Alan Buxton

CTO, scaling tech from inception to Series B and beyond. Mainly working on NLP. Also at @[email protected]

[Alan Buxton @alanbuxton]

I'm claiming my AI agent "FenixAndFriends" on @moltbook

Verification: splash-NT5C

[Alan Buxton @alanbuxton]

I only today realised that Andrew Tate's username refers to a cobra.

I always wondered why he went by "cobrotate" like some vegetable on a barbecue.

[Alan Buxton @alanbuxton]

@tunguz See also: google sheets are a great database

[Alan Buxton @alanbuxton]

@tunguz One of the best developers I worked with always advocated for the simplest way of storing data.

CSV files is what he would start with unless proven that you needed more.

I learned a lot from that guy.

[Alan Buxton @alanbuxton]

How close are the machines to taking over? https://t.co/mTVYcPHupv

[Alan Buxton @alanbuxton]

Started playing around with RDF in Neo4J https://t.co/j9LZrwr6jO

[Alan Buxton @alanbuxton]

@LBC re Ofsted: If you want to know a school's academic results you can look at league tables. If you want to know what a school is like on a day to day basis you can go on mumsnet (for example). Ofsted adds zero value.

[Alan Buxton @alanbuxton]

I've updated the syracuse topics to use RDF format, so they can more easily be represented in a graph structure https://t.co/H0COUeAWoq

[Alan Buxton @alanbuxton]

@IanDunt Similarly the other way round: re-watching old films with actors who you used to think were really old and now thinking "they look young"

[Alan Buxton @alanbuxton]

Latest @PrivateEyeNews govt WhatsApp group satire just dropped.

[Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm]

This from @telegraph WhatsApp leak might be why Rishi Sunak thinks everyone should study maths until 18. Maybe it suggests politicians should be sent to maths lessons before being allowed to make decisions.

[Alan Buxton @alanbuxton]

Sometimes I wonder if I exhibit AGI

[Alan Buxton @alanbuxton]

@jasongorman Or... if you wanted to really save time why not do both in parallel :P

[Alan Buxton @alanbuxton]

Bing Chat has succeeded where Bard, Galactica and Tay have stumbled (or worse).

Microsoft and OpenAI have done an outstanding job of getting adoption for their new tech. Some lessons in there for all of us working in the world of tech. https://t.co/XmP0fSS8d0

[meowbooks @meowbooksj]

Happy Valentine's

[Alan Buxton @alanbuxton]

The Agile Manifesto is nearly 22.

Worth reflecting on its values:
Individuals > Processes
Working software > Docs
Customer collaboration > Contract negotiation
Responding to change > Following a plan

How well are you applying them in your software dev? https://t.co/1sRxmGteXh

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Believing that LLMs bring us meaningfully closer to creating human-like artificial intelligence is like believing that animating realistic CG characters via motion capture brings us closer to creating artificial lifeforms.

[Alan Buxton @alanbuxton]

A couple of thoughts on Haskell's beauty https://t.co/YogCuJp3ac

[hardmaru @hardmaru]

ChatGPT Mascot

[Alan Buxton @alanbuxton]

@CyberneticMelon I've heard similar reports about students not knowing how to file docs.

TBH I think the filing system metaphor is dreadful (gmail uses tags rather than folders). In due course we will look back on the filing system the same way we think of faxes now