Introduction On Thursday (July 4th, 2024) the UK held a general election. There are many, many blog posts, newspaper articles, podcast episodes etc covering the politics of it, and the lessons that the various political parties may need to learn. I, on th[...]

Introduction I don’t know much about my blog readership, so let’s start off with two facts that you may not be aware of: I live in the UK. The UK has a general election on July 4th 2024. I’m politically engaged, and this is a particularly interesting elec[...]

Each year the F# Software Foundation holds elections for its Board of Trustees. The role of the Board is to oversee the vision and mission of the F# Software Foundation, to set the goals, and to appoint officers to run the daily operations as appropriat[...]

Back in June, I was in Paris for the NewCrafts conference to talk about the growing opacity of software systems. This was fun, partly because NewCrafts is a fantastic conference (you can already get your tickets for 2024!) and also partly because my talk [...]

Nearly three years ago, I posted about some fun I’d been having with VISCA using C#. As a reminder, VISCA is a camera control protocol, originally used over dedicated serial ports, but more recently over IP. Until this week, all the cameras I’d worked wit[...]

Christmas is approaching again 🎅🏻. It’s almost unbelievable that we’re celebrating the 10th annual F# Advent in English! Our journey began back in 2014, and since then, every year has seen us come together during the Advent season to share our F# storie[...]

This concludes the two-part blog entry on turning HuggingFace into a deep learning playground (and we have not even talked about all the LMs they host!). Mostly it will be about Spaces, but we are starting with models. Models We train tons of models as we[...]

I have recently posted a video briefly explaining how we use GNNs (Graph Neural Nets) at Fetch to identify duplicate receipts. I have mentioned HuggingFace in passing there, but in fact I use it quite heavily to make my machine learning life simpler. The [...]

Architecture and urban planning have been a useful source of ideas for thinking about programming. I have written various blog posts and a paper Programming as Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning that argue why and explore some of those ideas. Like u[...]

No training implementation is complete until it allows training on a cluster where each machine has multiple GPUs. Multi-node/Multi-GPU Training with PyTorch Lightning SageMaker does a great job enabling this in Script Mode, and all we have to do is write[...]