Jack🌱

Assistant Ecologist - Biology MSci specialising in behavioural and sensory ecology/genetics + Cartoon illustrator. Dm for illustration commissions.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

It’s literally not rained for a month in southern England, and the Westminster press corps just spent weeks saying Ed Miliband is bad because he takes climate change seriously.

We are almost certainly in the foothills of really significant changes to everyday life.

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

Mamdani taxed the rich and suddenly libraries work, potholes get fixed, childcare exists, and workers get paid more.
That's why billionaires are losing it and want him gone!!!

[Jack🌱 @JackBiologist]

@aurorawatchuk University clock tower, solved ✅

[Jack🌱 @JackBiologist]

@aurorawatchuk Purple light over Birmingham

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

I’m this old.

[Chirpy Chet @ChirpyChet]

Why is the BBC reporting it as inadvertently?

Nigel Farage failed to declare £380,000 of income on time. A total of 17 breaches of MPs code of conduct. Stop sanitising him.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, French President Emmanuel Macron just delivered the most powerful rebuke of Donald Trump we've seen yet. This is incredible.

[Jack🌱 @JackBiologist]

Probably some LED but seemed to be moving

[Jack🌱 @JackBiologist]

Anyone know what this is above Birmingham? #birmingam #uk #aurora @Met4CastUK

[Jarrod Watts @jarrodwatts]

> be demis hassabis
> spawn in london
> age 4, become child chess prodigy
> win chess tournaments
> reach ~2300 elo
> face danish chess champion
> game lasts hours
> position is a forced draw
> too exhausted to see it
> resign
> danish guy laughs and shows the draw
> feel sick to my stomach
> realise something is wrong
> chess is too narrow a problem
> brilliant minds wasting decades on it
> decide not to become a chess pro
> buy a computer with chess winnings
> teach self to program from books
> start hacking on games with friends
> decide to finish school early
> apply to cambridge age 16
> cambridge says you're too young
> forced to take a gap year
> enter a video game coding competition
> win
> get invited to join bullfrog game studio
> too young to be legally employed
> work there anyway
> build ai system inside theme park game
> game becomes a global hit
> turn 17
> offered £1,000,000 to stay and build games
> turn it down
> go to cambridge anyway
> decide games aren't enough
> study computer science
> interested in agi since 2007
> most people laugh at this idea
> realise brain is only form of agi we have
> want to learn more about human brain
> go back to school
> study neuroscience
> realise academia moves too slow
> decide to build a company instead
> start deepmind
> pitch “solve intelligence”
> investors don’t know what that means
> get to meet peter thiel for one minute
> wonder how to convince him
> spend one minute playing chess with him
> pitch "solve intelligence" again
> he invests
> go into total stealth mode for two years
> no website
> secret office
> candidates think it’s a scam
> start to train ai in simulated environments
> train ai with reinforcement learning
> train ai on pong first
> it sucks
> can't win a single point
> keep trying
> wait it won a a point
> wait it's winning every single point
> it actually works
> expand to train on any two-player game
> chess first, then move on to go
> beats world champion at go
> beats pros at starcraft
> games is not enough
> want to push into science
> realise compute is the bottleneck
> know this will take decades
> google offers ~$400m
> not the highest price
> but they offer unlimited compute
> accept
> refuse to become a product team
> stay in research mode
> determined to use ai for good
> need to figure out what's next
> land on protein folding
> 50-year-old unsolved science problem
> many great minds have tried and failed
> "good luck"
> start up alphafold
> try to solve protein folding
> humans take years to find 1 protein structure
> alphafold can find ~5 per day
> submit results, win competition
> not good enough
> hire more scientists
> rebuild it
> go from solving one per day to millions per day
> create invaluable system
> pharma would pay anything
> have to decide what to do with this
> could sell access for usage
> maybe make it a paid service
> remember childhood chess tournament
> remember why we built this
> decide to give it away all away for free
> publish all known protein structures publicly
> win nobel peace prize
> just the beginning towards agi

[MaB - Dash'n'Drops on EARLY ACCESS: AUGUST 13TH @moulinauxbulles]

This can't be real this can't be real this can't be real this can't be real

[Jack🌱 @JackBiologist]

@GingerNubbin @rainstormblue Try walking up it when it’s icy 😂 good fun!

[Jack🌱 @JackBiologist]

@Oobahs @Channel4 @tristandross

[Jack🌱 @JackBiologist]

@MartinSLewis Biological Sciences at Bristol in 2017. Met some lovely people, faced challenges, and grew as a person. I love Bristol, it’s a great place! With supportive and knowledgeable lecturers. Financially, it helped me get a specific job in ecology but not above average.

[Jake 🌹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ToryWipeout]

Not suspicious at all @Nigel_Farage

[Laura Vater, MD, MPH @doclauravater]

In med school, I learned that Huntington's disease was one of the most devastating inherited conditions. It caused progressive neurological decline, starting around age 30. There was no treatment. Now, Huntington's has been treated for first time.

This is why we fund science.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

This is what a REAL scientific breakthough looks like

Not that Tylenol stuff

[Jake 🌹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ToryWipeout]

Hi @Ofcom I realise you're very busy letting British media become the propaganda arm of the far right but can you explain how Sky News played an hour straight of Nigel Farage telling lies unchallenged today?

[Alastair Morgan @AlastairMorgan]

More and more people are getting very fed up with this creepy stuff.

[Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing]

Hey - Reform voters!

Last night your party voted against The Employment Rights Bill to ban fire & rehire and zero hours contracts.

They voted against you getting sick pay day one, and against you being protected against unfair dismissal from day one.

This what you want?