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Research Fellow, Materials, University of Oxford Supernumerary Fellow at Oriel College I work on magnesium. prev. solid-state batteries.
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Leaving Aarhus. This is brilliant!
hampshire.police.uk/news/ham…
Were at the *using a section 34 order across an entire 82000 person town* stage.
I didn't believe it at first, so this the official link.
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This is a ridiculous and abusive use of state power.
Those officers should refuse to do this.
🚨We are now in a place where a whole town gets locked down by the Government for a boat that has not arrived….
Gosport. Haslar Bridge shut. Coaches at Fort Blockhouse. Masks banned.
A dispersal order on the entire town until 7am Tuesday.
Anyone who wants to stand there is sent to a car park. If not you’re threatened with arrest..
The boat is still in French waters.
The government will not even say this is the landing. Last time, they took the people to Dover.
What i dont understand is how the police officers do this. Surely their conscious must eat at them
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This is my thesis: no one uses AI. I repeat, absolutely no one. We live in a bubble.
Even among my friends who pay for it, when I ask them to open ChatGPT and show me their queries, it’s the same handful of basic things.
Most don’t even know they can upload a photo and ask questions about it. Connecting Gmail so an agent can read and send emails blows their minds. An agent opening a browser and checking them into a flight? They’ve never even heard of it.
The massive challenge right now is adoption, and then getting people who already signed up to actually use what they’re paying for. Most have absolutely zero clue what’s possible.
Imagine the compute shortage when everyone starts using AI like the top 1% of users do today.
98% of US households aren't paying for AI yet
More charts in State of Markets II: a16z.news/p/state-of-markets…
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All welcome: bench researchers (no coding needed), designers, software engineers, vibe-coders. 🧪
Prizes in cash, credits, subscriptions. Details to come!
Thanks to @AnthropicAI @huggingface @pillar_vc @IQ_Capital_Fund & DaltonTx for support.
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Amongst the most important reforms going through govt at the moment. Needs acceleration.
Replying to @Michael_J_Hil
3/4 Just 10 of the recommendations have shown real progress since April. On 23 of them, essentially nothing has happened at all. Just 10 of the recommendations have shown real progress since April. On 23 of them, essentially nothing has happened at all.
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It has been about six months since the Fingleton Review, and on most of the recommendations, nothing has been done. The review is clearly being slow-walked by departments, and it isn't obvious anyone has a grip on it.
We built the tracker because we suspected this would happen. I thought public accountability might speed things up. Apparently not? Let's change that.
Let's be honest.
A lot of young people have stopped believing they'll ever own their own home.
That's what happens when rents are high, house prices are high, and saving for a deposit feels impossible.
My Labour government is stepping in to help.
With Your First Home, first-time buyers will be able to buy a new-build home with a deposit of just 2.5%.
Because hard work and saving should count for something.
And because the dream of owning your own home shouldn't belong only to those with help from the bank of Mum and Dad.
Fully predictable, very disappointing.
Cambridge is no longer planning to investigate Jason Arday’s academic record or the university’s decision to hire or cover for him.
Instead, the investigation will focus on “his welfare, his care, his well-being” and “whether the school offered him sufficient support amid accusations that he plagiarized.”
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Scores of people from dozens of sectors have been making the same point for at least a decade: that Britain’s ‘just-in-time’ resupply model, in everything from munitions to fuel, would be cruelly exposed in a darkening world.
Parliamentarians nodded along, then did nothing.
1/2
Diesel shows Britain’s low resilience just in time model running out of road. Now the US is considering a diesel export ban. Canada has 1382 days of supply stockpiled. Japan 1025. Britain? 42. Great @EdConwaySky explainer on @SkyNews
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A look inside our new Aircraft Assembly Centre at Cotswold Airport which we opened yesterday, marking a major step in our journey from prototype development and flight testing towards certification and commercial production of Valo.
The UK has insufficient diesel refining capacity to meet its domestic demand. We now import over half.
Its a weird artefact of pro-diesel co2-linked incentives and then anti-diesel govt incentives and messaging.
That's normally fine, it might soon not be.
This seems right. Need to rewrite problem sets
Ben Horowitz says instead of banning AI, educators should set problems students can't solve without it:
"I was talking to Dan Boneh, who is a great professor of computer science and cryptography at Stanford. His take on AI was: You have two choices. You can ban it, and by the way, that won't work. Or you can make the problems so hard that you can't solve them without AI."
"What he's seeing is, 'I've got students solving things that no student in history could have ever solved.' That's what's possible. You want to have that orientation: What can you solve with the tools? What can you do that's a breakthrough? Now everybody has an opportunity to create a breakthrough."
"Then you're a main character, not an NPC. That's what the academy is about. Do you want to be a main character? If you want to be a main character, we help you do that. If you want to be a cog in a machine, this is not going to be the best place for you."
@bhorowitz
The chemicals industry is the 4th biggest employer in Europe. Britain led the world with ICI.
This is downstream of inane energy policy
Sir Jim Ratcliffe's Ineos to mothball three major chemical sites in Hull bbc.in/4xwXvYF
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£237 million and 3.5 years of building
The planning docs called it gothic, inspired by Oxford
What they built is a concrete bridge with pointed outlines
The city they were inspired by is cut stone
Carved work almost never makes a civils package
because it still has no factory and no delivery date
That is what @Gondor_Ind is building