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Glasgow, UK
Joined July 2013
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Suppose you have to move star systems but the only ones available have stable three-body stellar orbits.
Which would be the best for life?
Which is the worst for life?
Which is the best for tourism?
Rows: A, B, C, D. Columns: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
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‘RL as Inference’ is a popular but flawed perspective. In our new paper, we empower it with a principled, Bayesian treatment that yields efficient exploration!
arxiv.org/abs/2311.13294
With Tor Lattimore and @bodonoghue85
#NeurIPS2023
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Today in partnership with @emblebi, we’re releasing predicted structures for nearly all catalogued proteins known to science, which will expand the #AlphaFold database by over 200x - from nearly 1 million to 200+ million structures: dpmd.ai/AF-22-TW 1/
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Our work has been published in @Nature!!
(G)NNs can successfully guide the intuition of mathematicians & yield top-tier results -- in both representation theory & knot theory.
dpmd.ai/nature-maths
arxiv.org/abs/2111.15161
arxiv.org/abs/2111.15323
See my 🧵 for more insight...
A new paper in @Nature details how machine learning was used to make significant new discoveries in pure mathematics by guiding the intuition of some of the world’s top mathematicians from @Sydney_Uni and @OxUniMaths: dpmd.ai/maths-blog
Paper: dpmd.ai/nature-maths 1/
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The commitment phase for the Proof Assistant @StackExchange site is 90% complete. We only need the support of a dozen people or so and then we're going β. Can we do it before the sun sets? area51.stackexchange.com/pro…
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Happy to announce that my book
"Algorithms for Convex Optimization"
is now available in print -- you can order a copy here:
amazon.com/Algorithms-Convex…
The intended audience includes undergraduates, graduates, and researchers from TCS, optimization, and machine learning
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✨ Applications for internships are now open✨
Interning at DeepMind offers a unique opportunity to closely collaborate with our team & work on various projects that aim to advance science and benefit humanity.
Interested? Learn more: dpmd.ai/internships
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Our new Nature Communications paper was published today (open access), and it's a pretty big deal. I'll tell you why (Thread). @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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The missing square puzzle is an optical illusion used in mathematics classes to help students reason about geometrical figures; or rather to teach them not to reason using figures, but to use only textual descriptions and the axioms of geometry. It depicts two arrangements made
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11 sleeps until the #XmasLectures begin! They're on @BBCFOUR at 8pm on the 28, 29 & 30 December 🌍
28 Dec: 'Engine Earth' by @seis_matters
29 Dec: 'Water World' by @helenczerski
30 Dec: 'Up in the Air' by @shine_tara
rigb.org/christmas-lectures/…
ALT Man stood smiling in a lecture theatre between 2 interactive globes of planet Earth. Text overlay reads 'Christmas Lectures. 'Engine Earth' by Chris Jackson. 28 December, 8pm, BBC Four. #XmasLectures.
ALT Woman stood smiling in front of a blue set pointing up at floating balloons. Text overlay reads 'Christmas Lectures. 'Water World' by Helen Czerski. 29 December, 8pm, BBC Four. #XmasLectures.
ALT Woman gesturing towards a pillar of blue plastic netting holding in hundreds of black plastic balls. Text overlay reads 'Christmas Lectures. 'Up in the Air' by Tara Shine. 30 December, 8pm, BBC Four. #XmasLectures.
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The annual sum of explicit and implicit subsidies to fossil fuels were as follows according to this IMF paper:
Coal: $2288 billion
Oil: $2132 billion
Natural gas: $520 billion
The explicit subsidies to renewable power: $128 billion
And for nuclear: $21 billion
The lack of a monetary price for the negative consequences of burning fossil fuels should be seen as a subsidy for fossil fuels.
These are the key findings of the IMF paper ‘How Large Are Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies?’
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Day one of #CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition was a blast and we can't wait for part 2. We will be live again on 14th Nov., 13pm (CET) with the powered wheelchair race followed by powered leg prothesis and exosceleton race. cybathlon.com!
#CYBATHLON2020
This is super cool. It should allow better regulation through transparency.
Remarkable initiative: the Amsterdam AI registry. The idea is to give an overview of the city's AI systems, how they are used & how humans use the info, how risks & biases are analysed & how citizens can give feedback. Curious to learn more @aikvaneemeren
algoritmeregister.amsterdam.…
Yay, I just applied to Deepmind!
Again.
Oh yeah, btw. PhD intership applications are open, and closing soon. I nealy missed them 😕
Also. For the PhD intern position they require you to have "proven research capability". But isn't that what you get by finishing a PhD?!? 🙄
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I've been trying to imagine how the ML research and publication enterprise could be re-organized. Here are some initial thoughts. Feedback welcome! 1/
I have been learning about quantum mechanics. This quote really resonates.
"Why is the pilot wave picture ignored in text books? Should it not be taught, not as the only way, but as an antidote to the prevailing complacency? To show us that vagueness, subjectivity, and
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We're excited to release OpenSpiel: a framework for reinforcement learning in games. It contains over 25 games, and 20 algorithms, including tools for visualisation and evaluation.
GitHub: github.com/deepmind/open_spi…
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1908.09453
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Energy-efficient information transfer at
thalamocortical synapses
Harris, Engl, AttwellI, Blaise Jolivet 2019
"maximises information per energy used ... suggests energy efficiency at synapses could be a common design principle in the brain."
journals.plos.org/ploscompbi…
