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Tom Lawton
@lawtontri.bsky.social
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Large GBR long distance triathlete. 💙 Critical Care @BTHFT, Lead Clinical AI NHS NEY, fellow @AAIP_York & Hon. Prof. MBE. Ran in a mask once. (he) @LawtonTri on most networks
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 2h
a man in a tuxedo is making a funny face and says `` oh dear , what a pity '' .
Alt: a man in a tuxedo is making a funny face and says `` oh dear , what a pity '' .
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 5h
I am in the very weird position of having this accusation levelled at me despite the fact I'm actively developing this kind of tech myself!
(I just focus on the things LLMs are *actually* good at rather than the hype, and privacy preservation!)
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 17h
I'd really giggle if they gave it to Biden for producing the peace plan he's rebadged...
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 19h
You may be disappointed to learn that this one just made it up entirely...

I tried one with a code interpreter and it did run a bit of Python (though upset me by including fractional people in the output)
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 23h
I'm surprised they've not gone for healthcare workers, given how many people have been off with it lately!
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 23h
So like this?
please generate the first 10 outputs of an SIR model with a population of 1000, starting with 0.5% infected, an R of 5, and an infectious period of 7 days SIR model outputs for population 1000, R0=5, infectious period 7 days, initial infected 0.5% | Day | Susceptible | Infected | Recovered | |-----|-------------|----------|-----------| | 0 | 995 | 5 | 0 | | 1 | 991 | 8 | 1 | | 2 | 986 | 12 | 2 | | 3 | 977 | 19 | 4 | | 4 | 964 | 30 | 6 | | 5 | 943 | 46 | 11 | | 6 | 912 | 71 | 17 | | 7 | 866 | 106 | 27 | | 8 | 800 | 157 | 42 | | 9 | 711 | 224 | 65 | --- Notes - Parameters: \(\beta = R_0 / \text{infectious period} = 5/7\), \(\gamma = 1/7\). - Interpretation: Infection grows from 5 to ~224 by day 9; susceptibles drop accordingly; recoveries rise steadily. - Day 10 (for context): Susceptible ≈ 597, Infected ≈ 306, Recovered ≈ 97.
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 1d
If they hadn't been so suspiciously cheap I might not have noticed either!
I remember at school suggesting that we should take advantage of people's unfamiliarity with sciency words by selling what I was going to call the "FemtoDrive"
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 1d
Absolute genius seller...

#YouGetWhatYouPayFor
#Numeracy
#SIPrefixes
Seller advertising micro SD cards - 512MB, 256MB, 128MB, 64MB
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 2d
Hit and run by a car when cycling in to work this morning (I'm fine, bike less so but hopefully fixable)

What a surprise...
Untaxed Tax due 25 September 2025
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 2d
Was literally about to tell this story! I imagine we're talking about the same person...
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 2d
Robert Jenrick:
Lord Sewell on #PM: Hold my Real Ale. HAVE YOU SEEN BRADFORD???
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 4d
"Two hours of exercise easier for those with less pain" makes for less of a headline though...
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 5d
Clearly catering for a... specific... section of the market.
Hotel booking - 3 adults, but only one bed
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 5d
I'm going to have to bookmark this as a tutorial!
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 5d
Certainly upset my kids (after they wondered what the grownups were sniggering at!)
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 5d
Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink looked to be *really* enjoying his dance...

#Strictly
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 5d
Instead of screening, we should use an AI to determine the people most at risk and send them for invasive biopsies...

(so much /s, but also this kind of thing is really happening)
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 6d
#StormAmy still making it rain conkers this morning
Purple heroes tub full of conkers
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 6d
I have a 0.6B on my phone, which isn't great but is coherent - and my "workhorse" is a 14B which outperforms models an order of magnitude larger from not that long ago.
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 6d
Honestly I'm campaigning for this in the UK too! It feels like the big private models (some of which may have over a trillion parameters) are pretty asymptotic in improvement, but the small ones are where the real improvement is still going on.
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 6d
@rajlb.bsky.social want to join too?
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 6d
I do a fair bit with large language models, and one of my beliefs is that often you can get away with "just enough" and use a fairly small (and open-weight) one which can run on some pretty basic hardware with much lower power use.
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 6d
Definitely!
I worked on a fairly remote Fijian island for a bit (spent more time building composting toilets and repairing engines than actual medicine). But we had one laptop, where I'd had to bodge the power supply to run off solar power. Would be fascinating to explore frugal AI!
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 6d
The ones in the middle of the road don't look like they'll do very well
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 6d
Have you tried the "for you" feed? It's based on what your friends have liked:

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Doesn't seem to have as much throughput as some feeds, but it's quite good.
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