Maybe Terry
@maybeterry.bsky.social
Founder, geek, maker of things. Can probably still pass a Turing test.
<Sits for a while in the existential angst of trying to think of the perfect thing to say in order to make things better. Fails>
Curling into a ball sounds good. How about following it by sprouting multiple armoured legs and a terrifying visage on a prehensile neck to send the bad things screaming?
Curling into a ball sounds good. How about following it by sprouting multiple armoured legs and a terrifying visage on a prehensile neck to send the bad things screaming?
November 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
<Sits for a while in the existential angst of trying to think of the perfect thing to say in order to make things better. Fails>
Curling into a ball sounds good. How about following it by sprouting multiple armoured legs and a terrifying visage on a prehensile neck to send the bad things screaming?
Curling into a ball sounds good. How about following it by sprouting multiple armoured legs and a terrifying visage on a prehensile neck to send the bad things screaming?
It makes me happy to know that you exist. Life would be a far grimmer place without your spark of light throwing back the darkness.
June 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
It makes me happy to know that you exist. Life would be a far grimmer place without your spark of light throwing back the darkness.
Try https://youtube.com/@w2aew for everything you could ever want to know about scopes.
March 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Try https://youtube.com/@w2aew for everything you could ever want to know about scopes.
Safe to assume that the majority of content on LinkedIn is now written by machine and therefore the value of the platform is rapidly descending to zero. The future is AI agents bragging fictitiously to other AI agents until someone eventually pulls the plug.
February 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Safe to assume that the majority of content on LinkedIn is now written by machine and therefore the value of the platform is rapidly descending to zero. The future is AI agents bragging fictitiously to other AI agents until someone eventually pulls the plug.
Another important reference is ‘The New Argonauts:
Regional Advantage in a Global Economy’ by AnnaLee Saxenian, 2006 Harvard University Press
Regional Advantage in a Global Economy’ by AnnaLee Saxenian, 2006 Harvard University Press
January 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Another important reference is ‘The New Argonauts:
Regional Advantage in a Global Economy’ by AnnaLee Saxenian, 2006 Harvard University Press
Regional Advantage in a Global Economy’ by AnnaLee Saxenian, 2006 Harvard University Press
Yes, opened as ‘The Institute’ in late 1990. Industrial decor in the main room with lots of broken mirrors. Andy Taylor was one of the investors. I did a lot of work with the previous club that the team had built in Halifax, called the Coliseum, so ended up helping out at the Institute on and off.
January 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Yes, opened as ‘The Institute’ in late 1990. Industrial decor in the main room with lots of broken mirrors. Andy Taylor was one of the investors. I did a lot of work with the previous club that the team had built in Halifax, called the Coliseum, so ended up helping out at the Institute on and off.
Does it still exist? I was there when it was converted to a club, back in the dim and distant when I was a lighting designer in the leisure industry. The brings back dusty memories of crawling around inside the organ.
January 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Does it still exist? I was there when it was converted to a club, back in the dim and distant when I was a lighting designer in the leisure industry. The brings back dusty memories of crawling around inside the organ.
Although Digbeth Institute would have been an ideal venue for that experiment since I seem to recall that being mostly UV lights and mirrors…
January 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Although Digbeth Institute would have been an ideal venue for that experiment since I seem to recall that being mostly UV lights and mirrors…
Seems like an ideal excuse to buy a cheap UV torch and host your own private disco.
January 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Seems like an ideal excuse to buy a cheap UV torch and host your own private disco.
You could try looking at yourself under UV light to see if you have striped or checkerboard skin.
January 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
You could try looking at yourself under UV light to see if you have striped or checkerboard skin.
To reach artificial intelligence, we must necessarily first pass through artificial stupidity.
The real question is whether we can survive the businesses who believe that they can make money out of deploying artificial stupidity at 1/10th the cost of real stupidity.
The real question is whether we can survive the businesses who believe that they can make money out of deploying artificial stupidity at 1/10th the cost of real stupidity.
January 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
To reach artificial intelligence, we must necessarily first pass through artificial stupidity.
The real question is whether we can survive the businesses who believe that they can make money out of deploying artificial stupidity at 1/10th the cost of real stupidity.
The real question is whether we can survive the businesses who believe that they can make money out of deploying artificial stupidity at 1/10th the cost of real stupidity.
The delivery approach of an organisation is intrinsically linked to the budgeting and reporting strategy of the organisation. If you plan and set bonuses annually, you end up building product on an annual schedule and in a way that best games the bonus metrics.
January 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The delivery approach of an organisation is intrinsically linked to the budgeting and reporting strategy of the organisation. If you plan and set bonuses annually, you end up building product on an annual schedule and in a way that best games the bonus metrics.
And this, dear reader, is how the great orb infestation of 2025 began…
January 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
And this, dear reader, is how the great orb infestation of 2025 began…
I have had to build resources like https://bestpractices.cd.foundation and https://bit.ly/MLOps2024 to even start to bridge the gap in understanding between one domain and the other.
December 25, 2024 at 11:21 AM
I have had to build resources like https://bestpractices.cd.foundation and https://bit.ly/MLOps2024 to even start to bridge the gap in understanding between one domain and the other.
The drivers between academia and industry are fundamentally misaligned. In the former you must demonstrate the validity of an algorithm and in the latter you are much more concerned about the quality, safety and maintainability of the asset being created.
December 25, 2024 at 11:19 AM
The drivers between academia and industry are fundamentally misaligned. In the former you must demonstrate the validity of an algorithm and in the latter you are much more concerned about the quality, safety and maintainability of the asset being created.
Sadly this is an ongoing bug that has persisted for many years without resolution. It is made worse by having more than one of the same monitor attached, and by having monitors that are slow to wake.
You may be able to mitigate this with EDID emulator dongles or just move stuff back with scripting.
You may be able to mitigate this with EDID emulator dongles or just move stuff back with scripting.
December 16, 2024 at 9:57 PM
Sadly this is an ongoing bug that has persisted for many years without resolution. It is made worse by having more than one of the same monitor attached, and by having monitors that are slow to wake.
You may be able to mitigate this with EDID emulator dongles or just move stuff back with scripting.
You may be able to mitigate this with EDID emulator dongles or just move stuff back with scripting.
Hence the importance of having clearly defined outcomes and outputs in advance, so that you can detect the drift to output metrics and correct it before it becomes the dominant behaviour.
You have to make the difference explicit before you start or the hard thing won’t get done.
You have to make the difference explicit before you start or the hard thing won’t get done.
November 26, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Hence the importance of having clearly defined outcomes and outputs in advance, so that you can detect the drift to output metrics and correct it before it becomes the dominant behaviour.
You have to make the difference explicit before you start or the hard thing won’t get done.
You have to make the difference explicit before you start or the hard thing won’t get done.
If you are measuring outputs, you can appear to be highly productive, yet actually be really busy doing the wrong things.
No none will pull you up on this until you have spent all the money and nothing has changed.
No none will pull you up on this until you have spent all the money and nothing has changed.
November 26, 2024 at 4:52 PM
If you are measuring outputs, you can appear to be highly productive, yet actually be really busy doing the wrong things.
No none will pull you up on this until you have spent all the money and nothing has changed.
No none will pull you up on this until you have spent all the money and nothing has changed.
When you are running a change programme, you need to be measuring the effectiveness of your actions against your outcomes but in practice outcomes are hard to measure.
What inevitably happens is that people conflate outcomes with outputs and start measuring their outputs instead, since that’s easy.
What inevitably happens is that people conflate outcomes with outputs and start measuring their outputs instead, since that’s easy.
November 26, 2024 at 4:50 PM
When you are running a change programme, you need to be measuring the effectiveness of your actions against your outcomes but in practice outcomes are hard to measure.
What inevitably happens is that people conflate outcomes with outputs and start measuring their outputs instead, since that’s easy.
What inevitably happens is that people conflate outcomes with outputs and start measuring their outputs instead, since that’s easy.
There is a good reason from an implementation perspective. May I have your permission to contribute to this thread?
November 26, 2024 at 11:10 AM
There is a good reason from an implementation perspective. May I have your permission to contribute to this thread?
An object lesson in what happens if you don’t version your APIs but are contractually obliged to update them annually.
November 22, 2024 at 7:14 PM
An object lesson in what happens if you don’t version your APIs but are contractually obliged to update them annually.
There should be a word for that complex moment when you discover that someone who is a long term part of your social media landscape is in your neighbourhood, but you don’t actually know them so can’t offer hospitality without it being weird. 😊
November 19, 2024 at 11:51 AM
There should be a word for that complex moment when you discover that someone who is a long term part of your social media landscape is in your neighbourhood, but you don’t actually know them so can’t offer hospitality without it being weird. 😊
Training a 1 trillion parameter model is a 1GW exercise, but this is an infrequent process. Inferencing, however, is a continuous load that is expected to grow logarithmically based upon very high volumes of realtime data flowing from every edge device on the network.
November 18, 2024 at 11:36 AM
Training a 1 trillion parameter model is a 1GW exercise, but this is an infrequent process. Inferencing, however, is a continuous load that is expected to grow logarithmically based upon very high volumes of realtime data flowing from every edge device on the network.
Unfortunately, this is a massive underestimate. The real calculation needs to take into account the energy cost associated with flipping each bit in every transaction connected to the data centres.
See section 3.3 of https://irds.ieee.org/images/files/pdf/2023/2023IRDS_SA.pdf
See section 3.3 of https://irds.ieee.org/images/files/pdf/2023/2023IRDS_SA.pdf
November 18, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Unfortunately, this is a massive underestimate. The real calculation needs to take into account the energy cost associated with flipping each bit in every transaction connected to the data centres.
See section 3.3 of https://irds.ieee.org/images/files/pdf/2023/2023IRDS_SA.pdf
See section 3.3 of https://irds.ieee.org/images/files/pdf/2023/2023IRDS_SA.pdf