Bernie Goldbach

Aduril proves there is lucrative trade in AI weaponry. www.ft.com/content/c…

Six Main Points for My AI Students

I’m doing some spring cleaning of recent training sessions and believe I can best share my impressions of various GPTs by breaking down my thoughts into six major sessions. 1. **Setting Up Your AI Introduction to AI and its capabilities Necessary hardware and software requirements …

Learning about sales workflows

I teach clever people tools of digital transformation. It’s actually a two-way process because I learn from those students. For example, I’ve refined one of my workflows after reading Agata Krawiecka’s sales workflow. Agata has a sequence of essential processes. It’s a …

Thinking about training an AI at home

Need a Factory Reset

Starting the second “return to factory settings” in my 5yo Samsung phone. The drain on the battery is exceptionally deep. There’s often a two second lag between touching an item and getting a response. But first, I’ll complete a little audit.

I remain an advocate of handwritten notes and enjoy pointing out how easy it is to incorporate cursive into digital knowledge management. www.insideview.ie/2024/01/m…

AI Data Centres Need Megabuckets of Power

I’m spending the morning training Prompt Engineers, knowing how much power they need in the background. As Michael Dempsey writes, “A normal data centre needs 32 megawatts of power … for an AI data centre it’s 80 megawatts” flowing into the bldg. Perhaps AI data …

Some helpful suggestions for people leveraging MSFT Copilot: www.youtube.com/watch

Tesla owners have long complained of occasionally erratic behavior by the cars' software, including sudden braking, missed road markings and crashes with parked emergency vehic]es. Since federal regulators began requiring automakers to report crashes involving driver-assistance systems in 2021, they …

I learned to study–really study–around 50 years ago and this guide from William J Rapaport helped: cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport…

Surgeon's Paradox

Explaining Taleb’s Surgeons Paradox to friends who are interviewing candidates. If you’re considering two people for a job, and one is pretty, one ugly but their known achievements are equal, who do you hire? The pretty one? No! The ugly one because they accomplished just as much while …

Creators Started Listening to my Google Searches and Reddit Dives.

While teaching students how AIs learn to be smarter, I stumbled upon some discoveries concerning algorithms that are watching me. I discovered Only Fans Creators started showing up in my Instagram Reels after I searched Google for reasons there’s been a drop in subscriptions and followers …

Diffusion Models Deepfaking Taylor Swift

Reality Defender says they have 90% confidence that the images of sexually explicit poses of Taylor Swift were created using a diffusion model. This AI-driven technology is accessible through more than 100,000 apps and publicly available models, CEO Ben Colman told Ken Conger of the New York Times. …

Selling pre-owned clothing

The surge in fashion resales has led to a stream of technological innovations. The Irish start-up Thriftify, which provides software to enable charity shops to list, sell and ship their overflowing clothing stocks online, has recorded 250 per cent year-on-year growth in the volume of transactions it …

Bjork loves mushrooms

‘‘Mushrooms are fun, right? They are psychedelic and bubbly and pop up all over the forest," says Bjork. Her documentary called “Fumgi: Web of Life” explores how fungus has shaped life on Earth for more than a billion years, and scientists’ efforts to harness its …

Community Climate Action Proramme

In Ireland, the Community Climate Action Programme (CCAP) offers up to 100k available per project with each 100% funded. Projects within this strand should address the following five themes: Home(Community)/energy Travel Food and waste Shopping and recycling Local climate and environmental action

Drama engages viewers. If you plan to succeed on Youtube, you emphasise confrontation.

Remembering that Metcalfe’s law states that the value or influence of an IT network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system.

Inspired by Preet Chandi

One of my fav Irish radio presenters was chatting on radio to Preet Chandi. She had just skied more than 1,000km to reach the South Pole. Twelve to thirteen hours a day skiing, consuming 5,000 calories a day but still losing weight. “She’d spent Christmas Day - as I was isolating with …

I am very happy with glasses that make me smart. www.insideview.ie/2023/12/r…

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I Didn't See the Other Aircraft

DURING MY 3000 FLYING HOURS I vividly remember two occasions when we were cleared to land on a runway that was occupied by another aircraft or by a vehicle. In both cases, I didn’t see the conflict but a crew member sitting in the jump seat pointed out the conflict. Knowing this, I believe the …

I seem to get more clicks on posts when I share images of people generated by AI. That makes generative AI one of the 12 things worth mentioning from my notes of 2023. www.insideview.ie/2023/12/1…

Deep Read for the rest of 2023. Higher Education for Good: teaching and learning futures h/t @catherinecronin@mastodon.ie

Compressing dozens of pages of notes before a creative session with a collaborator. Savoring the moment.