Computational Linguist | blogger | Gaeilgeoir

Online
Joined October 2018
caidéiseach retweeted
Hundreds of people have now signed our open letter about the state of maths education in Ireland. They include many of Ireland's leading startup founders, maths professors, the author of the most widely used applied maths textbook, our IMO medalists, parents, teachers...
4
39
2
158
4,979
caidéiseach retweeted
The government has released its draft mathematics curriculum for the Leaving Certificate, the main qualification that Irish teenagers leave secondary school with. It is astonishingly bad. For @_fitzwilliam, we have written about why:
17
84
9
328
27,263
model deployment has become so fun @runpod
29
caidéiseach retweeted
Beatriz is great, and on the job market. If you need someone good on metrics who you can trust for work on economic research, data analysis, and generally writing and thinking clearly about complex ideas related to economics, send her a DM.
is it really too cringe to add an "open to work" badge on LinkedIn? i need a job like ASAP
1
18
122
35,498
caidéiseach retweeted
making local files easy to adopt is filled with agony, luckily I like pain
You can now convert your Notion pages and databases to durable, private, local files. Your data, offline, forever, for free.
14
18
1
629
48,948
random chinese characters showing up in model outputs Deepseek was trained using chatgpt, and now chatgpt is being trained on deepseek
1
64
As a writer, @paulg 's The Shape of the Essay Field was illuminating, and it got me back translating another essay into Irish #Gaeilge
1
48
Where are the other people who get a different number each time from Deliveroo…
94
1/ Started watching Suits recently… Louis Litt (Suits: season 2, episode 3, 31:25): Barbinger File, done. Scofield Supoena, done. Johnson Strategy, written. Every single one of your assignments was completed by me last night. What else do we have left to do?
1
69
2/ Uh, filing? Filing, doc review, spell check. Grunt work? Yes, grunt work. Because that's your job.
1
21
3/ Let it be known that I can do your work faster and better than any one of you without shedding a tear or breaking a sweat but I don't because writing briefs and recommending arguments is how you learn. Sub in AI for Louis—you should still do the work to learn the fundamentals
22
Where has the sycophantic AI gone? Claude Sonnet 4 roasted a blog post draft I wrote lol
1
39
On a *completely* unrelated note, The Cognitive Collapse is now published: open.substack.com/pub/caidei…
14
Autocorrect operates on symbols. Predictive text operates on words. LLMs operate on tokens. But taste operates on truth, human truth. Seeing a lot more "Made by Human" and "No AI Used" tags on content. It is important to understand this not as Luddism, but as a core aspect of creating good things. Using AI has so many advantages, but it isn't novel nor unique. We are the crafters and with all the hype we shouldn't forget or undervalue that. 🔗 Below
1
2
80
google takeout is the handiest export feature i never heard of
1
56