Giles' blog

# 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 * [Writing an LLM from scratch, part 32j -- Interventions: trying to train a better model in the cloud](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/04/llm-from-scratch-32j-interventions-trying-to-train-a-better-model-in-the-cloud.md) posted on 2026-04-09T20:00:00+00:00 * [Writing an LLM from scratch, part 32i -- Interventions: what is in the noise?](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/04/llm-from-scratch-32i-interventions-what-is-in-the-noise.md) posted on 2026-04-07T21:00:00+00:00 * [Writing an LLM from scratch, part 32h -- Interventions: full fat float32](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/04/llm-from-scratch-32h-interventions-full-fat-float32.md) posted on 2026-04-03T23:50:00+00:00 * [Automating starting Lambda Labs instances](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/04/automating-starting-lambda-instances.md) posted on 2026-04-02T23:30:00+00:00 * [Writing an LLM from scratch, part 32g -- Interventions: weight tying](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/03/llm-from-scratch-32g-interventions-weight-tying.md) posted on 2026-03-24T19:50:00+00:00 * [Writing an LLM from scratch, part 32f -- Interventions: weight decay](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/03/llm-from-scratch-32f-interventions-weight-decay.md) posted on 2026-03-23T23:55:00+00:00 * [Writing an LLM from scratch, part 32e -- Interventions: the learning rate](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/03/llm-from-scratch-32e-interventions-learning-rate.md) posted on 2026-03-10T23:55:00+00:00 * [Writing an LLM from scratch, part 32d -- Interventions: adding attention bias](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/02/llm-from-scratch-32d-interventions-adding-attention-bias.md) posted