Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
He / Him
STEC and SQEC Certified. MoT Ambassador, writer, speaker, accessibility advocate. Consulting, Leeds Chapter Lead. MoT Certs curator. Testing wisdom, friendly, songs and poems. Great minds think differently
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Achievements
Certificates
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Activity
earned:
6.10.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
earned:
6.9.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
earned:
Public service announcement
earned:
In quality, there is no box to think outside
earned:
5.0.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
Contributions
If you’re using social media, you’re probably using hashtags.
If you’re using hashtags, you’re probably using multiple words.
If you’re using multiple words, you’re probably putting them in a strin...
I watched a program, and someone said, 'think outside the box'. It is a common saying, and I'm willing to make an assumption that lots of you reading this will have heard of it. Generally, it means...
I've created a basic visual for my mindsets model, which will be part of my book, if I ever get it done. I'm after some initial feedback on what folks think. This is handcrafted in Slides, so no AI...
It is bug-congrats me as I'm absolutely flabbergasted that not only have I passed four thousand stars, I caught it on 4004 (lots of stars not found)Â
I was a bit stunned to find no definition of AI in the glossary. We have AI deception, AI evals, AI test agent, AI testing, AI vampire, but just plain old AI was missing. So, I've fixed it. AI Arti...
Artificial Intelligence is the broad science of making computers mimic human decision-making and problem-solving. It is a nested family of technologies. At the outer edge, you have general AI. Inside that, you find machine learning, where systems learn from patterns in data. At the very centre, you have deep learning. It tries to mimic the human brain using neural networks. AI is a powerful tool, but it is not a replacement for human thinking, nor is it ever likely to be. It is brilliant at finding patterns in mountains of data, giving simple answers to complex questions (context depending, of course), but it lacks common sense and empathy. Our job is to bridge that gap, ensuring that AI is safe and reliable.Â
On a beautiful morning you have time to go for a walk along the canal and have some brunch with your wife.Â
We love a good TWiQ episode that celebrates the wins. And in today's episode we did just that. So here goes, we celebrated the following wins...
Diana Dromey ran her first ever 10k, goin...
A celebratory 'wins' episode full of community milestones, personal breakthroughs, bug catches, career confidence, and the many small moments that keep the MoTaverse moving.