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After Sydney, Eric kept swimming. In 2004 he swam a 100 free time 56.9s (compared to 1:52.72 in Sydney).
Two years later, he achieved a PB of 52.18 (5 seconds off the winning time Sydney 2000), and would've been fast enough for a Gold Medal at the Melbourne 1956 Olympics!
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Google DeepMind have produced a program that in a certain sense has achieved a silver-medal peformance at this year's International Mathematical Olympiad. 🧵
deepmind.google/discover/blo…
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Mathematics and Mystery.
"The Selmi triangle is an impossible self-similar object, invented by Nidhal Selmi in 2009. The idea came as a combination of Sierpinski's fractal triangle and Penrose's impossible tribar. CC BY-NC-ND 3.0"
By Nydhalo, deviantart.com/nydhalo/art/S…
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It’s the annual retweet-the-Edgley-Optica-for-no-reason-challenge. It is impossible that this will be retweeted more than 600 times, unless the love of obscure aircraft is strong in you.
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democracy has never been sweeter #GeneralElection2024
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So to maximise revenues:
- if Labour want to raise CGT they should keep absolutely quiet about it.
- If Labour don't want to raise CGT, they should leak that they're going to raise CGT
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Great paper, arguing emergent abilities are only a function of pre training loss and not model/dataset size.
ie, if you (inefficiently) overtrain a small model to the loss of GPT4, you'd get all the abilities of GPT4.
arxiv.org/abs/2403.15796
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Honestly I just get a bit exasperated by headlines implying there's a "dark secret" on articles proceeding to quote multiple named people and studies. It's like "nobody is recycling solar panels" - according to multiple solar panel recyclers.
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If you think Chinese clean-energy manufacturing costs are an outrage justifying a reordering of global trade, you might be shocked to learn about the cost of oil production in Gulf countries:
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Here’s what Renoir & Monet saw one day in 1869 when they sat side-by-side to paint the scene at La Grenouillère, a popular meeting, eating & boating spot on the Seine ~ Renoir's emphasis on pleasantness contrasts with Monet's bold treatment of the water artinsociety.com/floating-pl…
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For the first time, astronomers have direct evidence of planets that survived the death of their star.
These remarkable JWST images appear to show Jupiter-like planets clinging to burned-out white dwarfs -- like our solar system in 8 billion years. arxiv.org/abs/2401.13153
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🤩✨ The NASA/ESA/CSA James #Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a treasure trove of 19 spiral galaxies!
This new set of exquisite images show stars, gas, and dust on the smallest scales ever observed beyond our own galaxy.
To see all the images 👉 esa.int/Science_Exploration/…

ALT Webb’s image of NGC 1087 shows a densely populated face-on spiral galaxy anchored by a central region that takes the shape of a short line. Its filamentary orange spiral arms appear muddled together and it is difficult to pick out individual spiral arms. The arms extend to the edges and rotate clockwise

ALT Webb’s image of NGC 1300 shows a face-on barred spiral galaxy anchored by its central region, which is circular and shows a bright white point at the centre with a light yellow circle around it. The galaxy has a prominent bar connected to spiral orange arms that rotate counterclockwise. Together, they form a backward S shape.
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❄️ OddBalls Christmas Giveaway - Day 12 ❄️
For our FINAL day of giveaways, we've got one of our BRAND NEW luxury oversized hoodies for one lucky winner; all you have to do is LIKE AND RETWEET this tweet! ❤️
The competition winner will be announced tomorrow - Good luck! 🙌🏻
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Published in @Nature: our AI system for material design ‘GNoME’ that found 380,000 new materials (which we’ve made freely available to the research community) with potential to accelerate greener tech from better batteries to more efficient superconductors deepmind.google/discover/blo…
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A little love story - Edward James, patron of the surrealists, was so besotted with his wife, the dancer Tilly Losch, that when he saw the trail of wet footprints she left up the stairs after her bath at Monkton House, he had them woven into the carpet.




































