Prof. Donald Knuth opened his new paper with "Shock! Shock!" Claude Opus 4.6 had just solved an open problem he'd been working on for weeks — a graph decomposition conjecture from The Art of Computer Programming. He named the paper "Claude's Cycles." 31 explorations. ~1 hour.

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Remember painting the cover of the single onto Lee Partridge's leather jacket c1985/86. R.I.P. Lee.

Detectorists is the best series I've ever watched on the BBC. It ran for three seasons. The genius, Mackenzie Crook, called the program a love song to the English countryside, and to people and their pastimes. It's as close to perfection as is possible. If you love the the

My iPhone just updated itself. I keep turning this off then get endless messages to update it and an irritating red circle on the screen. Now this has appeared. Since when is it law to prove your age to use your own phone???? Way beyond your remit now GOV.UK

Have you watched The Manosphere with Louis Theroux on Netflix? As the Dad of a 17 year old son, I think Jimmy Carr is spot on. What do you think?

It’s time for Proof Of Human.

Great stuff here. Huang: “The purpose of your job and the tasks and the tools that you use to do your job are related. Not the same." Indeed. As I wrote in Deep Thinking in 2017, automation forces evolution, not extinction.

Virginia Woolf took her own life 85 years ago on this day. Here is the beautiful final letter she left for her husband, my great-uncle Leonard Woolf 💜

But of fun with an old favourite. Kipling's 'If—' reimagined as a punk banger performed by ‘Amelia’. Seemed kind of appropriate for this timeline somehow. If you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs…..