David Galbraith
@daveg
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Technologist and VC, former architect. Invented these (i.e. link in bios: https://t.co/xBmFQEvMhb), among other things.
London and Geneva
Joined July 2006
A physics based explanation of why life exists in the universe
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I'm a terrible programmer, but I know how to code, and AI makes me just about capable. But having tried most vibe coding tools, they are amazing, but I don't think they are there yet for anything other than visual prototypes or glorified websites for people who can't code.
what almost every amateur who has been sold bullshit about vibe coding is eventually going to encounter
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Looking forward to seeing Chinese Food Near Me.
I would love to start a band with a name that has impossibly bad SEO. Something like “Chinese Food Near Me” or “The United States of America”.
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The Beginning of History - how AI is bringing the future closer to the past.
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Always thought that San Francisco would be incredible if the Sunset and Richmond became like Manhattan around Golden Gate Park, all the way to the ocean.
This is what San Fransisco should look like: Tall buildings everywhere. All the excuses about not enough land, seismic activity, comparing San Fran to random suburban cities in the US… These are all just excuses, build skyscrapers.
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Chart crime. The reality is it's 50/50. but some clever accounting tells a different story. First 120 years shows Western production emissions, final 50 it shows based on consumption, so Asian industrialization emissions are credited to West. It then uses a per capita basis.
Who is driving climate breakdown? Buckle up for some striking data. 🧵. 1. First, global North countries are responsible for 86% of cumulative emissions in excess of the safe planetary boundary. China is responsible for 1%. The rest of the South and peripheral Europe is
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Mr Electrico.
This is one of the most spellbinding anecdotes I've ever read, and it’s just Ray Bradbury rambling about a carnival worker he met when he was twelve. “He said, ‘You were my best friend outside of Paris in 1918. You were wounded in the Ardennes and you died in my arms there.’”
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Who are the Kodaks?.
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Europe's irrational war on air conditioning, with it's near zero emissions grid
No, not in the US where 90% of buildings have air conditioning!. 🇺🇸 US had 1,714 heat-related deaths in 2022. 🇪🇺 Europe had a staggering 62,862 heat-related deaths in 2022. That's a staggering 36x more deaths, or 27x more if you adjust for population! Insane
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We should just do this for all firework displays.
13 years ago Today, the annual Big Boom fireworks show in San Diego, intended for a 17-minute display, discharged prematurely and simultaneously and the entire cache exploded in less than a minute . [📹 Dan Roy].
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An instant forest is not a tree. There should be less cynicism of people trying to develop technology to do good.
The UK government’s £30 billion carbon capture machine equivalent of a tree.
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Alan Partridge has literally pulled off a real life Alan Partridge. We might as well all pack up and go home now.
Immensely evocative image. Perhaps he could name his political movement after such a bundle of sticks, illustrating its strength?.
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A hailstorm that was basically just ice cubes raining from the sky.
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This would then save a lot of the built heritage that can get messed up with insensitive insulation and leave it to the market for people to insulate according to their region, comfort and affordability.
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France should scrap energy saving requirements such as double glazing and insulation, if your heating and cooling is electric.
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Consume as much as you want from France, Sweden and Switzerland, to save the planet.
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Pedestrians shouldn't be marginalised by bikes as well as cars, like here.
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