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Eric Nguyen

@ericnguyen.bsky.social
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CPO at WattTime.org. Devoted since 2011 to work on climate resilience and emissions reduction. Wishing you one extra moment of presence, today.

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James Comey @jamescomey.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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WattTime.Org @watttime.org · 15/09/2025
Congratulations to our founder, Gavin McCormick, for winning the 2025 Climate Breakthrough Award! Learn more about this honor and how he plans to activate the funding for impact in the press release: watttime.org/news-and-ins...
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OneMartianArmy @onemartianarmy.eurosky.social · 07/09/2025
I keep seeing this narrative. They know 𝙚𝙭𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙡𝙮 how it works. This is just straight up 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙖!! They want you to think they're stupid. They want the stupid people to think it's true. They're playing at being stupid people for the stupid people. This may be an unpopular opinion but,
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Still excited and surprised to see that we pulled off monthly data. Perhaps overselling us, Bloomberg called Climate TRACE "The Bloomberg Terminal for the Earth's Health."
forbes.com
Al Gore’s Real-Time Climate Data Just Went Live—Here’s Why It Matters
How Real-Time Climate Data from Climate TRACE is transforming emissions tracking—bringing transparency, speed, and accountability to global climate action.
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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Dads are spending 3-4x as much time with their kids as their dads did with them. When father figures are engaged, kids show better cognitive development, boys have fewer behavioral problems, and girls have fewer emotional problems. Every child deserves strong parental bonds.
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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This was shared in the comments a little while back — tried to find the comment and r/t it but my search skills failed me. Anyhow, been sitting with it for a bit alongside using some of the tooling that's dropped in the last couple months and I agree with this take.
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My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
It's easy to forget that any moment, any experience can be had from a place of open awareness. A sound can be used to build the habit of coming home: www.ericnguyen.com/awarenessanc...
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Awareness Anchor
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
In case anyone you know is the right-shaped policy/data/consultant multitool, we're hiring: watttime.org/about-us/car... This person will help us convince more institutions to take specific (often easier than you think) actions that will dramatically reduce emissions across the globe.
watttime.org
Careers - WattTime
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
A broad group of companies working with us at a new level of rigor to change practices that materially reduce GHG emissions (not to mention a lot of pollution that directly impacts human health).
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WattTime.Org @watttime.org · 05/02/2025
Heading to @trellisgroup.bsky.social #GreenBiz25 next week? Find WattTime’s CPO @ericnguyen.bsky.social in this session on Monday where he will share practical advice for utilizing #AI for supply chain #decarbonization with free tools like @climatetrace.org. 🔗 trellis.net/session/leve...
A speaker graphic for GreenBiz25 has an Image of Eric Nguyen, Chief Product Officer at WattTiime. The featured session is titled "LEVERAGING AI FOR SUPPLY CHAIN DECARBONIZATION" and will take place on Monday, February 10th 9:30am-12:00pm
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
The Onion is famoulsly great at being too soon. Also, oof: theonion.com/lapd-arrests...
theonion.com
LAPD Arrests Everyone Who Lost Home In Fire
LOS ANGELES—Saying such individuals posed a threat to the safety and security of all city residents, the Los Angeles Police Department announced Thursday that it had arrested everyone who lost their h...
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Didn't realize how much variable load is possible. A large opportunity to optimize not just load, but emissions reductions. Cooling potentially similar to the residental HVAC use case (watttime.org/news-and-ins...), but on steroids.
watttime.org
Nest Renew from Google harnesses WattTime tech to help Nest thermostat users to prioritize clean energy automatically - WattTime
Oakland, Calif.—October 6, 2021—Ever since smart thermostats first hit the market over a decade ago, Google’s Nest series has consistently remained an industry leader on ‘best’ lists. Today environmen...
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Something I'm researching. Perplexity makes it too easy to produce content like this... www.perplexity.ai/page/semanti...
perplexity.ai
Semantic Versioning for Public Data
Semantic versioning, widely recognized for its structured MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format, is a pivotal concept in managing software and data updates, but its...
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
More connections between emissions reductions and improved human health outcomes.
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Maybe, granted that it's a historically repeated error to use whatever technology is currently at hand to describe the workings of the brain. #ai #llm #meditation [3/3]
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Random musing: On a meditation retreat a few weeks ago, I was observing thoughts and seeing how I might be aware of them at different levels of abstraction. They really aren't "words", much of the time. Similar to "thinking in latent space"? [2/3]
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Cool idea: the-decoder.com/coconut-from... (Chain of thought in latent space, not word tokens) #ai #llm #meditation [1/2]
the-decoder.com
Coconut from Meta lets language models think without words
A research team from Meta and UC San Diego has developed a new AI method called "Coconut" that allows language models to think in latent space rather than natural language, showing significant advanta...
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I'd hope that insurers would be one of the key market-based backstops to climate risk. But this market could easily fail, too. www.netzeroinvestor.net/news-and-vie...
netzeroinvestor.net
Are insurers’ climate risk models fit for purpose?
The sheer quantity and complexity of climate data create serious challenges for risk managers
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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
We ourselves and other beings Are not retained in definitions. We are perfected in a dominion That is not an idea. In a single moment, We are on a level that we did not travel to. We abide there like the heart of the sun. ~ The Great Tantra of Vajrasattva
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
From what planet?
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Just wait 500yrs, give or take 😛
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Just followed @pnsn1.bsky.social. They seemed to have the clearest info after this event.
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Also, this is cool: youtu.be/bP_AIWgknfI
youtu.be
Simulation of a Tsunami Hitting San Francisco Bay Area
YouTube video by KQED News
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A more precise map for my fellow San Franciscans: bsky.app/profile/eric...
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A more precise map for my fellow San Franciscans: bsky.app/profile/eric...
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A more precise map for my fellow San Franciscans: bsky.app/profile/eric...
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A more precise map for my fellow San Franciscans: bsky.app/profile/eric...
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A more precise map for my fellow San Franciscans: bsky.app/profile/eric...
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Tsunami warning in SF. Stay away from the coasts, but these maps (2021) show areas that should be safe even with a "once-in-a-millenium" tsunami. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
sfchronicle.com
New maps show what happens if once-in-a-millennium tsunami hits Bay Area
California Geological Survey tsunami maps have been updated for San Francisco, Contra...
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
@climatetrace.org Now on Bluesky! 🦋
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Ha. My first "citation." Didn't really think I'd end up in this world, having come from tech. agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...
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WattTime, Climate TRACE
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Thanks! Nice to be able to share it. These images were just stashed away.
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I'd love to be added, @jkingy.bsky.social. I'm CPO at WattTime.org, who serve as the Secretariat of ClimateTRACE.org -- both are producing global, highly detailed, actionable emissions data that's grounded in remote sensing data and very hard for emitters to dispute.
watttime.org
Home - WattTime
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Tom Harvey @tom.electron-one.com · 31/08/2024
What’s wrong and - crucially - what’s right about corporate carbon accounting. How to focus what little time we have on removing the most carbon from global electricity grids. Great price in @latitudemedia.bsky.social from some great people at WattTime www.latitudemedia.com/news/what-th...
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What the Financial Times gets wrong about corporate carbon emissions | Latitude Media
Google's 24/7 carbon-free energy plan is not a climate panacea.
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Former colleague Alex Wright-Goldstein (not yet on Bluesky) working on climate-friendly funds designed for 401(k)s -- smart way to get to scale. www.oursphere.org
oursphere.org
Sphere - Climate-friendly investing for 401(k)s
For the first time, there’s a climate-friendly 401(k) option that employees at any company can invest in. It’s called SPFFX.
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Here's a DJ blasting noise into the void. This look comes from taking a #gaussiansplat from a limited perspective, which creates radiating "shadows" in the data.
Dark scene with a DJ hunched in the lower right over his laptop and midi controllers, with shards of color shooting out from his point, across the image.
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Another, taking advantage of the impressionistic strokes that splats will form where you force the algorithm to work with less data.
Gaussian splat of a man leaning against a "No Parking" sign, absorbed by his phone.
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Played with Gaussian splats a lot, this year. A new photography, with new and beautiful visual artifacts. Here's a capture I took as I walked down a street. Splats let me "unspool" the scene, a hyperreal elevation view.
Gaussian splat of a street being resurfaced by a huge Wirtgen machine.
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Cheese is Christ. What a terrible pun.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 14/11/2024
Time for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change... "Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪
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Anselm Levskaya @levskaya.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
The boosters of AI safety bills like SB1047 claim that open models will enable the production of biological weapons. These claims are delusional. As a synthetic biologist and LLM engineer, I felt compelled to write why for anyone who might care: dreamofmachin.es/machine_prop...
dreamofmachin.es
The backers of California’s SB1047 routinely cite AI-enabled bioweapons as a threat justifying the radical regulatory regime that places a locus of liability on general computational models, rather than on particular dangerous applications or criminal acts.
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serene @keroserene.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Hi all. Trying this place out. Wonder if videos with sound can work here. Here's me playing a concert with robots for the opening of a fusion energy research facility
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Eric Nguyen @ericnguyen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Doing this for Thanksgiving week. Found a baby-friendly retreat center that my wife and I can do 50/50 handoffs at 🍼
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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
There is nothing whatsoever to meditate on, and not even a real object with specific characteristics to wonder about for even an instant. Do not consider "Buddhahood" as superior and do not view "samsara" as defective. ~ Padmasambhava
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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Be in the state of the great equipoise of the Absolute, like a butter lamp unagitated by wind. As to such direct experience, [it results in] a state that is without knowledge, [yet it is] overflowing, constant, blissful, clear, and nonconceptual. ~ Padmasambhava
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Andrew Corcoran @corcorana.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
'Accelerating scientific progress through Bayesian adversarial collaboration' -- out now in the latest issue of Neuron. @hohwy.bsky.social, Karl Friston & I propose a formal framework for designing & evaluating adversarial tests of competing theories.
cell.com
Accelerating scientific progress through Bayesian adversarial collaboration
Corcoran et al. present a Bayesian treatment of adversarial collaboration that operationalizes competing theoretical hypotheses as generative models. This approach enables the evaluation of alternati...
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