@frgsimpson

Bayesian research in AI & astronomy

 Barcelona
Joined February 2015
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Our #ICML2023 paper introduces Neural Diffusion Processes - generalising diffusion processes to function spaces. Great to work with @vdutor @alandanielsaul and @ZoubinGhahrama1 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2206.03992 Code: github.com/vdutor/neural-dif…
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"Drunk people on a beach in Portobello, while Catherine watches from her third floor window in amusement" Scarily realistic AI-artwork about one of my favourite #LongCovid pastimes. 📷: #dalle and dear friend @frgsimpson
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Vincent Dutordoir@vdutor9 Jun 2022
Introducing *Neural Diffusion Processes (NDPs)*: a novel approach, based upon diffusion models, that learns to sample from a distribution over functions. Work with @alandanielsaul, @ZoubinGhahrama1, @frgsimpson [1/11]
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Cambridge MLG@CambridgeMLG20 Jan 2021
"Marginalised Spectral Mixture Kernels with Nested Sampling" (Poster) @frgsimpson, @VRLalchand, Carl Edward Rasmussen Video: youtube.com/watch?v=B0vkIcZl… Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=AOrL… (9/11)
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With 2 million & counting citizen scientists in the U.K. we have launched the COVID Symptom Tracker in the US bit.ly/CovidSymptomTracker with scientists & researchers @AndyChanMD @MassGeneralNews @HarvardChanSPH @GardnerPhD @StanfordMed @SU2C @SungPoblete @katiecouric #SU2C
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Some thoughts on the risks of COVID-19: link.medium.com/EpEPEEmw44

Coronavirus: A Personal Risk Assessment

Every idea needs a Medium

link.medium.com
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"Out of the Ordinary" this week explores the theories of Fergus Simpson @frgsimpson that aliens are likely to be bigger than us, living on small dim planets, and technologically backwards bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000gc…

Out of the Ordinary - Series 7 - Aliens are the size of polar bears (probably) - BBC Sounds

If we find other intelligent life in the universe, what should we expect it to look like?

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Tomorrow morning I will be discussing the nature of alien life on Radio 4: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gcv…

BBC Radio 4 - Out of the Ordinary, Series 7, Aliens are the size of polar bears (probably)

If we find other intelligent life in the universe, what should we expect it to look like?

bbc.co.uk
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SpaceX
@SpaceX6 Feb 2018
Falcon Heavy side cores have landed at SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and 2.
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Thanks for the interview @skyatnightmag!
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"Strong Evidence for the Normal Neutrino Hierarchy" (or so says cosmology) by Simpson, Jimenez, Pena-Garay & Verde arxiv.org/abs/1703.03425
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Via @NPR: The Earth Has Oceans And Continents: How Weird Is That? n.pr/2mgzNzC

The Earth Has Oceans And Continents: How Weird Is That?

We have both continents and oceans on Earth — but it didn't have to be this way. And on most planets, it probably isn't, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

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La Vanguardia
@LaVanguardia1 Dec 2016
“La especie humana podría extinguirse en menos de 700 años” dlvr.it/MnWlPF
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Humanity has one in 500 chance of being wiped out thesun.co.uk/news/2198015/hu…

Humanity has one in 500 chance of being wiped out THIS YEAR, expert warns

THE human race has a one in 500 chance of being wiped out within the next year, a mathematician has calculated. Fergus Simpson, a statistics guru working at the University of Barcelona, claimed the…

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A pre-Trump prediction for the fate of humanity: arxiv.org/abs/1611.03072

Apocalypse Now? Reviving the Doomsday Argument

Whether the fate of our species can be forecast from its past has been the topic of considerable controversy. One refutation of the so-called Doomsday Argument is based on the premise that we are...

arxiv.org
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Next Monday we will learn about #DarkMatter with the hilarious @MJMurtha3 and the #cosmologist @frgsimpson
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Astrobiology
@astrobiology14 Jul 2016
An Anthropic Prediction for the Prevalence of Water Worlds ow.ly/sqdr502o1S2

An Anthropic Prediction for the Prevalence of Water Worlds

Should we expect most habitable planets to share the Earth’s marbled appearance? Terrestrial planets within the habitable zone are thought to display a broad range of water compositions, due to […]

astrobiology.com
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Could dark energy be caused by frozen neutrinos? forbes.com/sites/startswitha… A new paper aims to crack this "cold case"!
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Another way of visualizing the #Kepler planets. Colors denote temperature. Arrows on the #CoolWorlds Lab discoveries
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Aliens: Are We Looking in the Wrong Place? youtube.com/watch?v=KRGca_Ya… by BCN's @frgsimpson on theory I wrote about: elperiodico.com/es/noticias/…
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