Yann LeCun being let go by Meta might have some unexpected benefits 🍿

Happy to share my first piece of analysis work with the Discovery team at @nestauk.bsky.social on 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗿!

The Mission Radar is a briefing series on innovation signals and emerging trends in Nesta’s missions. We use AI to scan for innovation across business, academia and policy. (1/7)

Love this plot of ASHP vs GSHP in terms of their COPs. Really nice illustration of the outdoor temperature dependency of ASHPs vs that of GSHPs (or lack thereof). Observed performance has been interpolated, but based off 2 years of sensor data for a sample size of 883 ASHPs and 124 GHSPs resp. (1/2)

Really cool work done by my colleagues at @nestauk.bsky.social where they use AI to scan for innovation trends/signals. This first edition of Mission radar is on low carbon heating! Check it out.

The cover of Andrej Karpathy's youtube channel got me rofling 🤣

OpenAI have released a few new models (gpt-4.1, gpt-4.1-mini and gpt-4.1-nano) for their api. I was watching their live release as we've got an application which uses their previous model and wondering about the jump in performance. I'm still guessing based on this plot, where are the values??? 😅

One of my favourite AI image outputs so far. Farage does love his foscii fuels!

I then decided I looked too tan and the Hollister logo has deformed and it gave me the following!

I then asked for it to make it more realistic by making my eyes blue and hair dark brown and it outputted the following.

OpenAI's new gpt-4o image generator/editor is very good. I put in my bluesky profile pic and asked for a Dragonball Z version of it and here's the output!

We compared our scores across many of the local authorities included in the DESNZ work and found that our Heat Network suitability scores are on average higher in areas which include a DESNZ pilot HN zone versus those areas without a pilot zone in the selected local authority.

We've also published a data story, pulling out some insights from the map data:

www.nesta.org.uk/data-visuali...

Areas with very high or low household densities tend to have high or low suitability for shared heating technologies as one would expect. This is what we see in this figure.

What low carbon heating is best suited for your area?

We've just published our updated heat pump (HP) suitability map for Britain. We calculate a suitability score for different low carbon options such as air source HPs, heat networks and shared ground loops.

heatpumpsuitability.dap-tools.uk

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Basically what Altman is saying here with "the last non chain of thought model" means scaling performance on training data has not produced the fruits that they were expecting and has hit a plateau. It is notable that they aren't calling Orion GPT-5. (1/2)

Agree with you there Glyn! That's one of major pieces of feedback we got back from user testing. Having the page and source would improve transparency and trust. The capability is there, we just need to make sure it systematically works across queries.