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Giles' Blog
Giles' Blog is the personal technical blog for Giles Thomas, a software engineer
For agents: Personal technical blog of software engineer Giles Thomas, with posts on Python, AI/ML experiments, OpenCL and other programming topics.
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- 2026-10-19T10:43:02.971Z
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# Giles' Blog
> Giles' Blog is the personal technical blog for Giles Thomas, a software engineer
> and entrepreneur. Current information about Giles Thomas can be found on the
> [about page](https://www.gilesthomas.com/about.md).
This page lists the 20 most recent posts, and then all categorised posts by their
category (many posts have multiple categories).
## Recent posts
* [Fun with low-rank vocab matrices (and a bonus test loss reduction?)](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/10/low-rank-vocab-matrices.md) posted on 2026-10-09T16:00:00+00:00
* [Why do OpenAI's GPT-2 weights beat mine? Part five: data quality](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/10/why-do-openai-gpt2-weights-beat-mine-5-data-quality.md) posted on 2026-10-01T17:30:00+00:00
* [Extending Raschka's GPT-2: an MoE trained from scratch on an RTX 3090](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/09/gpt-2-to-moe.md) posted on 2026-09-10T18:45:00+00:00
* [Putting my JAX-trained models on the Hugging Face Hub](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/09/jax-models-on-hugging-face.md) posted on 2026-09-03T18:00:00+00:00
* [Why do OpenAI's GPT-2 weights beat mine? Part four: digging into dropout](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/08/why-do-openai-gpt2-weights-beat-mine-4-ift-dropout.md) posted on 2026-08-27T19:00:00+00:00
* [Adding diagrams to my static site generator with D2](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/08/adding-d2.md) posted on 2026-08-25T23:00:00+00:00
* [Use the built-in GELU, don't roll your own!](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/08/built-in-gelu.md) posted on 2026-08-20T02:00:00+00:00
* [A quick(ish) Chinchilla check](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/08/chinchilla-check.md) posted on 2026-08-07T19:00:00+00:00
* [How I use AI on this blog](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/07/ai-use.md) posted on 2026-07-31T19:00:00+00:00
* [Why do OpenAI's GPT-2 weights beat mine? Part three: testing overtraining](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/07/why-do-openai-gpt2-weights-beat-mine-3-overtraining.md) posted on 2026-07-31T01:15:00+00:00
* [Why do OpenAI's GPT-2 weights beat mine? Part two: the bugfix](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/07/why-do-openai-gpt2-weights-beat-mine-2-the-bugfix.md) posted on 2026-07-30T19:00:00+00:00
* [Why do OpenAI's GPT-2 weights beat mine?](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/07/why-do-openai-gpt2-weights-beat-mine-1-intro.md) posted on 2026-07-29T15:30:00+00:00
* [Benchmarking Qwen 3.6 35B MoE (3B active) on an RTX 3090](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/07/benchmarking-qwen-3-6-35b-moe-rtx-3090.md) posted on 2026-07-24T23:30:00+00:00
* [Building intuition about LLM parameter counts](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/07/llm-parameter-counts.md) posted on 2026-07-10T21:30:00+00:00
* [poppy the training box, part 1: the beginnings](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/07/poppy-the-training-box-1-the-beginnings.md) posted on 2026-07-09T01:00:00+00:00
* [Writing an LLM from scratch, part 34b -- from bigrams to GPT-2, one component at a time (in JAX)](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/07/llm-fro
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