Erlend Davidson

Deep Learning Research Scientist

[Octopus Energy @OctopusEnergy]

It's positively FAN-TASTIC news.

We’ve had over 30,000 requests from local communities wanting a local Fan Club turbine that'd give them discounted power when it's windy.

The end of this ban means we'll be able to build turbines quickly where people want them.

[Erlend Davidson @erlenddavidson]

@OctopusEnergy I got a smarter meter installed yesterday and the engineer gave me your new pink home mini thing. It doesn’t seem to be working though, and the light is just stuck on green now (around 24h). From your FAQs it looks like green means it can’t connect to the meter.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

With Sora, the evidence is piling up quickly. Now we're operating at scale. And the evidence will keep piling up with new models going forward -- even faster.

And the evidence so far is resounding -- you really are looking at latent-space collages and interpolations. The inner physics model doesn't generalize to novel situations at all. It's not just that you can't use it as a reliable replacement for a fluid dynamics simulator to design a new aircraft or as a gravity simulator to design a new marble run course...

[Erlend Davidson @erlenddavidson]

@TheMurkyDepths Where was the photo taken?

[Wes Gurnee @wesg52]

Do language models have an internal world model? A sense of time? At multiple spatiotemporal scales?

In a new paper with @tegmark we provide evidence that they do by finding a literal map of the world inside the activations of Llama-2!

[François Chollet @fchollet]

The 21st century will be built in Python.

[Sebastian Raschka @rasbt]

@mrdbourke I have a lecture on that if useful (video 3 in Unit 4.2)!

In short, a combination of linear functions is a linear function :)

https://t.co/NyaUDRBykq

[Robert Walsh @rwwalsh]

“Here comes the SUN. Da,da,da,da.” Only a few days left to experience SUN in the St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, part of the @OrkSciFest. Free to visit during usual cathedral opening times. @uclan @bbcweather @STFC_Matters @UCLanResearch #seethesun

[Erlend Davidson @erlenddavidson]

Wordle 745 1/6

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[Erlend Davidson @erlenddavidson]

@madebygoogle Is that because it’s the first generation one? It’s the second generation one not available yet in the UK?

[Erlend Davidson @erlenddavidson]

@madebygoogle hey, I’m looking at your Nest doorbells, and it looks like the wired nest doorbell only comes is black. Is that right?

[Erlend Davidson @erlenddavidson]

Is that because it’s the first generation one? It’s the second generation one not available yet in the UK?

[Kirk Borne @KirkDBorne]

10-page PDF covers a semester's worth of introductory probability —⭐️The best and only #Probability Cheat Sheet that you may ever need: https://t.co/NFtjOnR9lN
by @wzchen & @stat110 📊📈
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#abdsc #BigData #DataScience #Statistics #StatisticalLiteracy #Mathematics #DataLiteracy

[Santiago @svpino]

If you have an Apple M1 or M2 and don't take advantage of its GPU, I'm about to change your life.

These instructions allow TensorFlow to use your GPU:

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[Santiago @svpino]

The batch size is one of the most influential parameters in the outcome of a neural network.

Here is everything you need to know about the batch size when training a neural network:

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[ScienceInsider @ScienceInsider]

BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on @ScienceInsider.

[Erlend Davidson @erlenddavidson]

An eye water percentage of the world’s energy is expended on airconditioning. This change is probably a good thing.

[euronews @euronews]

🇪🇸 A debate has been sparked after Spain's government moved to prevent offices, shops and other venues from setting air conditioning below 27°C in the summer.
https://t.co/VVwziUL5kD

[Yoti @getyoti]

NEW JOB SHAPED ANNOUNCEMENT:

Got a passion for tech? Want to be part of a team at the cutting edge of AI? If so this could be the one for you...we're looking for TWO Research Scientists to join our R&D team 🧑‍🔬🧪

Learn more & apply on: https://t.co/vikSMcp2QA

[Yoti @getyoti]

Today @Meta introduce new ways for people in the US to verify their age on @instagram. The first option uses our privacy preserving Age Estimation technology.

Learn more on: https://t.co/zyaXDTDeRs

[Adam @mosseri]

📣 Age Verification 📣

To help us provide people with experiences that are appropriate, it’s critical for us to understand people’s ages.

Our approach to age verification now includes:
- ID upload
- Social vouching
- Video selfie with @getyoti

https://t.co/srrl8U83sd