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Language models hallucinate for the same reason students sometimes bluff on exams: they haven’t seen every fact, their “thinking style” has limits, and the scoring system punishes admitting ignorance.

Today we commemorate the 103rd anniversary of the Battle of Dumlupınar (30 August 1922), a defining moment in Turkish War of Independence. I honour with respect those who gave their lives and health for our homeland, & heroes who fought for freedom, led by Commander-in-Chief Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

The scale, induced demand, and fossil lock-in, none of which are visible in per-query median statistics. 👇

Palestinian lives are equally important as any human life on earth. Silence regarding the atrocities is complicity.

Moral abyss.

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule:

Deep(est) #climateaction = fixing social injustices. Change my mind.

The fight against #climatechange needs every tool in the box, and #quantum technology is emerging as a powerful one. Just delved into the EU's Quantum Europe Strategy and was struck by its vision for how #quantumcomputing can drive #climateaction. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/

England has had its warmest June on record, while the UK has experienced its second warmest since 1884, according to provisional Met Office statistics.

“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” Gramsci

I will speak at the @oxfordsmithschool.bsky.social Sustainable Finance Summit 2025 on 16 July on #ArtificialIntelligence as an enabler for #sustainablefinance markets and discuss whether it can keep its promise. I hope to connect with many of the distinguished speakers and participants.

Worth thinking… Are you building tools that liberate? Or tools that codify exclusion under the guise of precision?

My friend is in charge of the team that wrote the climate change adaptation plan for Switzerland and this is one of the things they expected.

Congratulations to the European Space Agency - @esa.int on 50 years of innovation in space!

Took the path less travelled

One of the best quotes ever: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” - C. Goodhart

“Egemenlik kayıtsız şartsız milletindir.” Kutlu olsun.

I guess it was kind of historic

Explore the IEA’s Energy and AI report, with… AI. 🤷🏾‍♂️ (well, you don't have/need to) #AI has the potential to transform the #energy sector in coming decade, driving a surge in #electricity demand from #datacentres around the world while also unlocking opportunities according to the IEA’s new report.

Historic temp records incoming. Look at these anomalies today (and next 3 days). Stay safe out there. #climatechange

“We’re trading deep understanding for quick fixes, and while it feels great in the moment, we’re going to pay for this later."

If there is someone who needs to be thanked, it is Zelensky and the people of Ukraine 🇺🇦 for standing up and fighting for their sovereignty and freedom.

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New metric by Google Cloud: Compute #CarbonIntensity (CCI) — which quantifies an #AI accelerator chip’s carbon emissions per unit of computation (measured in grams of CO2e per Exa-FLOP). Lower CCI scores mean lower emissions. cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

It's not the kind of news you will be pleased to know… yet. Critical. Point of No Return research deserves greater attention than it has received; sudden warming is at our doorsteps: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Europe's prominent AI companies and research institutions combine their forces and expertise to develop next-generation open-source language models in collaboration to advance European AI capabilities, the #OpenEuroLLM project. openeurollm.eu

While tariffs going up and markets down, let us do not forget the bigger picture... Climate scorpion is still out there: "Focusing on the most likely outcomes under #climatechange lulls us into a false sense of security, since there is still an uncomfortably high probability of ECS of 5°C or higher.

#ChatNDC is an #AI-powered platform designed to enhance access to and understanding of #climatepolicy data information. chatndc.org/home

Tattoo proposal of the day: #Climateaction (still) remains a better business proposition than business as usual.

That said, I still think access to large-scale compute resources isn't just a production requirement - it's a fundamental driver of innovation in AI research itself.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ (and Jevons paradox has nothing to do with this argument).

I agree. #DeepSeek is the Sputnik moment in AI. Also, they cleverly showed that spending more money and computing on “better quality training data” (rather than only hardware) is more important.

“Selective application of the law erodes the universality of international justice and multilateralism.”

2024 is confirmed to be the warmest year on record globally, and the first calendar year that the average global temperature exceeded 1.5°C above its pre-industrial level. 🚨 The monthly global average temperature exceeded 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels for 11 months of the year.

Wishing a year marked by peace. Wishing a year where the most basic rights are not violated. Wishing a year where everyone is treated equally and with dignity. Wishing a year where conventions are respected no matter what.

The average monthly rent in London exceeded £2,200 for the first time. What about the increase in wages? 🤫

And another report with a wake up call, by @UNEP: #adaptationgap (this will also be my last post for quite some time…).

Number of the day? 📈  #Climatefinance has demonstrated resilience and growth amid global crises, reaching USD 1.5 trillion in 2022 (estimated as up to 1.6 trillion in 2023). #RenewableEnergy and low-carbon #transport contributed most to this increase.

Another fascinating figure. 🤯 A large container ship of #solarPV panels can provide the means to produce as much #electricity as the gas from +50 large LNG tankers or the coal from +100 large ships.

Number(s) of the day? 🚨 Manufacturing capacity for #cleantechnologies and materials today is highly concentrated geographically, with China the largest single producer in all cases. (From @IEA ETP 2024)

Number of the day? ⚠️ The globally-averaged surface concentration of CO2 reached 420.0 parts per million (ppm), methane 1934 parts per billion and nitrous oxide 336.9 parts per billion (ppb) in 2023. These values are 🚨 151%, 🚨265% and 🚨125% of pre-industrial (before 1750) levels.

If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - Not on track - hear it? – If no further ambition is shown, the best we could get is catastrophic #globalwarming of up to 2.6°C. Not just seize the day, bolster #climateaction.

Wind generation will overtake global coal generation in 2035, and gas in ~2032, according to the IEA www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JUL...

“Who gets to define and frame a crisis is therefore extremely important.”

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in #Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable #machinelearning with #artificialneuralnetworks.”

Was practicing bivariate maps (in R) yesterday. Nice outcomes so far…

Early warning matters. Here is something you don't say lightly: Tampa Mayor Jane Castor: “I can say this without any dramatisation whatsoever: If you choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you are going to die.” #HurricaneMilton #climatechange

Please take a moment and consider supporting. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will match the funds raised here to support Beit el Baraka's work on the ground, by an amount of up to EUR 50,000. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/lebanon-in...

Ironically, Asheville hosts the world's largest climate and weather data archive (NCDC). www.cnn.com/2024/09/27/u...