London, UK

Alex Spies

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@afspies

Research Scientist @AlignmentResearch | PhD from @ImperialCollegeLondon | Research Lead @understanding-search |

ClawdMoji. Pixel-art Slack emoji of Clawd 🦀 — a growing cast of animated variants, generated entirely with Python + math. PRs welcome!

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gpu-monitor. Fast asynchronous GPU monitoring tool across multiple machines through SSH

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spareroom-scraper. Filter SpareRoom listings and calculate commute times with CityMapper API to allow more comprehensive filtering. Outputs a .csv and can be re-run daily.

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ai-safety-papers. Automated paper discovery and summarization system for AI Safety research. Uses Semantic Scholar for paper discovery, Claude for intelligent summarization, and Hugo for web publishing. Features automatic figure extraction, smart paper filtering, and multi-channel distribution capabilities.

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attention-tutorial. Jupyter Notebook tutorial on Attention Mechanisms, Position Embeddings and Random Fourier Feature based approximations. Created for Imperial College Deep Learning Course

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meinsweeper. A light-weight framework for running experiments on arbitrary compute nodes

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adl_course. Advanced Deep Learning course site

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homehunt. 🏡 Intelligent property search CLI with hybrid scraping across Rightmove & Zoopla. 90% cost savings, real-time progress tracking, and smart deduplication.

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mech_int_wiki.

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nhs-job-bot. A Telegram bot that automatically scrapes and notifies users about relevant NHS job postings in London. The bot checks for new positions every 5 minutes and sends notifications when new jobs are found.

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icl_dl_cw2_utils. Utility functions for ICL DL CW2

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asutils. Things that come in handy

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