Adrien Vaschalde

Owkin, previously @layer, @Open_Cosmos and @Wise

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

NEW podcast episode is up!

David Whyte, Poet — Spacious Ease, Irish Koans, Writing in Delirium, and Revelations from a Yak Manger

Please enjoy! 🙌

cc: @poetdavidwhyte

[@levelsio @levelsio]

♻️ Because governments everywhere ask us to separate all our plastic

I wanted to see if it would actually get recycled

So a few weeks ago, I taped an Airtag inside an empty plastic yogurt container

I then put it in the plastic recycling garbage container in my neighborhood

Where it ended up next you'll see in the next tweet...

[Physical Intelligence @physical_int]

At Physical Intelligence (π) our mission is to bring general-purpose AI into the physical world.

We're excited to show the first step towards this mission - our first generalist model π₀ 🧠 🤖

Paper, blog, uncut videos: https://t.co/XZ4Luk8Dci

[Adrien Vaschalde @AdrienVaschalde]

Insane 👏👏

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The tower has caught the rocket!!

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

THIS WINS THE DAY!!!! https://t.co/Lk2PJeFByd

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

AI is incredible at writing code.

But that's not enough to create software. You need to set up a dev environment, install packages, configure DB, and, if lucky, deploy.

It's time to automate all this.

Announcing Replit Agent in early access—available today for subscribers:

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

New blog post. Hidden Electron windows and kernel-level folder proxies to let AIs iterate on code without affecting the user: https://t.co/KLieCubt8F

[ARCHIVED - NASA Climate @NASAClimate]

July 22, 2024 was the hottest day on record. Average global temperatures for July 21 & 23 also exceeded the previous record.

The preliminary finding comes from @NASA atmospheric models that combine millions of land, sea, air & satellite observations. https://t.co/qZoqWphzAd

[Thomas McKinlay 🎓 @tdmckinlay]

After 4+ months of hard work, it’s finally here!

📘 The Playbook of SaaS Optimization

TO GRAB YOUR COPY: 👉 Visit ariyh [dot] com

[Adrien Vaschalde @AdrienVaschalde]

@elonmusk @elonmusk can you make it so the audio keeps playing in the background? Like on Spotify. Otherwise X not the best option for this, at least for me. Would also beat YouTube (free tier)

[Adrien Vaschalde @AdrienVaschalde]

@bchesky Our experience as super hosts is terrible. Very short notice and no way to use official documents like energy bills. Such a pain, as we cannot be at the property in time. Support is a mess, honestly disappointed @bchesky

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Incredible display of zealot's corner

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

I’m very excited to share our work on Gemini today! Gemini is a family of multimodal models that demonstrate really strong capabilities across the image, audio, video, and text domains. Our most-capable model, Gemini Ultra, advances the state of the art in 30 of 32 benchmarks, including 10 of 12 popular text and reasoning benchmarks, 9 of 9 image understanding benchmarks, 6 of 6 video understanding benchmarks, and 5 of 5 speech recognition and speech translation benchmarks. Gemini Ultra is the first model to achieve human-expert performance on MMLU across 57 subjects with a score above 90%. It also achieves a new state-of-the-art score of 62.4% on the new MMMU multimodal reasoning benchmark, outperforming the previous best model by more than 5 percentage points.

Gemini was built by an awesome team of people from @GoogleDeepMind, @GoogleResearch, and elsewhere at @Google, and is one of the largest science and engineering efforts we’ve ever undertaken. As one of the two overall technical leads of the Gemini effort, along with my colleague @OriolVinyalsML, I am incredibly proud of the whole team, and we’re so excited to be sharing our work with you today!

There’s quite a lot of different material about Gemini available, starting with:

Main blog post: https://t.co/NzSycJl7aE

60-page technical report authored by th Gemini Team: https://t.co/CEdMRyYSLo

In this thread, I’ll walk you through some of the highlights.

[Owkin @OwkinScience]

Today, @arxiv publishes FedECA, our new algorithm scaling data access for external control arms (ECAs) thanks to #federatedlearning (FL).

We show that combining FL with an ECA method called IPTW (inverse probability of treatment weighting) allows us to derive a treatment effect from a single treated arm. We achieve this thanks to an ECA built using sensitive data from multiple medical partners.

This means that data can stay on premise, overcoming a major obstacle to the feasibility of ECAs: the fact that data is often private and distributed, which makes pooling the right amount of data complex.

Read the full paper at https://t.co/06bWfA2vMO

Read our scientific explainer at https://t.co/30w1YKqFFt

#drugdevelopment #AI

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

[Replit ⠕ @Replit]

This developer began freelancing just a month ago and now earns more through coding than his entire family.

Coming from a family of farmers in India, Akashdeep never owned a PC.

He accomplished this using only his mobile phone.

Here's his story:

Akashdeep is a college student in India who discovered Replit a year ago and started applying to Bounties last month. Unable to afford a computer, Akashdeep relies on Replit Mobile to code.

For his most recent Bounty, he built a LinkedIn PDF parser for @badboyjoeriri, an entrepreneur. Joeri is on a mission to build https://t.co/pQW9ZwiOYU, a referral-based professional networking website. He wanted to populate professional profiles using LinkedIn as a data source, requiring the LinkedIn profile data in a JSON format. While Joeri could have coded this feature himself, outsourcing it to Replit Bounties as a scoped-out task allowed him to focus on more critical aspects of his project.

Less than five days after Joeri posted the Bounty, Akashdeep built and submitted a working product, which was hosted and deployed on Replit.

Replit empowers entrepreneurs to quickly turn their ideas into software, while equipping global developers with the tools they need to write code and earn money.

Deployments: https://t.co/v9mbEVgaM4

Bounties: https://t.co/Y0cHZhrG4y

#ideatosoftware

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem; a crusader pub established in 1189 CE, year Pope Gregory VIII called for a Third Crusade to the Holy Land and year that Richard the Lionheart became king of England and started organising Third Crusade. It sits below Castle Rocks and the walls of Nottingham Castle, in heart of town centre. Many man made tunnels and caves connect to it, dating back over a thousand years. Robin Hood a figure of English folklore, but also believed to be based on a real person who lived in Nottinghamshire and who went on the crusade, is said to have frequented the inn. The inn is also haunted by former crusaders.

King Richard the Lionheart and his men congregated at the pub before embarking on the Third Crusade in Jerusalem, giving the pub its name. Evidence suggests that caves in the rock against which the pub is built were used as a brewhouse for Nottingham Castle, and may date from around the time the castle was built in 1067 CE, then being extended as a pub for townsfolk outside the Castle walls.

Richard the Lionheart ruled England, the Principalities of Wales, and also ruled lands as Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and Gascony; Lord of Cyprus; Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and Nantes; and was overlord of Brittany. Richard I ruled over much of France during Angevin Empire (sometimes called the first English Empire).

Richard had already taken the cross as Count of Poitou in 1187 CE. His father and Philip II had done so at Gisors on 21 January 1188 CE, after receiving news of the fall of Jerusalem to Saladin. After Richard became king, he and Philip II agreed to go on the Third Crusade, since each feared that during his absence the other might usurp his territories, they collectively organised Crusade.

#archaeohistories

[Owkin @OwkinScience]

Introducing Abstra – Owkin's new platform that unites healthcare researchers and data experts, powering collaboration to maximize the value of their data and accelerate scientific discovery.

Watch the video to discover how it works.

Learn more and sign up to be a beta tester at https://t.co/zDBhw5GciK

#AI #precisionmedicine #datascience

[Heard of the story? - now in Early Access! @HeardOfTheStory]

Really happy to say that my @EpicGames Store page has been approved and is now up! If you'd prefer that platform and want to support an alternative storefront, please give it a wishlist there!
#gamedev #indiegames
https://t.co/v83U7ZxI05

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

The heart of a blue whale, which can weigh in excess of 1,300 lbs (590 kg), is the size of a small car. The gigantic heart beats 8 to 10 times per minute, and each heartbeat can be heard from over 2 miles (3.2 km) away. Their arteries are so large that a full adult-sized human can swim through them.

At birth, a baby blue whale is already 25 ft long (the size of an adult killer whale) and can drink up to 150 gallons (568 liters) of milk a day, gaining as much as 200 lbs (90 kg) per day in its first year. They feed almost exclusively on krill, which are small, shrimp-like invertebrates that are on average only 1 or 2 centimeters long. They eat 4 to 6 tons of krill a day. As adults, they can grow up to 110 ft (33 m) in length and weigh up to 180 tons.

It's fascinating that throughout history, Earth has been home to some of the biggest animals, but the largest one of them all exists in our timeline, swimming in the deep ocean right now.