Product & Engineering. AI. Local LLMs. Open Source. Ultrarunning. ⏩

West Cork, Ireland
Joined February 2007
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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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
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Grid Systems is back baby.
BlueChip. Built in America. America made the first electronic computer to win a war. Now we depend on our greatest adversaries to build the computers that run our economy and defend our nation. Today, we bring it home.
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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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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.
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also your ram, I need that too
Just spoke to an insider Sell your GPUs right now
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Damn it to hell. Bloody Alexandr Wang making me like bloody Meta again with his stupid bloody videos.
🚨 MUSE ALERT 🚨 muse just touched down in SINGAPORE 🇸🇬 muse's global tour continues 🌏
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I would too if I used Co-Pilot.
Bill Gates predicts a massive number of people will reject AI and choose to "live like the Amish."
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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.
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I remember the same tantrums about pedestrianising Grafton Street in Dublin in 1982. They were wrong then too.
So many bots and out of towners throwing tantrums about Oxford St being pedestrianised. Went midday, on a weekday and it was rammed. Space is needed and now we have it. Carnaby St has been pedestrianised since 1973, not one person thinks “I wish there were busses and cars here”
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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
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Paper straws worse for the environment than plastic ones, says study trib.al/TEphuYk
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Just finished Network. Holy shit I had no idea how insane that movie was. They really knew how to do crazy in the 70s. – at Ireland
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The Jew-hating Leprechaun's defence is that he's Irish. I guess if Irish now means thick-as-mince bigot. The sort of Provostinian who'd call the rest of us West Brits because we're not terrorist huggers. – at Ireland
A hateful man stormed into a Jewish wedding in Liverpool and began hurling antisemitic insults at the guests, terrifying people at the gathering His lawyer, in defending him, said a mitigating factor was that his client is Irish and has suffered discrimination What in the world is this line of reasoning? thejc.com/news/uk/man-storme…
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Bank Holiday viewing. – at Ireland
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We have entered the "running in the dark 𝒂𝒏𝒅 rain" phase of 2026 🫤 The inventor of GORE-TEX should have gotten a Nobel prize.
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Designs for the iPhone 19 have leaked.
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It's the small joys in life really. Early airport run so Child 2 can get back to Zurich. Bandon - Cork Airport - Bandon. Not a single car holding me up in either direction for the entire drive.
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