Matt Uyttendaele

China’s DeepSeek Ends the Party for U.S. Energy Stocks It’s not just AI companies taking a beating today.

More from @heatmap.news - energy stocks feeling the pinch today with investors perhaps dialing back expectations on energy need of AI:
heatmap.news/sparks/deeps...

Matt Uyttendaele on LinkedIn: AI energy use in context My thoughts on AI energy use ...

Over the history of computing every important technology sees massive efficiency gains. Deepseek is just the latest example. I wrote about that in the context of AI here: www.linkedin.com/posts/matt-u...

For more on the history of testimony of climate change to business and government leaders, chapters 19-20 of @johnvaillant.bsky.social's Fire Weather book cover it very well.

YouTube video by carlsagandotcom Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change

Forty years ago today: Carl Sagan very clearly explains to the US congress the greenhouse effect, that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, how humans are increasing CO2 in the atmosphere causing global temps to rise, and the thorny but necessary policy steps in addressing this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp-W...

Also using Threads. Right now it feels like it requires both Threads and Bluesky to approach the old Twitter content experience.
www.threads.net/@mattu206

After 14 yrs on Twitter, I deactivated. I remember my early days when it was the place to engage in meaningful convos on tech. I was such a fan that I had a dashboard built in the Microsoft Research building to track tweets of our work. X is something different. Hoping Bluesky becomes what was lost.

The race to find new materials with AI needs more data. Meta is giving massive amounts away for free. Open Materials 2024 will be one of the biggest data sets available for materials science.

Great to see this release from my old team. For the first time we see AI models from Google, Microsoft, Orbital Materials, and Meta compared on the same data. This will speed the pace of computational materials discovery.

www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/18/1...

www.linkedin.com/in/matt-uytt...

Just spent a few days in Phoenix. Mainly used @waymo.bsky.social to get around. Great experience. It works at the airport (unlike SF). Rides were comfortable and felt safe. About 1/2 cost of Uber. Wait times on average longer, but very accurate. Feels like an inflection point for autonomous driving.