David Pfau

I’m beyond thrilled to share that our work on using deep learning to compute excited states of molecules is out today in @ScienceMagazine! This is the first time that deep learning has accurately solved some of the hardest problems in quantum physics. science.org/doi/abs/10.112…

As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.

Was about to scroll past this, assuming it was another paper on LLMs served up to me by the algorithm, but then read the rest of the tweet...

Whereof one cannot fit within the character limit, thereof one must be silent.

So now there's a Chief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs, but also Yann LeCun is still Chief AI Scientist for Meta. This feels like when Francis became pope, and the old pope was still just chilling in the Vatican, wandering around, doing pope stuff.

There has been so much nonsense flying around lately that I can't even tell if this is a shitpost or not.

If you like scaling laws in AI you’ll love scaling laws in biology, like allometric scaling of energy production density as a power law with exponent -1/4 across 100’s of millions of years of evolution. Also a new and similar scaling law for sleep - connecting it to metabolism!

After 78 years, an exponential improvement for Ramsey numbers were found by Jie Ma, Wujie Shen, and Shengjie Xie. gilkalai.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/ama…

After sitting on our remarkable neural AI research for several years, it's out now in Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Absurd to pair an "AI action plan" with attacks on visas, immigrants, science funding, and universities. Some would say these are at odds

Reminds me of how neurons were found to communicate by sharing RNA. Complex systems find a way to do some bizarre things

The fifth annual @Fusion_Industry Association report released today shows an acceleration in fusion industry funding growth, increasing to a total of $9.8 billion. Notable trends in the report: • Fusion companies raised a total of $2.64 billion in the 12 months leading to July…

I used to think that Brazil and Children of Men were such original dystopian visions until I moved here and realized the country is just kind of like that.

Officers are deployed at key points along the route as well as the form up point. There are additional officers in the vicinity of the counter protest. This week we have also distributed leaflets and deployed signage as a clear reminder about relevant offences.

I guess I should be happy about this, but I just don't know how we can function as a society if an entire generation can be won over by a grifter like this even temporarily.

I give up, I don't know anything any more.