@ewankirk

Technology entrepreneur, early-stage investor, founder of Cantab Capital Partners, Chairman of the Management Committee at the @NewtonInstitute

 United Kingdom
turner-kirk.org/
Joined February 2017
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Why are you still using Twitter (I refuse to call it X)? Use something instead. BlueSky? Before Dom and Tom say “ah ha, but *you* are using Twitter”, this is the first time I’ve used the app in four months. #RIHLive
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Also, #RIHLive, question for Dom. In your view what is the worst impression or singing that Tom has done on the podcast.
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The lovely people at @ECFEuroVelo asked me to write a piece on my trip a couple of years ago across Europe on EuroVelo 2. I condensed all my blog posts into a short article and...here it is. One about this year's trip is in the works. en.eurovelo.com/news/2024-09…

I built a bike and cycled across Europe on it

Ewan Kirk tells us about his first long bikepacking journey. In 2022 he cycled on EuroVelo 2 - Capitals Route from his home in Cambridge in the UK all the way to Warsaw in Poland on a bike he built...

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Today was supposed to be the first day of my next big cycle. Vienna to the Black Sea. Thanks to @Ryanair that didn't happen. Thanks for the 14 hour flight delay guys. blog.thekirks.co.uk/2024/08/…
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Rather than majoring on the suffering of the ride I thought I’d do a bit of (heavily summarised) history. blog.thekirks.co.uk/2024/08/…
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Day 13, eventually I bowed to the inevitable and took a taxi. 42 degrees plus and a scary road took me over my “indomitable will” threshold. blog.thekirks.co.uk/2024/08/…
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So glad and proud that my children are geeky enough to do this.
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Of course thanks to @izkirk for her endorsement for the rôle of president. Make Venn Diagrams Great Again!
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Me: What sort of diagram would be good for my new experiment design? [The dreaded moment ChatGPT starts generating an image not text] Me: No No No..Nope..Stop. There's no way this is going to work out well for you... [ChatGPT produces this factory monstrosity] Me: Told you...🤦‍♀️
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Today we're launching PRISM, a new resource to diversify the voices contributing to alignment. We asked 1500 people around the world for their stated preferences over LLM behaviours, then we observed their contextual preferences in 8000 convos with 21 LLMs arxiv.org/abs/2404.16019
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How do we catalyze conservation efforts? Through the Sprint Challenge, we funded a research project looking to gather insights for this purpose. You can learn more from Dr Morena Mills, from the research team, by watching the video below.
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