Atmospheric Physics PhD @ Pembroke, Oxford.
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Robert Doane-Solomon retweeted
AI is progressing very fast.
We must grapple with the reality that modern LLMs can solve problems that large masses of extremely devoted and intelligent humans were unable to solve, and the implications this has on our society. This is the dawn of a new era.
We’re sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of the deepest problems at the frontier of mathematics.
The proof was produced by a group of agents, using an OpenAI next-generation model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra.
The problem concerns whether the description of smooth three-dimensional fluid motion modeled by the Navier-Stokes equations can break down. It has remained unresolved for roughly 90 years.
Robert Doane-Solomon retweeted
The Hammersmith Bridge is a beautiful Victorian bridge that no longer works. The Victorians would have demolished it, confident they could build something better. We sit among the ruins of their civilisation.
With a temperature of 34.1C and still rising, today is now hotter than any day outside of July/August in North London since records began in 1881. Hotter than any day in June and September, and it's still spring!
Today very unusual. 33.4 is well past the May record and would rank 5th highest for June, whose record temp is 34.0 nw3weather.co.uk/RankDay.php…
Except the jet stream is actually on average shifting north...
nature.com/articles/s43247-0…
wcd.copernicus.org/articles/…
The increased rain however, could be worse than the models predict...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
Robert Doane-Solomon retweeted
10 points to whoever identifies the very obvious reason you cannot "supply the waste heat from your cooling system to power homes and businesses nearby."
This is your hint:
Surely the oldest restaurant west of the Mississippi is deserving of a RIH episode @holland_tom @dcsandbrook! After all, General Custer dined here and I don’t think the @TheRestHistory club members have heard enough facts about Custer.
Robert Doane-Solomon retweeted
the lengths you have to go when the Botley Road is closed to traffic – at Wantage, England
Oxford scientists achieve teleportation with quantum supercomputer independent.co.uk/tech/quant…
This is totally absurd. We should absolutely not be spending 1.5x the amount we have given to Ukraine (!) to give these islands to Mauritius. It's bad for our national security, and the Chagossian people themselves don't even want it! @ChagossianVoic2
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Botley Road has got nothing on this...
Hammersmith Bridge could stay closed to vehicles for another decade, an MP has warned.
bbc.in/4h7Gux1
I'm reasonably happy with the directional shifts I based my prediction on, but I missed on the magnitude. Trump outperformed with minorities, winning the Sun Belt. Harris held steady with white women, but they didn't swing to her, so it wasn't enough to win the Rust Belt.
Robert Doane-Solomon retweeted
A stark lesson from the US for energy policy in the UK: You don’t get the chance to make grand plans about climate or anything else if people feel poorer when they go to the polls in 5 years.
Looks pretty clear to me that Harris isn’t winning white people by enough to overcome Trump winning diverse people. In fact she might not have improved upon Biden there at all. Trump appears likely to win the election now.
US election prediction: Harris will win 270-268 by winning the 3 Rust Belt states, while losing all 4 Sun Belt states (except possibly NC). I'm fairly convinced we will see white women swing towards Harris, and Latino men swing to Trump. I think pollsters are herding (1/n)
So extrapolating this to swing states implies Harris doing better than her polling in the 3 whiter states (WI/MI/PA) and worse in the 4 more diverse states (NV/AZ/GA/NC). However all it takes is the exact magnitude of these shifts to be a little different than I expect (3/n)
