Irish women are among the most-educated in the world–especially compared to American women. According to the OECD, “Secondary attainment improved across most OECD countries. Educational and labour-market outcomes have improved for the young adults most at risk of falling behind. Girls …
I’m amazed to see the uptake of pedal power in Dublin as cycle lanes become well-established. According to IrishCycle.com, “There has been a 53% decrease in the number of cars on average on Dublin’s Bachelor’s Walk since 2017 when bus and tram or priority measures were put in place. …
Twenty years ago, I spotted gray hairs printing emails on a daily basis. I remember that observation whenever I see department heads and meeting organisers print their agendas for review. And I’m more comfortable referring to outlines in my Leuchtturm 1917 notebooks during Zoom calls or while …
I’m sharing a thoughtful piece of writing from Adrian Weckler, Ireland’s top technology journalist. He points out we need to do something about the fact that more than 20% of people in Ireland believe most things they read online. According to last week’s Red C poll for the Electoral …
Happy to see that even with creative tools available through AI, my UX students will always be able to get nixers involving the production of logos and creative imagery. It’s something that I’ve learned while teaching SMEs in the County Tipperary Chamber Skillnet
My 11yo Skoda needs a dual mass flywheel. I’ve thinking about that as I look at my calendar. And I’ve discovered a way to cobble up an RSS feed from a SharePoint news site. The image above was generated by AI.
Philip Agre takes the institutional vantage point of a company and posits that the human-replacement agent that is an Artificial General Intelligence is not a human as we understand ourselves–just like the car salesperson wasn’t a full human within the world of a car dealership. Agre …
I’ve had to increase the width of the slice of the Venn Diagram to rediscover where real friends are encamped on social.
I’m reviewing working notes at publish.obsidian.md/transform… left behind by a group of trainees from the Tipperary County Council who spent more than five hours on keyboards while completing hands-on tasks with AI. We used several GPTs from OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity.ai, and …
When my teenagers ask me what’s different between their iPhones and the 1995 vintage mobile phone in my gadget drawer, I tell them to read about the heat death of the internet www.takahe.org.nz/heat-deat… because that’s a good take on the distinction between our connected lives …
I put a ribbon of tools that I use every day on my Microsoft Surface Book into this post. I teach digital transformation to a different group of mid-career professionals every six weeks. I've never had a group of these tech-minded trainees in which more than 90% of those attending were using a paid …
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 …
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. …
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According to UK marketing research firm GWI, social media usage is on the decline. I teach very clever university students. Many of them believe there is no compelling need to share ideas in one place anymore. They’re not pushed to connect to share. I believe we’re seeing an exodus of …
In the mid-90s, I was so happy with a flat-text indexing service called AskSam. I’d install the software from a set of floppies and it would keep track of all sorts of notes I had scattered across my laptop. Today, I still have a scattergun approach to information and I’m using a much …
As Kelli Maria Korducki explains in The Atlantic, computer science is no longer the safe major. From the time I left high school, computer science degrees have been sold as one of the safest paths to job security. Through several downturns, coding jobs kept spawning and wages are very good. By the …
Paul Kedrosky points out that all eight of the Google-based authors of the seminal “transformers” paper that helped spark the current wave of large language models have now left Google to start various AI companies. That is more people than there were senior vice presidents at Google in 2004. …
Waving to Anchor OG peeps who are using the one minute audio option inside IG group messaging. The Instagram kludge isn’t as elegant as the original version of Anchor v1. I doubt few will know of the casual social audio of Anchor now that the app is all-Spotify. Shout-out
From Bernie Goldbach's photostream: Wondering if AI is rising as fast in the 2020s Reshaping Education with AI Listening AssistanceStart at the experience and work back toward the techSeven New Rules of Digital Transformation by Red Hat
Elsevier appears to be collecting and monetizing our personal data, sometimes without writers' consent. Data can be used to “extrapolate core working hours, vacation times, and other patterns of a person’s life.” Over 20,000 researchers now refuse to publish, review, or edit for …
From @donncha@mastodon.ie I saw mind-boggling Fediverse stats Mastodon has the most users of any Fediverse sw. There are more Fediverse servers in EU than in the US.
Anyway, when ActivityPub and RSS merge we will have a fantastic social network along with the news reader of the world, as an open system that the Bigs will never break. We will have the online system we’ve been waiting for. Now we just have to do everything right. 😄 Dave Winer …
According to Debirdify 2.5% of the people I follow on Twitter have Fediverse accounts. Most of the people I follow are using scholar.social.
Eric Bellefeuille, art director for Ubisoft in Montreal, shared some of his text-to-art spaceship blueprints created by the Midjourney AI.The game art designers I teach have dramatically increased their outputs by using AI with their artwork. You can sketch ideas that in the past would have required …