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

Our advent calendar management is a shambles.
Morning of 18th:
16 and 17 unopened
18 already opened

🤦

Hope you reported the account

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…

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

And MS C 6.0 only allowed the files themselves to be 64k lines long too. As I discovered writing a script to write code…

Adventures in Python multi threading land today

“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

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.

“Luck is just preparation waiting for an opportunity”
- Ross Brawn

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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!