Joe Rafferty

Geek, Computer Scientist, Coffee Addict

also @[email protected]

[Joe Rafferty @juoople]

@UKDefJournal Utterly disappointed by your coverage of this. Perfect opportunity to make a naval gazer pun..... wasted ;)

Naval observer tsk tsk

[👩‍💻 Paige Bailey @DynamicWebPaige]

🎃 Personalized holiday videos to all of my relatives will *definitely* be happening this year.

Steps for the app:
- Use the webcam to take a picture of the user.
- Use NanoBanana to dress them in a costume.
- Use that 🍌 image as the Veo first and last frame.

Happy Halloween!

[Jürgen Schmidhuber @SchmidhuberAI]

More on CNN history: https://t.co/HdCanIaCCl Why did "modern" CNNs emerge in Japan 1979-1988 (Fukushima's 1979 CNN architecture → Zhang et al.'s 1988 backpropagation-trained CNN)? Let's look back at the 1980s. Back then, Japan was the envy of the world. Before the 1990 crash, the Tokyo stock market was the world's largest, and the world's 6 most valuable public companies were all Japanese. So were the world's richest business men. According to the real estate market, tiny Japan was 4 times more valuable than the much bigger US. The central square mile of Tokyo had the value of California. Japan had far more robots than any other country, and by far the most expensive AI project: the 5th Generation Project. Interestingly, this project had little to do with neural networks; it was mostly about logic programming and expert systems. So Fukushima and colleagues were outsiders back then. But at least there was sufficient funding in Japan, even for such unpopular types of blue skies research. Today, the rest of the world can be thankful for that. See also https://t.co/3Xfc5qoWQT

[Joe Rafferty @juoople]

@ProfCTurner Right up my Alley... all that's missing is some LoRa ;)

Cheers Colin

[SEUPB @SEUPB]

STRIDE was one of three transformative PEACEPLUS projects awarded over €10 million through the first Smart Towns and Villages funding call.

A second funding call has recently opened, offering an additional €17.1 million for projects aimed at improving access to and awareness of telecommunications in rural areas across Northern Ireland and the border counties of Ireland.

We encourage eligible organisations to apply at https://t.co/jHVnXNP3ru or visit the SEUPB website for more information.

@swccollege

[Research & Innovation @UUResearchInnov]

Ahead of International Women's Day, we’re celebrating the launch of míde—an all-island research consortium advancing women’s health, well-being, and performance in sport.

Read more: https://t.co/MFAWsCdtqE

#WeAreUU | #AccelerateAction

[The Alan Turing Institute @turinginst]

📢AI Fairness Workshop – apply now

📅5 Feb & 6 Mar 2025|📍The Turing, @britishlibrary
Apply by: 22 Jan 2025 https://t.co/W22kPp4WG0

2-part workshop on identifying & mitigating bias in #AI
✅Technical product managers
✅ML engineers
✅Data scientists
✅R&D professionals

[Sync NI @SyncNI]

EY Northern Ireland (EY NI) has announced it has selected Ebrington Plaza in Derry as the location for its new Northwest regional office.

The new Northwest office reinforces EY NI’s commitment made at the Northern Ireland Investment Summit in September 2023 to create 1,000 new jobs in NI over the next five years, which will double the total EY NI headcount.

Read more here ⬇️

https://t.co/QkweMUDHqE

#Derry #NorthWest #EYNI #Jobs #Careers #NorthernIreland #NI

[Tom Dörr @tom_doerr]

Tool to generate API documentation by capturing and analyzing HTTP traffic using mitmproxy

[SEGA SATURN, SHIRO! @playsegasaturn]

GTA 3's Dreamcast port has finally been released to the public! You can check out how to play now at https://t.co/3xR6kpDO1m!

Big thanks to @Frogbull55, @Poiitidis, and @falco_girgis for making this happen!

Check out gameplay of the latest release here:
https://t.co/xeKaHRVdnl

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

“My wife complains that open office will never print on Tuesdays”

A bizarre sentence; which kicked off one of the most interesting bug hunts in Ubuntu’s history.

It all starts with some goofy pattern matching.

[Sean Agnew @seanagnew]

“The FAA just grounded all American Airlines flights nationwide”

[Ryan Reynolds @VancityReynolds]

Canada, you’ve given me more than I could ever repay. Thank you for this incredible honor—I promise to use my powers for good... and general whimsy. @GGCanada

[Cathy Gormley-Heenan @cathycgh]

Love this! So #ProudofUU 🎉🎉🎉

[✨ Maurice Mulvenna ✨ @MauriceMulvenna]

Kudos to Kate Turley, @Royalcom1851 @UlsterUniPhD researcher, @chromalighting computer scientist,
Society of Light & Lighting's @SLL100 Young Lighter 🏆2024, Future Leader Winner 🏆 at Innovate UK KTP awards 2024 and now her first journal paper!
👉 https://t.co/vygeCKpMVj 👏

[Ulster University @UlsterUni]

🎉Ulster is the Uni of the Year @Timeshighered Awards!​
The judges said Ulster's achievements “demonstrated the University’s growing influence and status in the island of Ireland, &as a force for good in fostering peace, prosperity and cohesion.”​
👉: https://t.co/weKtvGVgbi

[Jimmy @jdtlgr]

The man who made things a whole lot more difficult for farmers, now has the cheek to cosplay as a farmer, while claiming to be on their side.

Absolute charlatan.

[👩‍💻 Paige Bailey @DynamicWebPaige]

📽️ It's amazing that ~2 years ago, you needed to use dedicated, specialized APIs and hundreds of lines of code to just accomplish a single, simple video understanding task

(ex: identifying logos in a .mp4)

...and now, all you have to do is ask politely with ~10 lines of code.

[👩‍💻 Paige Bailey @DynamicWebPaige]

Really love this paper about long context benchmarks, as well as its "IDK" task (getting the model to admit that it doesn't have all of the information to answer). 😁

More long context benchmarks, please!

[Joe Rafferty @juoople]

It was great having you all! It was a brilliant session that the students and staff loved.

[Yuan Zhang @YuanMitchell]

Had a great time on the Tech Community Panel yesterday at @ComMat with @awflwafl, @ChloeMcAteer3, and @janinecrosbie! Enjoyed discussing our journeys in tech. Big thanks to all who attended, and to my fellow panelists for sharing their insights!