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I’m triggering a high air pollution alert for London on Tuesday 10 November.
I urge everyone in the capital, especially those most vulnerable, to stay safe and follow health advice to minimise their exposure.
Please switch off engines when idling and avoid burning garden waste, which contributes to pollution.
london.gov.uk/mayor-london-i…
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Publicly funded science should work more like open source software.
Today a result is a PDF. The data often isn't shared, the code isn't public, and few studies ever get replicated.
Imagine every experiment as a repo. Data, code, and protocol, all versioned. Anyone could fork it, rerun it, and send a fix. Funders could reward replications as much as new papers.
AI makes this urgent. Agents are now making more discoveries than ever. The bottleneck becomes replication/validation. Then commercialization, which still requires moving atoms in the real world and meetings with regulators.
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You can read a million books and listen to a million podcasts, but are you actually learning anything?
Do you integrate the knowledge and turn it into something useful? Or does it just fade away?
@michael_nielsen
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JUST IN: Google successfully activates its first AI data center satellite in space, using an onboard AI model to generate poetry while orbiting Earth.
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We mourn the passing of Patrick Stewart, who inspired countless individuals at NASA (and beyond) to boldly go where no one has gone before.
ALT Image description: A packed, sparkling starfield captured by our Hubble telescope — with strange new worlds potentially awaiting. Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. Cohen
This is something I'm genuinely looking forward to.
I recently got to interview Robert Caro, who is my favorite author of all time.
This gave me the excuse to reread his biographies of Lyndon Johnson and Robert Moses, and to compile my prep notes into this video essay.
These guys pulled off some truly incredible schemes.
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Join Works in Progress at Building Abundance: How Britain can flourish in the age of AI, a day of ideas for rebuilding Britain’s economy and state so it can adapt to and embrace artificial intelligence and other opportunities for growth.
luma.com/ria1khmw
Sessions include:
- @Dominic2306 and Morgan McSweeney in conversation on the decline and fall of British state capacity,
- @JohnFingleton1 on the Nuclear Taskforce and its implementation by the government, one year on from its pledge to implement it in full.
- @bswud, @SCP_Hughes and me on why nearly every attempt to get Britain building has failed;
- @rachelwolf on what the public really thinks about economic growth and AI;
- @lugaricano on messy jobs and Britain’s labour market;
- @jujulemons on why Britain needs gigawatt-scale compute, and how to get it built here;
- @salonium on why fixing clinical trials is the best industrial policy Britain could have;
- @MichaelDnes1 on building the first new tunnel under the Pennines since 1954;
- @RobertBoswall on how to finance and power the data centre buildout; and
- @daisychristo on why VAR matters for state capacity.
It will be held on Thursday 3rd December at the LSE, from 1pm to 7:30pm (doors open 1pm for a 1:20pm start). We're hosting it in association with the LSE Law School and School of Public Policy. Tickets are free.
See you there!
luma.com/ria1khmw
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News
@_CommonMagic (population: 1) is doubling in size
I'm hiring a London based operating partner to run the machine behind the fund, systems to events to network
Come join: buildthemachine.commonmagic.…
Bonus points if you find the microsite's easter egg
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Today, Pioneer Labs is announcing our first step towards terraforming Mars. 🚀🌼
With equipment that fits in just a single rocket launch, we can convert Martian dirt, water, and air into enough building materials to construct a small city on Mars.
To do it, we made the first microbe for Mars. We found the best microbe on Earth and used evolution to teach it how to source all of its nutrients directly from Martian materials.
The first astronauts will be greeted with safe shelter already filled with water, oxygen, and rocket fuel for the return journey.
This is the first step toward using biology to make Mars a friendly place for life. It lets us live off the land and helps us build the next great frontier.
It's the first of five organisms we need to green Mars ⬇️
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new post: the senior engineer death spiral
sunilpai.dev/posts/the-senio…
a friend just started a big job and asked for some advice. so I braindumped a monologue about a super common failure mode I see with engineers and posted it here, hope it helps whoever it can.
Omg! If this ends up happening it will be so cool.
I've resurrected mold Mach-O (macOS) port with help from AI. It's still very experimental, but it seems to link large real-world programs like iTerm2 faster than Apple's ld-prime. If all goes well, we may consider merging it into the main mold repo. github.com/rui314/mold-macho
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If you want to play around with an early thing: you can now give us money and we give you tokens in return. radius.earendil.com/
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when you argue with me on @lesswrong this is who you're arguing with
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Hearing rumors that Anthropic is close to finished writing the fifth and final volume of Caro’s LBJ series…
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Made an Obsidian plugin that turns audio files into interactive editable transcripts embedded within ordinary Markdown documents. 🔈✏️ github.com/andymatuschak/int…
With these transcripts, you can:
* hold Command and click anywhere in the transcript to start playing the audio file from there
* delete regions like ordinary text; audio playback will skip those segments
* copy and paste regions like ordinary text, preserving playback support
* position your cursor and press Return twice to split the transcript, so you can interleave normal Markdown