It is startling that there doesn't seem to be any way for courts to tell the government "Stop doing that. It's illegal."

With the UK monarchy in crisis, a silly question. What would one call the UK if it was a republic? It'll probably remain a hypothetical question, but still.

The Go Eve "Interactive Explainer" is live now also on the main website. You can go straight to it with the link below, or access it from the homepage. Ask all the questions you want to ask! www.goeve.com?open=askeve

Either Google's PageSpeed API isn't any kind of indication, or there are some Irish organizations doing a bad job on webpage speed. And honestly, I'd forgive Ryanair. But Three? I don't get it. lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/6d...

Cheaper Lidar would be a very good thing. And it might be coming. spectrum.ieee.org/solid-state-...

The Go Eve "Ask Eve" AI assistant is live. Ask any questions you like about DockChain and get a sensible answer for your EV charging need. Once you're interested in pricing, it'll tell you how to get in touch! askeve.goeve.ie

Reading about the recent updates of two Chinese AIs. Very high performance on most benchmarks. No change on the Tiananmen Square benchmark. One responded as in the image. The other just threw an error message. It's nice to have a quick test to use to assess an AI's suitability for most things.

Our regular newsletter has another issue. Have a read to understand how DockChain changes EV charging for everything from cars to, well, buses. mailchi.mp/29bcff5a3e57...

To all of my friends, family and colleagues in the USA....I hope you have a great day off on President's Day. Here are some of US history's most significant presidents.

This exact type of incident has long been a concern for SailGP. And now it's happened. And "luckily" the worse injury is apparently only serious compound fractures to both legs of one sailor. A meter difference and people would probably be dead.

You might have seen me mention recently that we'd been charging a Hummer in the USA. An electric Hummer. A full-size electric Hummer. Here's the electric "Hummer" we saw in the UK a few years ago. Sadly, we didn't get to charge it.

Whatever about Bad Bunny, my first (inaccurate) introduction to the very notion of Puerto Rico was in West Site Story, written by New York Jews and containing some of the best tunes ever. Culturally accurate? I imagine not. Absolute bangers? Hell yes.

Sometime people are the people we wish people were.

Getting close to finalizing our "DockChain Assistant". Fairly simple as AIs go, but at the same time it actually gets things right and it occasionally tells me things where I realize even I hadn't thought of that. What can it do?

One of the impressive things in LA in recent years is the comparative absence of smog. Anyone who was there a few decades ago remembers it, though you need to be properly old to remember the worst of it. In any case, the improvement has been impressive.

Gemini (or any other LLM) can describe DockChain quite well. And that's great. The concern about LLMs for regulated industries is that the description is never QUITE the same two times in a row. Still, a good description of DockChain is nice!

Increasingly, the answer seems to be "Yeah, kinda". Now you're probably not going to get poetry, but it seems increasingly clear that dogs can not just understand words, but can use words themselves. And smarter dogs seem to be using multi-word combinations.

This is not a political post. I just want to point out that a lot of business people speak in exactly this way. Instead of plain language, this is what they sound like. What's the motivation? Do people perceive this kind of language as "sounding clever"? youtu.be/DpunwB5bN5M

While I can't be 100% sure, I believe the Hummer that we charged today in LA was the first one on DockChain. (stock photo from GMC). It ran quite well.

Off to the US of A for a few days. You'll never guess where.

Two videos commenting on AI. One rather serious and informative which concludes that no, TSMC is not killing AI. The other is a nice funny yet commentary on what AI doesn't do. Both good and bad. Serious - www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lLF... Funny - youtube.com/shorts/q-yET...

It's as if she doesn't understand the (supposed) idea of religion. Eternal truths handed to us by god, and all that shite.

People are, I think, reading too much into the end of Tesla X and S production. They're old, expensive models with low sales. There's no mystery. The only mystery is why they're persisting with the Cybertruck. www.businessinsider.com/tesla-model-...

Two thoughts... 1. Dutch can really be a beautiful language. You might think differently....and you're wrong) 2. One of the great things about understanding more languages is that you get access to so much more culture.... music.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Y4...

The undergrad was similar. The Masters had other bits.... Calculus Linear Algebra Physics Organizational Behavior Marketing

Why are we in business? Because there's a big problem. And because we're a part of the solution. That is why we're in business. There's a new cohort starting up on Accelerate Green. Here's my talk from the end of the program we were in. It's still pretty accurate. lnkd.in/ekcuZFJA

Meantime, this is a place where speed DOES matter. And where some Irish organizations are doing a great job. Some. lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/6d...

People often agonize about getting system performance higher and higher. Sometimes that's absolutely necessary. Other times....not so much. This, for instance, is fine in the context. 95th percentile is nearly 45 seconds. In this case, even 60 seconds would be more than fast enough.

What we're doing at Go Eve is featured in the press again. Made in Ireland magazine gives us a great review! mii.mydigitalpublication.co.uk/january-2026...

Two pieces of news I saw today. First, that the USA is leaving the Paris accords again because renewable energy is a scam. Second, that investors are pouring money into the green energy transition at an increasing pace and with even greater benefit y-o-y.

It's not obvious that the money will actually get released. But at least there's a better chance today than yesterday. The article mentions that the Senate may kill the program soon in any case. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

You do not need a clustering algorithm to identify the clusters in the data on Irish company web/mobile speeds. Some companies are doing a REALLY good job. Others, meh. A few, no comment. lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/6d...

One wonders, with the AI boom/bubble/boom, will this become relevant again? Has it ever not been relevant? www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQn...

This one is a bit more serious. A window into the full process of making real, production-grade customer support, finance, etc, AI Agents. Though unless you happen to be running everything on Google Databases (or something like Cockroach) it could take quite a while to get your data ready for this.

This scene reminds of of a guy and a tank. The tank stopped and tried to go around the guy.

The gist of it is that LLMs are excellent at creating content that sounds nice, but not so good at getting anything right in detail. Guess who does which thing in most companies... www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...?

The main piece of data is that 3/4 of Republicans still think the USA is better off with Trump than before.

Again, whatever you might hear from the naysayers....the transition to renewable energy is not only continuing, it is accelerating. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Today I learned that there is a Japanese equivalent of the Gulf Stream, just as tight and fast. Not as big. That there was a similar circulation, of course. That it was similarly narrow and fast? Nope. Did you know?

Based on a lot of what I see in the news, I'm not sure we're very good at recognizing real general intelligence when we see it. Or perhaps it's just me. (what was the old proverb??) Meantime, the article is a good read.

As we talk about increasing electrification of transport and heating and everything else, it's important to remember the underlying grid infrastructure, which often still needs to be improved. The maps are worth a look. Ireland's grid feels and looks different to everywhere else, voltage - mostly.

Just another day on a DockChain system. Lots of cars charged. Lots and lots of kWh delivered. See more at goeve.com

Your periodic reminder that they're still out there, still working (mostly). Don't underestimate old tech. It can still do a job. science.nasa.gov/mission/voya...

You couldn't make it up. You don't have to. Best and probably most accurate comment I've seen on this is that the big company execs making these (bad) decisions probably don't actually use AI beyond the most superficial level and therefore have no idea what they're talking about.

We're on a similar path.

Ah jaysus and begorrah. Google's text to speech "Irish" accent needs to go back and have a chat with either Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, or Cameron Diaz to perfect its awfulness. rear-violet-api4vun1yg.edgeone.app (the mp3 file plays in the browser)

Coincidentally, I watched the movie "Hidden Figures" earlier. Gladys West wasn't one of the three, but she could have been. A pioneer who lived through a time of great change and who left a positive legacy in a bunch of ways. And another woman whose contributions took too long to be recognized.

Ok. I did the course and I have the badge but I don't think I'm going to spend the $99 for the actual certification. It's a nice course, but it's really the "super basic introduction to how to use Google's generative AI products" more than making anyone a "Generative AI Leader".

Some of our ""follow-on" applications are starting to be published. Some new ones too.

After >30 years of service, the first windfarm in Ireland has been decommissioned to make way for a MUCH bigger one. Kudos to Bord na Mona (or whatever they're called now). www.rte.ie/news/regiona...