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Geek, thespian, activist, crackpot. A Galwegian Ulsterman at large. DPO by day, politico by night. 0xFB73E21AF1163937 (Banner image […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.ie/@andrewg, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

Andrew Gallagher

#LLMs are the triumph of output over outcome. https://martinfowler.com/bliki/OutcomeOverOutput.html

While ruminating about the absurd cost of RAM and flash memory, both important for photography, and hearing about the AI datacenter sprawl, I am left pondering what the used equipment market is going to look like in 5-7 years. Memory is crazy expensive now because manufacturers are retooling to […]

#LLMs violate the separation of instructions from data https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/prompt-injection-is-not-sql-injection

RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/116648209688298468 #LLMs exist because private equity has run out of realistic ways to pay for their private pension liabilities, and have retreated into fantasy

"One of the greatest challenges in combating fascism, both in the early-to-mid-twentieth century and today, is getting comfortable, middle-class, politically moderate people to understand that its adherents actually mean what they are saying." […]

Fingal plans to develop Dunsink into an urban quarter. Great plan in principle - it’s inside the M50 and close to the railway so should help the city’s sustainability. Does all modern architecture have to look like punched cards though? Is there no design originality any more? […]

When you’re an atheist, but you join the UUC to do human rights activism - and you get to sing songs from the book of the dead on Sunday whilst talking about First Nations rights

Jonathan Pie never misses. And this summary of Fat Putin's asinine war with Iran & those that support him is a dunk of global proportions. #jonathanpie #trump #iran

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Andrew Gallagher

@spaceinvader “patch your shit”is a little hard when it’s the windows 2000 systems keeping water on safely for a city and the person who installed the system and attached pumps is now dead.

Andrew Gallagher

#LLM agents violate Hammerstein's Law, clause 4: "One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord