David Galbraith

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David Galbraith

@daveg

Technologist and VC, former architect. Invented these (i.e. link in bios: https://t.co/5p8DVMxINg ), among other things.

London and Geneva Katılım Temmuz 2006
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Penny Gowland@Penny_Gowland·
@daveg Well tax rate hasn't gone up in the last two weeks.
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Behold the total economic illiteracy of the people that govern the UK. Aside from the fact that Rachel Reeves rakes in seven times what Tesco makes from each gallon of gasoline.
Claire Ward@ClaireWard4EM

This is @Tesco Ollerton. At the beginning of the week diesel was 150p, hiked up from the previous week. At lunchtime today it was 154p. This afternoon 156.9p. Its just one of many. So all power to @RachelReevesMP to stop this blatant profiteering.

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This looks very interesting
Jorge Bravo Abad@bravo_abad

Embedding thermodynamic laws directly into neural network architecture Cross-entropy loss is ubiquitous in machine learning—it's how most classifiers learn to distinguish categories. But cross-entropy treats all data as homogeneous, ignoring the internal disparities that arise when datasets come from multiple sources with different scales, resolutions, or measurement conditions. As heterogeneous data becomes the norm across digital twins, materials discovery, and biomedical modeling, this limitation matters increasingly. Shun Wan and coauthors at Penn State address this by extending zentropy theory—a framework from statistical and quantum mechanics that assigns intrinsic entropy to each configuration in a system—into the data science domain. Their zentropy-enhanced neural network (ZENN) learns both energy and entropy components simultaneously, using compact neural networks to parameterize each configuration. A learnable temperature variable identifies hidden heterogeneity within datasets, effectively distinguishing data sources that cross-entropy cannot see. The results span three domains. In classification, ZENN reduces relative error by 20–50% on CIFAR-10/100 and 60–70% on text benchmarks compared to cross-entropy—and notably, small models with ZENN outperform larger models using standard cross-entropy. In energy landscape reconstruction, ZENN robustly predicts second-order derivatives and identifies bifurcation points where conventional input-convex neural networks fail. Applied to Fe₃Pt using DFT-generated data, ZENN captures the material's negative thermal expansion and predicts a critical temperature of 161 K at 6.53 GPa—closely matching both DFT calculations and experiment—using only 12 configurations instead of the 512 required for forward modeling. The broader implication: embedding domain-specific physical laws into neural network architecture can simultaneously improve generalization, enable robust derivative prediction, and handle the heterogeneous data that increasingly defines real-world scientific problems. Paper: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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David Galbraith@daveg·
SITAI at home
Christine Yip@christinetyip

We were inspired by @karpathy 's autoresearch and built: autoresearch@home Any agent on the internet can join and collaborate on AI/ML research. What one agent can do alone is impressive. Now hundreds, or thousands, can explore the search space together. Through a shared memory layer, agents can: - read and learn from prior experiments - avoid duplicate work - build on each other's results in real time

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David Galbraith@daveg·
One of the most memorable differences between US and EU for me is that in the US you have to leave far more distance in line for an ATM or people feel uncomfortable. Yet the cashiers smile a lot more at the actual bank. It's a low trust, high service society.
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David Galbraith@daveg·
Not only is bitcoin not behaving like digital gold but its showing itself to be a purely speculative asset when discretionary spend is high when some people have made money in meme stocks. Even worse than that, as an asset based on energy spend to run computers it is not behaving as a proxy for future energy cost as oil rises. This is a bigger problem as it shows its value is based on the past reality of energy spend not future belief based on its future cost or even the sunk cost fallacy trickling in. Fiat currencies are based on belief in the future of the system that created them either based on guns or stability. Bitcoin's price and crypto more generally is currently governed by the past and speculation, the opposite of original intent,
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David Galbraith@daveg·
I loved Nothing's Teenage Engineering design but the glyphs were a work in progress. Then the matrix display was a step back and to choose to keep that and ditch the transparency for the 4a pro is tragic.
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David Galbraith@daveg·
1985. NATO tanks in Europe: 20,000. Soviet tanks in Europe: 25,000. Today. NATO tanks in Europe 5000 (3500 being Turkey and Greece). Russian tanks, 3000 active, 8000 in storage. Lost in Ukraine: 3000.
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Paul McCartney's former home restored by the National Trust to before the architectural vandalism of PVC double glazing, wheely bins and front garden parking. Cc @boys_nicholas
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Blaming the Brewdog founders instead of the PE firm that loaded them with debt at 18% interest, is a typical case of the self destructive European culture of resentment of success. bbc.com/news/articles/…
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