Sadiq Jaffer

At ICFP in Singapore last year I had lunch with Stephen Dolan and we got talking about hardware performance counters.

Solar farms are expanding rapidly across the UK, but keeping track of where they are, and when they appeared, isn't straightforward.

I gave the talk "Three Steps for OCaml to Crest the AI Humps" at the 2025 OCaml Workshop at ICFP/SPLASH.

Over the summer Gabriel Mahler has been conducting research on hedgehog habitat mapping using Agent Based Models (ABMs) and remote sensing.

I stumbled onto terminal-bench a few weeks ago while researching datasets to evaluate agents.

Thanks to sponsorship from Tarides I've been able to spend some time over the last few months hacking on various OCaml-related projects.

gemini-cli was released a few days ago with a very ample free tier that gives access to Gemini 2.5 Pro, a model with a million token context window.

TL;DR Qwen3's self-hostable sized models are very strong and would score top-marks on Cambridge's first year Computer Science OCaml exercises.

If you have tried to use locally-hostable language models to develop OCaml code, then you will have noticed their performance significantly lags in more niche languages compared to Python or Javascript.

We're evaluating Deepseek R1 and its distills for our project on identifying and extracting evidence from literature.

I've had a few interesting conversations around text indexing recently with friends and something that's fallen out is that there are some really cool data structures you build that are extensions of Bloom filters.

I was looking for some small Christmas stocking-fillers to give to techie friends and decided to try to find some interesting electronics boards from China.