Brendan Halpin

Sociologist in Limerick

Mostly playing with unrealistic computer models of real world processes

Emacs, Stata, Shiny & Rstats, Julia, Python

Linux on the desktop since about 1997

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Brendan Halpin
bthalpin@mastodon.social

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/116349204750185251

Seems there are two sorts of AI

1: traditional AI: applies to specific problems, reliably finds verifiably correct solutions

2: generic hype AI: inject it into a domain, hope it spontaneously identifies problems that it can solve

2nd type is useless for everything except attracting VC capital.

April 05, 2026
Brendan Halpin
bthalpin@mastodon.social

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116352735430273128

He's finding this war very difficult. It was supposed to be easy.

April 05, 2026
Brendan Halpin
bthalpin@mastodon.social

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116353626891273376

OK, now we're yearning for the days of "expletive deleted"

April 05, 2026
Brendan Halpin
bthalpin@mastodon.social
April 03, 2026
Brendan Halpin
bthalpin@mastodon.social
April 03, 2026
Brendan Halpin
bthalpin@mastodon.social

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lemonde/116341396486253576

"Ces messieurs de St Malo" (Bernard Simiot) in the flesh. Well, vellum.

April 03, 2026