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Is it correct that one’s reward for using the YouTube mobile app is watching ads? I don’t see them on Chrome on my iPhone…

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Happy holiday to those who celebrate en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_N...

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To celebrate this, the birthday of our Lord and Saviour Isaac Newton, here is a video in which a maths youtuber ran a program I wrote and got confused by it www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7eH...

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“the hawk tuah girl has been milkshake ducked by her memecoin” i say as the neurologist schedules me for an emergency MRI

submitted 69 days ago • 22 comments

J.J. Thomson was born #OTD in 1856. He discovered the electron, developed experimental techniques that led to mass spectroscopy, and trained physicists like Rutherford and Bohr. He was later BETRAYED by his own son, in the ultimate act of 20th century filial physics rebellion. (1/n) 🧪 ⚛️ 🎢

submitted 71 days ago • 5 comments

Cambridge residents & wild swimmers take especial note of this 👇 "The highest numbers of chemicals... were seen in samples taken from the River Nidd in Yorkshire, & the Sheep’s Green on the River Cam in Cambridge. Sheep’s Green was also the site with the highest level of chemical pollutants."

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

Annie Ernaux, the best Nobel laureate

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

“Surprisingly, it will take me less time to explain this than to explain this cartoon”

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

People dunking: write a better caption and MAKE IT FUNNY

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

I've been really enjoying this biography of Coxeter, from 2006, just recently republished.

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

This whimsical little number “J. J.” from the old Cavendish lab is traditionally sung to the tune of “Still D.R.E”

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Bro is manifesting his book sales

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Christmas movie with the fam

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Been thinking a lot on future of linear (tensor) algebra programming and, should C++ fall in demise, there don't seem to exist good statically typed alternatives with overloading, no gc and no dynamic dispatch 1/

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

Vibe

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ok but now I’m interested in raccoon harsh noise open.spotify.com/album/7lmRsl...

submitted 84 days ago • 7 comments

“We see roughly 60 to 65 per cent odds that AI is more impactful than the personal computer. The US stock market today is pricing roughly a 90 per cent probability.” It’s actually somebody’s job to share this detailed and very meaningful modelling 🙃

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 93 days ago • 14 comments

1/ Imagine sitting in the vacuum of empty space and applying an electric field. You'll find that at some nonzero rate electrons and positrons start appearing from the vacuum and remaining indefinitely. This is a thread about the Schwinger mechanism of spontaneous electron-positron pair creation.

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

Unexpected combination:

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

So no joke: the dictatorship in 1970s Argentina once banned Venn diagrams. Because they could be seen as finding common ground between two (apparently) different groups, and if you’re a dictator, unity is a threat. There’s an artist whose work revolves around this!

submitted 219 days ago • 46 comments

Came upon David Thouless’ grave in Grantchester today. Does anyone know the meaning of the symbol at the bottom right?

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

[Chappell Roan voice] dead salmon hats / gonna keep on wearing all my dead salmon hats 🎶

submitted 91 days ago • 8 comments

A bit late now but thanks for the info

submitted 92 days ago • 14 comments

There's a recent fad for tools like NotebookLM that turn academic papers into podcasts. Instinctively it seems stupid: better to directly digest dense information slowly. But... is there a natural pace to absorbing info that makes slow reading painful, and makes the looser, expanded version better?

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment