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Andy Turner retweeted
UK crime was four times higher when Oasis first played Knebworth than at last year’s reunion gigs.
The collapse of crime and safer streets is one of the biggest stories of our time.
But one almost never told - or believed.
My take on today’s figures: comment.press/lawless
Who wants to be a millionaire!
🚨#BREAKING: JD Vance’s Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program has been flooded with reports of blatant fraud committed by Republicans in the Trump Administration & Congress. Over 97% of reports over the past 24 hours have been against corrupt MAGA politicians.
Weather based AI chatbot incoming.
🚨BREAKING: The Alan Turing Institute has developed a proposal to train an open-source British AI base model from scratch and release it as a public good, according to a UK government advisory letter published today.
The model would be UK-governed national infrastructure available to researchers, startups and public services, rather than a proprietary product owned by a single company.
Britain's top science advisers want ministers to consider the proposal and allocate national computing capacity for AI trials. They warn that without urgent action, the UK risks becoming a 'high-value AI customer' rather than a country able to shape the technology.
Andy Turner retweeted
Tech blogger 神奇阿宇 from Hubei, China, built a working hoverboard.
Electric, with 10 brushless motors pushing over 30kg of thrust each—enough to lift 4 people—and peak current hitting 2,000 amps.
2 STEPX Neo phones as the board's brain. One inside the board reads posture data in real time; the other on his wrist feeds AI voice prompts through his earbuds—"Weight's shifting left!" "Bend your right knee!"
After 10+ days of brutal training and AI-assisted correction, he achieved man-machine sync.
Andy Turner retweeted
i want new ways to look at lots of trajectories, currently exploring:
- treemap laid out by groupings (metadata or computed)
- colored by classification of success (or grouping)
- sized by length
- zoom in smoothly to see turns as beads on a string
- extremely fast transcript viewer (instant for many thousands of msgs)
- switch to 3d to see the forrest for the trees
- transition to semantic (UMAP) layout
- color by semantic clustering
Andy Turner retweeted
If we want to continue progress in science, we must be prepared to acknowledge that the correct description of nature will eventually simply be too complicated for humans to understand. I do not think it is wise to make human understanding a requirement. AI is the way forward.
Andy Turner retweeted
Brandon and I pledged 50% of our equity. This was the principal reason that I left Google for Anthropic. The existence of this kind of program was a costly signal that Anthropic wasn’t just talk, at a time when Anthropic didn’t even have a released model. Fund a bright future!
We’re committing a portion of Anthropic’s shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new wholly owned entity dedicated entirely to the public benefit.
It will start off with 5% of our shares. For every 50% increase in the company’s value over a set baseline, we can contribute up to an extra 2%, subject to our board’s discretion.
In total, this means that roughly 20% of Anthropic’s shares are committed to the public good. Our co-founders have already pledged to donate 80% of their equity, and around half our employees are donating a portion of their equity as part of a donation matching program we’ve run since our founding.
In the post below, we share more details about our new fund.
anthropic.com/news/public-be…
Andy Turner retweeted
Tim Sweeney
-> Self-taught programmer
-> Designed three programming languages
-> Wrote UnrealScript’s compiler and VM himself
-> Building his latest, Verse, with the creator of Haskell and the co-creator of Scheme
@TimSweeneyEpic is a pretty cracked programmer if you ask me.
Andy Turner retweeted
2/ TL/DR: We found neural activity across both inferotemporal and prefrontal cortex alternates between a conscious mode and an unconscious mode ~ 15 times every second.
Andy Turner retweeted
When my girlfriend and her friends go to the bathroom and I get stuck talking to the other boyfriend
Andy Turner retweeted
Some magical progress towards "magic state" in quantum!
Our @GoogleQuantumAI team has demonstrated "magic state cultivation" on physical hardware for the first time. The result is a 40x error reduction on our Willow processor vs. previous methods, achieving a state-of-the-art 99.99% logical fidelity.
It's another step towards useful, error-corrected quantum computers to help solve the hardest problems. The result is published in Science today, watch the video below to see how it works
