Head of Design for Origin Digital #agtech
Joined October 2021
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The urine of thousands of women taking part in the London Marathon this Sunday will be recycled and turned into fertiliser for wheat
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Dan Blackford retweeted
10 Feb 2025
SO SO GOOD! 🤣 👏🏽
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24 Dec 2024
It's rare for Christmas and Hanukkah to start on the same day. It has happened only five times since 1900.
In this beautiful, unique moment, let us celebrate the unity of Jews and Christians.
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah.❤️
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Dan Blackford retweeted
24 Dec 2024
This is so cool!!
24 Dec 2024
Introducing ASAL: Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models
sakana.ai/asal/
Artificial Life (ALife) research holds key insights that can transform and accelerate progress in AI. By speeding up ALife discovery with AI, we accelerate our understanding of emergence, evolution, and intelligence–core principles that can inspire the next generation of AI systems!
We proudly collaborated with MIT, OpenAI, Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, and Ken Stanley on this exciting project.
Full Paper (Website): pub.sakana.ai/asal/
Full Paper (arxiv): asal.sakana.ai/paper/
Code: github.com/SakanaAI/asal/
In this work, we propose a new algorithm called Automated Search for Artificial Life (“ASAL”) to automate the discovery of artificial life using vision-language foundation models. Instead of tediously hand-designing every tiny rule of an Alife simulation, simply describe the space of simulations to search over, and ASAL will automatically discover the most interesting and open-ended artificial lifeforms!
Because of the generality of foundation models, ASAL can discover new lifeforms across a diverse range of seminal ALife simulations, including Boids, Particle Life, Game of Life, Lenia, and Neural Cellular Automata. ASAL even discovered novel cellular automata rules that are more open-ended and expressive than the original Conway’s Game of Life.
We believe this new paradigm may reignite ALife research by overcoming the bottleneck of manually designed simulations, thus advancing beyond the limits of human ingenuity.
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19 Jul 2024
First day at Crowdstrike, pushed a little update and taking the afternoon off ✌️
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5 Jan 2024
This is awesome creative work. Understanding the customer value of your brand and depicting it in one image. Genius.
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24 Oct 2023
In his piece for @SustGrowthVoice, Jon Rhymes, Head of Origin Digital, explains why remote, field-level predictive intelligence is transforming ag credit, and how this could release $billions in financing to boost global food sustainability & security:
sgvoice.net/strategy/technol…
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Dan Blackford retweeted
12 Oct 2023
At the beginning of your career, you only want to code code code code.
Then, the more you code, the more you dream of that farm.
ALT An image that implies developers that have been in the field for a while are dreaming of starting a farm
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Dan Blackford retweeted
20 Sep 2023
Thrilled to win ‘Innovator of the Year' @Entirl Awards at #Ploughing2023!
GrassMax helps farmers optimise grass utilisation & nutrition, & helps the businesses that serve them by providing aggregated farm insight.
Congrats to all this year’s winners!
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16 Aug 2023
From muddy boots on the potato farm to golden boots in the premier league! #PremierLeague #Haaland #manchestercity #farming #harvest23
15 Aug 2023
Throwback to @ManCity striker @ErlingHaaland helping out on a potato farm in Norway 🚜 🥔
📸 Erling Haaland
#football #farming #ManchesterCity #ErlingHaaland #Haaland #premierleague #farmlife #tractor #agriculture
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3 Aug 2023
#FARM24 ambassador, farmer and TV presenter @AdamHenson on why he is supporting #UKagriculture 🙌 We challenge his fellow @BBCCountryfile presenters to get involved in 24 Hours in Farming 🚜 🥕🐄 Pledge your support 👉 bit.ly/3ptvZOW
@Morrisons @FarmingCAN #FarmingCAN
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Dan Blackford retweeted
18 Jul 2023
We are proud to partner with @OriginDigitalAg to deliver this game-changing #AI solution to measure grass height from space
18 Jul 2023
We're thrilled to announce a world-first tech breakthrough enabling farmers to measure grass from space – as reported in @farmersjournal, @wnif, & more!
Launching soon in 🇮🇪 as part of our GrassMax service - more about the tech & our partner @AspiaSpace:
digital.originenterprises.co…
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18 Jul 2023
⚡️WORLD FIRST ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED⚡️ @OriginDigitalAg
Measuring grass height from space!
We are significantly reducing farmer time and cost spent manually measuring in the field.
Big thanks to our partners @AspiaSpace 🛰 🚜
Read the full post here:
digital.originenterprises.co…
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Dan Blackford retweeted
18 Jul 2023
We're thrilled to announce a world-first tech breakthrough enabling farmers to measure grass from space – as reported in @farmersjournal, @wnif, & more!
Launching soon in 🇮🇪 as part of our GrassMax service - more about the tech & our partner @AspiaSpace:
digital.originenterprises.co…
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3 Jul 2023
When we don't have enough people to pick fruit, and simultaneously working hard to grow more, is this future getting closer?
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Dan Blackford retweeted
29 Jun 2023
Thanks @OriginDigitalAg. It's amazing companies like you that allow us to carry out our work transforming lives with digital education. We share your belief in both the power of technology to transform lives and the necessity of using it sustainably.
#TechForGood #Sustainability
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27 Mar 2023
Good to know we are on the right track! A study by the EPRS explores the applications, risks, and impacts of AI in agriculture. Insights into how the data can be curated to achieve enhanced management and decision-making in crop and animal production.
#AgTech #AI #farming
26 Mar 2023
EU study about AI in agriculture
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20 Jan 2023
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14 Jan 2023
Thanks to @nikitisza for the deep dive into how @OpenAI can help UX designers write prompts to obtain AI support. link.medium.com/EBrsEPYxzwb
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