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Mícheál Ó Foghlú reposted thisMícheál Ó Foghlú reposted thisWanted to try renting a GPU for an open weight model for a while. Specifically runpod. With Gemma 4 released, I finally had a reason to try. It works, though it was a bit clumsy. Here is a container for y'all to try the Gemma 4 31B in serverless with llama.cpp and unsloth 8 bit quant. It seems to be a charming, cheap and privacy preserving way to do LLMs. Might try the smaller ones for even better efficiency when I have thought of a systematic way to evaluate. https://lnkd.in/ecpb_uNq
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Mícheál Ó Foghlú reposted thisMícheál Ó Foghlú reposted thisLLMs broke the SRE runbook. Now what? During the last SREcon, we sat down with Alejandro Saucedo, Charity Majors, Jay Lees, Maria Vechtomova, Niall Murphy, and Todd Underwood to discuss the question with the community for 2 hours. The conclusion: no one has it figured out. It's VERY much a work in progress. Heinrich Hartmann — who was in that room and the conference co-chair — is now turning that conversation into a conference, along with this same group. ✨ Signals Berlin happening on September 10–11 ✨ One question on the table: how is AI actually changing the way software is operated and kept reliable? Do you have an opinion on the topic? The CFP is open. We are looking for talks on: ▶ AI and software delivery ▶ AI in software operations ▶ Reliability of AI systems ▶ Platform and organizational change Work in progress is welcome. You don't need a clean ending to submit. If you're living this problem right now, that's the talk we want. Deadline: May 10th. CFP → signalsconf.io/cfp
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Mícheál Ó Foghlú reposted thisAfter working through a number of multi-company implementations of agentic workflows, we're convinced that we are on the precipice of a new value wave, with a corresponding complexity wave. It's one thing to manage agentic execution when applying policies, regulations and risk frameworks for a single org, but when you're dealing with agentic B2B scenarios (supply chain, financial reconciliations, multi-party commerce), it can expose all sorts of hidden complexity that is mostly absorbed and moderated by humans today (tacit knowledge). Unfortunately, there are no silver bullets here. But we did want to share some early experiences we've gained designing for agentic flows that leave the building, where AI is now an organization's representative, ambassador and sometimes negotiator :) Google Cloud Brad Calder Karthik NarainMícheál Ó Foghlú reposted thisIn Google Cloud's Office of the CTO (#OCTO) we work with a broad range of enterprises who are adopting #AI and now #Agents to improve operational efficiency, employee productivity and customer experience. Our most advanced customers are starting to extend AI and agentic workflows beyond their organizational boundaries, which raises new technical and business challenges. What happens when your agents leave your building? We're learning that scaling AI agents beyond enterprise walls requires moving from internal management to a global ecosystem of standardized protocols, shared trust, and agent-ready governance. Read more by Will Grannis, John Abel, Ben McCormack, Yingchao Huang, Antonio Gulli and me: https://lnkd.in/gav8Ph4MYour agents are leaving the building | Google Cloud BlogYour agents are leaving the building | Google Cloud Blog
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Mícheál Ó Foghlú reposted thisWhy do I love Google? because of its culture. and what is this culture? this picture says it allMícheál Ó Foghlú reposted thisIt was amazing hosting the Google Hackathon where Sergey Brin, Co-Founder of Google, made a special appearance with DeepStation powered by Miami Dade College, The LAB Miami and OutRival 🤩 Selfie of a lifetime! Thank you for coming out and helping give a big welcome to the Co-Founder of Google! 🙏 This moment was only possible due to the hard work of Googlers, such as as Miguel Suárez and ☁️ Pipe Martina, Miami Dade College, The LAB Miami (Ayal Stern Chris Daniels Danny Lafuente), our incredible volunteers, mentors, judges, and of course our community sponsors: Miami Tech Works and Kaufman Rossin Pedro A Santos Acosta DBA Antonio Delgado Fornaguera Terri-Ann Brown Jon Q. Adell, MBA Alex Nawar Jane Kim Natalie Cone PMP Ajith Punnakula Alan G. Agnel Nieves Fuentes Angela Elle S. Larissa Macko Nihal Kaul Melissa Medina Saif Ishoof Vera Nieuwland Madeline Pumariega Etienne Gillard Danielle Mousseau Gino Volpi Clem Delangue 🤗 Ruben Harris Timur Meyster Alvin Pane Maria Derchi Russo Anayansy Hernandez Scott Srebnick
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Mícheál Ó Foghlú reposted thisMícheál Ó Foghlú reposted thisCalled an Uber this morning and to my surprise it offered a Waymo (driverless car) as an option. At 10am , a complete surprise and by 8pm, felt “normal”: I’d have expected to feel fearful and to want to have “braking” control. But last week a human driver breaking not one but two red lights, (🙄🙄🙄) nearly sent me and the driver of the cab I was in, into the next life , causing a foot-to-the-board braking and swerve, and a very painful near impact and fright . So I’ve rather enjoyed this experiment. We tend to be early tech adopters in my house, and I had a wee squeal that we would get to try Waymo when I had not expected to. Also: your initials get flashed above the car so you know which one to get into. Not gonna lie, as a life long average driver who could take or leave cars generally, I loved it. I did cause family mirth by seriously asking my family fellow passengers in Irish (we use this as code when travelling so we can fairly freely discuss tipping levels) whether I needed to tip the driving robot. 🤖 😂😂 A whole new world. It was so fun getting in to our second one a few hours later and chatting with people on the footpath about it. My intuition was that I would feel unsafe. Possibly to a degree that I could not do it. After two trips, I’d probably peacefully nap in one. It’s nice to confound one’s own expectations.
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Mícheál Ó Foghlú reposted thisMícheál Ó Foghlú reposted thisThis is basically the best an Irish angel can hope for in terms of incentives today. The ecosystem has been calling for reductions in CGT that would go on to stimulate an emerging and experieced angel class of both exited founders and those who invested in them early. Brian Caulfield in particular has been leading campaign after campaign for over a decade, which consecutive budgets seem to effectively ignore. So it seems like CGT isn't the path forward. But wait! Simon Harris declared this week that it is, but only for investors taking part in his new scheme. Hardly fair, but what are we to do? Well, in the absence of meaningful change to CGT, how about updating something that's already in place? My partner Fiona Kelly has taken a deep dive into the Angel Incentive Relief and how it could be improved for private investors who take on the risk of backing early stage founders. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ea9ZzEE4 *for the avoidance of doubt, not an April Fool's Day post 🤣
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Mícheál Ó Foghlú reposted thisMícheál Ó Foghlú reposted this“I present this bowl of Shamrock in memory of all the brave Irish men and Irish women who came here and who believed in the American promise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; in tribute to all they contributed and built here; and in celebration of all that we will do and achieve together in the next 250 years.” - Taoiseach Micheál Martin 🇮🇪🤝🇺🇸 The iconic Shamrock Ceremony was a fitting close to a memorable St. Patrick’s Day in Washington, D.C. From the White House to Capitol Hill, the strong and enduring ties between our nations continue to grow. Sincere thanks to President Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Speaker Mike Johnson, and the Congressional Friends of Ireland Caucus for their warm welcome and continued commitment to the Ireland–U.S. partnership.
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Mícheál Ó Foghlú reposted thisMícheál Ó Foghlú reposted thisGoogle and Google DeepMind need your brilliance in building a better understanding of AI. 🤩 And, no, this isn’t about who has the biggest AI model. It's an effort to find out if these models have the capabilities, intuition and focus to navigate the world like we do. (the AGI thing). To get started, they need people who are eager to build the real-world tests that set the standard of where AI is really at today. 🙂 Here's what's in it for you... ➡️ Instead of just reading about AI, you can get your hands dirty by building the actual benchmarks that will define how we measure intelligence for the next decade. ➡️ Help build a more honest way to test AI. You’ll be able to create tasks that look for real human skills - like how we learn on the fly or how we understand social cues - forcing these models to prove they can actually think through a new problem in your way. ➡️ Get your ideas in front of the global community. You’ll be sharing your perspective with the people at the top of the field, with a chance to win a piece of the $200,000 prize pool while you're at it. 🥰 The world needs people who are willing to find out what’s real. Step into the arena, bring your curiosity, and let’s see what these models are actually made of. Read about the whole benchmarking process here: https://lnkd.in/d_37EEAV Join the challenge on Kaggle here: https://lnkd.in/dcv3pnZV #google #lifeatgoogle #deepmind #ai #agi #technology
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Mícheál Ó Foghlú reposted thisMícheál Ó Foghlú reposted thisI'm talking at AI Engineer, Melbourne. It will be interesting. You should come! But if my magnetic personality, fascinating topic and being surrounded by awesome people doing great work aren't compelling enough for you, here's a discount. https://lnkd.in/gn2iP9VJ
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Mícheál Ó Foghlú liked thisMícheál Ó Foghlú liked thisWanted to try renting a GPU for an open weight model for a while. Specifically runpod. With Gemma 4 released, I finally had a reason to try. It works, though it was a bit clumsy. Here is a container for y'all to try the Gemma 4 31B in serverless with llama.cpp and unsloth 8 bit quant. It seems to be a charming, cheap and privacy preserving way to do LLMs. Might try the smaller ones for even better efficiency when I have thought of a systematic way to evaluate. https://lnkd.in/ecpb_uNq
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Mícheál Ó Foghlú liked thisMícheál Ó Foghlú liked thisLLMs broke the SRE runbook. Now what? During the last SREcon, we sat down with Alejandro Saucedo, Charity Majors, Jay Lees, Maria Vechtomova, Niall Murphy, and Todd Underwood to discuss the question with the community for 2 hours. The conclusion: no one has it figured out. It's VERY much a work in progress. Heinrich Hartmann — who was in that room and the conference co-chair — is now turning that conversation into a conference, along with this same group. ✨ Signals Berlin happening on September 10–11 ✨ One question on the table: how is AI actually changing the way software is operated and kept reliable? Do you have an opinion on the topic? The CFP is open. We are looking for talks on: ▶ AI and software delivery ▶ AI in software operations ▶ Reliability of AI systems ▶ Platform and organizational change Work in progress is welcome. You don't need a clean ending to submit. If you're living this problem right now, that's the talk we want. Deadline: May 10th. CFP → signalsconf.io/cfp
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Mícheál Ó Foghlú liked thisMícheál Ó Foghlú liked thisI've been struggling to write this post, "Vibe Maintainer," for months. I had tons of people encourage me to finish it, including some young people at AI Tinkerers in February, and more recently Dan Shapiro. I finally got it to the finish line today, woohoo! This post is about my workflow using coding agents to handle dozens of PRs a day. It's the workflow I think many will be using soon, now that everyone and their grandmother can fork your code if you don't accept their PRs. I cover both scenarios in the post. Enjoy! https://lnkd.in/gyFJGVDE
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Mícheál Ó Foghlú liked thisAfter working through a number of multi-company implementations of agentic workflows, we're convinced that we are on the precipice of a new value wave, with a corresponding complexity wave. It's one thing to manage agentic execution when applying policies, regulations and risk frameworks for a single org, but when you're dealing with agentic B2B scenarios (supply chain, financial reconciliations, multi-party commerce), it can expose all sorts of hidden complexity that is mostly absorbed and moderated by humans today (tacit knowledge). Unfortunately, there are no silver bullets here. But we did want to share some early experiences we've gained designing for agentic flows that leave the building, where AI is now an organization's representative, ambassador and sometimes negotiator :) Google Cloud Brad Calder Karthik NarainMícheál Ó Foghlú liked thisIn Google Cloud's Office of the CTO (#OCTO) we work with a broad range of enterprises who are adopting #AI and now #Agents to improve operational efficiency, employee productivity and customer experience. Our most advanced customers are starting to extend AI and agentic workflows beyond their organizational boundaries, which raises new technical and business challenges. What happens when your agents leave your building? We're learning that scaling AI agents beyond enterprise walls requires moving from internal management to a global ecosystem of standardized protocols, shared trust, and agent-ready governance. Read more by Will Grannis, John Abel, Ben McCormack, Yingchao Huang, Antonio Gulli and me: https://lnkd.in/gav8Ph4MYour agents are leaving the building | Google Cloud BlogYour agents are leaving the building | Google Cloud Blog
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Mícheál Ó Foghlú liked thisMícheál Ó Foghlú liked thisNew Chapter: Heading to London! 🇬🇧 I’m excited to share that I’m starting a new chapter leading EMEA Partner and Alliances at Google Cloud! I’ve spent nearly nine years at Google, and I am a huge believer in the growth opportunities and internal mobility this company offers. Moving from my global role leading the Deloitte Alliance to this regional leadership role in EMEA is an incredibly exciting next step. I will be on the ground in London in the coming weeks and look forward to working alongside Tara Brady and the entire EMEA team to drive innovation for our customers and partners as we move into 2026. To my new team: I can’t wait to get started and connect with you all in person very soon. See you soon, London! ☁️ #GoogleCloud #EMEALeadership #Partnerships #LifeAtGoogle
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Scout Leader
CBSI (now Scouting Ireland)
- 6 years
Children
I was a scout leader for the scouting troop where I had been a member previously (12th Down) in Country Down, Ireland. This involved weekly meetings in the local hall, and helping out at the annual camping trips. I kept this up when I was a student (but could not make the weekly meetings as I was studying in England).
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Board Member
Waterford College for Further Education
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Education
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Implementation of a Simple Bandwidth Broker for DiffServ Networks
International Workshop on Inter-Domain Performance and Simulation (IPS)
To date, QoS solutions that have been developed are
confined to enterprise networks due to the scalability
problems in inter-domain QoS provisioning. Therefore
implementing a service that guarantees end-to-end QoS
across the Internet has yet to be fully realised. It is
believed that such a service will need to evolve
regionally, then nationally and, finally, on a global scale
in the same way that the Internet became a global
network. By developing such a system…To date, QoS solutions that have been developed are
confined to enterprise networks due to the scalability
problems in inter-domain QoS provisioning. Therefore
implementing a service that guarantees end-to-end QoS
across the Internet has yet to be fully realised. It is
believed that such a service will need to evolve
regionally, then nationally and, finally, on a global scale
in the same way that the Internet became a global
network. By developing such a system, regional and
national Network Service Providers (NSP) can be
influenced more easily to provide guaranteed QoS for its
users, by enabling them to generate revenue from service
dif erentiations in IP networks.
Implementation of a QoS management framework is
required in order to create end-to-end services across
multiple administrative domains. Such a framework also
of ers easier integration of accounting, billing and
security. A Dif erentiated Services (Dif Serv) network
alone is not suf icient to address the end-to-end
guarantees in network layer service provision but,
significantly, it does show great potential for scalability.
In order to address the aforementioned problems, a
centralised, QoS, management architecture has been
proposed ñ called a Bandwidth Broker (BB). The
implementation of a fully automated BB in a single
administrative domain is outlined in this paper. The
importance of implementing such a BB is ease of
extendibility to any other QoS mechanisms such as
IntServ and MPLS as well as concepts of Inter-domain
QoS, Traf ic Engineering, Policy QoS and Mobility
Management with QoS. This paper does not intend to
investigate those particular extended concepts and
restricts implementation of the BB to a single Dif Serv
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Workbook Approach to Algorithm Design and Service Accounting in a Component Orientated Rating Environment
IEEE
As the shift towards the next generation of services runs its course, the emphasis within accounting for such services has moved towards robust and flexible components. An accounting architecture with the ability to scale, based on the foundation of a solid core of rating components, incorporating transaction management, object pooling and queuing is presented. Using the workbook approach to algorithm modeling is a logical option that allows for the decoupling of the algorithm from the…
As the shift towards the next generation of services runs its course, the emphasis within accounting for such services has moved towards robust and flexible components. An accounting architecture with the ability to scale, based on the foundation of a solid core of rating components, incorporating transaction management, object pooling and queuing is presented. Using the workbook approach to algorithm modeling is a logical option that allows for the decoupling of the algorithm from the architecture of the rating component. Decoupling the algorithm, allows for the design of core functionality that will rate for any service based on the concept of "pluggable" algorithms for each respective service.
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Workbook Approach to Algorithm Design and Service Accounting in a Component Orientated Rating Environment
IEEE
As the shift towards the next generation of services runs its course, the emphasis within accounting for such services has moved towards robust and flexible components. An accounting architecture with the ability to scale, based on the foundation of a solid core of rating components, incorporating transaction management, object pooling and queuing is presented. Using the workbook approach to algorithm modeling is a logical option that allows for the decoupling of the algorithm from the…
As the shift towards the next generation of services runs its course, the emphasis within accounting for such services has moved towards robust and flexible components. An accounting architecture with the ability to scale, based on the foundation of a solid core of rating components, incorporating transaction management, object pooling and queuing is presented. Using the workbook approach to algorithm modeling is a logical option that allows for the decoupling of the algorithm from the architecture of the rating component. Decoupling the algorithm, allows for the design of core functionality that will rate for any service based on the concept of "pluggable" algorithms for each respective service.
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Courses
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BA English and Computer Science (first class hons)
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Certificate in Education (teacher qualification, secondary and tertiary Computer Science and English)
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Doctor of Education
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Master of Philosophy (research masters)
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Master of Philosophy (taught masters)
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Languages
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Irish
Limited working proficiency
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English
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English, Old (ca.450-1100)
Elementary proficiency
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English, Middle (1100-1500)
Elementary proficiency
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French
Elementary proficiency
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German
Elementary proficiency
Organizations
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Institute of Directors, Ireland
Member
- PresentAs the leading voice in the debate on improving corporate governance standards, the Institute of Directors is dedicated to building better boards through enhancing the effectiveness and performance of directors and boards throughout Ireland.
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Association of Computing Machinery
Senior Member
- PresentBecame a senior member in 2013, after an internal vetting process. ACM, the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. ACM provides the computing field's premier Digital Library and serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge publications, conferences, and career resources.
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USENIX
Member
- PresentI really enjoy reading the ;login: magazine in particular, now a digital publication since 2021. Since 1975, USENIX has brought together the community of engineers, system administrators, SREs, researchers, and technicians working on the cutting edge of the computing world. USENIX conferences have become the essential meeting grounds for the presentation and discussion of the most advanced information on the development of all aspects of computing systems.
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IEEE & IEEE Computer Society
Senior Member
- PresentI was more heavily involved in the IEEE (current), IEEE Computer Society (current) and IEEE Communications Society (lapsed) as an academic in Waterford Institute of Technology from 1996-2010. Since then I've been in industry, FeedHenry, RedHat, Google, but I have remained a member. I really value the broad perspective the IEEE community brings to the profession. I was approved as Senior Member in August 2021, based on experience I gained across academia and industry. IEEE is the world’s…
I was more heavily involved in the IEEE (current), IEEE Computer Society (current) and IEEE Communications Society (lapsed) as an academic in Waterford Institute of Technology from 1996-2010. Since then I've been in industry, FeedHenry, RedHat, Google, but I have remained a member. I really value the broad perspective the IEEE community brings to the profession. I was approved as Senior Member in August 2021, based on experience I gained across academia and industry. IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community through its highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities.
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