You know it is Spring in Ireland when you see frogs crossing the roads and when you hear frogs croaking to attract attention. We go walking in a local forest to observe these rituals. The cacophony is seasonal and so welcome.
560 billion for AI
I am working with dozens of people every week who are trying to get their heads around the financial and geopolitical forces surrounding AI. OpenAI is used by more than 300 million people every week and is raising a fresh round of financing, led by SoftBank, that would value it at $300 billion (€285 …
Inspired by my Inshored Kettle
If you’re tuned to the noise of Fox Business, you have heard all about reshoring and insourcing. The conversation is also happening in the Brexited UK and Tim Minshall, professor of innovation at Cambridge’s Institute of Manufacturing, is writing about it. Minshall’s book dwells …
Until today, I didn’t know know AI could get 275 tokens per second by accessing Deepseek R-1 through the American AI cloud, Groq. For reference, a human speaks at around 2-3 tokens per second. R-1 delivers much more efficiency than OpenAI o1 for a comparable level of performance.
Looking forward to Reconstruction
If a hot air balloon monitored arrivals to Battery Pier in the 1860s, the vessel carrying my German ancestors might have been captured moving dockside to disembark Prussian Lorenz Goldbach onto Manhattan. When my great great grandfather arrived in America, Reconstruction was just starting during the …
Letting Gemini Offer Me Previews
I’m learning a lot about the AI inside mobile tools. Today I discovered I could use Google Gemini to look inside a folder containing notes I’m using to teach a digital transformation class. I’m pasting the Gemini summary below so this post will serve as both a preview and a recap …
My email inbox is untamed
On the first day of Trump 2.0, I woke up worried about losing my mind because of an email overload–not caused by a broligarchy empowered in the States but by my email bloatage.Since I have several paid versions of AI services, I thought I could just put one of them to work but Larry Maguire …
Pushing Adulting Later
Research from San Diego State University shows American teenagers are less likely to have tried alcohol, had sex, acquired a driver’s license, had a job, or gone on dates than teenagers twenty years ago. Today’s teens are pushing those “firsts” into their twenties more and more, making modern-day …
Focus Starts on my Primary Screen
Although I haven’t written down any Resolutions for 2025, I have taken some steps to clean up my routines so that during every increment of time, I’m aware of what I’m prioritising at the moment. I’ve been helped along in this Quest by the screen that welcomes me on my mobile phone. That screen is …
First Tools of 2025
I started playing with the Substack app during the Christmas break, trying to see if it is strong enough to let me publish thoughts with my thumbs. I am podskills.substack.com because I like the networking effect inside the Stacks. I am sharing a photo that shows five tools on a table in front of …
Lots of friends are tuned out
It seems that most of my friends have tuned out of the discussions concerning the rise of fascism in America. They don’t see the pro-fascist sentiment because they don’t hear Project 2025. In 2015, 67% of Americans were very interested in the news. Today, the number is at 49%, down …
Insights from Ireland's AI Institute
Sandra O’Connell covers the clever rise of the AI Institute as she interviews Maryrose Lyons in today’s Sunday Times in Ireland. Twelve months ago Maryrose Lyons launched a new business, the AI Institute. As a digital marketing expert with decades of experience, her decision to go …
Experimenting with a Metaview workflow. The goal is to use the glasses to record shareable audio.
Purposeful Pivot Away from Scrolling
I'm with Cheyenne Macdonald, "In 2024, using social media felt worse than ever. These days, it feels like every gathering place on the internet is so crowded with content that’s competing for — and successfully grabbing — our attention or trying to sell us something that there’s barely any room for …
Planning Intergenerational Conversations
This is a post by Dylan. I want to show him how to use the Brydge 7.9 keyboard as he learns how to join the world as a young blogger. This is an extinct job title for a GenZ cub reporter but if he learns the skill, he will be able to continue the legacy of his dad, an elder blogger. The strategy, if …
Reconnecting with trusted friends
It’s quiet time during a Christmas holiday break and I’m delighted to be able to remember people who shared ideas about productivity with me that helped me become more productive. Several of those ideas are in the photo acompanying this post. In 2016, Greg Dickson in Alberta recommended …
I believe we will feel massive shocks about Spotify Payola in early 2025. www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugl…
Class Action for Data Scraping
I started using ChatGPT regularly in mid-2023. Back then, I tried to see if OpenAI believed in a “transparency” principle because I wanted to know more about the source of data used by OpenAI to develop its systems. I’m still looking for that answer because using scraped data for …
More than 30 Christmas Memories
I coasted down off the Rosslare ferry with my left hand drive BMW in mid-December 1994 and have celebrated nearly every Christmas since then in Ireland. I think I have negatives and slides in my attic from last century that might capture some of the earliest Christmases I enjoyed in …
For all who want to really disconnect from office work during this holiday period, just get a new phone and discover you can’t reauthenticate into your network until you return to the office.
My Cloud Shows Solemn Memories Along with Christmas Joy
Like many others, I let the cloud pull my photos up into storage locations. Three locations actually. The most irregular uploads happen with OneDrive and that’s the image at the top of this post. It’s from Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland on a table a few days before Christmas 2014. We …
Ethocs Report on Paedophile Gaetz
The special sheen of MAGA comes from its well-known pedophile ring. A House Report provides context. Here is the AI-generated summary from Acrobat: The document is a report from the Committee on Ethics regarding allegations relating to Representative Matt Gaetz, including findings of sexual …
Planning My Final Semester
I’m spending part of my last day on campus this year looking at training material I can use to help graduates start their own businesses, help the Irish Innovation Skillnet show companies how they can get ahead with AI, and how I can activate some processes that automate my End Of Tour Report. …
Implementing Online Age Verification
I’m looking at several standards for verifying ages, including the IEEE Standard for Online Age Verification I asked my resident AI to determine the most onerous burden faced by ISPs when implementing these proposed standards. The most onerous consideration for Internet Service Providers …
Wishing the Fourth Estate Stood Up
Here in Ireland we can see how US media simply lets politicians lie directly to viewers and listeners. In his 16 December press briefing, Trump claimed that because Biden allowed the use of US-made ATACMS inside Russia, North Korea deployed troops to fight in Ukraine alongside Russian forces. But …