David Pfau
@pfau
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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…
New paper! Allow me to introduce TARS = Torqued Accelerator using Radiation from the Sun. TARS (yes inspired by Interstellar!) is a rotating light sail that's capable of launching chip sats into interstellar space using only radiation from the Sun, so let's dive into how it works
RIP to my childhood hero Tom Lehrer youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsG…
Ofcom (UK equivalent of FCC) apparently thinks that teenagers should not be allowed to have access to encyclopedias?
Wikipedia is currently in a legal battle with the UK government to try and stop the platform being censored in the UK - or even completely blocked - thanks to the Online Safety Act.
When the US was in the space race against the USSR, we broadcast our launches live on TV, while Soviet launches were kept secret until they were over. Even though there was a risk of PR disaster, we did it because openness was part of what made us American.
Honestly, I'd much rather see these image generation models evolve towards having their own unique aesthetic (even if it is a little cheesy) than try to do everything and just make slop.
MJ loves two things: A single eye and... blindfolds
The number of workers from the sausage factory I've interviewed that do not eat sausages is shocking. NOT EVEN THE SAUSAGES THEY MAKE.
the number of frontier AI researchers i interview that have not used ai is shocking. NOT EVEN THE MODELS THEY TRAIN. I talk about claude code running my experiments and they are surprised. this is a failure of their incentive systems not a knock on them but it is still shocking
With all do respect, ... @jeffclune @WenhuChen @AnimaAnandkumar @canondetortugas @OwainEvans_UK @patrickshafto @StefanoErmon @DavidDuvenaud @sanmikoyejo @RogerGrosse @percyliang @chelseabfinn @aviral_kumar2 ... I could go on and on
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...
New preprint! tl;dr — We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧵 w/ Dima Batenkov, @zamakany, @e_mackevicius biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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.
We are excited to announce that @shengjia_zhao will be the Chief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs! Shengjia is a brilliant scientist who most recently pioneered a new scaling paradigm in his research. He will lead our scientific direction for our team. Let's go 🚀
There has been so much nonsense flying around lately that I can't even tell if this is a shitpost or not.
I am very excited to take up the role of chief scientist for meta super-intelligence labs. Looking forward to building asi and aligning it to empower people with the amazing team here. Let’s build!