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Leon Bovett

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Leon Bovett
9 days
Awesome book. It articulates many of my current unanswered questions and provides a single opinionated answer. Any chance of a print version?
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Leon Bovett
21 days
“Between 2021-2023, British exports to the EU fell by 27%. Brexiteers boasted that Brexit would be worth 100s of billions a year. Cambridge Econometrics estimates that over the next decade our economy will be £300bn smaller than if we’d not left the EU.”
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theguardian.com
With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
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Leon Bovett
23 days
“a seminal report by the joint intelligence committee on the threats to UK security of the collapse of critically important ecosystems is being swept under the carpet by a government embarrassed by its failure to provide any leadership on the issue.”
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theguardian.com
Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published
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Leon Bovett
1 month
“Done properly, AI releases human capacity, not replaces it. Most important is its power to drive real-world outcomes: managing microgrids, mapping climate risk, guiding resilient planning.”
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theguardian.com
Simon Stiell insists it is vital governments regulate the technology to blunt its dangerous edges
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Leon Bovett
1 month
“Within little more than a decade, costs of more than 5% of GDP a year are likely to bite. Compared with that, Covid and the global financial crisis would pale into insignificance”
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theguardian.com
Exclusive: Simon Stiell believes economic benefits will compel countries to speed up climate action
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Leon Bovett
2 months
“…access to https://t.co/30uiSy2MNi was thwarted by the Trump administration, and its production team was fired. Now, a team of climate communication experts is working to resurrect its content into a new organization with an expanded mission.”
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theguardian.com
Climate.gov, which went dark this summer, to be revived by volunteers as climate.us with expanded mission
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Leon Bovett
2 months
“highlights include Craig Quintero and Phoebe Greenberg’s Blur, a theatrical exploration of AI cloning, Wayne McGregor’s mixed reality dance production On the Other Earth, and Singing Chen’s The Clouds are Two Thousand Meters Up”
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theguardian.com
At the festival’s pioneering immersive section, a ‘seamless evolution’ of VR and mainstream film-making is revolutionising narrative
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@a_tschantz
Alec Tschantz
4 months
New paper from @VERSESAI - AXIOM is a world model that learns to play pixel-based arcade games in minutes. Preprint: https://t.co/DnqwZDaN6l Blog: https://t.co/bIsschojXA Code: https://t.co/nxQKlm8swF 🧵
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Leon Bovett
4 months
“it's very hard to move energy around the world. Most kinds. But if you (put big clusters in a lot of places) and exchange energy for intelligence and then move the intelligence around the world, it's much easier.” https://t.co/507JARdusA
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podcasts.apple.com
Podcast Episode · OpenAI Podcast · 18/06/2025 · 40m
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Leon Bovett
5 months
“the spending package on the green economy > £60bn, plus £22bn in R&D spending, …. boosted by 16%, more than any other department. Climate change thinktank E3G, said: ‘This is a historic uplift in capital support for building a clean economy..’”
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theguardian.com
By earmarking billions of pounds for the green economy, Labour is setting itself apart from the Tories and Reform
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@fchollet
François Chollet
5 months
The FEP posits that intelligent agents don't just passively absorb data to build a world model (the way DL models are trained), instead they actively sample their environment to reduce uncertainty and bring their internal model into alignment with reality. This is 100% correct
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Leon Bovett
5 months
The climate graphic got updated. CO2 acts like a heat-trapping blanket, warming the lower atmosphere and preventing heat from reaching the upper layers. Also, more CO₂ in the stratosphere helps it radiate energy more efficiently, which cools it further.
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fastcompany.com
The updated 'climate stripes' graph now visualizes the impact of climate change on oceans and the atmosphere. Some parts may surprise you.
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Leon Bovett
5 months
“Gulf states are racing to diversify beyond oil, offering advantages that Silicon Valley can’t match: abundant and cheap energy, ambitious sovereign wealth funds, and a regulatory environment that can push massive projects to run modern AI models.”
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Anil Seth
5 months
2/3 Francesco Innocenti @InnocFrancesco - a deeply suspicious (& brilliant) Ph.D. student @SussexUni @SussexAI - has now (w/ @drclbuckley) developed a new predictive coding method that scales to >100 layers w/ highly competitive benchmark performance
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Leon Bovett
5 months
"Agent Engineering is a new discipline – Taking inspiration from software engineering, prompting, product, ML, you need to code, engineer your prompts, [and translate] business workflows into agents. Being good at all four disciplines is a tall task!"
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blog.langchain.com
Hear more about the product launches, keynote themes, and exciting news from our first-ever conference.
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Ciaran
6 months
Excited to share what I've been working on @SakanaAILabs! 🐟 We present the Continuous Thought Machine (CTM), a novel neural network architecture that leverages temporal processing and neuron synchronization. There are three central components to CTM 🧵👇
@SakanaAILabs
Sakana AI
6 months
Introducing Continuous Thought Machines New Blog: https://t.co/kLGlwICBDu Modern AI is powerful, but it’s still distinct from human-like flexible intelligence. We believe neural timing is key. Our Continuous Thought Machine is built from the ground up to use neural dynamics as
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Leon Bovett
6 months
“In the long history of liberalism, a free press, the law, labour unions, […], universities, civil resistance, & multilateral organisations have all served – alongside multiparty free elections – to constrain the men who would be kings.”
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theguardian.com
From the Canadian elections to universities and civil society, the campaign to turn the tide against anti-liberal nationalists is well underway, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
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