM lies, teaching logic to kids, why commenting on GitHub is a Good Idea Further below are 5 jobs including: Senior Data...
Some more thoughts on Polars and Dask
August 24, 2023
Some more thoughts on Polars and Dask Further below are 7 jobs including: Software Engineer at Qualis Flow Ltd, Scientist/Engineer for Machine Learning...
Reflections on Polars and Pandas 2 & a new Salary Guide
August 4, 2023
Reflections on Polars and Pandas 2 Further below are 7 jobs including: Scientist/Engineer for Machine Learning, Senior Data Scientist at CEFAS, Data...
Lessones learned at the Executives at PyData discussion session from PyDataLondon 2023
July 13, 2023
Lessones learned at the Executives at PyData discussion session from PyDataLondon 2023 Further below are 3 job roles including Senior roles in DS and...
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