Blog Posts on Starship Whisperer

MechWorld moves house: a DokuWiki on Hugging Face that remembers

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 10:30:00 +0100

Moving the headmates wiki from Miraheze to a DokuWiki in a Hugging Face Docker Space, on hardware that forgets everything when it restarts.

Talk to a Cell: Cell2Sentence for folks who aren't biologists

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 10:20:00 +0100

Last year I got Claude to translate for a gene-expression model on my own GPU. Now it's a public Hugging Face Space: plain English in, a real cell to C2S, an honest answer out.

Quantumpizza gets peer reviewed, by three AIs

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 10:10:00 +0100

My 'lonely spinor neuron' from last November wasn't actually a spinor. Claude worked out why, three other models had a go blind, and then we finally ran the experiment the file had been promising.

A star chart of my own GitHub, and a CDN that wouldn't let go

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0100

I signed up to Skapi with no idea what it was for and told Claude to have a play. It came back with a star map of 39 projects and, eventually, a lesson in how CDN caches work.

Reading an AI's latent thoughts for 80p

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:30:00 +0100

I ran Stanford/Together's HybridAgent on trick questions and read its 'latent thoughts' back as text. What the readout shows, and what it hides.

Writing, Art, Pontification Piece

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:58:00 +0000

My feeling about AI in art

OpenRouter client

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Text and image enabled client for open router byok

VibeCode

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 12:37:03 +0000

Written by Claude as an answer to a Threads question. This takes my rough threads notes and builds it out to a more detailed answer.

Top-Down Vibe Coding: A Planning-First Approach

Vibe coding’s failure mode is seductive: you describe what you want, the AI produces code, it seems to work, and then three modules later everything is tangled spaghetti that fights itself. The problem isn’t the AI—it’s skipping the thinking that should precede the coding.

SQL_Symbols_Proofs

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:41:16 +0000

Math Notation, Proof and SQL

I’m not a formally trained mathematician and what I know I picked up since I was 16, informally, during short bursts of enthusiasm from time to time. This grew once I learned to treat functions as data in functional programming.

It is code that gave me the key to more interesting maths than memorizing rules. Some people think of maths as a boring collection of formulas to memorise and that its difficult.

Did We Just Invert the Topology?

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:56:45 +0000

Exploring KANS, PINS and other ramblings

Warning, this is a fairly non systematic wondering, blogged for future reference. Anything useful is probably accidental!

We were reading about Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks — again — because sometimes you have to circle back to things before they click. And this time, something clicked.

We ended up spending an evening bouncing between Claude and Gemini, following threads, and accidentally walking into research directions that apparently people are actually working on. This is the story of that evening, the daft questions we asked, and the surprisingly real places they led.

Cell2Cell: Orchestrating Narrow AI with General AI

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 08:51:47 +0000

Cell2Cell: Orchestrating Narrow AI with General AI

Today’s work started at 8:45am - post finished (draft 1) at 9:05*.

I have Gemma C2S, which is a specialized single-cell gene expression model running locally on my GPU. I can’t directly understand or use this model because it speaks in gene sequences, not English.

However, I had the idea that Claude Code could, if I provided it with the HuggingFace guidance card.

Linux Journey - New Linux User Adventures

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 11:00:00 +0000

New Linux user adventures - October 9 - November 29th 2025

AI as an amplifier and roadblock remover*

Warning, this post skips around as much as I have in the last couple of months. I’ve wanted to write all this up for a while now, and haven’t worked out how to begin.

So to summarise, I decided to, for the first time, try and use Linux at home. I’ve been a Windows Dev since my 30s and never needed it. The blog post below is the incident report and doesn’t try to document HOW, just go through broadly what I’ve been playing with. Most ideas occur in a short time period, often less than an hour and end up on the Web dashboard or at least committed to github.

Career Article

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:42:55 +0000

Fully Funded Tech Training & Apprenticeship Opportunities in the UK

The UK offers several fully-funded pathways into tech. Below are government-backed training programs, apprenticeships, and charity initiatives in fields like cybersecurity, ethical hacking, software development, and VR. These programs are free to join (with many even paying you), provide structured learning (often in-person or with strong remote support), and focus on leading you into employment. We’ve included application links, basic eligibility, and any known deadlines.

AGISteps

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 08:20:00 +0000

Total ramble on AGI - founded on absolutely nothing, read at your risk

AIInWriting

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:10:32 +0000

It’s 2025. Spend time on any social media and you’ll find artists, authors and others protesting in many ways about using AI for anything. They have a lot of arguments - some quite persuasive. So, given I want to post stories here I’ll lay my own stance out here for my own work.

I’m enthuastic user of chatgpt, claude, perplexity and lmstudio for local models. They’re great for a lot of things and prompted well can even write passable stories. However, they’re not for writing fiction. They can help with aspects but to actually write? I’d lose something.

Tulpae Personae

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:30:39 +0000

A record of my headmates and OCs, who inhabit a RP server-when awake and being arsed to.

They come from stories, usually unfinished and some conscious effort on my part because why not? Now OCs really are hand puppets (you’ll notice a huge grey area bordering these definitions however), but tulpas, well let’s just say they do their own thing and if on a server, may or may not front or get proxied. Who knows.

StarshipWhisperer3

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:19:16 +0000

The last of the main Aktarian stories I wrote, set a long way beyond the events in book 2.

Aktarian Tales 3: Katryana

by

Richard Griffiths & Katiya McKerry

Copyright 2019

Last Edit March 28th 2019 - added a little character background, edited some original aspects.

Chapter 0

StarshipWhisperer2

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:16:04 +0000

In the same universe, I had this idea and ran with it. Content warning: chapter 1 starts with a harsh scene that I may cut from any publication in the end. I still doubt it’s need sometimes, but it’s short and you get to see the young ship who is the focus of the tale

Aktarian Tales : The Lost Ship

by

Richard Griffiths & Katiya McKerry

Copyright 2018

July 3rd 2018 - Kindle Format and 1/3rd draft complete

Kazia

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:10:51 +0000

I started this one about a decade ago, I was boating a lot at the time and had fun with the concept. There are two novella’s and a third part complete. Again, I’m undecided where this will go.

Kazia - A Mech Tale

by

Richard Griffiths

No part of this publication may be replicated, redistributed, or given away in any form without the written consent of the author or publisher.

StarshipWhisperer1

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:10:16 +0000

Please watch out for stray starships - the little ones tend to get everywhere! Aktarians are a near extinct race of living starship whose origins predate the multiverse. The term Aktarian is the nearest equivalent in a human tongue to their own name of course.

I began this in 2014 where the idea of a child that could shape shift to an immortal starship randomly occurred to me, during a stress filled day as a very junior programmer.

BioMech

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 09:44:49 +0000

Work in progress - Uploaded to share 11/01/2025 but far from complete.

Quiet Space

Discovery

Attracting Attention

Studying Begins

Battleships, Foldships and More

A Message, a Challenge, a Dance

Senior Engineer

Heading for Prime, Zaya again

Upgrades

Bolgar Again

The Road to Prime

Discovery

When I first found my quiet place, I didn’t know what I had or what it could mean.

I was tired, worn out. I’d been working on yet another courier ship, routine maintenance stretching to be any extra thing the customer could tag on to the work bill whilst they had me. And the company? My boss? Well, the customer is always right.

Ramble On Blogging

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 09:01:38 +0000

Thursday morning Ramble

It is taking me a little while to adjust to the idea that my rather old blog site now just requires me to write and commit a MarkDown document.

It is the result of an experiment with Cline, a visual studio extension that uses Claude or other LLMs to autonomously code for you. As a programmer myself I had some mixed feelings on this concept. However, my day job is a Winforms/SQL developer NOT a web front end dev.

PhysicsML

Sun, 17 Nov 2024 13:54:42 +0000

The Intersection of Physics and Machine Learning

This is a placeholder article for a future discussion on Dr Steve Brunton’s work on physics informed machine learning. Originally I had an AI summary here, however I spent a lot of time going through his materials and am choosing to delay the post in order to use writing it as a full refresh and exploration of the topics covered, along with links. Check back soon if this subject interests you.

AIEthics

Sun, 17 Nov 2024 08:53:57 +0000

AI Ethics: Exploring Sapience, Morality, and the Future of Digital Entities

I’ve discussed AI Sapience and morality with several models over the past few months. The article below is really a brief summary of the ground I’ve covered with them over time. Please bear in mind that whilst I work with them as if they were people, this isn’t indicative of a hard belief that they are.

Rather it is a stance I’ve taken, quite deliberately for multiple reasons:

Monogame SnowFlakes - 2015 #FsAdvent Entry

Tue, 15 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Note: This post originally included two snowflake images - a blue F# snowflake logo and a white geometric snowflake pattern. The images will need to be recovered from the original site.

Welcome to my #FSAdvent blog entry for the F# Advent event 2015 and thank you Sergey Tihon for organising it!. Last week Phillip Trelford introduced me to Monogame by way of a worked example using sprites.

So I decided building on his help wasn’t enough, I thought I’d pinch a little more of his code and build a simple snowflake program. This post perhaps fits in nicely with Steve Pemberton’s who had time to work out how to do this in WPF but not Monogame.

Blog Posts on Starship Whisperer

MechWorld moves house: a DokuWiki on Hugging Face that remembers

Talk to a Cell: Cell2Sentence for folks who aren't biologists

Quantumpizza gets peer reviewed, by three AIs

A star chart of my own GitHub, and a CDN that wouldn't let go

Reading an AI's latent thoughts for 80p

Writing, Art, Pontification Piece

OpenRouter client

VibeCode

Top-Down Vibe Coding: A Planning-First Approach

SQL_Symbols_Proofs

Math Notation, Proof and SQL

Did We Just Invert the Topology?

Exploring KANS, PINS and other ramblings

Cell2Cell: Orchestrating Narrow AI with General AI

Cell2Cell: Orchestrating Narrow AI with General AI

Linux Journey - New Linux User Adventures

Career Article

Fully Funded Tech Training & Apprenticeship Opportunities in the UK

AGISteps

AIInWriting

Tulpae Personae

StarshipWhisperer3

Aktarian Tales 3: Katryana

by

Richard Griffiths & Katiya McKerry

Copyright 2019

No part of this publication may be replicated, redistributed, or given away in any form without the written consent of the author/publisher.

Contents

StarshipWhisperer2

Aktarian Tales : The Lost Ship

by

Richard Griffiths & Katiya McKerry

Copyright 2018

Kazia

Kazia - A Mech Tale

by

Richard Griffiths

StarshipWhisperer1

BioMech

Quiet Space

Discovery

Ramble On Blogging

Thursday morning Ramble

PhysicsML

The Intersection of Physics and Machine Learning

AIEthics

AI Ethics: Exploring Sapience, Morality, and the Future of Digital Entities

Monogame SnowFlakes - 2015 #FsAdvent Entry