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"The older that I get, the more I understand that there aren’t a lot of people who are stupid, but there are a lot of people who are incurious, and their incuriosity is understood by people who were curious about something as stupidity." - this is a fantastic piece about AI use but also about life:

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If you know me, you know what I think of gen AI - it can automate some tasks and write decent code but can only ultimately rephrase the Internet. Yesterday I was (lazy/time-poor) so I tried Cerebras' Llama-3.1 interface. I think this is quite illustrative of gen AI chain-of-thought 🧵

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I wonder what else could have been accomplished for $70 billion. www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...

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News of job losses at Durham and Cardiff is a stark reminder of the precarious financial situation facing UK universities. More from @wellcometrust.bsky.social in today's Times -- www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

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The upfront cost of visas is the threat to the UK’s competitiveness that no one is willing to tackle inews.co.uk/news/politic...

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@alisoneales.com

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While we rightly focus on carbon, a group of super-pollutants are having an outsized impact on climate change and human health. The good news? Action on these dangerous substances could have a powerful effect in reducing climate change and air pollution www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...

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A man in Louisiana this week became the first person to die from the US bird flu outbreak. It shows the growing global pandemic threat of diseases transmitted to humans from other animals. www.ft.com/content/a714... Register free with the @financialtimes.com to read here: www.ft.com/register

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Sycamore Gap: A waste of time. (But they should build a car park.)

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Have just encountered this innovation from TfL

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And this is just the health costs of poorer air quality, it doesn't include the health costs from the contribution to climate change www.businessinsider.com/ai-20-billio...

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Hello to everyone on Bluesky 👋 We’re a global charitable foundation. We believe science and research are essential to solving the world’s health challenges – and everyone should benefit from them. Find out more about us ⤵️ wellcome.org/what-we-do?u...

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Otter's struggle to accept the results of the election is one for AI fans.

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it’s the dril tweet but data centers instead of candles, and planet instead of family

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Love everyone thinking the BBC could get sign-off and launch something within a week.

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Of course! Why hadn't I put two and two together on the student last week who asked me for access to an article I hadn't written, but plausibly could have. Instead, the introspection... Did I write it? Am I misremembering the title? It was AI all along...

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"Mundane Halloween" returns! It's that time of year again, when Japanese website @dailyportalz holds its annual contest to dress up as something super ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2024 contest!

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Very encouraging that R&D was referenced in the Chancellor's speech today. Protecting R&D spending - even when times are tough - is the right thing to do. Treasury recognition of the importance of R&D to growth - and the UK's strengths in this - bodes well.

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This is an interesting research approach – mining internet forums as a naturally occurring focus group – and interesting findings

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The floods that have killed more than 1,000 people this year across Africa's Sahel region could return regularly as a result of climate change, says new study by @wwattribution.bsky.social. No paywall:

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The UK has published its position on the successor programme to Horizon Europe Very encouraging that the UK is engaging so positively. There's a tonal shift here which I think bodes well for future UK-EU cooperation on research - after so much pain. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66f180...

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Science Secretary Peter Kyle: "Long-term, sustainable economic growth is impossible without innovation. You simply cannot make people better off without investment in R&D." t.co/HwnTXrFGdV

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❌ Ranking research outputs by the impact factor of the journal they appeared in ✅ Ranking research outputs by the quality of the pun in the title

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We must unleash the metaphors and scatter them widely

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