Simon Williams

Perfect Saturday afternoon read pre-match.

Not sure I have the willpower to actually get to a game. I had new tactics, roles all planned (I know) but the UI is porridge. Match engine, graphics — do that. The rest, clunky, but we could cope.

Had been looking forward, but goodness, the FM26 UI is terrible. Cluttered, and key elements bafflingly buried.
At least make the tiles customisable so we can remove the duplicated junk.

Hello NYC.
Visiting this weekend/next week.
Looking for suggestions to watch the Arsenal game in manhattan
@legrove.bsky.social
#gooners
Thanks!

The fallout from the fact that data science/classical machine learning & generative AI are both called "AI" has been remarkably broad & persistent

Policy addresses the wrong harms, companies have been confused about who should lead efforts, hiring is misguided, academic discussion is often muddled.

We're hiring a Data Scientist at @arsenalfc.bsky.social to push the state-of-the-art in applied women's football research! careers.arsenal.com/jobs/6550595...

Feel free to reach out with any questions 🙂

Precise

Superb starter for the season.

In retrospect so obvious

Get In Stina!
What a pass Beth.
Precision.

From Handmade to Thematic: 15 Years of Learning in AI-Driven Operations Author: Simon Williams, Founder at WovenLight.

Recently I’ve been asked to talk at several AGMs/Boards on building AI orientated firms. Here I’ve tried to share my lessons learnt and reflect upon how what’s important has evolved.

wovenlight.medium.com/from-handmad...

#quantumblack, #wovenlight, #loopsnotlines

Building a Precision PE Firm Author : Simon Williams, Founder at WovenLight

Observations on the necessary talent, patterns-of-play, and compounding acumen required to build high performance teams. And it’s impact on active investment.

In hindsight, not sure precision is actually the right word.

wovenlight.medium.com/building-a-p...

Human Cell Atlas project transforms understanding of human body Scientists are mapping out the 37 trillion cells of the human body and changing what we thought we knew

Human cartography, you all know how I love a good map.
I wonder if/how this changes the rules of generalisation.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good conversation also wins.

Data, sport, OODA loops, private equity, active co-sponsorship, machine learning, high performance teams, Arsenal, loops not lines.

Scaling Portfolio Value Creation — Anatomy of a Template Authors : Devin Taylor, Principal Data Scientist & Simon Williams, Founder at WovenLight

Good habits win.

Lessons from elite sports, programmable medicine and Spotify’s golden path development principles in how to drive performance improvement at scale in private equity portfolio companies.

wovenlight.medium.com/scaling-port...