The question of home has been concerning me lately. I left Northern Ireland at age 18 and other than an 18 month spell to do some travelling I have lived in the North East of England since. I have lived longer out of it than in it. I have a very definite sense of being …
Here in the UK (and elsewhere around the world) we are obsessed with celebrating the few who have achieved mega wealth. We allow the simple act of having raked in more cash to be viewed as a bigger measure of success in life as opposed to counting how happy a person was when they shuffled …
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For years now I have been tinkering with my morning routine. I tried the 5am club, I tried an exercise bike for 30 minutes, I tried slowly getting up and having a glass of water immediately and much more besides before settling on where I am right now and have been for the past three …
I like to challenge my own love of technology to keep it all in perspective. The below is a piece I wrote for my own musing a few years ago which still holds water today. We are obsessed with technology, but it is not an obsession of our own making. We are being railroaded into …
A series of photos taken around the quayside in Newcastle in the early 2010’s
UK – AI Security InstituteAnthropic and the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to make AI tools that can be integrated into UK government services for citizens. “AI has the potential to transform how governments serve their citizens,” said Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, in …
February 2025 Of great interest and for me to read further and see what impact it has. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-playbook-for-the-uk-government Initial thoughts while reading So, 10 principles in total to base usage of AI technologies in public sector upon. Sounds almost like the forging of the 10 rings in Tolkiens masterpiece. It also sounds impossible for this …
I had the pleasure many years ago of speaking to David Singleton at a private gathering. I was not there for a tech focused reason but it was incredibly clear to me from my brief chats that David was as clued in and switched on with cutting edge tech as anyone could have been. I …
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2025/02/23 My introduction to the real power of todays AI tools came very recently. Up until the start of February 2025 I had carried out a few of the usual tasks – Then at the start of February 2025 I attended a fantastic class with Pascal Fintoni – https://pascalfintoni.com/ at the Innovation SuperNetwork – Using …
For anyone interested in the general field of AI further than what we can achieve with CoPilot or mobile phone assistants this is a very interesting watch – The conversation goes across such a wide gammit of subjects it is quite hard to keep up at points but Andrej has a great way of making …
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