Research Associate at @SwanseaUniMaths, applying deep learning to biomechanics. Runner and former athletics coach. Chess player.

Swansea, UK
Joined April 2009
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From the point of view of a 19th Century farmer, machines have taken over all the jobs in the 21st Century. Jobs that occupied most people in the 19th Century now occupy small amounts of people or have disappeared. Most 21st jobs would be entirely incomprehensible for a 19th Century farmer.
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Did you hear of an open-source project built in Europe by Denis Diderot called: Encyclopédie? The “authorities” jailed him for it. He had no permission for safety or a license. This was 1749. The same folks are ready to do this with open-source AI.
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1/ Thrilled to announce: Our new course ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers, created together with @OpenAI, is available now for free! Access it here: deeplearning.ai/short-course…
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We just released our work on robot soccer. I've been working on this for quite some time with my amazing colleagues at DeepMind. It's exciting how deep RL can produce such beautiful behaviors with low-cost robots. Full paper is available at arxiv.org/abs/2304.13653 Enjoy!
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Sometimes, the antidote to feeling overwhelmed isn't rest. It's doing something that is fully engaging, that makes you feel alive. Such activities will knock you off of the rut of apathy. And jump start your energy and focus.
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UK government borrowed £22bn last month, £13.9 billion more than last November + highest November borrowing since monthly records began in 1993 + way above City forecasts of £13bn.  Interest payments alone = £7.3bn, pushed up by higher inflation .
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FBI paid Twitter $3.4m to process requests (aka taking down conservative accounts) in run up to 2020 presidential election. FBI dealt directly and regularly with Twitter execs to block accounts spreading supposed “disinformation”, inc top Twitter lawyer Jim Baker, ex-FBI.
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Mark White retweeted
There is a hard ceiling to how much data will ever need to be streamed: retinal resolution at 120 frames per second, compressed, for each eyeball on the planet. The seemingly-exponential growth of streamed data is gonna turn into a sigmoid as we get closer to this ceiling.
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Thank you everyone for trying the Galactica model demo. We appreciate the feedback we have received so far from the community, and have paused the demo for now. Our models are available for researchers who want to learn more about the work and reproduce results in the paper.
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Great to be at the re-opening of @TootingBecTrack with @JudiG @LeonieC @FfrenchKatrina and @hrnhillharriers. Our successful community campaign will give our children the sports facilities they need to become the Olympic stars of tomorrow.
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Too many studies that apply machine learning to science & medicine employ incorrect methodologies. Many make very basic mistakes, such as not having separate training & test sets, using the test set (not a separate validation set) for feature selection, hyperparameter tuning, etc
There’s a reproducibility crisis brewing in almost every scientific field that has adopted machine learning. On July 28, we’re hosting an online workshop featuring a slate of expert speakers to help you diagnose and fix these problems in your own research: sites.google.com/princeton.e…
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Here are some of my favorite ways to use a foam roller. Hint: it doesn’t involve rolling around on one!
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Can Nordics replace years of experience: no. Can years of experience replace Nordics: yes. Injury prevetion without experience hardly works, even if it is science based. Reason? We work with individuals, not with statistical averages. Same for rehab.
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Nuclear bomb C14 study update. Tendinopathic tendons are more active... #tendonuk
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Is core stability a risk factor for lower extremity injuries in an athletic population? A systematic review zpr.io/n9Ccm
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A college team has run a world record. That is just ridiculous xitter.cf/ncaatrackfield/status/…
MICHAEL NORMAN AND USC DOES IT AGAIN! MEN'S 4X400 WORLD RECORD! 😱😱😱🔥🔥🔥
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ICYMI - Loughborough is named best university in the world to study sports-based subjects for the second year running 🙌
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Sub46 indoor 400s, per season: 18: 68 17: 22 16: 22 15: 22 14: 39 13: 14 12: 21 11: 13 10: 21 09: 3 08: 3 07: 9 06: 17 05: 12 04: 15 03: 18 02: 10 01: 7 00: 10 99: 7 98: 10 97: 12 96: 15 95: 11 94: 2 93: 11 92: 6 91: 7 90: 9 89: 4 88: 7 87: 1 86: 1 85: 4 84: 2 83: 0 82: 0 81: 1
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🤔 -Both athletes take one step on the inside of the rail -Both athletes don't gain a competitive advantage -Both athletes aren’t touched by another competitor xitter.cf/gordonmack/status/9699…
Mo Farah's 2017 Non-DQ vs @Paulchelimo's 2018 DQ
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