Alan OL
@a1o1.ie
AI Infra/Networking, Modular Synthesisers, Graphic Novels, Bad Movies 🇪🇺🇮🇪👨🏻💻₿
Getting hard to watch a lot of TV shows and movies as they all start to use LED Volumes as backgrounds … kind of uncanny valley for the real world. The tech is just not there yet. Lots starting to blur background too to mask.
December 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Getting hard to watch a lot of TV shows and movies as they all start to use LED Volumes as backgrounds … kind of uncanny valley for the real world. The tech is just not there yet. Lots starting to blur background too to mask.
Mani ... no ... the sound of my youth.
Great bass player and proper good egg, you'll be missed and you made a difference.
November 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Mani ... no ... the sound of my youth.
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Please help, I've fallen down the Temu screaming goat throw pillow rabbithole
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Please help, I've fallen down the Temu screaming goat throw pillow rabbithole
They need to work on bitrate
October 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
They need to work on bitrate
Amazing footage of Falcon 9 fuel dump over Ireland this evening.
October 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Amazing footage of Falcon 9 fuel dump over Ireland this evening.
AI collapsing transaction costs has huge implications ... www.nber.org/system/files...
www.nber.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:43 AM
AI collapsing transaction costs has huge implications ... www.nber.org/system/files...
Too soon :)
Even more exciting, DynamoDB is now available in us-east-1.
Amazon MQ is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region
AWS brings message queues to New Zealand! Because apparently "SQS" wasn't confusing enough, you can now overpay for ActiveMQ in yet another region. Just don't ask about the pricing - it's more complex than a hobbit's family tree.
AWS brings message queues to New Zealand! Because apparently "SQS" wasn't confusing enough, you can now overpay for ActiveMQ in yet another region. Just don't ask about the pricing - it's more complex than a hobbit's family tree.
October 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Too soon :)
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Not a big fan of Dwarkesh, he tends to anthropomorphize AI and gets hung up on AGI, but listening to Andrej speak is always great - a solid dose of reality in the space as usual.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXUZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXUZ...
Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”
YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel
www.youtube.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Not a big fan of Dwarkesh, he tends to anthropomorphize AI and gets hung up on AGI, but listening to Andrej speak is always great - a solid dose of reality in the space as usual.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXUZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXUZ...
One of Ireland’s two candidates for president a) voted to seal the mother and baby home records, b) doesn’t think trans women are women, c) supports hare coursing as a ‘sport’ …. So wait - that’s cruelty to women and cruelty to animals !
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 AM
One of Ireland’s two candidates for president a) voted to seal the mother and baby home records, b) doesn’t think trans women are women, c) supports hare coursing as a ‘sport’ …. So wait - that’s cruelty to women and cruelty to animals !
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portland continues to serve up a protest that confuses the feds and totally disrupts the false narrative they're pushing via propaganda channels...
“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.
Portland cyclists strip down in pouring rain to protest ICE facility and Trump troop deployment
“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.
www.oregonlive.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:57 AM
portland continues to serve up a protest that confuses the feds and totally disrupts the false narrative they're pushing via propaganda channels...
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New podcast. Remembering the legendary and irreplaceable Manchán Magan who died last week. And revisiting our first chat where he told me his life story. ❤️
open.spotify.com/episode/1BxM...
open.spotify.com/episode/1BxM...
In memory of Manchán Magan
open.spotify.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
New podcast. Remembering the legendary and irreplaceable Manchán Magan who died last week. And revisiting our first chat where he told me his life story. ❤️
open.spotify.com/episode/1BxM...
open.spotify.com/episode/1BxM...
Devastating
Satellite analysis by Bellingcat found that wildfires destroyed over a third of Namibia’s most visited wildlife reserve last month, impacting crucial grazing lands for endangered species, including black rhinos and elephants. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Wildfires Ravage One of Africa’s Largest Nature Reserves - bellingcat
Satellite analysis of the Etosha wildfires in Namibia has found that more than a third of the nature reserve was burned.
www.bellingcat.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Devastating
... and I thought we were going to get away lightly in the end.
Interesting feature of #StormAmy is that it looks likely to be a shapiro keyser low which increases the risk of a Sting Jet which can bring severe gusts to a small area.
October 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
... and I thought we were going to get away lightly in the end.
Just like the movie "Until the end of the world" where the story shows people going insane because they get addicted to spending their wake time watching their own dreams - AI models too collapse when trained on recursively generated data :-) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - Nature
Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scraping data from the Internet, can lead to a collapse in the ability of the models to generate diverse high-quality output.
www.nature.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Just like the movie "Until the end of the world" where the story shows people going insane because they get addicted to spending their wake time watching their own dreams - AI models too collapse when trained on recursively generated data :-) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Can LLMs identify where a photo was taken? And how accurate are they? We put some AI models to the test...
www.youtube.com/shorts/tUBm4...
www.youtube.com/shorts/tUBm4...
Can ChatGPT Find Out Where Your Photo Was Taken?
YouTube video by Bellingcat
www.youtube.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Can LLMs identify where a photo was taken? And how accurate are they? We put some AI models to the test...
www.youtube.com/shorts/tUBm4...
www.youtube.com/shorts/tUBm4...
Crazy this is even exploratory.The EU Greens will be remembered in history for holding back the best technology to stave climate change. Being anti-nuclear weapons is noble, being anti-nuclear is utterly stupid and future generations will look back very unkindly at how all this handled.
The European Investment Bank is exploring investing in nuclear power on the continent for the first time in four decades as political opposition to the technology fades, according to people familiar with the matter.
EIB Weighs Ending 40-Year Nuclear Hiatus With Reactor Investment
The European Investment Bank is exploring investing in nuclear power on the continent for the first time in four decades as political opposition to the technology fades, according to people familiar with the matter.
bloom.bg
September 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Crazy this is even exploratory.The EU Greens will be remembered in history for holding back the best technology to stave climate change. Being anti-nuclear weapons is noble, being anti-nuclear is utterly stupid and future generations will look back very unkindly at how all this handled.
Some good news ...
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Some good news ...
Was happy to pick this one up given my work deep work with the SageMaker ecosystem on some personal projects, wondering if AWS will create a professional level AI cert at some point?
www.credly.com/badges/eaee4...
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AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty was issued by Amazon Web Services Training and Certification to Alan O'Leary.
Earners of this certification have an in-depth understanding of AWS machine learning (ML) services. They demonstrated ability to build, train, tune, and deploy ML models using the AWS Cloud. Badge own...
www.credly.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Was happy to pick this one up given my work deep work with the SageMaker ecosystem on some personal projects, wondering if AWS will create a professional level AI cert at some point?
www.credly.com/badges/eaee4...
www.credly.com/badges/eaee4...