Andrew Collinson

Strategy, culture and stuff. Likes learning. Bad footballer. Opinionated muso. #AI, #digitaltransformation, #telecoms #neuroscience. Ex @STLPartners.

[Andrew Collinson @ADCCo]

Redrawing “autism”. Nuanced approach to understanding differences across many aspects. Balances the paradox of the language of autism being useful but the “hard” definition being challenging to both personal identities and clinical practices.

[Andrew Collinson @ADCCo]

“the forest of surprises” - the front line in Ukraine. It sounds like not all western weapons are not getting to volunteer battalions.

https://t.co/n7dGNCGSJO

[Andrew Collinson @ADCCo]

Interesting view on how US supported Soviet WW2 industrialisation … and debt led to Stalin’s brutal repressions. NB I am not a historian and lazily haven’t fact checked, so corroborations would be valuable.

[Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani]

Why Russia can't win against the West

Russia is often portrayed as the invincible military power. And yet, this reputation is based on two wars - Napoleonic and WWII. In both cases Russia won only thanks to the alliance allied with *the* leading economic powerhouse of that era🧵

[Andrew Collinson @ADCCo]

@gerryforcomms Could be Mrs Mimo…

[Andrew Collinson @ADCCo]

Blimey

[George Mack @george__mack]

Who is the most high-agency person you've never heard of?

Rudolf Vrba.

He escaped Auschwitz by soaking himself in gasoline -- to give a memo to Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Pope.

Meet the man who saved 200,000 lives from the Nazis:

[Andrew Collinson @ADCCo]

I like this

[Jason Elsom @JasonElsom]

All educators should hear this again and again. The late @SirKenRobinson …

[Andrew Collinson @ADCCo]

Among all the “insane prompts” AI copy here’s something rather beautiful

[Kris Kashtanova @icreatelife]

One of my dear friends asked me to train a Stable Diffusion model on photographs of his mother. He was very close with his mother who was a single mother. They had a lot of adventures together. She passed away way too soon.

I trained a model locally and let him use my computer and taught him to use A.I. He's never used A.I. before and as you know prompting in SD is much harder than Midjourney, so I showed him https://t.co/7kMxKwyFY0 where he could search for prompts and styles. He asked me to sit in the same room and I sat on the couch and gave him space.

He was typing and then asked me to come. I saw photographs of a young boy and his mother and I thought he was recreating photos of them together in the past. I asked if it was him. "It's my future son and my mom."

He said it was a healing experience. With his kind permission, I share with you these and his captions.

[Andrew Collinson @ADCCo]

Seems Google fears open source AI will outpace it and ChatGPT very soon

[Simon Willison @simonw]

Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”

The most interesting thing I've read recently about LLMs - a purportedly leaked document from a researcher at Google talking about the huge strategic impact open source models are having
https://t.co/q2lsjTHKGS

[Andrew Collinson @ADCCo]

Dean being disruptive - so good to get back to live events again @FuturenetW - thank you for the invitation!

[Dean Bubley @disruptivedean]

Now a keynote from @ADCCo on enterprise demands on telcos

Good points on maturity & credibility

I don’t agree with the phasing of “digitalisation”

Digital predates computing. It’s 100+ years old. It’s not new. Current transformation is in many ways post-digital

[Andrew Collinson @ADCCo]

Wonderful thread: “Ruskin said you can never quite trust what a society says about itself, but you can always trust what it builds.”

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Why Architecture Is Important

(and what it says about us)

A short thread...

[Andrew Collinson @ADCCo]

@Harry__Baldock Congratulations Harry - great work!

[Andrew Collinson @ADCCo]

Food for thought: what are an iPhone’s ingredients?

[Mashable @mashable]

What's in an iPhone? These scientists made an iPhone smoothie to find out

[Andrew Collinson @ADCCo]

@RobDChambers @totaltelecom Love that!

[Andrew Collinson @ADCCo]

Useful potted history of #ai

[Misha @mishadavinci]

100 million people use ChatGPT.

Fewer than 1% understand it.

A mega thread to get you up to speed:

[Andrew Collinson @ADCCo]

@3PARA @TheParachuteReg @16AirAssltBCT My dad was in the first wave of paras to land over the Rhine by Wesel that day. They thought they were going to die but the German AA was zeroed at high altitude for the bombers the previous night and they got in with much lighter casualties than feared.

[Andrew Collinson @ADCCo]

That was me and I like to think I was right!

[Mobile World Live @mobileworldlive]

Watch #MWLOnDemand ⏯

Hear from @ADCCo, Executive Director & Chief Research Officer of @STLPartners at #MWC23, being interviewed by @SpringhamJustin on Monday, 27 February 2023.

See session here: ⤵
https://t.co/cSZzCUwayw

[Andrew Collinson @ADCCo]

I’m commenting on this keynote next Monday at #MWC2023 - anything I should look out for?

[Mobile World Live @mobileworldlive]

Broadcasting #MWC23 Keynote 2: Delivering the Digital Decade next week. Inc execs from @GSMA (@LaraDewar), @ITU @ericsson @deutschetelekom @chinamobileTR. Preview and analysis with @SpringhamJustin @SashaTwining @CoachRasMC @ADCCo https://t.co/Rs6jyNnkd9

[Andrew Collinson @ADCCo]

It matters what you stand for

[Rebecca Donner @RRRDonner]

#OTD My great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack was beheaded on Hitler’s direct order. Born in Milwaukee, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin & moved to Germany to pursue a PhD. As an American grad student in Berlin, she witnessed a rapid increase in Hitler's popularity. 1/12

[Andrew Collinson @ADCCo]

This is worth reading

[midge ure💙 @midgeure1]

Me!