Long Form Posts – James Thompson

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Here are all my longer form posts where I dive deeper into topics, share detailed thoughts, and explore ideas more thoroughly.

AI from the government?

ideas

ai

An introduction and overview of the concept of Public AI and its implications for society.

A master of coursework

personal

I just finished the coursework part (about 2/3 of the total programme) of my Master in Artificial Intelligence, now I move into my research project (in AI alignment). I did…

A good automation story

computers

I recently got back from Europe after a couple of months of Snowboarding and competing at some Freeride World Tour Qualifier events. Fun time but crashed at almost all…

Aiming to ride another day

snowboarding

Firstly a bit of background. I spent the 2023 snow season in Wānaka (Read more about it here)so that I could train at Treble Cone and Cardrona as I am competing on the Freeri…

Give till what?

ideas

altruism

To help get through my workouts everyday I listen to a podcast. My podcast of choice has changed over time starting with Wesley Livesays great podcasts on the world wars (WW1…

My First Prototype

project

computers

I should preface this that the blog post should of been published around the end of 2023. But due to me letting it slip through the gaps it is here now, better late then…

Hugo sjtravel website

project

I just created a website for me and my partners travels as well as house sitting.

Rmd no more (atleast not while it is hindering me)

meta

I had the initial goal here of having a space to help me have a space to write some words. In writing those words I was going to gain some skills in writing words in an…

Test of building blog posts with rmd and Jekyll

meta

This blog post has been moved over from my old blog format of Jekyll. Now it is working with Quarto and so this blog post no longer works

Welcome To My Blog

news

Hello this is my first blog post.