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Joined March 2008
As part of my Xit/migration from the wholly untenable "X" company, please stay connected with me via linkedin.com/in/gavinstarks/ [work, climate, data] mastodon.social/@agentGav [other] agentgav.medium.com/ [blog] [fyi: I joined Twitter in March 2008]
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We have suspended all our activity on X (Twitter) until further notice. Please connect with us at linkedin.com/company/icebrea…
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Aurora, in London, from my front door - above the glare of Tower Bridge. (worth coming back to the bird for)
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a reminder here for anyone wanting to connect: linkedin.com/in/gavinstarks and/ or mastodon.social/@agentGav
As part of my Xit/migration from the wholly untenable "X" company, please stay connected with me via linkedin.com/in/gavinstarks/ [work, climate, data] mastodon.social/@agentGav [other] agentgav.medium.com/ [blog] [fyi: I joined Twitter in March 2008]
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quick reminder here for anyone wondering where I've gone
As part of my Xit/migration from the wholly untenable "X" company, please stay connected with me via linkedin.com/in/gavinstarks/ [work, climate, data] mastodon.social/@agentGav [other] agentgav.medium.com/ [blog] [fyi: I joined Twitter in March 2008]
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In what may be one of my last messages here (given the sheer idiocy of the guy who owns it) I reflect that the vast majority of my messages have been about our climate emergency. And, today, this. The time for theory is over. theguardian.com/environment/…
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Back in 2003, Andy Marshall at the Pentagon asked us at Global Business Network to develop some scenarios around "Abrupt climate change." (This was when the Bush administration was suppressing climate research.) We focused on what happens when the Gulf Stream shuts down.
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“Too good to be true” — a comment that has been made to me many times. Here are some reflections on how policy, commercial and open interests interact and the imperative to act now... agentgav.medium.com/too-good…
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Today in 'blast from the past' ... what's the Carbon Footprint of burning a cow in Minecraft? boingboing.net/2011/11/29/ha… (excellent work from @Floppy back in 2011 that demonstrates the power of APIs, automatic carbon calculation and fun)
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Everyone should read the celebrated mathematician Terence Tao's blog on LLM. He predicts that AI will be a trustworthy co-author in mathematical research by 2026, when combined with search and symbolic math tools. I believe math will be the first scientific discipline to see major breakthroughs enabled by AI, because math: ▸ can be expressed conveniently as a coding problem. Strings are naturally first-class citizens. ▸ can be rigorously verified by theorem provers like Lean, rather than relying on empirical results. ▸ does not require physical experiments like biology & medicine. Robotics isn't ready yet. We are already seeing big progress: ▸ LeanDojo (leandojo.org/) from my colleagues @NVIDIAAI & @Caltech is among the first steps towards this grand challenge. ▸ Last year, OpenAI used Lean to solve some math olympiad problems: openai.com/research/formal-m… ▸ ChemCrow is another example, but for chemistry. It integrates GPT-4 with professional tools like molecular synthesis planner and reaction prediction: arxiv.org/abs/2304.05376 ▸ Terrance Tao's blog: unlocked.microsoft.com/ai-an…
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overheard... (and something I see almost *every day*) “I get the impression that the work is being built up from the data rather than down from the user needs.” Data-driven development will fail. Data-enabled users is the target.
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"The time for collaboration is now" ... "we need all the data" [to unlock capital] Climate Innovation Forum, Keynote Address Rt Hons Nicholas Lyons City of London Corporation ib1.org
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full house on the Terrace Pavillion at the House of Commons with cross-party support, industry and a broad range of stakeholders all committing to do one thing well, and to go far together ... Perseus is Go: ib1.org/2023/06/27/perseus-a…
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People are using Ai to analyse the PDF files for ESG reports, which include data based on models that are built on a stack of uncertainties and estimates that are themselves based on high error-bar input data. This is the definition of madness: sort out access to primary data.
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Replying to @OpenInnovates
@OpenInnovates will be Ten! in Autumn 2023. I have written up a blog on the 1st ten years and what the next ten will look like. open-innovations.org/blog/20… highlights below in a thread
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My assessment, over the last few months, is that @IcebreakerOne is (finally) in the Overton Window for its mission. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overto…)
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I've noticed an uptick in 'direct email'—coming via email list companies who have 'guessed' emails in the format [email protected], then sold those lists to companies as being 'GDPR compliant'. What's the view from the room here? cc @kcorrick
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