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The model that finally reads the brief Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.7 on 16 April. It’s a direct upgrade to 4.6 — same price, same endpoints, same SDKs. No migration drama. Except — and this… Read More »Anthropic Releases Opus 4.7
Why This Mechanics Book Still Matters (and why you should read the full review)
Having a day off by the seaside. Just off the Easter Bank Holiday and with quite a few activities recently — from directing plays to a course in counselling, new cloud platform at work and… Read More »Unexpected Inspiration
Apple Business launches 14th April across 200+ countries, replacing Apple Business Manager, Business Essentials, and Business Connect with a single unified platform. Built-in MDM, Zero-Touch deployment, business email with your own domain, app distribution, and a free entry tier.
Back in rehearsal rooms this week. 🎭 Earlier this week I went back to OSO ARTS CENTRE | The theatre on Barnes Pond for the first table read with the actors I’ll be directing in… Read More »Directing at OSO – Writers’ Studio Spring 2026
Before Mendeleev, chemists had 60 elements and no theory. Before DVMIB, multimodal ML had hundreds of loss functions and no shared language. A team of Emory physicists just changed that — deriving CLIP, Barlow Twins, and VAEs as special cases of one framework, then using it to build something better. Here’s what it means in practice.
I had the joy of directing What’s Going to Happen to Us? at the OSO Theatre’s 2025 Autumn Writers’ Studio Showcase — a beautifully intimate piece about love, uncertainty and the small moments that change everything. Working with the brilliant Nora Holmen and Alfredo Mudie Smart was a genuine privilege, and together we shaped a story that felt both fragile and fiercely human. Grateful, inspired, and already looking forward to the next chapter.
I’m delighted to share that I’ve been invited to direct Merry Graham’s short new play What’s Going to Happen to Us? for a showcase at the OSO Arts Centre in Barnes on 23 November 2025 under the theme… Read More »What’s Going to Happen to Us – Directing at OSO Theatre
I’m currently a third of the way through Andy Weir’s “Project Hail Mary” and absolutely loving it! 🚀 The way he blends humour with fascinating physics is just brilliant. Plus, I just found out there’s a movie coming! My latest blog post dives into why this book is a must-read. Check it out! 👇 #SciFi #BookRecommendation
There are few moments as satisfying in a writer’s life as the thud of a package on the doorstep—especially when that package contains the culmination of years of work, revision, and relentless debugging. I’m thrilled… Read More »The Book Has Landed – 2nd Edition in Hand!