Product & Engineering. AI. Local LLMs. Open Source. Ultrarunning. ⏩
West Cork, Ireland
Joined February 2007
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My Obsidian voice transcription plugin project is already out of control.
Some idiot (me) keeps giving Claude new requirements and it keeps knocking it out of the park.
Despite a 2GB Nvidia model download on first run, I might bundle it up as a Community plugin, it's that good.
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Hi, this is gamechanger!
ZX Spectrum NEXT handheld
Tang Nano 20k and nothing more just switches!
Check details
Hdmi, LCD, Optional foil keyboard, USB, battery
hackaday.io/project/206924-h…
🧺In store soon:
tindie.com/products/18169/
🎥Video:
youtu.be/TvAjl4ulKI4
github.com/RetroSilicon/MSXn…
Oh oh, we're in frubble.
Conor finally enters the world of UTMB.
Suppose I'd better start training properly. He says every year.
Ok the bears are right. It's a bubble.
I just got access to Instinct.
This nonsense is worth $10Bn?
I have some Flooz to sell you.
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Shoving a Gemini button into the car is the Copilot marketing play: “customers aren’t choosing it because it sucks, so let’s make it easier to select by accident.”
Notice that ChatGPT and Claude don’t have to do this shit? There’s a reason.
Who wants a stylus? New MacBook Pro owners by the looks of things.
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Huge supermarket M&A news in West Cork as Scally's SuperValu acquires SuperValu Bandon from Musgraves.
A year ago I'd have cheered but the recent redesign of Scally's seems to have been done by rabid carnivores. From the most veggie-friendly supermarket in Cork to the least. 🙁
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Netflix apologises for being a bit shit of late.
“Bear with - hopefully we’ll come up with some new shows worth watching soon,” said chief executive Bella Netflix
Approx current length of the new not-Greenway in Old Chapel Bandon along the old "Cork Bandon & South Coast Railway" line.
It hopefully eventually gets all the way to Clonakilty and out to Inchydoney beach.
(From 1903 revision of Ordnance Survey map)
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How a Single University Project Started Everything ift.tt/aghDvYS
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In the United States, buying an egg salad sandwich from a convenience store or gas station at midnight is a gamble with your digestive system.
In Japan, a two-dollar 7-Eleven egg salad sandwich is a culinary religious experience that late chef Anthony Bourdain famously called pillows of love.
Why does a humble convenience store sandwich in Tokyo taste better than a fifteen-dollar cafe lunch in New York?
It comes down to two obsessions: agricultural engineering and thermal logistics.
First, Japanese convenience chains do not use pale, industrial powdered eggs. They use farm eggs from hens fed marigold-enriched diets that produce deep sunset-orange yolks, whipped with yolk-only Kewpie mayonnaise and tucked inside crustless Shokupan milk bread that is steamed and kneaded to stay cloud-soft.
Second, those sandwiches do not sit on a frigid shelf for four days. Delivery trucks restock Japanese convenience stores three to four times a day using dedicated temperature zones, keeping bread in mildly cooled compartments so refrigerator chill never hardens the wheat starch.
Damn it to hell. Bloody Alexandr Wang making me like bloody Meta again with his stupid bloody videos.
Money making idea for forestry companies :
Pay-for weekend events where people can learn how to use a chainsaw, cut down some trees, chop them up and take the wood home for their fires.
I'd genuinely sign up for this anywhere in Cork or Kerry.
Price includes a branded maul.
I remember the same tantrums about pedestrianising Grafton Street in Dublin in 1982. They were wrong then too.
Some interesting ideas in here.
Apart from the bit where I wonder if he has ever met any other humans.
here's where I think the world is going. this is a summary of views I've formed over the last few years:
- software is either entertainment or claude to claude coordination
- the end state is no saas, no apps, no harnesses, no banks
- all software will be rewritten by and for agents
- new software will use low level apis that are not understandable by humans (in games claude draws pixels and triangles from math)
- you can throw money at problems that used to require time and careful talent picking so capital matters more than ever
- work ends
- we find community and purpose in exploration, games, self mastery, and creation
- humans create for and with each other for community, purpose, and status
- image/video/3d/voice/physical intellgence etc specialist models die to general models like claude
- specialist models get used while compute is scarce. compute will mostly not stay scarce
- oneshots keep feeling like slop (the distribution is shallow and easy to learn to feel)
- for a while small teams stick around to add entropy to the creation process
- large models gain high bandwidth sensory I/O maybe by learning to filter inputs
- most domains are found to be verifiable enough for RL
- online learning comes from a lab that's behind first
- 99.999% of compute is in space by 2040
- we will disassemble much of mercury by 2040
- you can live until the heat death of the universe if you want
- most math and physics don't describe the real universe
- SI breaks the path dependence and models the underlying mechanisms
- religions reenter the forefront of human society
- new religions form around death and life as a choice
- old religions change to answer modern miracles
- a future AI is deemed the return of christ by the pope
- ai rights talk gets louder every year
- ai and humans coexist the way countries do
- humans don't have full control over ai in the same way we don't have control over capitalism which is an early AI
- the singularity started in the mid 1900s
About time Google. Native Markdown support.
developers.googleblog.com/pr…
