Head of Applied AI at Dext. Building menuphotoai.com | Quantum physics PhD from Oxford | Former Italian blindfolded Rubik’s cube record holder

London, England
Dentist did a 3D X-ray of my jaw before a root canal and said I wouldn't be able to open the raw data, it needs specialized software. It's 800 DICOM files. Asked Claude Code to make me a viewer. Two prompts later... this is nicer than what he showed me on his screen.
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The line between filmed and rendered is getting blurry. This mosaic doesn't exist. It's 127,445 tiles, each its own 3D object, placed one by one in code by Claude Code with Opus 5.5. Starts inside her eye, ends on the pearl!
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Great one shot explainer of quantum teleportation with Claude!
We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks: Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation. LLMs well-versed in this language and it comes with heavy constraints on clean writing style that I often find a lot more readable. Sometimes I've tried to soften it a bit e.g. ask for "80% of the way to ASD-STE100" because the spec is quite stringent. But even better: Diagrams / images. Instead of writing, ask your LLM to create a diagram. These can be a lot easier to process, parse, and understand. But even better: Web pages. Ask for output "in HTML" to get a beautiful, interactive webpage. LLMs are getting really good at frontend and can create beautiful experiences, animations, etc. But even better: Explainer videos. The output format I am most bullish on is fully custom / bespoke explainer videos generated on any arbitrary topic. Experiment with things like "Create a 3b1b style video explainer on X. Use my ElevenLabs API key for audio narration". (you'd need an API key for the latter or you can ask your LLM to find you decent free alternatives that use your local compute). This is actually starting to work! In summary: - As LLMs get better, they will do more and more of the legwork autonomously, and a lot more of our work will rise up the abstractions into oversight and understanding. - Luckily, LLMs can help here too because as intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before. Push the boundaries here and you'll be surprised.
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Saw Opus 5.5 build a LEGO Microduck and wondered what the 2,000 year old version would look like. Asked Claude Code for a Roman mosaic instead. It's 7,878 tiles, every one a real 3D stone, laid row by row the way a mosaicist would... no image model, no video model, just code running in my browser. Zoom in on the eye!
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Got Claude to lay a Roman mosaic piece by piece, and it looks real! It starts with the eye, 9 tiles for the pupil and a ring of gold, then 7,446 tiles later there's a whole duck. All code in the browser, no image or video model.
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Just got Claude Opus 5.5 to read two intercepted cipher letters that sat unread for 433 years! Paris, 22 July 1593. A Catholic League insider writes to Rome about the Protestant king: "and on Sunday he is to go to Mass". Three days later Henri IV did exactly that 🧵
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The other letter: "I hold that we shall have the truce within a few days", and the Pope's own legate worked "to hasten the dismemberment of our state". The truce came nine days later.
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Setup: Opus 5.5 in Claude Code running its own subagents, plus a DGX Spark for the training. One day, start to finish. Full text, method and the search for earlier readings coming in a write-up.
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Update to this benchmark: I reran @ashxhart’s TensorFold 0.6.0 on the same DGX Spark, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next NVFP4 weights and MTP-6. Versus 0.3.6.3: +5.1% decode and 26% lower cold TTFT across 10 contexts. At 260k (one run): 430s → 208s cold; cached resend 0.52s. Chart ↓
Tested @ashxhart's TensorFold v0.3.6.3 on one DGX Spark with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (NVFP4, MTP-6). Fixed 2,048-token code task: 74.8 tok/s single-stream decode, 313 tok/s across 8 streams. Context sweep: 56–65 tok/s through 132k input; 50.8 at 260k (one run). Cold TTFT at 260k: 430s.
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Tested @ashxhart's TensorFold v0.3.6.3 on one DGX Spark with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (NVFP4, MTP-6). Fixed 2,048-token code task: 74.8 tok/s single-stream decode, 313 tok/s across 8 streams. Context sweep: 56–65 tok/s through 132k input; 50.8 at 260k (one run). Cold TTFT at 260k: 430s.
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I always thought "Computer, enhance!" was TV nonsense. Then a recent Reacher episode did it with AI, so i asked Claude to build it for real: it drove my Sony, shot ~200 blurry photos, and trained a model on my MacBook in 40 min. Enhance is real now 🤯
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Gave Claude some more time to think and it came up with this!
Gave Claude Code access to my camera, pointed it out the window at Old Street and went to bed. Only instruction: take pictures all night and be as creative as possible. This is what it made!
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Made the quantum version of this with Opus 5.5! It's an actual quantum computer simulator: the full 2ⁿ state vector, up to 16 qubits (65,536 complex amplitudes), and programs only touch it through H, T, CNOT gates and measurement. A separate 16-bit control CPU drives the qubits, with an assembler, its own OS and quantum apps like Grover search!
I asked Opus 5.5 to build a working computer from scratch. And holy fuck did it deliver. 277k logic gates in JS, an OS on top, and games on the OS. This isn't a mockup... it's a computer. Run it: somethingbig.ai/computer
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Try it in your browser: qx16.vercel.app It's a simulator, not real qubits: every measurement is drawn with the exact Born-rule probability. The video runs 12 qubits, you can pick up to 16. Zoom from the lab down to the amplitudes, or break a gate in the Fault Lab and watch the self-test fail! (The video is recorded frame by frame on the machine's nominal 1 MHz clock, with captions and one zoom added.)
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Gave Claude Code access to my camera, pointed it out the window at Old Street and went to bed. Only instruction: take pictures all night and be as creative as possible. This is what it made!
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