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Balazs Dukat posted thisA few months ago while working in an early stage startup (or let's call it a partnership, to use the correct legal definition) I had a couple of ideas: 1. What if end-users could train or at least fine-tune their own local LLMs from plain text? Ideally starting from a very minimalist bloat and bias free model, which then could learn from text provided to it by the user, in a one-shot kind of way, without any resource-intensive training proces. 2. Even better, what if such an LLM could hold onto information and rules given to it by the user through regular interaction, holding it in context (assume a sufficiently large context window of many thousand tokens), and then it could be sent into a "sleep" (actually, learning and pruning) state where it could learn, and possibly "unlearn" (forget) contradicting rules and info. These could democratise LLM training and use, organisations and even individuals could train their own specialist local models. Apart from democratising customisation, another potential advantage: I think a limited and specialised model might be less likely to hallucinate. It could be more reliable. Less may be more. And I left the best part last: Alignment. Starting from something small and simple, and then training it the right way could yield a "good" LLM, rather than a soggoth with a mask on. A minimalist model trained by the right people could be free of unwanted knowledge, biases, and attitudes. I wonder if Hugging Face could support this. #LLM #AI #AIdemocratization
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Balazs Dukat shared thisMy thoughts on this, and mine alone: 1. The internet in its present form is clearly not a safe space for children. So no internet acces for little ones. That is our family policy. 2. The manosphere should be considered in the same category as extremist groups. Because it is. Gender-based extremism. That should be government policy. 3. If your child knows of genders, has words for "girl" and "boy", then that child is old enough to be told about similarities, differences, and also to be taught empathy, maybe through examples and real-world interaction. I seriously wonder in what weird gender-segregated world can boys so overmystify girls that fall for the manosphere lies, have they never talked to a girl before?Balazs Dukat shared thisHOW MANOSPHERE IS LIKELY TO AFFECT THE FUTURE OF MANY CHILDREN While presented as a "Man Space"; its fastest-growing audience today is children and teenagers of all gender. The manosphere is a network of online communities centered on masculinity, gender roles, and the belief that society is biased against men. It includes groups like Men’s Rights Activists (MRAs), Pick-Up Artists (PUAs), Incels, and Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW). While these communities differ, many promote rigid, adversarial views of gender. And children are increasingly being exposed to these ideas: 📌 Why This Matters for Children This is not just about online content. It’s about how children learn to see themselves and each other. 1. Identity Formation Is Being Influenced Early Children are encountering ideas like: “Alpha vs Beta” “Red pill vs Blue pill” 👉Worth tied to dominance, looks, or control At a developmental stage where identity is still forming, this can: ❎Distort self-worth (for boys and girls) ❎Reinforce harmful gender stereotypes ❎Limit emotional expression and empathy 2. Algorithmic Exposure Is Quiet—but Powerful Platforms like TikTok and YouTube often recommend content based on engagement. A child searching for: 👉 fitness 👉 confidence 👉 self-improvement …can quickly be led into increasingly extreme manosphere content. This “pipeline effect” is not accidental 📌it’s algorithmic. 3. It Shapes How Boys Relate to Girls—and Vice Versa Some manosphere narratives frame relationships as: Competition Control Manipulation This can lead to: ❎Increased hostility or mistrust between genders ❎Normalization of disrespect or emotional detachment ❎Reduced capacity for healthy relationships later in life ❎📍Girls internalizing these dynamics or adjusting behavior to navigate them. (Real-World Signals We Cannot Ignore) 👇 -The Isla Vista killings were linked to incel ideology and misogynistic beliefs. -The Toronto van attack was carried out by an individual who explicitly referenced incel communities. These are extreme cases—but they highlight a broader issue: 📌Online narratives can and do shape offline behavior. The Role of Influencers Figures like Andrew Tate have amplified manosphere ideas to millions of young followers, often mixing: Self-improvement advice Wealth narratives Anti-feminist messaging For a child, this can be confusing: What looks like “motivation” can carry deeply harmful beliefs underneath. So What Does This Mean for the Children's Future? If left unaddressed, we risk raising a generation where: •Boys feel pressure to perform rigid, dominant identities •Girls navigate increasing digital misogyny This makes it a childhood development issue. So I ask again: Who is shaping the digital environments children grow up in? What values are being embedded through algorithms? #ChildRights #DigitalSafety #OnlineSafety #Algorithms
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Balazs Dukat shared thisThis looks interesting in a very good way, and lines up with something I had in mind. #carbon #climatechangeBalazs Dukat shared thisNetwork, Why Verra V5.0 is a tailwind, not a risk Verra’s VCS 5.0 is a reset for the voluntary carbon market. Higher bars on additionality, baselines, and auditability will reduce volume and improve quality. That is constructive for capital. The biggest impact is on avoided emissions. Avoidance can scale quickly, but only where the counterfactual is provable and conservative. V5.0 makes that non-negotiable. This is where DCAS Tech sits. DCAS is built for measured carbon avoidance: Baselines derived from live operational data Interventions linked directly to asset behaviour Conservative attribution of avoided emissions Full audit trails aligned to verifier and registry scrutiny Because the data is continuous, attributable, and non-duplicative, outputs can support high-integrity offsetting claims and not narrative-led ones. Commercially, this matters. We are currently engaged across a live pipeline of energy and infrastructure assets, progressing pilots and structured discussions with asset owners where: Digital twins or predictive maintenance systems are already deployed or deploying. Avoided emissions can be evidenced at asset level. Carbon integrity is a prerequisite for investment or reporting. Removals remain essential for long-term net zero. But in the near to medium term, credible avoidance is how scale is achieved. V5.0 doesn’t constrain the market. It reallocates value toward platforms that can evidence impact. You cannot get away with those quarterly spreadsheets, built on assumptions. V5.0 is about verification. We are building this business in the UK. And we are confident that it will change the face of ESG Reporting, and create a new class for Carbon Trading. Contact me for discussions about how we can help. B2B.
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Balazs Dukat shared thisPhoto and transcript of some of my old notes. Persons' and companies' names have been redacted. 16/10/2019 Carbon offset scheme Operation Clear Sky Get |major client| to use our CO2 offset? send email to: |Names redacted|+|Names redacted| |Redacted| reply was somewhat dismissive, I keep pushing on and asking what we have, |client's website| is the top candidate, not |major client| itself. |Names redacted| weighed in to diffuse and support. - What can CO offset do? - What do we offer to clients? - What was done? We have CO2 calculator, and CO2 offset, by |LEGEND| Those need to be advertised by Accounts and Sales. (Supposedly in progress since 01/11/2019.) [What would happen if CO2 offset become compulsory?] 13/11/2019: There is a "product" being reviewed 20/11/2019: I requested to become the manager of this. |Redacted|'s reply: "Let's put it on hold..." "we could talk about a lightweight approach that you could take"
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Balazs Dukat posted thisI invite my network (and those who are yet to connect) to join me in my initiative. I intend to start a group of professionals to devise and complete projects. This would serve to practice existing skills, learn new ones, and gain experience. From my part this would be centered on data projects, ideally with a focus on the environment or some other honourable cause, such as DEI. Other skill areas and interests are welcome. I can't offer pay, but I hope this would help us find paid employment, or possibly this could grow into something. DM me if you are interested, and I will come up with the next steps, for example, we might need a Slack workspace and a Github repo.
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Balazs Dukat shared thisMy course completion certificate for: "dbt (Data Build Tool) : dbt for Data Engineers"
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Balazs Dukat shared thisNature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national securityNature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security
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Balazs Dukat reposted thisBalazs Dukat reposted thisLet me tell you a story. About a little Black girl. Dark-skinned. Scrawny. Quiet. She didn’t have big visions of herself. Not because she lacked imagination —but because life kept interrupting it. Teachers who didn’t believe in her. Adults who didn’t protect her. Abuse that taught her to shrink. Messages that told her she was too much — and never enough. Dreams don’t always disappear loudly. Sometimes they’re just slowly pressed flat. But there was one thing that never left her. She wanted to help people. When you’ve been bullied. When you’ve been hurt. When you’ve felt abandoned, rejected, unseen — You develop a deep sensitivity to suffering. You notice pain faster. You recognise it in rooms before it speaks. And sometimes, you make a quiet vow: No one should have to feel this alone. I made that vow early. I decided — even as a child —that I would not pass on the pain I inherited. That I would do what I could to reduce harm, not replicate it. • That decision is why I became a social worker. • Why I trained as a psychotherapist. • Why I care so deeply about how systems affect bodies. • And it’s also why I care about money. • And AI. • And building businesses that work. • Not because I worship tech. • But because I want us to win. I love Black women. I was raised by a strong, brilliant Black mother. And while I know not all of us share the same experiences with Black women — I do know this: We deserve to flourish. We deserve ease. We deserve safety. We deserve access. We deserve futures that aren’t defined by survival. The system may not be designed with us in mind —but that does not mean scarcity is our destiny. When I teach AI, when I talk about building wealth, when I help Black women turn their expertise into income: I’m not chasing success. I’m honouring a promise. To that little girl. And to every Black woman who was told — explicitly or subtly — to dream smaller. We deserve more than survival. We deserve to thrive. ♻️ Repost this if you believe Black women deserve not just to survive systems but to outgrow them.
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Balazs Dukat shared thisOne more reason for me to explore better ways of feeding data to models, I guess.Balazs Dukat shared thisWe Need To Talk About The Elephant In The Data Centre 😁 You notice sometimes your AI models going slow or just stop working? Everyone’s banging on about AI being the future. Revolutionary. Game-changing. “It’ll solve everything!” It's absolutely an amazing technology! Cool. Brilliant. But has anyone actually done the maths? Here’s the bit nobody wants to mention at dinner parties: training a single large AI model now uses roughly the same electricity as 5 average UK households consume in a year. A single model. And we’ve already got thousands of them. Meanwhile, we’re all clutching our reusable coffee cups and switching to LED lightbulbs like it’s going to offset checks notes the electricity grid struggling to keep the world’s AI running. The inconvenient truth: We’ve become obsessed with building smarter AI whilst barely discussing how to power it smarter. It’s like buying a Porsche and worrying about the fuel efficiency of the engine block. Here’s what actually needs to happen: We need to talk about energy as part of the AI conversation, not as footnotes in white papers → Efficiency matters more than raw capability (yes, sometimes less is more) → Renewable energy infrastructure for data centres isn’t a nice-to-have, it’s table stakes The real innovation isn’t just in the algorithms anymore, it’s in building AI systems that don’t require us to build a small nuclear reactor for each one. So let’s flip the script: instead of 'what can AI do?' ask “what can AI do sustainably? That’s the actually interesting question. What’s your take? Am I off my head, or does this deserve more airtime? ta-ta 🙃
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This is indeed the harsh truth, all those successful guys out there handing down advice and expectations, and judging others, quite frankly they are operating backed by a support network handling everything for them.
And all too often they expect men to be like them, and also they write off women because they don't expect women having such support networks. And then they may even consider that somehow the natural order of things, but I am dropping in a lot to unpack, the whole spiral of sexism that I might post about at a different time.
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My rule: if I am not there to monitor all activity, no activity may take place at all.
But what is so abstract about not harming and mistreating others? That is where examples help.
When it comes to digital safety education in schools, I think this topic is actually outside of the scope of that, what we are really facing here is radicalisation.
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Balazs Dukat reacted on thisBalazs Dukat reacted on this📉 Amikor a "nincs munka" nem pihenés, hanem fegyelmi csapda. (Az üresjárat protokoll csapdája) Ismerős az idegőrlő csend az irodában? Bemész, megcsinálod a feladatodat 2 óra alatt, és utána... semmi. Nincs új projekt, nincs e-mail, a főnököd elérhetetlen, te pedig ott ülsz az asztalnál, és telnek az órák. ⚠️ A munkavállaló végzetes hibája: Mivel unatkozol, az agyad automatikusan a dopamin után nyúl: Előveszed a telefont és görgeted a Facebook-ot/TikTok-ot, és abban a pillanatban belép a főnök. A tekintete azonnal megváltozik. Nem azt látja, hogy "a szorgalmas kolléga vár a feladatra". Hanem azt: "Maga mit csinál? Munkaidőben szórakozik? Ez a tisztelet hiánya és fegyelmi vétség." És a legfájdalmasabb igazság: Önként sétáltál bele a pofonba, mert igaza lehet (de nem mindig). Hiába ő a hibás, amiért nincs munka, te adtál neki fegyvert a kezébe azzal, hogy látványosan nem állsz rendelkezésre. 📉 A menedzsment erőforrás-pazarlása: Vezetőként ha a beosztottad a plafont nézi vagy telefonozik, az elsősorban nem az ő lustasága, hanem a te szervezési inkompetenciád. Fizetsz egy drága erőforrást (bér + járulékok), de nem hasznosítod, ez a Lean menedzsmentben a veszteség iskolapéldája. Ha nem monitorozod a terhelést, a dolgozó a pszichológiai "energiaminimum elve" alapján a legkisebb ellenállás felé (a telefonjához) fog nyúlni. Ez törvényszerű, így a te feladatod, hogy a potenciált munkává alakítsd, ne pedig hagyd elfolyni. 🧠 Zipf-törvénye / Energiaminimum elve: George Kingsley Zipf nyelvész fogalmazta meg: Minden emberi viselkedés a "legkisebb erőfeszítés elve" felé tart. Ha a rendszer (a munkahely) nem ad strukturált ingert (feladatot), az agy keresni fog egy könnyen elérhető, alacsony energiájú dopaminforrást (görgetés). Ez egyszerű biológia, vezetőként pedig ezt nem "büntetni" kell utólag, hanem megelőzni feladatkiosztással. ⚖️ A jogi pajzs (Mt. 146. §): Ha a munkáltató nem ad munkát, az ÁLLÁSIDŐNEK minősül. A törvény logikája: Te ott vagy, eladtad az idődet, ezért neked alapbér jár. (Igen, azért fizetnek, hogy ülj és várj!). DE! Az állásidő alatt is "rendelkezésre kell állnod". Ez a kulcsszó. A TikTok-ozás jogilag nem rendelkezésre állás, hanem a munkaidő jogellenes felhasználása, ha úgy ítélik meg. 🛡️ Az elhárítás: Hogyan védekezz munkavállalóként, ha az üresjárat csapdájába esel? Alkalmazd a "szakmai készenlét" stratégiát. - A monitor-szabály: Ha nincs munka, nyiss meg egy szakmai dokumentumot (PDF, Excel, belső szabályzat). Legyen a képernyőn "munka jellegű" tartalom. - Az önfejlesztés: Olvass szakmai cikket a gépen. Ha a főnök megkérdezi, mit csinálsz, a válasz: "Mivel várok az anyagra, addig a piaci trendeket elemzem, hogy naprakész legyek." - A zseb-protokoll: A privát mobilt hagyd a táskában. Ne adj nekik vizuális bizonyítékot a lógásra. Stratégiai tanulság: Ne engedd, hogy a cég a saját szervezési hibáját (üresjárat) a te szankcionálhatóságoddá (telefonozás) keretezze át. Ameddig fizetnek, addig fejleszd a hatékonyságod a munkában 🛑
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Balazs Dukat reacted on thisAs a woman who runs alone, often in the bush, I can tell you this is exhausting. Before I even step out the door, there’s a mental checklist: • Where am I going? • Will my phone have reception? • Should I avoid that track? • Who knows where I am? - What time does the sun come up? Even how I wear my hair becomes a safety strategy. If I’m alone, I plait my hair and tuck it into my cap so it can’t be grabbed. This is the reality for so many women. We adapt, we plan, we limit ourselves and the places we can go own. We carry the responsibility. And while practical safety advice has its place, we need to be honest about the bigger issue. The burden should not sit solely on women to prevent violence. We need to be teaching something far more fundamental: Men do not own women’s bodies. Men do not have the right to intimidate, harass, control, or harm women. Objectification, harassment, rape, and violence are choices made by perpetrators and NOT consequences of women’s behaviour. Yes, let’s talk about safety. But let’s also shift the conversation to education and accountability. Because I, and every other woman, deserve to run, walk, live, and exist in the world without having to strategise our safety at every step. Men, before you go for a run, what checks do you do to keep yourself safe? Do you wait for daylight so you’re not running in the dark? What goes through your mind when you see another man on a remote track? Do you avoid certain routes because there’s no phone reception? Do you keep your phone in your hand just in case? Or is the only real preparation for the trails making sure you’ve packed a snake bandage? I know there are many good men out there. But being “not violent” is not enough. Speak up. Call out disrespect, harassment, and minimising language when you hear it. Challenge other men, especially in spaces where women aren’t present. Teach boys what respect actually looks like. Refuse to laugh along to jokes or content that objectify women Violence against women is not just a women’s issue. It is a men’s issue to confront. Change can come faster when men start standing alongside us and saying enough is enough Safer to be a female surfer with the sharks than a female runner on land
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Balazs Dukat liked thisBalazs Dukat liked thisThe difference isn’t whether AI writes code. It’s whether you continuously direct architecture, constraints, and decisions.
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Balazs Dukat reacted on thisBalazs Dukat reacted on thisI have a confession to make. Yesterday, I got paid to give a speech about how women can reclaim our true selves when we disappear, and I felt myself disappear a little. In that moment. I was so honored to be on that stage, and even more astounded by who else joined me - a Nobel peace laureate, a solo arctic explorer, an astronaut and rights activist, and several other insanely high-powered women. And as I walked on that stage, and after, a voice in my head said: "what on earth am I doing up here? I didn't do anything extraordinary." I spent the better part of yesterday fixating: 💙 on what went wrong 💙 on the pieces of my story I didn't get to finish telling 💙 on that one time I used the word 'jerk' and was it inappropriate? 💙 on whether I should have been up there at all But last night something extraordinary happened. I told my girls about my speech. I explained the core concept - which is that in 4th grade there was a specific moment where I felt myself fracture. A moment where my true, 'wild' internal self went underground, and my serious, 'good girl' external self took over. I told them that this happens to almost every woman I know. And that I'm on a journey to reclaim my wild self. She's just been in an alternate universe, hiding, waiting to be called back. I told them I have this idea to spend time with this idea. "What if I could bring that wild world to life, visually?" I asked them. What if you could help me? What if we could render the wild world where girls hide while women try to contort, shrink, fit in? What if you could stay in your wild instead of ever fracturing? My eldest went off and began drawing immediately. No questions. Just this small piece of perfection she handed back. My takeway: I suppose even I need to do a better job listening to the message I've been preaching. And, my daughters are apparently the ones who will help me do it. (and yes, this book project is real. it's already under way.)
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Balazs Dukat liked thisBalazs Dukat liked thisMost careers are designed for people with invisible support systems. Yesterday, that theory joined my client meeting. We were discussing very important grown-up things: conversion rates, funnels, revenue... My son was discussing my husband’s secret chocolate stash. He had quietly snuck into the office, climbed into my husband’s chair like a tiny CEO, located the hidden chocolate (which, honestly, was news to me too), and started singing while eating it. I muted myself. We were mid sentence about growth and numbers. Then I had to speak again. I unmuted. Right on cue: “MAAAAMMMIIII!!!” Not a subtle mama. A full-commitment, chocolate-fuelled maaammmiiii. My client laughed. I laughed. But first… I felt embarrassed. Which is interesting, because objectively nothing unprofessional happened. No deadline missed. No strategy harmed. No revenue lost. Just reality… briefly unmuted. But many career models are still built around the assumption that someone else is quietly handling life in the background. Someone else absorbing interruptions. Someone else solving the urgent chocolate situations. So when life shows up loudly in the meeting, we feel like we broke a rule. Even when we know we didn’t. Because in the end: I am maaammmiiii. And I also talk about revenue. And both are part of the same reality. ————- I write about redesigning work for real lives, not idealized ones. Follow if that resonates.
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Balazs Dukat reacted on thisBalazs Dukat reacted on thisWe need women to give birth. We penalize them when they do. We want more women in leadership. We also need women to have children. Otherwise there is no future workforce. No economic growth. No functioning society. And yet pregnancy is still treated like a surprise at work. It isn’t. Pregnancy is one of the most predictable transitions in life. We know roughly how long it lasts. We know roughly what the physical impact is. We know capacity changes. We know recovery takes time. We know reintegration matters. None of this is new information. And still: No real preparation before. Little meaningful adaptation during. Weak reintegration after. Women work almost until birth. Come back quickly. And are expected to perform exactly as before. As if creating a human had no impact on the body, the brain, or a person’s life. Then we look at leadership pipelines and ask: Where are all the women? 1 in 4 women leave the workforce within a year of having a child. Not because ambition disappears. Because the system was never designed for this reality. We say we want more women at the top. But we build organizations around a life model where pregnancy ideally doesn’t happen. Pregnancy isn’t unpredictable. The lack of preparation is a choice ——— I write about leadership, systems, and redesigning work to reflect how people actually live. Follow if you’re interested in building companies that don’t quietly push talent out.
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Balazs Dukat liked thisAs a hiring manager then Open to Work banner doesn't say desperate, it doesn't say avoid, it says that person is Open to Work. It's that simple isn't?! If on the other hand someone does discriminate because the potential employee has the Open to Work banner on - imagine what else triggers them. They're the ones worth avoiding in the first place.
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