Contrary to my prior, we are actually finding valuable use cases for LLMs: writing docstrings, translation, and parsing knowledge graphs. We don't expect or require 100% accuracy from our stochastic parrot. Nonetheless...

NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d… And some utterly damning charts. 1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

“When the #economics of #environmental action start to add up, it becomes much easier to generate political will for change,” says Cameron Hepburn “I’m grateful to Humphrey Battcock for this generous and timely support.” New College, Oxford University of Oxford smithschool.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-un…

Rising #WaterStress threatens #EnergySecurity in #India, a country deeply dependent on #Water4Power. New WRI India paper introduces near-real-time #forecast of #reservoir #WaterAvailability for the coming 90 days wri.org/research/using… #WaterEnergyNexus World Resources Institute

Uncovering hidden industrial sites from space! A new deep learning algorithm uses high-res satellite data to detect unreported sets of large air pollution and CO2 sources such as coal power stations & steel manufacturing plants. It offers promise in improving data on aerosol

🚨 Future Energy Outlook Beta (FEO) is live ⚡️ Dive in and explore our models ➡️ feo.transitionzero.org Our flagship energy systems modelling platform, FEO, can help answer ‘what if’ questions about the energy future. 🧵/ 1

🌐 GEM's Global Integrated #PowerTracker is here! A comprehensive, free-to-use database that brings facility-level data from 8 power trackers into one powerful tool. Perfect for researchers, policymakers, and analysts. Check it out now: globalenergymonitor.org/projects/globa…

Never used this platform much, but it's time to leave! There's a future that needs building - one of abundance for all - and it's not happening here. Find me elsewhere: github.com/Lkruitwagen lucaskruitwagen.substack.com @lucaskruitwagen.bsky.social @[email protected]