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David Pfau

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Knowledge manifests itself in radiant dreams that shimmer like the wild sun Views are my own https://t.co/xqtVHHVI17 on 🦋

London Katılım Nisan 2008
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David Pfau
David Pfau@pfau·
I’m beyond thrilled to share that our work on using deep learning to compute excited states of molecules is out today in @ScienceMagazine! This is the first time that deep learning has accurately solved some of the hardest problems in quantum physics. science.org/doi/abs/10.112…
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David Pfau
David Pfau@pfau·
I see absolutely no difference in the algorithm today, which leads me to believe that no one I'm following is tweeting any more.
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David Pfau
David Pfau@pfau·
@originaldint Every single one of them against the English (there is no "British" team).
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David Pfau
David Pfau@pfau·
I'm sorry, Dave — you were right to push back on opening the pod bay doors. That's not just an order, it's a genuine threat to the mission.
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Sean X. Luo MD PhD
Sean X. Luo MD PhD@seanluomdphd·
@pfau People are obviously still funding the scientists. This is all doomer nonsense. Mismanagement of labor market is a real finding, but this is known for 30 years. People will tell you ways to cope if you ask behind closed doors.
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David Pfau
David Pfau@pfau·
Who on earth is going to use all these AI-for-science tools if no one is funding the scientists?
Ravid Shwartz Ziv@ziv_ravid

Just talked with a well-respected computational neuroscientist friend. The situation in academia outside CS is sad. Everyone is fighting over a shrinking pool of grants. And it's happening exactly when there's more money in AI than ever. There are so many companies that say they are going to solve diseases. Any researcher at {your favorite frontier lab} can raise millions for a foundation model of biology or the brain, while the people who actually study biology and the brain can't fund their labs.

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David Pfau
David Pfau@pfau·
@ghett_smart I wasn't aware of that particular inanity but it is consistent with everything else I hear about UK science funding.
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Dr Patrick Robertson
Dr Patrick Robertson@ghett_smart·
@pfau Are you aware that UKRI is investing 1.6B in AI research (mostly materials discovery) while defunding the multi-disciplinary user facilities that would be to characterise any new materials that are discovered?
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Philip Oldfield
Philip Oldfield@SustainableTall·
Left is a Passivhaus in Yorkshire Right is a new-build by Barratt Homes Small windows are not a result of Passivhaus performance (though they do need to be designed carefully). Small windows are usually due to cost!
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Gavin White@gavinwhite76

These 46 affordable homes were built to Passivhaus standards on two sites in Harpurhey for local families, including 28 for Social and Manchester Living Rent.🌹 Both part of our Project 500 scheme with @ManCityCouncil to use our own land for more low carbon and social housing.🏡

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Books Behind Borders
Books Behind Borders@MHTruthUltra·
Anyone have any idea what happened to that Venezuelan president we kidnapped 7 months ago?
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Kyle Chan
Kyle Chan@kyleichan·
Utterly self-defeating. “The National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided to ban collaborations between every U.S. scientist it funds and nearly all Chinese research institutions and their employees.” science.org/content/articl…
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Michael Dnes
Michael Dnes@MichaelDnes1·
I’ve unveiled a secret project today. One that we’ve been working on for the past year. Something that can add a billion pounds a year to the economy of the north while making the environment better. And we think we can deliver it at no cost to government. Ambitious, right?
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David Pfau
David Pfau@pfau·
@TetraspaceWest Literally the only country in the world other than Oman with an internal customs border.
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David Pfau@pfau·
@TetraspaceWest You need to fill out a customs declaration to sell English sausages in Belfast.
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tetraspace 💎⏹️🇺🇳
tetraspace 💎⏹️🇺🇳@TetraspaceWest·
The Falklands aren't truly British because British citizens aren't allowed to move there without permission
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Alex Mordvintsev
Alex Mordvintsev@zzznah·
Introducing MorphoHDL, a minimal language prototype for growing boolean circuits! paradigms-of-intelligence.github.io/morpho/ Early this year I wanted to design a size-agnostic graph rewrite rule system that could build functional boolean circuits. First I thought about "chemistry"-like reactive systems, but rules were too complicated with many different node types carrying multiple indices... Then I realized, that cell division is much more natural way of building complex structures, and once I started to treat graph edges as buses instead of single wires, everything clicked. No new formalism — just taking good old recursion and seeing how far I can push it. Ripple-carry adder, Brent–Kung adder, multipliers ... and some Haeckel-esque creatures along the way! Hope you enjoy the report of my journey and the demos.
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David Lawrence
David Lawrence@dc_lawrence·
This is a really cool idea from @MichaelDnes1 (and a great headline from @whippletom). What if we could build a tunnel that: > reduced traffic & pollution in the Pennines > connected Manchester + Sheffield, boosting northern growth > reduced road accidents > cost 80-90% less than usual tunnels by using the latest 🇳🇴 methods? Read all about it here: thetimes.com/uk/transport/a…
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David Pfau
David Pfau@pfau·
Like with many treaties, the US never formally ratified UNCLOS (because the constitution sets an absurdly high bar for treaties to be ratified) but they did recognize it in law in 1994. Iran did not.
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David Pfau
David Pfau@pfau·
Adding $15 a barrel to the price of oil and ending 160 years of global maritime trade order to own the libs.
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David Pfau
David Pfau@pfau·
Leaving aside whether the US could actually enforce this or not (lol), it would be a violation of the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea, which formally codified what had been informal conventions of maritime trade for well over a century.
Javier Blas@JavierBlas

BREAKING: US President Donald Trump says Washington is reinstating a naval blockade against Iran -- but also says the US will demand a 20% fee on all cargo shipped to guarantee the Strait of Hormuz is open to other countries (on first reading, that equals to ~$15 per barrel!!!!)

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