Watching otherwise sharp journalists get excited about Susan Hall's chances has to be one of the weirdest UK politics memes I've ever seen. It's like watching Nobel Prize winning physicists convince themselves that the world might be flat.

The Tories as third party in British politics after Labour and the Lib Dems. Looks more plausible as a long term outcome now.

"the pundits' calculators suggested that if the whole country had voted on Thursday, the gap between the Conservatives and Labour comes out at 9%" bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

This puts the best comedians out of a job.

A man was reported to have said: "Nikolay is a moron!" and was arrested by a policeman. "No, sir, I meant not our respected Tzar, but another Nikolay!" - "Don't try to trick me: if you say 'moron', you are obviously referring to our Tsar!"

Better than Radio Yerevan.

C'mon, every statistician knows this.... you use L1 for variable selection and then fit the selected features with OLS to get an unbiased estimator. It's standard practice in the field.

what did openai mean by announcing Sora, never releasing it and not posting a single research paper on it?

Companies like Deepmind do not have any requirements to make their research available. I signed the letter below because they chose to publish their work and different standards were applied to the Alphafold 3 publication as those applied to others.

Vinod Khosla Responsible development and use of Open Source projects and software have changed the world and propelled science and technology in public and private sectors, benefitting developers, researchers, students, entrepreneurs, businesses, etc - Human Genome, Linux, ImageNet, PyTorch,

Lmao

Good evening, Sam.

Sonnet 3.5 is terrible with TikZ.

Great new work by Weizhen Li and Rui Carvalho Department of Engineering @ Durham University Durham University - '#Automating the discovery of partial differential equations in #dynamicalsystems'-iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108… #machinelearning #PDEs #statphys #PINNs #complexity #datascience #nonlineardynamics #engineering #AI

We're launching a new MSc programme, 'Artificial Intelligence for Engineering,' as part of Durham's MSc in Scientific Computing and Data Analysis. Learn more and apply here: durham.ac.uk/study/courses/… For further details, feel free to message or email me.

My group's paper on automatically discovering ODEs from data is among the Top 25 downloaded papers in Communications Physics in 2024: nature.com/collections/db… (We're the fourth entry from the top)