
Software engineer at @baseten
New York, NY
Joined June 2008
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I was a guest on the @software_daily podcast! 🎙 Come and tune in for some behind-the-scenes stories about how we build the software that powers @monzo bank 🙂 xitter.cf/software_daily/status/…
Build a Bank: @Monzo with Richard Dingwall @dingwallr #FinTech #BankingSoftware #Kubernetes softwareengineeringdaily.com…
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We trained the #1 decision models in the world, mammoth-1 and elephant-1!
This is our first Base Labs model release and we're excited to open-source all weights and training details. We really focused on scaling high-quality data in these training runs – not only synthetically generating new decision data but stacking how we validated our data. This follows something called our 'swiss cheese' approach to looping over and improving training data.
There are also a bunch more low hanging fruit when it comes to training these models, and we expect that we'll improve quickly over the coming weeks.
Today we release mammoth-1 and elephant-1!
We post-trained mammoth-1, the #1 ranked best decision model in the world, and elephant-1, which is the best model under 15B (and beats Jev).
We're open-sourcing all model weights and provide a technical report detailing all our training and data methods.
Insane. There are literally 7 other JFK terminals and 2 other NY airports they could've used
Here it comes. The 16 hour flight from 🛫 Auckland, to... 🛬 Auckland 😨😨
The flight made a U-turn because of the closure of Terminal 1 at JFK.
flightradar24.com/ANZ2/2f374…
#NZ2
eSIMs are so cool. Just scan a QR code to add a second carrier to your phone. No more need to buy a physical SIM card when traveling in another country
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Monzo peeps last night enjoying a walk around NY. So great to see everyone! This is just a few of us 😀
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Important new tax case confirming that marshmallows of unusual size are 0% VAT; standard size marshmallows continue to be 20% VAT
As ever, any sufficiently detailed VAT rule is indistinguishable from satire.
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Is there a good example of a bank successfully running an immigration program?
Can you imagine that risk committee?? The reputational risk alone "Barclays denied my immigration" headlines
I can't see how the exceptional talent Visa survives...
Trying to get to inbox zero except it's the perishable food items in your fridge before you go on holiday
Me: on foot trying to figure out if the restaurant is here or in the next street over
Google maps: zooms out to show all the restaurant's locations in the tri-state area
The Cirrus Banking Network, ACM Aug 1985 🤓
cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archi…
The entire central switch was 9k LoC running on a single Tandem Nonstop machine
50k reqs/month, 4k reqs/day peak. Switch was designed for up to 16 rps
Max latency 45 secs (!)
A few years ago I let the hosting and domain expire for my old personal blog richarddingwall.name. Surprisingly it's back online. Turns out a scammer bought the domain and published a new WP site with their own nefarious content injected into a handful of my original posts
shoutout to @scozzard for spotting the spam links/content injected into my old posts
A terrifying fact I recently learnt:
There are *20 million* AR-15 guns in circulation in the USA
abcnews.go.com/US/inside-ris…
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