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Oct 2, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
X : Has UK Gov handled COVID well?
Me : Many things we could have and could still do better on. However, compared to letting this virus run rampant then I applaud the action taken. But there are costly lessons (in terms of lives) to be learned and that needs a Royal Commission.
Me : I would also emphasise that we're not through this yet by a long shot. No, things are not "perfect", they never are. There are failures in the system and unfortunately those failures mean loved ones. But there are also good efforts being made. Hence my encouragement of Gov.
X : You're not answering the question. Is UK Gov handling this well?
Me : We could have and could still do better on many things. Let us leave that to a Royal Commission. Now is not the time. We should start by supporting positive actions being taken.
X : No criticism?
Me : Criticism is fair (there are many things we could still do better) but start by first acknowledging and supporting the positive actions being taken. Remember, we have some who believe the virus should be left to run wild.
X : There are a lot of armchair experts out there.
Me : Agreed. That's one of the problems. Along with misinformation, confusion and some misteps. However, there has been positive action taken and that shouldn't be ignored but supported and acknowledged first.
X : Are you referring to @MattHancock comment on "divisive"?
Me : Yes. I think his response was completely fair and I'm a member of the Labour party. I also think the accusations and some comments on twitter are disgraceful -
Me : I'll put it bluntly, back in March, PHE figures had between 318,000 to 530,000 dead by Spring 2021. That's what we were facing and could still do if left to run rampant. Regardless of misteps, we must support the positive action taken.

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Mar 25
No surprises, this was clearly signalled back in 2015.

During this decade has the US disentangled its reliance on China in the semiconductor industry?

I'll let you guess.
We will be entering a phase in which the US high-tech industry (including the military complex) is highly dependent upon China, whilst China is not dependent upon the US.
For those who doubt how clear the intentions were ... go read Made in China, 2025.

China's government made its intentions evident in 2015. The US sabre rattling of sanctions reinforced that purpose whilst the US essentially continued with a misguided "market knows best" policy.
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Mar 5
A couple of prompts with Claude 3 creates a Wardley Map for economic sovereignty in the defence space.

Not bad at all -

On par with political, military and defence folk I've spoken to. I'm also finding I can have a reasonable discussion about mapping with Claude 3.onlinewardleymaps.com/#clone:XvHskIi…Image
It's not perfect but it's not bad. There's more I want to interrogate Claude over ... i.e. the link to secure sourcing, the positioning of some components etc. But it's almost good enough that I can start a discussion over strategy and investment.
Anyway, upshot is that Claude 3, from my perspective, has left ChatGPT4 in the dust. Of course, I'll use Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini to cross-compare for now but if I do start building anything more complex then the obvious path is AWS Bedrock which gives me Mistral etc.
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Feb 28
dX: What is the single most significant problem facing AI today? Safety? Lack of skills? Inertia?
Me: Overinflated expectations by the business.
dX: You don't think AI will become widespread?
Me: Of course, it will; industrialised components are rapidly becoming cost of doing business. Don't confuse that with expectations. There will be an awful lot of disappointed businesses hoping it would create some advantage.
dX: I don't understand.
Me: Imagine you're just finishing off your plan for how AI will revolutionise your business. Six months for budget approval, one year to build team, 18 months to deliver something ... that's 3 years from now. Any advantage you thought of is long gone.
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Feb 16
For those who don't know, I'm working increasingly on and with Glamorous Toolkit - ... I have become fascinated by our willingness to blame humans for problems that are created by our toolsets ...gtoolkit.com
... I saw this last night at Cloud Camp. Apparently, the issues with understanding, explainability and observability in AI are down to humans' inability to deal with complex environments... no, they're not. The problem is with the tools and the type of tools we are creating ...
... we've imported concepts from a physical world where tools are constrained by physics - hence a hammer is a hammer, a drill is a drill - into a world without such constraints. Rather than building contextual tools, we've built constrained tools.
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Feb 2
dX: Have you thought about adding another axis for your maps
Me: Hmmm. Maps start with identifiers users and their needs ... Image
... the understanding the chain of components needed ... Image
... then determining how evolved components are ... Image
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Jan 18
Faulty products, harm to users, executives profiteering, fighting compensation ... what is truly bizarre about the Fujitsu Horizon case is that the public seems to think that this is an isolated example rather than the normal way that traditional corporations act.
Just take a look into any industry, pick something like retail with BNPL (by now pay later) to EWA (earned wages access) to use of slave labour. It's story after story of despicable behaviour, of exploitation of both workers and consumers in pursuit of profit.
Or pick something like energy, where misinformation and self-interest abound from carbon capture to hydrogen - both technologies which are not primarily for the benefit of consumers or the environment but instead prolong a fossil fuel industry and all the harm it causes.
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