frankbarrylong.bsky.social @frankbarrylong.bsky.social · 18/10/2025"Who could you pick from Munster that could possibly be better?" Indeed. #leivmun 010
frankbarrylong.bsky.social @frankbarrylong.bsky.social · 21/01/2025So, what else is happening in the world? *Checks news* Ah crap. 000
frankbarrylong.bsky.social @frankbarrylong.bsky.social · 11/12/2024GDP isn't fit for a Net Zero world. Shifts to active travel, energy saving, reduce + reuse, circular economy etc, tends to reduce consumption numbers in GDP. There is still a positive correlation between GDP growth and CO2 emissions. Does focusing on GDP as a metric impede CO2 reduction efforts? 100
frankbarrylong.bsky.social @frankbarrylong.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Only 56% of planning approvals got approved in SE England in 2022, 61% London, over 90% Scotland. The biggest problem according to comparative studies is that there is not active promotion of land supply for residential use in England. It's a case-by-case system, not strategic enough. 000
frankbarrylong.bsky.social @frankbarrylong.bsky.social · 06/12/2024GDP is not a sensible measure of progress. Shift from a 2 car household to 1 car + cycling, that's a negative for GDP, fewer cars sold, fuel, insurance, tax, road maintenance. exercise and less pollution -> healthcare lower spending. All of this is negative for GDP, it's clearly better for societynorthwestbylines.co.ukRethinking how we measure economic activityThe Office of National Statistics has announced an alternative to GDP; Christopher May assesses the value of the new economic metric 051
frankbarrylong.bsky.social @frankbarrylong.bsky.social · 30/11/2024It's a refreshing change that UK politics is so focused on important issues such as end of life care recently, with grown up conversations about improving vulnerable people's lives & implications. Hopefully it's a sign for the future of a more mature approach to running the country. #AssistedDying 020
frankbarrylong.bsky.social @frankbarrylong.bsky.social · 19/11/2024A really nice way of thinking about agentic AI architectures, especially the divide between cognitive or "brain" agents that orchestrate vs action agents that perform tasks and the syntactic layer where what those action agents can do is defined. #AI #GenAI medium.com/@rajib76.gcp...medium.comCognitive Vs Agentic architecture.I have been thinking about writing on this topic for sometimes. Is cognitive and agentic architecture the same thing? According to me, a… 010
frankbarrylong.bsky.social @frankbarrylong.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Has anyone experience with using a multi-level agentic architecture with GenAI models? Interested to hear how it's working out, what pitfalls you've encountered and challenges you've overcome. 000
