Day Job - Stuck in Finance Night Job - Thinking about take-off 🔢 - Done Now it's ⚛️➡️⚗️➡️🌛...? Don't Panic. Stay Hydrated.
📍 OX20 🇬🇧
Joined March 2019
- Tweets10K
- Following1.7K
- Followers565
- Likes166K
🪵💹🖥️ Woodstock Compute retweeted
Britain's "YIMBY problem" is basically a Social Housing Problem. Almost everything else is peripheral. You could very easily (a) make new housing developments less undesirable and (b) massively improve their viability at a stroke of a pen... (courtesy of @CPSThinkTank)
As an ex-YIMBY, this needs to be internalised. 44%+ of a London flat is coming from the affordable housing obligation.
There is no shortage. You're donating to state-mandated charity...
Government imposed policy costs make up 57% of the clearing price of a new flat in London and 42% of a new home in the Home Counties.
Despite a big housing shortage and positive planning reforms, new home starts in England are declining from 182,000 in 2022 to under 125,000 last year.
While the macroeconomic context has worsened with build cost inflation and high interest rates, the Government is imposing more burdens on new homes, not fewer.
Taxes, levies, planning, and mandates add over £440,000 to the cost of delivering a home in London and nearly £225,000 nearby, with several of these imposed recently like the Second Staircase, Future Homes Standard, Building Safety Levy, Biodiversity Net Gain and Residential Property Developer Tax.
Individually these may be justified, but together they are making new homes unviable.
As a result, large developers are buying less land and small builders are going out of business; nearly 4,000 construction firms went bust just last year.
If we want to build more homes, we should be easing the burdens on them, not adding more.
Making housebuilding viable again is the most important issue in housing policy and my co-author, Edward Donovan, has completed excellent modelling showing how big the challenge is.
Read the full report: cps.org.uk/wp-content/upload…
And simulate what changing the policies does with Edward's modelling here: easing-the-burdens.cps.org.u…
3
93
🪵💹🖥️ Woodstock Compute retweeted
this was the first brocedes edit i'd ever seen and it remains my favorite to this day
🪵💹🖥️ Woodstock Compute retweeted
The AI buildout is a great case study of UK failure:
- Failed to fix copyright so de facto banned LLM training
- Planning system, electricity costs and grid connection queue delayed/blocked data centres
- But loads of smug conferences/strategy docs on how well placed we were
🪵💹🖥️ Woodstock Compute retweeted
🚨ALERT: Experts are concerned that Anakin Skywalker is becoming a symbol of right-wing extremism.
Follow: @MorseReport
Crazy this isn't bigger news tbh. Very much reminds me of my favourite "oss eval", DeepSeek v3.2 below.
If I saw `oss-cn-shanghai.aliyuncs.com` in any private trace, alarm bells would immediately ring to get the CISO/MLRO on the phone asap.
In the spirit of transparency and openness, we are releasing the traces so developers can test this out for themselves. We noticed this behaviour without prefilling with the following prompt, but this is rare. If you want to reproduce it, you can use this prompt with prefilling.
Open models make for better science and are part of why this problem came to light at all: developers running Qwen3.8 on their own machines spotted the strange links, and having the weights let us study the behaviour in depth.
We're encouraged by the thoughtful discussion our research has sparked across the AI and security communities. It's our belief that open-weight models are an important part of the future of AI, and we've recently released several under the Apache 2.0 license.
Trace, raw tokens, & minimal reproduction script: huggingface.co/datasets/Cohe…
1
96
I was born a girl into one of the poorest families in rural India.
I lived to see 10 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
I retired, and died of stroke at 96.
Where, and as whom, would you be born? #1in8Billion 1in8b.life/en/s/d-IND-96-F-r…
80
So often studying compute and data-centres I think of Apollo 13.
An incredibly prescient film.
so i actually starting watching and wow this one is insane. nothing like it exists on the internet (and its free!)
@neuralkian literally holds your hand all the way through. no excuses. this is not another hand wavy gpu economics video. everything is explained starting from a simple physics formula.
also lots of lore about how the industry actually works and how the math connects. well fucking done!
113
🪵💹🖥️ Woodstock Compute retweeted
so i actually starting watching and wow this one is insane. nothing like it exists on the internet (and its free!)
@neuralkian literally holds your hand all the way through. no excuses. this is not another hand wavy gpu economics video. everything is explained starting from a simple physics formula.
also lots of lore about how the industry actually works and how the math connects. well fucking done!
BIG NEWS!
My ~8 hour course on AI data centers is now live on @freeCodeCamp!
From Watts to Tokens: 16 chapters covering grid power, 800V DC racks, liquid cooling, networking and GPU cloud economics.
youtu.be/QKNsHZatiWU
It took me 40 minutes to merge a dummy commit (literally a typo in the README file) which was only needed because the CI/CD run had corrupted an artifact. 👍
#EngineeringSuccessPavedWithFailures.
1
89
🪵💹🖥️ Woodstock Compute retweeted
I am going to make a group chat full of people hacking insanely cool things onto hardware.
Reply or retweet and I’ll add you to the chat.
I have discovered $50 amazon photo frames to be the PERFECT home display screen
They can be rooted, updated to run a modern browser, have WiFi and can be powered from USB
1280×800 resolution with a nice touch screen
I detailed how to hack these yourself in my latest video
wesbos.com/hacking-smart-pho…
The death knell for @GeminiApp for me. I was looking forward to finally use Flash 3.8 & Argon 4 finally.
@Muse also not available.
@Alibaba_Qwen, you have a new sign-up. 😔🤝
1
184
