Rick Stock

Digital consultancy to private and public sector. Views ever so much my own.

[Alex Reibman 🖇️ @AlexReibman]

OpenAI’s biggest rival is shaking things up.

Anthropic invited 200+ elite hackers to their SF headquarters to see what’s possible with Claude

Here’s what we saw at the @AnthropicAI x @MenloVentures Builder Day Hackathon (🧵):

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Training Llama 4 on 100k H100s.

[Rick Stock @rickstock]

#brixham #devon

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It’s those Northern Lights again… #walthamstow

[Adham Dannaway @AdhamDannaway]

When you just want to read that article ... 😤

[Rick Stock @rickstock]

Agile delivery and plans: Know your audience, structure your deliver to provide strong data signals. Read more here https://t.co/AaIrLupNJE

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Misty Monday morning and off to Sheffield for our monthly team day #prisonsdigital

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I bet there’s a lot of big companies wondering if that ideal mono-culture of technology across their IT estate might be a different risk/benefit than they imagined.

[Rick Stock @rickstock]

https://t.co/MgZ74eeQrn who knows how useful/usable this will be for building apps that users like or need, but as an early indicator of the direction of travel that AWS et al are heading, extraordinarily interesting.

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Back from the not so far north. Great updates on progress from the Prisons Digital team, some pretty terrible football and a remarkable leaving do speech I will remember for a long time.

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Heading North to sunny Sheffield for the Prisons Digital SMT day…

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Remember the South West Water scandal in Brixham a month back? It dropped out of the national news, but it’s STILL not fixed a month later on, and my 87 year old mum is still drinking bottled water.

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Overview of OpenAI’s security architecture, including interesting use of GPT 4 to suggest least privilege access roles https://t.co/oXp4wbtOxE

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AI video stuff is moving so fast, fascinating/unnerving/probably inevitably ubiquitous.

[Nick St. Pierre @nickfloats]

Here is an example of one of the actual prompts used in @paultrillo’s Sora Music video

It’s so remarkably long that it literally won’t fit in a single post, so I’ll split it into a thread:

💬 continuous shot moving forward zooming through time, with a view of 1980s highschool hall corridor with checkered tiled floor, buzzing with students walking around. the scene is captured from a low angle front perspective, showing a door at the end of the corridor getting bigger and closer. the scene is blurred, indicating a high speed movement. the shot is moody and cinematic, with a slight vignette and a warm, vintage tone. the shot is captured on 35mm film, fuji film stock from the 90s with an anamorphic 24mm lens. motion blur as we zoom continuous shot, analog film. • One point perspective FPV, continuous shot moving forward zooming through a time and through the doorway, with a view of a open classroom of students dressed in 80s attire. we zoom through students looking to the front of the class room rushing in front of the lens. the classroom has a distinct 80s feel. the scene is captured from a front perspective, showing the students getting bigger and bigger we see two students, a male student with dark hair and jean jacket making eye contact with a female student also in a jean jacket. the female student is chewing bubblegum and make a bubble from pink bubble gum. the scene is blurred, indicating a high speed movement. the shot is moody and cinematic, with a slight vignette and a warm, vintage tone. the shot is captured on 35mm film, fuji film stock from the 90s with an anamorphic 24mm lens. motion blur as we zoom continuous shot, analog film. • One point perspective FPV, continuous shot moving forward zooming through the classroom, with a 18 year old boy with dark hair and jean jacket making eye contact with a female student also in a jean jacket. the female makes a bubble with pink bubblegum in front of the lens. we zoom through the bubble it pops and we zoom through the bubblegum and enter an open football field. the scene is moving rapidly, showing a front perspective, showing the students getting bigger and faster. the scene is blurred, indicating a high speed movement. the shot is moody and cinematic, with a slight vignette and a warm, vintage tone. the shot is captured on 35mm film, fuji film stock from the 90s with an anamorphic 24mm lens. motion blur as we zoom continuous shot, analog film. • One point perspective FPV, continuous shot moving forward zooming through an open football field overcast, from the 1980s, with the bleachers in the background distance. in the center of the shot is the same guy and girl in jean jackets with their back to camera walking in the field. we see they are holding hands the camera narrows in zooming in toward their hands clutching. the scene is moving rapidly, showing a front perspective of their hands getting bigger and closer. we zoom toward the bleachers in the background, the scene is blurred, indicating a high speed movement. the shot is moody and cinematic, with a slight vignette and a warm, vintage tone. the shot is captured on 35mm film, fuji film stock from the 90s with an anamorphic 24mm lens. motion blur as we zoom continuous shot, analog film. •  One point perspective FPV, continuous shot moving forward zooming through the couple’s hands holding, we zoom through the bleachers in background of the football field and through a moody forest of trees at night with the neon glow of the city in the background is out of focus with bokeh. the city is out of focus behind the trees at night. the scene is captured by the camera in a fast and smooth movement. the scene is blurred, indicating a high speed movement. the trees have an opening a tunnel at the center that we enter. the shot is moody and cinematic, with a slight vignette and a warm, vintage tone. the shot is captured on 35mm film, fuji film stock from the 90s with an anamorphic 24mm lens. motion blur as we zoom continuous

[Rick Stock @rickstock]

Finally! Frogs are back…

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Northern lights in E17?

[Adham Dannaway @AdhamDannaway]

Who's guilty? 😅

#design #ux #uxdesign

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The world would be a better place if local councils tested that their website’s password validation checking is compatible with standard browser auto-generated strong passwords.

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Currently a research project, but another step on the road to somewhere nobody knows nonetheless…

[Madni Aghadi @hey_madni]

🚨 Breaking news:

Google just introduced ScreenAI, and it's wild.

This is going to transform the future of UX forever

Here's everything you need to stay ahead of the curve: 🧵 👇

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

In 1973, a Concorde modified with rooftop portholes chased a total solar eclipse over the Sahara, staying in totality for 74 minutes.

It flew at >1400 mi/hr & is the longest time humans have ever experienced a total solar eclipse... and probably will be for a long time.