Technologist, Sinophile, Armchair Economist & Global Traveller.
Nairobi, Kenya
Joined April 2008
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Jonathan Dalrymple retweeted
Basically if you're vibecoding at a coffee shop and I'm also there with deepseek api running I can plant a backdoor and take all your company IP, spread to others over your tailscale, drain you APIs and subscription quotas, take all your docs& auth seshions without you noticing.
Jonathan Dalrymple retweeted
if you're on a mac and want computer use without the agent touching your personal stuff, here's how i do it
run agent-desktop inside a macOS VM. Apple's Virtualization framework boots a full guest in a window, and the agent only sees what's inside it.
you keep working on your mac and your agents runs inside the VM
Jonathan Dalrymple retweeted
They said African languages were too fragmented, too complex and too commercially insignificant to build advanced AI for.
We disagreed. So we built it.
64 languages. 166 voices. 3 billion parameters. ONE model.
Today, we are unveiling STORM-Ensemble 3.0, the most capable multilingual speech synthesis model we have built at PlotWeaver.
From Yorùbá, Igbo, Hausa and Nigerian Pidgin to Swahili, Amharic, Wolof, Zulu, Xhosa and dozens more, STORM-Ensemble 3.0 generates speech across 64 languages, with 166 distinct speaker voices.
Every voice you hear is generated by our model, not a prerecorded sample.
But the real breakthrough isn't the numbers.
It's what becomes possible when this technology is in the hands of people who can build with it.
-African filmmakers distributing stories across languages.
-Banks and telcos serving customers in their mother tongues.
-Education platforms reaching more children.
-Developers building voice AI products without starting from scratch.
We are not building AI for African languages simply to prove it can be done. We are building the infrastructure to make our languages commercially viable at global scale.
Next week, I will be speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Antigua about unlocking the Commonwealth's creative potential. This launch is a practical demonstration of that ambition.
Africa must not simply consume the future of AI. We must build, own and shape the infrastructure that powers it.
Watch the video. Listen to the voices. Imagine what's possible.
Introducing STORM-Ensemble 3.0.
PlotWeaver. Build Once. Speak Every Language.
#PlotWeaver #STORMEnsemble #VoiceAI #AfricanLanguages
Jonathan Dalrymple retweeted
Last I checked it was 10k per tonne.
-Saloons are between 1.3-1.5 tonnes
-Foresters & CX-5's = 2t
-L Cruisers & Full body SUV's = 3t
Jonathan Dalrymple retweeted
Your vehicle can travel by rail too. Whether it's one vehicle or a fleet our service is ideal for your need.
Kenya Railways Freight Service offers a fast, safe and reliable vehicle haulage services.
Jonathan Dalrymple retweeted
Los mejores estadios de Colombia // el peor estadio de Kenia:
Jonathan Dalrymple retweeted
Hey friends.
With so many headlines about exploits and hacking attacks, I created a guide to help keep you safer. I think the next year+ is going to be a wild ride. So batten down the hatches and stay secure as best that you can.
Jonathan Dalrymple retweeted
Kenya sporting calendar 2027 is best ever. Rugby Division 2 sevens most likely at RAO stadium Talanta, Safari Rally, AFCON, Kenya Golf Open, Kipchoge Classic series, Safari 7's, Kenya 7's circuit countrywide and I still feel there are others I can't remember.
Jonathan Dalrymple retweeted
Today is my final day at @monzo after 8 years and change 👋
It's been the biggest privilege and honour to be part of such a wonderful group of people and building really amazing technology. I've learnt so much from everyone
Two weeks of rest and then onto something different
Jonathan Dalrymple retweeted
Amazing.
These researchers found that there's a spike in Bitcoin activity around the time foreign aid money goes out.
Somewhere between 2 and 6 cents of every dollar of World Bank foreign aid disbursements got siphoned off into crypto wallets:
Jonathan Dalrymple retweeted
When I stilled worked on biosecurity, I first learned about Debug, a Google project to reduce mosquito populations.
Results from their Singapore pilot are now out.
They crushed mosquito populations, reducing dengue infections by 70% in the process:
There is no good reason for mosquitoes to exist in wealthy countries today.
New technologies can get rid of the mosquito species that cause diseases like dengue, yellow fever, and malaria; and others can prevent them from carrying those diseases.
worksinprogress.co/issue/mos…
So why do mosquitoes still exist?
In a new article for Works in Progress, Maya Rosen explains how state incapacity and risk aversion led to over a decade of delays and billions of unnecessary bites in the United States.
Oxitec, for example, engineered an Aedes aegypti mosquito in such a way that its female offspring would die before adulthood. Through sustained releases, they showed they could reduce local mosquito populations by 80% or more, in field trials.
They sought approval from the USDA in 2010, which then passed it to the FDA, which passed it to the EPA. In 2020, the EPA allowed them to conduct limited field trials in the Florida Keys. Two years ago, their experimental permit expired, and they still need another review before it can be used routinely. Their proposed field trial in California was withdrawn after public opposition.
Another company, MosquitoMate, developed a technique involving Wolbachia, which also suppresses local mosquitoes. They then spent over fifteen years working through the system before finally receiving commercial registration nationwide in 2024.
It seems that, sometimes, the barrier to getting rid of diseases isn’t technology at all. It’s policy and political will.
New products shouldn’t get stuck in regulatory review for so long, especially if the delays are about basic questions like which agency has oversight over the product, rather than testing for safety.
Though some of those uncertainties were being addressed, the broader changes haven’t materialized. After Biden’s 2022 executive order, the agencies planned to update how their coordinated framework was implemented. But Trump rescinded the order last year.
Meanwhile, the EPA unit that reviews new mosquito control products is still a small office backlogged in reviewing a wide range of products.
Mosquitoes are a policy choice. We can get rid of them. Will we choose to?
worksinprogress.co/issue/mos…
Jonathan Dalrymple retweeted
Met a friend recently who, before having kids, was genuinely ambivalent about whether he wanted them.
Six months after his first was born, he’s ecstatic. He told me he had no idea it was possible to love someone this deeply.
Having kids is hard. It changes your life completely. But if you’re on the fence because you’re afraid you might regret it: you may be underestimating just how much love is waiting on the other side.
Jonathan Dalrymple retweeted
I put “do not overengineer” in my AGENTS.md.
it created a lightweight extensible overengineering prevention framework
Jonathan Dalrymple retweeted
My son just turned 4. He now believes he is a grown up as to him 4 is old. As such, he has decided he can no longer suck his thumb, grown ups don't suck their thumbs.
I was getting him ready for bed and he said to me "Papa, do you sometimes think about sucking your thumb?"
Poor little guy is having a hard time quitting.
Jonathan Dalrymple retweeted
These SFO airport signs are such a lie. I looked carefully and there was only 737 and A320.
Jonathan Dalrymple retweeted
high stakes cleaning by @taurobots at the @envoy office today
Jonathan Dalrymple retweeted
"Low-background steel" is any steel produced before the first nuclear bomb detonations in the mid-1940s. Steel made after that, nuclear contamination interferes with extremely sensitive radiation-detection equipment.
Internet archives from 2022 are low background steel.
