The UK is one of a handful of countries on track to meet aggressive emissions reduction goals (at least if one extrapolates from recent rates of decarbonization). How has climate mitigation matinained such bipartisan continuity in the UK? Asking for some friends across the

Looks like science+ML twitter is doing its great exodus. I'll stick around here too but come find me in the other place 🧪🦋 :) (Featuring: a beautiful cover photo I took a few weeks ago. Switzerland is a pretty awesome place to live!)

The graphic below is from the Fast Company article Greg Abbott cited. Truly extraordinary what is happening here, particularly with the solar and storage buildout. One out of every 14 jobs posted in Texas this summer was in clean energy. #txlege #txenergy #energytwitter

If there's a Uri-like storm this winter, outages would be less severe bc we have more solar + storage & weatherization of power plants is better but we'd still have outages bc we haven't made much progress on gas supply weatherization or energy efficiency. fox7austin.com/news/texas-pow…

The papers and posters for our Machine Learning and Physical Sciences workshop at #NeurIPS2024 are online #ml4ps2024 Machine Learning And The Physical Sciences ml4physicalsciences.github.io/2024/

Copilot is now free! Probably the biggest news for developers in 2024.

A colleague inspired me to explore how programming languages have evolved in astronomy, especially since we've been curating astronomical literature. Fascinating.

made a diagram to promote differentiable programming in astronomy (feel free to use it)

Stop giving me your toughest battles

ERCOT hit a new wind record yesterday! via Grid Status

On the coldest day of the winter, solar nearly set an all-time record in Texas. (h/t Grid Status). #txlege #txenergy #energytwitter

Useful!

PyTorch 2.6 is here! This release brings key improvements, including: 🔥 torch.compile support for Python 3.13 🔥 A new performance tuning knob: torch.compiler.set_stance 🔥 Enhancements to AOTInductor 🔥 FP16 support on X86 CPUs Learn more in our release blog:

My annual decarbonization presentation is here. 200 slides, covering everything from water levels in Lake Gatún to sulfur dioxide emissions to ESG fund flows to Chinese auto exports to artificial intelligence. Link in reply

This month we are thrilled to be hosting Andrew Gordon Wilson in our Seminar Series for his talk entitled 'Machine Learning is Linear Algebra'. 13 February 2025 @ 16:00 GMT via Zoom, details: ellis.eng.cam.ac.uk Cambridge University Engineering Dept ELLIS #AI #MachineLearning

Know Thy Star, Know Thy Planet 2 kicks off today! A follow-on to the successful Know Thy Star conference held in 2017, #KnowThyStar2 welcomes almost 200 registrants to Caltech for some stellar discussion on exoplanet science. 💫🤩✨Talks will be posted to YouTube next week!

A follow-up campaign is ongoing where citizen astronomers can observe the Gaia spacecraft. Interested? 👉cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/groun… Shown below the Gaia spacecraft as observed from Germany by A. Wrede. Also interested to observe Gaia? More info here: cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/obser…

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In case you haven't heard yet, I'm running for Mayor of Bremerton! I've been humbled by so many asking me to do so, and the support I've gotten from friends, family, neighbors, and so many current and former public servants in our city.