Tom Barber
@magicaltrout.bsky.social
80% of AI projects fail. Ours run in global institutions | Data products & AI in production for regulated industries | https://concepttocloud.com
@kubefloworg.bsky.social graduated to @cncf.io top-level status. today at noon et, i'm diving live into kubeflow alongside chris mattmann's mnemosyne project, build something small and simple to show how integration works and how it would scale. live at noon et: www.linkedin.com/events/75005...
What better way to test an LLM than on your own MRI? I went to have an MRI yesterday for some nerve pain, so when I got the results I did what any AI curious person would do. I fed Fable 5.1, released today with the images and told it to diagnose me with zero context. Not bad!
Integration and vendor lock-in: the red flag that surfaces the week after close, once portfolio companies start getting pushed together. Reducing outlay is the whole point. So does anything in the stack block a cloud migration that would take cost out? Red flag 5 of 5.
Thank christ the “Write with AI” Linkedin button seems to be gone.
I saw on the interwebs over the weekend that OpenAI bought a shed load of Mac mini’s and Mac studios for agent training. Anthropic are renting them via AWS. I thought the whole Mac mini thing was for home lab folks who want to run their own models. The chip crunch is absolutely insane.
Why didn’t we build this right the first time? A regular question from customers who need to understand how product evolution works. More here: concepttocloud.com/podcast/conc...
I let a contractor go on a fintech project a couple of months ago. They were technically brilliant. They didn't want to collaborate with anyone else on the team. If you can't explain your code to a teammate, especially now with agents writing half of it, think again.
"The build is fine, trust me" won't pass an audit. Wed Sep 9, 12:00 ET — I'm going live: proving your software supply chain from scratch. Sigstore signing, SLSA provenance, verify-at-deploy. Live Q&A. 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-lA... #CNCF #Sigstore @cncf.io
Saving money with cloud services... I have a new vlog out... finally!
I find it super annoying on Android there’s no way to just disable play store apps rather than uninstalling them. All the older disablers seem broken, I guess cause of API changes.
Most people seem to be spending this week getting their boats hauled out. Such a waste. I'm burning some holiday over Thanksgiving here in the UK getting out and catching up on life outside of work from an alternative location. ⛵
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Another day, another million new people have joined Bluesky! 18M users? 🙂↔️ 18M friends 🙂↕️
Anyone catching up on the NFL highlights whilst doing some knitting on a Saturday night? No? Weird....
Can someone tell Youtube to stop offering me up knocked of family guy videos as suggestions when I’ve never watched an episode in my life…. 😒
I've run a lot of dev teams over the years, but never manager by name. Now that I am.... Who else ends up concerned they aren't doing my enough even when things are running to schedule and milestones are hit? 😬🙄
My old line manager at JPL who has laid off hundreds of people is talking about adding to the morale bank account 😂 Fun times!
I'm not a prolific reader but occasionally on weeks like this one. Very apt books cross my desk...
If anyone on Linkedin is bored of the giant tangerine and rocket man, then I have a pretty decent hack if you have ublock installed….
As I’m not American and don’t want to spend the day doom scrolling polarising news outlets or dealing with tweets. I literally dug out an old PI and slapped PI Hole on it and immediately updated the block list…..
If you want something to do thats not doom scrolling or watching rolling news…. I have a substack with some work thoughts. Including some musings from monday about Ethics when it comes to open access data and model training: articles.concepttocloud.com Subscribe and make my stats go up! 😍
Idea Ignition: Fueling Startups from Concept to Cloud | Tom Barber | Substack
Transforming startup visions into cloud realities - from concept inception to market-ready MVP. Click to read Idea Ignition: Fueling Startups from Concept to Cloud, a Substack publication. Launched 10...
articles.concepttocloud.com
Recorded some thoughts over on Substack about Ethics, Data and AI privacy. open.substack.com/pub/spicule/...
Ethics in IT: Data and Model Training
In this video, we explore the critical role of ethics in data and model training for AI.
open.substack.com
Back to work after a few days away with the kids to end half term 😢😎
Whilst most of my drone flying is for environmental and business based research sometimes you just need to get out and go flying. Obviously, moody nightscapes and boats help! 😎
I wonder sometimes how much Spotify stalks... I mean... just knows me.... 😬 (The Track Name, not the Band Name before ya'll start freaking out!)
