Stephen Walsh

Worth noting that this was a major issue for the Freak Brothers and may ultimately have contributed to their split.

Was that you Henry, moving the glass all along??

Until such time as AI remains unable to pronounce “AI” I feel the existential risk remains low
#JustSayin’

This will be interesting.
HSE sending children to UK for irreversible gender reassignment ops.
How despicable

Former Irish Rippling employee says he passed information to rival firm for payments, court hears Keith O’Brien said in a sworn statement that he received thousands of euro in monthly payments

Former Irish Rippling employee says he passed information to rival firm for payments, court hears

Very devious behaviour by Deel

Michael O’Leary: Government ‘dithering’ over Dublin Airport cap needs to end On Wednesday, the High Court granted interlocutory relief pending a decision in wider legal proceedings on the passenger cap, citing the ‘serious irreparable harm’ a winter limit would cause airlines. Picture: Fergal Phillips

Michael O’Leary: Government ‘dithering’ over Dublin Airport cap needs to end

Time for Europe to finally use russia’s frozen assets to arm Ukraine

has anyone called it a Volkischwagen, or is that too Germanic and obscure? [also: actual history of Volkswagen - www.volkswagen-group.com/en/volkswage... ]

If a scientist follows evidence which leads him to different findings to yours would that make him a bigot in your eyes?

Prison service in Ireland is at risk of class action by female inmates in Limerick who are unprotected from sexual predator Barbie Kardashian

Scouting Ireland director steps down from Charities Regulator board after Minister threatens to remove her Galway barrister Lorraine Lally had been asked to tender resignation by Heather Humphreys over conflict of interest concern

Scouting Ireland director steps down from Charities Regulator board after Minister threatens to remove her

Good to see Minister Humphries taking decisive action to prevent conflict of interest at the Charities regulator.
Scouting Ireland is in a bad state

Person: Barbie Kardashian Person: Barbie Kardashian: A comprehensive series of articles on this topic

Barbie Kardashian - disturbing case of a violent sex offender housed in Limerick’s women’s prison.

Why?

www.irishexaminer.com/maintopics/p...

Yes, and enabling RAG query of contracts, transcripts of meetings, summarisation. All are helpful but where sensitive info is present then strictly pre-trained models in private cloud

From the research I’m doing GenAI use cases are getting more traction in document rich corporate settings; eg law firms. Over time high value will be deployed in B2C situations

If a bot is connected to ground-truth - say your bank account - and a credit decisioning system and is empowered to take actions relevant to you then they have a context to create value

Work is underway to create bot credit agents that are connected to customer information files, decision systems and are empowered to take actions e.g. adjust your loan repayment schedule.

Doubt anybody would resent engaging with this bot if they efficiently get desired outcome

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You’re very welcome Ronan. Happy Christmas!

After 5 years of Minister
@EamonRyan
in gov (when he commissioned 9 new gas fired power stations), Ireland's grid is more carbon intensive and expensive than ever.

Any country serious about clean, cheap electricity should look to France not Germany.

You’re keen to drive high tech investment from Ireland to neighbouring countries. Yet you are an avid user of these data centres yourself.

Photo taken from a car (I was a passenger). The main road curves left and quickly out of sight behind a bushy wall. Immediately on the left, before the curve, is a narrow local road perpendicular to the main road. At the junction is a red octagonal road sign that says "STOP". Someone has painted two letters above the word, in the same white sans-serif capitals, so that the sign now reads "AH STOP".

This Irishing of a road sign outside Galway is a cut above the usual defacement #SpéirGorm #SpeirGorm

Stop the Lights

My old "How Trump speaks like a mob boss" post in action, based on research for my first book reading the confessions of actual Sicilian mafia pentiti ... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/201...

Well deserved

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Assad dead?!
His plane is reported “taken down” near Homs during the night.

I wonder if millions will return to Syria soon?

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