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Timo Ewalds
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I'm a software engineer, formerly at DeepMind where I worked on AlphaStar, fusion and weather prediction. I'm an urbanist, climate change worrier, climber […]

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@zachweinersmith.bsky.social any recommendations on podcasts to other French learners?
December 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social This falls in the same category as asking for the number of Rs in strawberry. LLMs get tokens, not letters, so are all bad at this sort of thing.
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social You can trivially put phi in front of e.
October 31, 2025 at 12:56 PM
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social I worked on the team that did this a couple years ago. The physics models are good approximations, but the space of good models is vast. Machine learning models automate the search through good models, and especially the space of good models that compose well over […]
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August 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social The national level news is applicable to more people, so can be polished into more engaging, addictive and profitable content, if only due to scale. You can't do the same with content viewed by far fewer people.
August 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social Fossil fuels wouldn't be useful anyway without an oxygen rich atmosphere.
August 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social It certainly makes the knowledge more accessible, even if only 10-30% of the population use it. That's far better than the 1-3% that scientific journals reach.
June 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM