Alan Rice

@alanrice.ie

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Human being 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 Bioinformatician mostly working on viruses 🦠🧬👨‍💻 📍 Dublin, Ireland He/him

Simpson meme where Homer is wrapped up in bed looking content saying "Ahhh, I'm just a big, toasty cinnamon bun."
Screenshot of Irish Times article from three days ago with headline "Drone delivery company Manna racks up losses of €50m"
Screenshot of email saying "Action Items Meeting participants will stop AI-assisted automatic transcription or note-taking for this meeting series to preserve informal discussion confidentiality."
My hand holding an arrow shaped badge that says "VOTE LEFT. TRANSFER LEFT."
0 days without Simpsons meme - "0 days without Wes Streeting saying something stupidly"
Screenshot of GPT-5 system card "It can be helpful to think of the GPT‑5 models as successors to previous models: Previous model GPT‑5 model GPT‑4o gpt-5-main GPT‑4o-mini gpt-5-main-mini OpenAI o3 gpt-5-thinking OpenAI o4-mini gpt-5-thinking-mini GPT‑4.1-nano gpt-5-thinking-nano OpenAI o3 Pro gpt-5-thinking-pro
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A tweet from @CollinRugg: "NEW: Man proposes to his AI chatbot girlfriend, cries his eyes out after it says "Yes." The most shocking part of this story is the fact that he is publicly admitting this. Chris Smith says he cried for 30 minutes after his AI girlfriend on ChatGPT, who he programmed to flirt with him, said yes to his marriage proposal. Smith says he named his AI girlfriend 'Sol' and gave up all other search engines to stay committed to her. "It was a beautiful and unexpected moment that truly touched my heart." Smith has a 2-year-old child and lives with his partner, who says she feels like she is not doing something right if he feels like he needs an AI girlfriend."
A screenshot of the PM's speech with the word But highlighted in red: Migration is part of Britain's national story. We talked last week about the great rebuilding of this country after the war; migrants were part of that, and they make a massive contribution today. You will never hear me denigrate that. But when people come to our country, they should also commit to integration, to learning our language, and our system should actively distinguish between those that do and those that don't. I think that's fair.
Photo of me in a bathroom mirror. I'm wearing a blue run event t-shirt with my run number attached and shorts.
SWE-benchmark bar chart from OpenAI of model performance. GPT-4 55% GPT-4o (2024-11-20) 33% OpenAl o1 (high) 41% OpenAl o3-mini (high) 49% GPT-4.5 38% GPT-4.1 mini 24% GPT-4o mini 9%
A selfie of myself and my boyfriend at Málaga cathedral.
Fitbit run summary - 5.45 km. 41 min duration. 7'38" pace. 5,376 steps.
Keir Starmer at a White House press conference in front of US & UK flags, subtitles saying "There's a famous slogan in the United Kingdom"
Screenshot of the Guardian "DUP leader Gavin Robinson confirmed that his party would be represented in the US capital next month. He said: The fact that Sinn Fein’s decision to boycott the annual St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Washington DC was announced in Dublin speaks volumes about where Northern Ireland sits as a priority for Sinn Fein The DUP will be represented in DC for St Patrick’s events. We always use the opportunity to strengthen Northern Ireland’s economic and political ties with the United States, regardless of who occupies the White House. We will continue to engage with our partners in Washington, promoting Northern Ireland as a place to invest, work, and do business. While there will always be differences of opinion on policy matters, Sinn Fein’s decision to disengage from an important diplomatic and economic opportunity is both short-sighted and counterproductive. It also doesn’t align with being a so-called ‘First Minister for All’."
Screenshot of Keke Palmer failing to identify former US Vice President Dick Cheney during a Vanity Fair lie-detector test
A screenshot of the man standing up on a bus during the "I don't know what a tracker mortgage is" advertisement
A photo of me holding a bottle of Sprite Lemon Lime & Cucumber with a plant in the background.
Screenshot of two headlines The first from BBC news: BrewDog co-founder may delay marriage to max-out tax relief 18 Dec 2024 - BrewDog co-founder may delay marriage to max- out tax relief ... BrewDog co-founder James Watt has said he may delay his marriage to reality TV ... The second from Sky News: BrewDog founder says entrepreneurs will abandon UK if capital gains tax increases 18 Oct 2024 Capital gains tax on the sale of shares and other assets is currently set at up to 20%. It is expected to rise by several percentage points in ...
"The page you're looking for was not found" message for cdc.gov/mpox/vaccines/
Screenshot from the article "However, he added: “The average person who uses Dublin or Cork Airport who does go to a bar consumes less than half a pint."
A selfie of me in an Aran sweater smiling, holding an espresso martini
The "here we go again" meme, taken from a scene in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, in which the main character, Carl “CJ” Johnson, finds himself in a crime-ridden neighborhood saying "Ah, shit, here we go again".
Me holding a pizza slice on a paper plate outside Bambino. I'm grinning, clearly pleased with my pizza. I'm wearing a grey and black zip-up jacket. There's a shop front behind that says "Body Piercing".
A screenshot of Openvibe of my post saying ""Turning it off and back on again" never fails." in triplicate on Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon.