Tim Green

@tfgg.me

Research Engineer at Google DeepMind. AlphaFold, LLMs, Physics and Civic Tech. tfgg.me

I am so pissed off that the press have completely ignored this crowdfunder. When we were trying to buy the land they were slathering all over posting about it, but when the government fucked us over and pulled their ~£0.5mn contribution, we’re just blanked now. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/warleigh-n...

Warleigh Nature Reserve, Bath

Bath's largest rewilding project has begun: Warleigh Nature Reserve. Right on the River Avon, and already full of beavers.

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‘Vine: 6 seconds that changed the world’ is finally here! Possibly the best, nostalgic, fun I’ve had as a journalist, and genuinely fascinating to get the inside scoop on the tech decisions that continue to change the way we communicate, think, and live. open.spotify.com/show/0DdmThQ...

Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World

Podcast · Global · This is the story of the social media app that changed the face of the internet before it crashed and burned in just three short years. Vine was the future - until it wasn’t. How di...

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This sounds trivial, but often it is not - what is the "objective function" in comparison to the truth (and of course, what is a true representation of what is going on). "Benchmarking" and "competitions" somehow sounds as if you the referee not the player, but actually you are the game designer.

Flying back to London after an unreal experience celebrating the Chemistry Nobel win with John and Demis and the rest of the AlphaFold team, family and colleagues. Congratulations all round!

Demis Hassabis, Tim Green and John Jumper pose in white tie at a Nobel prize event.

AI for science could be more impactful than chatbots. It is already helping win Nobel prizes and accelerating drug development and materials discovery. Today we published an essay about it: why it matters, how it’s happening and its implications. Here is a summary from an econ / social sci lens.

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Worth stressing that computers from across the world access EMBL-EBI 100 million times a day - sometimes for a tiny lookup, sometimes to download large amounts of public domain information about the world we live in. I am very proud to be part of the @ebi.embl.org community delivering on this

EMBL-EBI@ebi.embl.org · 2y ago

Our data resources underpin life science research and scientists worldwide use them on a regular basis: 🌍 101 million requests to our data resource websites on an average day 💻 36 million unique IP addresses annually Which of our resources have you used recently? 👀 www.ebi.ac.uk/about/our-im...