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 * [Adding diagrams to my static site generator with D2](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/08/adding-d2.md) posted on 2026-08-25T23:00:00+00:00 * [Use the built-in GELU, don't roll your own!](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/08/built-in-gelu.md) posted on 2026-08-20T02:00:00+00:00 * [A quick(ish) Chinchilla check](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/08/chinchilla-check.md) posted on 2026-08-07T19:00:00+00:00 * [How I use AI on this blog](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/07/ai-use.md) posted on 2026-07-31T19:00:00+00:00 * [Why do OpenAI's GPT-2 weights beat mine? Part three: testing overtraining](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/07/why-do-openai-gpt2-weights-beat-mine-3-overtraining.md) posted on 2026-07-31T01:15:00+00:00 * [Why do OpenAI's GPT-2 weights beat mine? Part two: the bugfix](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/07/why-do-openai-gpt2-weights-beat-mine-2-the-bugfix.md) posted on 2026-07-30T19:00:00+00:00 * [Why do OpenAI's GPT-2 weights beat mine?](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/07/why-do-openai-gpt2-weights-beat-mine-1-intro.md) posted on 2026-07-29T15:30:00+00:00 * [Benchmarking Qwen 3.6 35B MoE […truncated]