ᚆᚒᚌᚆ Hugh Sheehy
@hughsheehy.com
Irish. Sailor. Engineer. Former dog walker.
I talk sense and use facts.
You may or may not like that.
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CEO http://goeve.com
https://linktr.ee/hughsheehy
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I talk sense and use facts.
You may or may not like that.
Human
CEO http://goeve.com
https://linktr.ee/hughsheehy
BE, MBA, patents
🇮🇪🇳🇱🇬🇧🇳🇱🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇪
#evcharging #electrictransition #climatechange
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ᚆᚒᚌᚆ Hugh Sheehy
@hughsheehy.com
· Oct 24
Why Ireland is not a British isle
A brief history of Ireland and why it is not a British isle.
medium.com
Watching the racist loons in the UK talking about how they aim to save the British Isles, it seems particularly timely to repeat a simple fact you may not be aware of.
Ireland is not a British isle.
medium.com/o6o-internat...
Ireland is not a British isle.
medium.com/o6o-internat...
Whooping cough, ffs.
“An infant in Kentucky who was unvaccinated against pertussis, or whooping cough, has died, marking the third death from the deadly bacteria in the state this year. Before 2025, Kentucky had last recorded an infant whooping cough death in 2018.”
Third infant in Kentucky dies of whooping cough as national cases stay high for second year in a row
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Whooping cough, ffs.
Meantime, Happy Thanksgiving to all my US friends and colleagues. If you were travelling, I hope that went well too!
Here's what Gemini and ChatGPT think summarizes Thanksgiving. Not a mention of Black Friday between them!
Here's what Gemini and ChatGPT think summarizes Thanksgiving. Not a mention of Black Friday between them!
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Meantime, Happy Thanksgiving to all my US friends and colleagues. If you were travelling, I hope that went well too!
Here's what Gemini and ChatGPT think summarizes Thanksgiving. Not a mention of Black Friday between them!
Here's what Gemini and ChatGPT think summarizes Thanksgiving. Not a mention of Black Friday between them!
An odd take on the housing crisis. The political center-right and the center-left and the left and most of the right should all try to solve the housing crisis - for a LOAD of reasons. And, for a load of reasons, none of them have any intention of it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
An odd take on the housing crisis. The political center-right and the center-left and the left and most of the right should all try to solve the housing crisis - for a LOAD of reasons. And, for a load of reasons, none of them have any intention of it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
It's easy to chase the same metrics as everyone else. Easy and often unhelpful.
One additional point to bear in mind. In an increasingly online world, those metrics are almost entirely designed by the people selling you the advertising.
wfanet.org/knowledge/it...
One additional point to bear in mind. In an increasingly online world, those metrics are almost entirely designed by the people selling you the advertising.
wfanet.org/knowledge/it...
Rory Sutherland on fat-tailed marketing and why creativity outperforms efficiency
The biggest wins in marketing rarely fit into neat dashboards. Marketing guru Rory Sutherland joins us to unpack why creativity is “fat-tailed,” how a few outlier ideas create the lion’s share of…
wfanet.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It's easy to chase the same metrics as everyone else. Easy and often unhelpful.
One additional point to bear in mind. In an increasingly online world, those metrics are almost entirely designed by the people selling you the advertising.
wfanet.org/knowledge/it...
One additional point to bear in mind. In an increasingly online world, those metrics are almost entirely designed by the people selling you the advertising.
wfanet.org/knowledge/it...
Anyone else remember Ratners?
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Anyone else remember Ratners?
An engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist walked into a bar, and other such thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/hughshee...
open.substack.com/pub/hughshee...
Jokes about engineers, physicists and mathematicians. And how they help understand.
People are different.
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
An engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist walked into a bar, and other such thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/hughshee...
open.substack.com/pub/hughshee...
Interesting. The Cloudflare outage earlier this week was caused by two minor mistakes. The second mistake allowed the first one to cascade onto essentially all of the production machines and break them.
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Interesting. The Cloudflare outage earlier this week was caused by two minor mistakes. The second mistake allowed the first one to cascade onto essentially all of the production machines and break them.
Ireland doesn't do enough on defense. But at the same time we're stripping what little we have to give it to Ukraine. And that feels like the right thing to do.
Ireland has quietly delivered five air defense radar systems, likely Giraffe Mk IVs, alongside 34 vehicles and three bomb disposal robots to Ukraine. The radars, mounted on tracked platforms, can detect low-flying threats up to 50 km away. Ireland also pledged €66M via the EU for non-lethal support.
November 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Ireland doesn't do enough on defense. But at the same time we're stripping what little we have to give it to Ukraine. And that feels like the right thing to do.
AIs - or LLMs - still can't reliably tell the time. Another nice article (with link to the underlying study) from the IEEE. AIs only seem to be smart. Doubt EVERYTHING they tell you - perhaps unless it's the text summarization task that they do seem pretty good at.
spectrum.ieee.org/large-langua...
spectrum.ieee.org/large-langua...
November 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
AIs - or LLMs - still can't reliably tell the time. Another nice article (with link to the underlying study) from the IEEE. AIs only seem to be smart. Doubt EVERYTHING they tell you - perhaps unless it's the text summarization task that they do seem pretty good at.
spectrum.ieee.org/large-langua...
spectrum.ieee.org/large-langua...
Original grok post in French.
Grok is (from my minimal testing) a moron. But this is bad.
Grok is (from my minimal testing) a moron. But this is bad.
Grok denying the Holocaust here
November 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Original grok post in French.
Grok is (from my minimal testing) a moron. But this is bad.
Grok is (from my minimal testing) a moron. But this is bad.
Take that JFK and Ronald Reagan.
Trump is ranting barely coherently to McDonald's franchise owners: "The one pilot said, 'skedaddle!' And that thing just turned on its side -- pppph. And it's so unbelievable. And that knocked out Iran nuclear capability."
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Take that JFK and Ronald Reagan.
As a small country, Ireland doesn't often have great days in soccer.
Two in the last few days.
And you have to feel for Hungary. And learn again that the game isn't over until it's over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq5P...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y9l...
Two in the last few days.
And you have to feel for Hungary. And learn again that the game isn't over until it's over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq5P...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y9l...
HIGHLIGHTS | Ireland 2-0 Portugal | FIFA World Cup 26 Qualifier
SUBSCRIBE 👉 https://www.youtube.com/user/faiofficial
TWITTER 👉 https://twitter.com/IrelandFootball
INSTAGRAM 👉 https://instagram.com/IrelandFootball
TIKTOK 👉…
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
As a small country, Ireland doesn't often have great days in soccer.
Two in the last few days.
And you have to feel for Hungary. And learn again that the game isn't over until it's over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq5P...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y9l...
Two in the last few days.
And you have to feel for Hungary. And learn again that the game isn't over until it's over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq5P...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y9l...
Somewhat unusually for Ireland, the worst weather is in the east and south-east.
It is MISERABLE out there.
It is MISERABLE out there.
November 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Somewhat unusually for Ireland, the worst weather is in the east and south-east.
It is MISERABLE out there.
It is MISERABLE out there.
Another new DockChain install this week in a rather damp UK.
Can't comment yet on where and who.
Kudos to the install team who suffered in the rain doing the install.
#EVCharging
#Innovation
#Sustainability
#FleetManagement
#DockChain
#GoEve
#EnergyTransition
#Cleantech
Can't comment yet on where and who.
Kudos to the install team who suffered in the rain doing the install.
#EVCharging
#Innovation
#Sustainability
#FleetManagement
#DockChain
#GoEve
#EnergyTransition
#Cleantech
November 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Another new DockChain install this week in a rather damp UK.
Can't comment yet on where and who.
Kudos to the install team who suffered in the rain doing the install.
#EVCharging
#Innovation
#Sustainability
#FleetManagement
#DockChain
#GoEve
#EnergyTransition
#Cleantech
Can't comment yet on where and who.
Kudos to the install team who suffered in the rain doing the install.
#EVCharging
#Innovation
#Sustainability
#FleetManagement
#DockChain
#GoEve
#EnergyTransition
#Cleantech
Three things here....
1. Tesla is a marginal car maker in the overall market, and shrinking
2. EV sales are still growing but still not as fast as hoped and needed.
3. Kia and Hyundai are growing fast in the EV market
(note, this is the small Irish market...2025 so far. HT to Adrian Weckler)
1. Tesla is a marginal car maker in the overall market, and shrinking
2. EV sales are still growing but still not as fast as hoped and needed.
3. Kia and Hyundai are growing fast in the EV market
(note, this is the small Irish market...2025 so far. HT to Adrian Weckler)
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Three things here....
1. Tesla is a marginal car maker in the overall market, and shrinking
2. EV sales are still growing but still not as fast as hoped and needed.
3. Kia and Hyundai are growing fast in the EV market
(note, this is the small Irish market...2025 so far. HT to Adrian Weckler)
1. Tesla is a marginal car maker in the overall market, and shrinking
2. EV sales are still growing but still not as fast as hoped and needed.
3. Kia and Hyundai are growing fast in the EV market
(note, this is the small Irish market...2025 so far. HT to Adrian Weckler)
Again, despite the cacophony of voices saying that "The EU/UK/US shouldn't try anything about global warming because China" are living in the past. And China, clearly, is moving ahead. Will the EU/UK/US keep up? Will they even try?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Again, despite the cacophony of voices saying that "The EU/UK/US shouldn't try anything about global warming because China" are living in the past. And China, clearly, is moving ahead. Will the EU/UK/US keep up? Will they even try?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
For the day that's in it.
What is it now? 107 years since it ended. The war that killed empires and upturned the whole social order of Europe.
What is it now? 107 years since it ended. The war that killed empires and upturned the whole social order of Europe.
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
For the day that's in it.
What is it now? 107 years since it ended. The war that killed empires and upturned the whole social order of Europe.
What is it now? 107 years since it ended. The war that killed empires and upturned the whole social order of Europe.
Amid all the fake news and nonsense in the world, you can still learn things properly and for free. MIT started OpenCourseWare and - along with others - they're still at it. Learn almost anything, from ancient Greek history to advanced AI.
ocw.mit.edu
ocw.mit.edu
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Amid all the fake news and nonsense in the world, you can still learn things properly and for free. MIT started OpenCourseWare and - along with others - they're still at it. Learn almost anything, from ancient Greek history to advanced AI.
ocw.mit.edu
ocw.mit.edu
Last week the usual climate sceptic voices were saying things like "The UK/USA/EU shouldn't do anything about climate change because China".
China's moving. China's innovating. China's investing.
China's moving. China's innovating. China's investing.
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Last week the usual climate sceptic voices were saying things like "The UK/USA/EU shouldn't do anything about climate change because China".
China's moving. China's innovating. China's investing.
China's moving. China's innovating. China's investing.
Recent analysis of the impacts of Brexit.
"by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%"
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
"by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%"
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Recent analysis of the impacts of Brexit.
"by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%"
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
"by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%"
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
I tried watching "The Crown"....the tv series. Yech.
I can't say I'm a fan of Ireland's current or upcoming President but I'd take any of them over any result of familial historical accident. I get the idea (the Dutch, Spanish, UK, etc), but glad Ireland is a republic...thanks.
I can't say I'm a fan of Ireland's current or upcoming President but I'd take any of them over any result of familial historical accident. I get the idea (the Dutch, Spanish, UK, etc), but glad Ireland is a republic...thanks.
November 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I tried watching "The Crown"....the tv series. Yech.
I can't say I'm a fan of Ireland's current or upcoming President but I'd take any of them over any result of familial historical accident. I get the idea (the Dutch, Spanish, UK, etc), but glad Ireland is a republic...thanks.
I can't say I'm a fan of Ireland's current or upcoming President but I'd take any of them over any result of familial historical accident. I get the idea (the Dutch, Spanish, UK, etc), but glad Ireland is a republic...thanks.
Today was the trade-only day at the NEVO EV show at the RDS in Dublin (Simmonscourt RDS). Free tickets for the public day tomorrow and a great day out if you're at all interested in cars. Heck of an event. Go.
November 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Today was the trade-only day at the NEVO EV show at the RDS in Dublin (Simmonscourt RDS). Free tickets for the public day tomorrow and a great day out if you're at all interested in cars. Heck of an event. Go.
Really looking forward to a fascinating day at Dublin/Dun Laoghaire's IADT tomorrow. More afterwards!
It's a heck of a place.
It's a heck of a place.
November 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Really looking forward to a fascinating day at Dublin/Dun Laoghaire's IADT tomorrow. More afterwards!
It's a heck of a place.
It's a heck of a place.
Here's another sad example of why I really dislike fireworks unless they're in a professionally set up fireworks show. This young boy was seriously injured by a firework someone had left lying around, partially exploded. He was unfortunate to find it....
November 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Here's another sad example of why I really dislike fireworks unless they're in a professionally set up fireworks show. This young boy was seriously injured by a firework someone had left lying around, partially exploded. He was unfortunate to find it....