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Our current rate of progress for cancer. ourworldindata.org/cancer

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And if it can't speed up Moore's Law, it probably won't cure cancer either (at say an order-of-magnitude faster pace than we've been curing it already). Soz. bsky.app/profile/0xcd...

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Having said that, I'm not particularly concerned about things going 'foom' in the near future. The real test is whether this is enough to make Moore's Law speed up, and to be honest, I don't think it is. bsky.app/profile/0xcd...

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... is not significantly more difficult than going from International Maths Olympiad level to where we are now, which took what, a year or two?

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I mean, yes, for the time being it can't produce crispy clear papers explaining the proofs. It can't write books full of beautiful and powerful new theories. But my guess would be that to go from Quasi-Riemann to making human mathematicians completely obsolete ...

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M @0xcd16.bsky.social · 15h

How are you celebrating/mourning Human Maths Is Over Day?

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The blip is at 1:34 in the clip, well spotted.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 16h

Setting aside any irony in case there is anyone out there who takes my posts seriously, these OpenAI proofs are probably correct and not plagiarized in any normal sense of the word and highly consequential

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M @0xcd16.bsky.social · 21h

A quote from Charles (Chas) Challenger, who was the manager of the company - “I have run 230 cars (capacity 53 passengers) on holidays with 4 engines. Three engines can just manage 170 cars on an ordinary day.” elechistory.org/wp-content/u...

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M @0xcd16.bsky.social · 21h

I blame ze Germans! 'The main power station, which delivered power for the Bristol tramways from the start of the 20th century until Good Friday, April 11th 1941, when a bomb hit St Philips Bridge and cut the power cables. Trams never ran again in Bristol.' elechistory.org/wp-content/u...

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M @0xcd16.bsky.social · 21h

'The main plant at Counterslip in 1990 consisted of 4 steam vertical cross compound steam engines 750 BHP each direct coupled to 4 500v DC generators each with a 625kW capability' Ie this was a 2.5 MW plant powered by four steam engines. elechistory.org/wp-content/u...

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M @0xcd16.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But at the end of the day, if there's more information in the starting weights than what's encoded in the genome, it must have been generated during development and I'd argue that that counts as learning?

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M @0xcd16.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Agreed re how the genome works, it's more like nudging self-organising smart agents in a certain direction than providing a blueprint.

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They did last time (during the coalition government) and the time before that (in London the ban on combustible materials on facades, in place since 1666, was lifted under Thatcher), as described in exhaustive detail in @peteapps.bsky.social's Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen.

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Yes, but your refutation is handwavy at best. My point is that we now actually have a rigorous upper limit on how much evolutionary information goes into the brain and it's *tiny*.

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bioinformatics.stackexchange.com

The trouble with that is that the human genome is tiny. With an off-the-shelf compression tool (xz) you can compress it down to <650 MB, and most of that is taken up by silly stuff like liver and the heart etc. bioinformatics.stackexchange.com/questions/12...

Theoretical limit of human genome compression

How small can a compressed file containing the human genome be? I'm aware that this question cannot actually be answered, since it is asking for the Kolmogorov complexity of the human genome, which...

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Now that you've pointed it out, the 'dead' ones also make no sense aerodynamically. Like how would you even fly with that?! The alive ones look so much more flyable.

YouTube video by Mind Enterprises

References www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx2G... 'Nobody searching for this video. This video finds you.' 'I would recommend that this mix should be added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.' 'now this is europemaxxing'

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Balcony MIXTAPE

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M @0xcd16.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Imagine if someone told the kids that Trump used to refer to Farage (and to himself!) as 'Mr Brexit' and that Farage used to be proud of this. There's a reason why Farage no longer mentions it and why he's avoided the subject of Brexit ever since Burnham reopened it. bsky.app/profile/gari...

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M @0xcd16.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On a lighter note ... bsky.app/profile/did:...

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 02/10/2026

can a 1.5T parameter frontier model ethically date a 70B parameter locally hosted agent or is the power imbalance inherently unethical?

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M @0xcd16.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's possible (likely?) that he was paid in the same way as Mancini and so I expect that he's rather busy at the moment looking for lawyers and jurisdictions that will not extradite him to the UK. bsky.app/profile/dann...

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M @0xcd16.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From the article 😱

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M @0xcd16.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@moultano.bsky.social Fascinating history + pics of remnants of Russia's California colony, Fort Ross

Pete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Breaking: the Met Police has submitted charging files to the Crown Prosecution Service resulting from its Grenfell fire investigation. The files cover 54 individuals and 20 companies and cover charges including fraud, misconduct in public office and manslaughter

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'Good luck with that' re the latter?

Instagram is now completely blocked in Russia

Extra level of irony here - Instagram has been blocked in Russia since March 2022, but the ban is widely circumvented using VPNs. mashable.com/article/russ...

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"This is wrong," said head of Instagram Adam Mosseri.

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(My personal view is that by penalising posts that include links to sources, Facebook, Instagram and X have turned the internet into a toxic waste dump because ordinary users have no way of distinguishing AI slop from actual photos/videos, and tracking down the source takes a LOT of effort.)

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I've checked the horizon on Google Street View and it is vaguely consistent with the video. The bushes to the left are clearly Green Island (Зеленый остров). maps.app.goo.gl/Gf9oaxkmKY86... 51.537717, 46.078454

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As far as I can see, the video was first posted by @karolina_64_ on Instagram on 8 Sep 2026. Judging by her hashtags, it shows the Zaton beach on the Volga River in Saratov, Russia. The account doesn't post AI slop. www.instagram.com/p/DdB_aBwAiFN/

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Quite a milestone for #SpaceX today: The company's Starship super-rocket lifted off for its first orbital test flight and deployed 26 next-generation #Starlink satellites that will give a big boost to the constellation's bandwidth. cosmiclog.com/2026/09/28/s... #Space

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Starship drops off satellites during its first orbital flight

SpaceX sent its Starship super-rocket on its first orbital flight — a shorter-than-planned test mission that put operational Starlink satellites into orbit for the first time. The 407-foot-tall roc…

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This site has a massive problem - this is the *only* mention I have seen of SpaceX getting Spaceship to orbit. It's an important technological achievement that should have been front page news.

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Sticking your head in the sand is not a viable strategy. Ignoring events of this magnitude, however much you despise the protagonists, is a bit like failing to mention the fall of Paris in 1940.

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This site has a massive problem - this is the *only* mention I have seen of SpaceX getting Spaceship to orbit. It's an important technological achievement that should have been front page news.

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🇺🇦 Flowers for the Fallen 🇺🇦 Park Street, Bristol, UK, photos taken earlier today www.instagram.com/duncanmckell...

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Remember not to increase your weekly mileage by more than 10%, because if you do, you risk injury. (Running injuries are very strange in that they're more like RSI than say rugby injuries.) So to be on the safe side, I'd wait for 18 years before running the next 10k 😉

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Sadly they've now hidden user reviews (arguably the best part of the site) behind a login

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And how AI should be run, hopefully one day soon

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