Harrison Pim
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head of data science at climatepolicyradar.org | harrisonpim.com
FARTS and SCIENCES
Re-OCR'd the complete 1771 Encyclopaedia Britannica (2,724 pages) with a single command on @hf.co Jobs.
- 0.9B model (GLM-OCR)
~$0.002/page
~$5 total on an L4 GPU
Before (old Tesseract ocr) → After
- 0.9B model (GLM-OCR)
~$0.002/page
~$5 total on an L4 GPU
Before (old Tesseract ocr) → After
February 19, 2026 at 12:46 PM
FARTS and SCIENCES
33 minutes of big danny's wet computer
Danny L Harle – Cerulean (Full Film)
YouTube video by NTS
youtu.be
February 13, 2026 at 9:54 AM
33 minutes of big danny's wet computer
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NEW – Analysis: Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025 | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social @belindaschaepe.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/M7N4yjx
Read here: buff.ly/M7N4yjx
February 5, 2026 at 12:01 AM
NEW – Analysis: Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025 | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social @belindaschaepe.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/M7N4yjx
Read here: buff.ly/M7N4yjx
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Huge water consumer, destroying the planet with CO2 emissions, mostly a negative for their consumers. Something must be done. Yes, that’s right, it’s time to do something about cows.
January 29, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Huge water consumer, destroying the planet with CO2 emissions, mostly a negative for their consumers. Something must be done. Yes, that’s right, it’s time to do something about cows.
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Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
Hoping that @molly.wiki can help explain.
Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others
January 15, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
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We took a look at the UK's biggest ever offshore wind auction, and dug into what it will mean for energy bills and the "clean power 2030" plan ⬇️
NEW – Q&A: What UK’s record auction for offshore wind means for bills and clean power by 2030 | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/uEBxzdK
Read here: buff.ly/uEBxzdK
January 15, 2026 at 3:12 PM
We took a look at the UK's biggest ever offshore wind auction, and dug into what it will mean for energy bills and the "clean power 2030" plan ⬇️
excellent, excellent round up of all things energy/decarbonisation in 2025. there are a couple of really exciting narratives in here!
Do you like charts? Oh yes you do. I've just published hundreds of them, as I do every year. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations
January 15, 2026 at 6:09 PM
excellent, excellent round up of all things energy/decarbonisation in 2025. there are a couple of really exciting narratives in here!
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
Lol, and furthermore, lmao
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Lol, and furthermore, lmao
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What do people in England think about their local area? In this short report I take a look at surveys we conducted with @yougov.co.uk in 2022, 2024 and 2025 to gain some insights...
Some key findings...
Some key findings...
Perspectives on Place: what the English think about their local area
www.southampton.ac.uk
January 13, 2026 at 9:21 AM
What do people in England think about their local area? In this short report I take a look at surveys we conducted with @yougov.co.uk in 2022, 2024 and 2025 to gain some insights...
Some key findings...
Some key findings...
Everything Was Already AI
YouTube video by Unlearning Economics
youtu.be
January 10, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Sara Hooker continues to be my fav person pondering the landscape of work in ML. This essay is just as perceptive and provocative as the original hardware lottery paper which it builds upon - i love it
On the Slow Death of Scaling by Sarah Hooker
"For the last decade, it has been hard to stray off the beaten path of accepted wisdom that scaling training parameters drives innovation.
However, the relationship between training compute + performance is uncertain + rapidly changing."
"For the last decade, it has been hard to stray off the beaten path of accepted wisdom that scaling training parameters drives innovation.
However, the relationship between training compute + performance is uncertain + rapidly changing."
January 6, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Sara Hooker continues to be my fav person pondering the landscape of work in ML. This essay is just as perceptive and provocative as the original hardware lottery paper which it builds upon - i love it
Learned a lot from this piece by @hannahritchie.bsky.social
Five(ish) charts that give some context to Venezuelan oil
It has the world's largest reserves, produces comparatively little, and has a type of oil that the US needs.
open.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Learned a lot from this piece by @hannahritchie.bsky.social
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So we already have the first major paper of 2026, DeepSeek mHC: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections. arxiv.org/pdf/2512.24880
Short thread: this is actually an engineering paper, taking as a starting points ideas already exposed in an original Hyper-Connections (HC) paper from ByteDance.
Short thread: this is actually an engineering paper, taking as a starting points ideas already exposed in an original Hyper-Connections (HC) paper from ByteDance.
arxiv.org
January 1, 2026 at 11:47 AM
So we already have the first major paper of 2026, DeepSeek mHC: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections. arxiv.org/pdf/2512.24880
Short thread: this is actually an engineering paper, taking as a starting points ideas already exposed in an original Hyper-Connections (HC) paper from ByteDance.
Short thread: this is actually an engineering paper, taking as a starting points ideas already exposed in an original Hyper-Connections (HC) paper from ByteDance.
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This is so simple, I can’t believe that it works.
tl;dr they trained a model to answer questions about another model’s thoughts
alignment.anthropic.com/2025/activat...
tl;dr they trained a model to answer questions about another model’s thoughts
alignment.anthropic.com/2025/activat...
December 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This is so simple, I can’t believe that it works.
tl;dr they trained a model to answer questions about another model’s thoughts
alignment.anthropic.com/2025/activat...
tl;dr they trained a model to answer questions about another model’s thoughts
alignment.anthropic.com/2025/activat...
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EXCL: An agreement to rejoin Erasmus – the EU’s student exchange programme – set to be announced on Wednesday as part of UK government’s drive towards closer relations with Brussels.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
EXCL: An agreement to rejoin Erasmus – the EU’s student exchange programme – set to be announced on Wednesday as part of UK government’s drive towards closer relations with Brussels.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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guy who just learned it's not polite to call an artist's work "content": hey man it's cool to meet you i'm a huge fan of your slop
December 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
guy who just learned it's not polite to call an artist's work "content": hey man it's cool to meet you i'm a huge fan of your slop
this is probably the most thoughtful, well reasoned take i’ve read on The Big Bad Bubble so far www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/mem...
Is It a Bubble?
In his latest memo, Howard Marks explores if there is a bubble in AI, identifying uncertainty, parallels to past bubbles, AI's vast potential, and emphasizing the importance of prudence.
www.oaktreecapital.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
this is probably the most thoughtful, well reasoned take i’ve read on The Big Bad Bubble so far www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/mem...
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OpenAI leadership are promoting a paper in Physics Letters B where GPT-5 proposed the main idea — possibly the first peer-reviewed paper where an LLM generated the core contribution. One small problem: GPT-5's idea tests the wrong thing. My technical comment: scirate.com/arxiv/2512.0... 1/
![As part of a broader effort to demonstrate AI’s po-
tential in scientific research [1], OpenAI executives have
pointed to a recently published paper by Hsu [2] as evi-
dence that AI can contribute original ideas to physics [3,
4]. Hsu credits GPT-5 with proposing the core idea of the
paper de novo, possibly the first published physics article
where the main idea came from an LLM, and discusses
the methodology in a companion piece [5]. We examine
whether GPT-5’s criterion is correct.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uknpj5mh4cfutreceecdbv7x/bafkreia3jerjfcqdui45n4upaqci5u5r6st7o7pqmdzahhjtidtostpooq@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
OpenAI leadership are promoting a paper in Physics Letters B where GPT-5 proposed the main idea — possibly the first peer-reviewed paper where an LLM generated the core contribution. One small problem: GPT-5's idea tests the wrong thing. My technical comment: scirate.com/arxiv/2512.0... 1/
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JustHTML by @emilstenstrom.bsky.social is a new Python library (no dependencies) that parses HTML according to the HTML5 specification and passes the 9,200 test html5lib-tests suite
It's 3,000 lines of code mostly written by coding agents over a couple of months simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/14/...
It's 3,000 lines of code mostly written by coding agents over a couple of months simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/14/...
JustHTML is a fascinating example of vibe engineering in action
I recently came across JustHTML, a new Python library for parsing HTML released by Emil Stenström. It’s a very interesting piece of software, both as a useful library and as …
simonwillison.net
December 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
JustHTML by @emilstenstrom.bsky.social is a new Python library (no dependencies) that parses HTML according to the HTML5 specification and passes the 9,200 test html5lib-tests suite
It's 3,000 lines of code mostly written by coding agents over a couple of months simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/14/...
It's 3,000 lines of code mostly written by coding agents over a couple of months simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/14/...
I had a very nice time at NeurIPS in San Diego this week!
December 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I had a very nice time at NeurIPS in San Diego this week!
So great to see openrouter publishing reports on LLM usage patterns, akin to the annual stackoverflow developer survey openrouter.ai/state-of-ai
State of AI | OpenRouter
An empirical study analyzing over 100 trillion tokens of real-world LLM interactions across tasks, geographies, and time.
openrouter.ai
December 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
So great to see openrouter publishing reports on LLM usage patterns, akin to the annual stackoverflow developer survey openrouter.ai/state-of-ai
brilliant news, obviously 🙌
though when compared to what's being done elsewhere, these numbers feel quite disappointing... other countries with similar solar potential have been adding capacity more than 5x faster than we have in the UK!
though when compared to what's being done elsewhere, these numbers feel quite disappointing... other countries with similar solar potential have been adding capacity more than 5x faster than we have in the UK!
Something uplifting: There's been a big surge in solar power capacity in the UK over the past year
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/27/u...
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/27/u...
UK adds 1.9 GW of solar in 12 months
Latest government figures record 20.7 GW deployed PV capacity at the end of October 2025, up 10.4% in a 12-month period. Surge in contracts for difference (CfD) supported connections recorded in 2025 ...
www.pv-magazine.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
brilliant news, obviously 🙌
though when compared to what's being done elsewhere, these numbers feel quite disappointing... other countries with similar solar potential have been adding capacity more than 5x faster than we have in the UK!
though when compared to what's being done elsewhere, these numbers feel quite disappointing... other countries with similar solar potential have been adding capacity more than 5x faster than we have in the UK!
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'Britain becomes world’s largest economy to end new oil and gas exploration'
Feels like this should have been bigger news...
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/britain...
Feels like this should have been bigger news...
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/britain...
Britain becomes world’s largest economy to end new oil and gas exploration - Greenpeace UK
Commenting on the government’s North Sea Future Plan, in which it has confirmed that no more licences for new oil and gas will be issued, Greenpeace UK’s co-executive director, Areeba Hamid, said: “B...
www.greenpeace.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
'Britain becomes world’s largest economy to end new oil and gas exploration'
Feels like this should have been bigger news...
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/britain...
Feels like this should have been bigger news...
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/britain...