Remembered something Eddie Farhi said in recitation for GR:

Eddie: 'Do you know why the moon and sun are the same size in the sky?'
Students: '?? It's just an accident of Earth's history.'
Eddie: 'No. It's because God loves us and wants us to know general relativity is correct.'

A door blows open in your mind when you learn about the suffix -le, it explains so much. People used to add it to verbs to mean ‘more than once’ or continuously—so originally, to ramble is to ‘roam’ on, to jostle is to joust repeatedly, and to sparkle is to emit lots of sparks.

Japanese artist Kumi Yamashita winds a single black thread around a grid of nails on a wooden board to create intricate portraits #WomensArt

Living Alone, Paco Yao (Chinesse, b.1985).

reading through the apollo 11 transcripts

israel has killed more aid workers in the tiny gaza strip than have died in all of the countries in the rest of the world combined in any of the last 30 years

So the inevitable’s happened: the war machine’s taken 6 (beautiful, beloved) white/Western lives, and they’re mourned as 32,000 (beautiful, beloved) Palestinian lives were not. If you have any power at all - media role, a platform - and you’ve been silent till now, ask yrself why

a detailed and extremely painful to read description of the deliberate targeting of children in this war:

;...They had sniper shots to the brain. They were seven or eight years old,” she said.'

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

The Netanyahu regime now pulling off the rare feat of violating both the Geneva Conventions and the Vienna Convention—at the same time. You're living through history, folks.

'Erin Gore, the WCK chief executive, said: “This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organisations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war. This is unforgivable.” '

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

The best April fools paper

arxiv.org/abs/2404.00919

11/10 no notes

Example 1: figure shows an example of a correctable error in the surface code.

In a (very) uncharacteristic display of athleticism, I'm running the Great North Run in Newcastle this year and raising funds for Save The Children.

To support the fundraiser, donate below:

justgiving.com/fundraising/gn…

'I’ve not seen that level of devastation in 20 years with the UN.'

theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

genuinely mad that i did not draw this (1950s?)

this is beautiful

I was making a grilled cheese so I turned on text to speech to read this article. Please listen to this part

8 years ago, Google Deepmind created AlphaGo—an AI that defeated the best human Go player in the world & it shaped how I see art & AI.

In a new interview, Lee Sedol says he wouldn't become a pro again if he had known of AI today. This is heartbreaking— 1/ blog.google/around-the-glo…

Hooray Kübra Müjde Braun its amazing to see this above the castle!