I was browsing Qwen models on OpenRouter when Qwen3-Embedding caught my eye – embedding models are rare there, it’s mostly chat. These models reshape their embedding space based on task instructions prepended to your text. They achieved #1 on MTEB’s multilingual leaderboard in June 2025 with a score of 70.58 – a massive benchmark with … Read more
Look, I know that writing rebuttals to Register opinion pieces is low-hanging fruit. But when the claim is that AI is just “sophisticated copy and paste” that will never truly think, it’s worth picking that fruit. The author invokes John Searle’s Chinese Room argument—a thought experiment where someone follows rules to respond to Chinese messages … Read more
I am currently experimenting a lot with chatGPT and similar models. The openAI API provides methods such as “create”: Which are blocking calls, execution will only continue when the call to the API has finished. For exploring prompt engineering and other LLM parameters slows progress significantly. In my experience the openAI API sometimes fails to … Read more
Over the Easter weekend I visited the Lake District for the first time since returning to the UK. Having been used to walking in Belgium and therefore not being used doing that much ascent I chose to tackle High Street first, as the route from Pooley Bridge is not very steep. The route is gentle … Read more