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AI is at the centre of what I’ve been doing, unsurprisingly. But testing and evaluating LLMs is only half the story — the other half is why I still insist on…
I’ve made tech predictions that soared and others that crashed: from laughing at Bitcoin to betting on Linux. Turns out I’m sometimes good at spotting solid…
Energy flexibility means the ability to adjust power generation and demand, so that they match exactly. It’s going to be a big topic in the following years…
Insights from Stephen Fry and Yuval Noah Harari at the Octopus Energy Tech Summit on AI as humanity’s child
How Ukraine maintained their power grid through three winters of attacks and the strategic advantages of renewable energy
Insights from Octopus Energy on making decarbonisation about abundance and better quality of life, not sacrifice
My accepted talk for RSECon25 on how Large Language Models might replace traditional app interfaces through conversational agents
Leading the development of EDOL (Energy Demand Observatory and Laboratory) to understand home energy use patterns
Imagine someone entered your house while you were away and changed every door lock, every safe combination. They put padlocks on your fridge, your wardrobe…
A small popup window might sound not too important, but is huge.
The privacy paradox is this: people claim they care about their personal data, yet their actions do not match this claim.
“I have to disappoint you, but before I can tell, we need to speak about two other topics — one is what ownership is and how to create serial numbers for…
“Are they about mushrooms?” — A discussion with my son about non-fungible tokens.
My discovery of ClubHouse
I usually wish “Happy Birthday!” to people, not to ideas. But today I am doing it for a programming language (I explain below what this is): it’s called…
Internet, computers, social media sites, online platforms: they are complex machines, but still machines. Their principles, if explained well, are not hard to…