Joseph B
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If by “most compute” you mean ML, sure. But ppl aren’t building data centres in Ldn for that. For cloud apps (inc gaming) 70ms isn’t great. There’s also the equilibrium effect - ping across the Atlantic is good bc there are DCs in London for most stuff.
100%. For most things (eg. most compute) that doesn't matter. Where it does, you can do it closer to the user. But even if you don't,... light is quick. Ping from Manchester to Montreal is just 70ms.
A quick attempt to apply some logic and reasoning to the Brize Norton (BZZ) situation and call out the vile online attacks on the CO for what it really is - mysogonistic bullying. Thread /1
Users prefer apps with lower latency.
I still don't understand, not for lack of trying, why the people building data centres in Britain seem to want to build them, 1/ In Britain at all. 2/ In the part of Britain where land is most expensive, planning is hardest to get, and grid capacity is most constrained.
Go ahead and apply for our new Science & Tech analyst role at the Tony Blair Institute !
I have never worked with a team as intellectually engaged and enthusiastic - @jakobmokander @Boakye_B @Lyan82 @guywardjackson @ZandermannKL @KeeganMcB @ng_goel & everyone else at @InstituteGC
Very often people think that “digital transformation” is utopian thinking. In reality, it can mean very simple changes to how people work together! @InstituteGC @benedictcooney
Case in point:
Very much enjoyed getting to talk neuroscience again at the launch of the third @longitude_prize — a £7.5 million challenge focused on using AI for drug discovery in ALS. The prize has a really cool history 👇
Don’t know anything about the CabOff economic security unit, but NPSA/NCSC have nothing to do with economic security as it is meant here
given the cabinet office already has an economic security unit (which sucks), and business already has access to the NPSA and NCSC, I'm not really sure why this will be additive more hubs/silo-breaking etc. can theoretically be useful, but it doesn't make bad machinery good
Mathematicians watching physicists work with infinity
This is the most succinct summary of left politics I’ve seen. Give the people fire
prostrate left vs promethean left
GPT when we finally reach AGI:
ChatGPT o3-pro names a Sabrina Carpenter song that also appears when you read only the final letters of each word in its answer:
Someone needs to redo statmech 101
The best reason to believe AI running on digital computers can, in principle, do anything a human can is that the known laws of physics all obey a principle called analyticity. Analyticity is a property of functions that says they can be approximated to any desired degree of…
enjoyed feeding into this – great to finally see a report that is prepared to call out the racket of early-stage subsidies that have long been Chalmermagne bugbears (and to see my work on EIS get a shout-out in the references)
How can the UK turn more innovative startups into global tech giants? New report by @InstituteGC 🧵 bit.ly/3FHUMa4 The UK’s scaleup ladder is broken – fixing it will help boost growth and security #LondonTechWeek Scaleups make up just 0.5% of UK SMEs, yet generate…