The Irish Air Corps honours the extraordinary life of Group Captain John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway, DFC—an Irishman and the last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain. 1/2

What a race. 🏁 Rest in peace, Eddie.

Information Theory, formalised by Claude Shannon in the 1940s, is one of the planks of 20th & 21st century science. You can now watch all 8 lectures we're showing from Sam Cohen's popular 3rd year Oxford Mathematics course. Unless that's too much information. youtube.com/playlist?list=…

WE'RE PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS! 🏆

Alasdair MacIntyre. RIP to a great moral philosopher, tireless intellect, dangerous wit & restless heart. Reading him changed my life (led to a dissertation & 1st book). Here's an old video I made on him: youtube.com/watch?v=NwuRgs…

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Handwriting returns as a key technology.

VERSES® Welcomes IEEE Final Approval of Spatial Web Standards. We plan to be the first to implement standards in a commercial application with Genius™. VERSES CEO, Gabriel René said “I believe that these standards mark the dawn of the next era of the web.”

The effect of having an effective treatment for addiction would be quite significant for society. I expect it won't be that far off.

Brian Wilson has passed away at age 82. He gave us the sound of innocence, the ache of longing, and the harmony of hope. Today, the world is quieter without him. Thank you for the music, Brian.

No one will EVER sound like this again. BRIAN WILSON is 1 of the greatest writers+composers+arrangers in music history. And if you don't love the Beach Boys, know that The Beatles acknowledge Pet Sounds as the greatest album of all time+an inspiration.

For the umpteenth time and for the umpteenth reason, handwriting is better than typing. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to be speaking at Open Source Summit Europe 2025 on decentralized authenticated biometrics Indicio osseu2025.sched.com/event/53fc3ce6… Sched

Congratulations to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, & Shimon Sakaguchi on the #NobelPrize 2025 in Physiology or #Medicine! 🥳Their discoveries on peripheral immune tolerance & regulatory T cells (Tregs) solved a fundamental mystery: how our immune system avoids attacking itself.

Congrats to Mokyr - I think I may have interviewed him once around the publication of The Enlightened Economy. Reading him is like being drenched in insight.

Where Judea Pearl takes us in answering the eternal Why? In short. Kant realized that we’re born fully equipped to recognize cause and effect in the sensory experience (a stroke of genius, considering he knew nothing about neurons, synapses, or biochemistry). Pearl explicated

Wrong, again ... Anything this man says about Anglo-Saxon England should come with an inbuilt trigger warning (not that I'm in favour of trigger warnings) ... Right up there with the time he confected a brand new Anglo-Saxon saint ...