Stuart Slyper

Using tech to improve access to financial services. 🇿🇦🇬🇧 Looking to improve the world. One Young World Ambassador.

[Autosport @autosport]

Your front row for the #MonacoGP tomorrow 🤝

[Stijn Spanhove @stspanho]

🏃‍♂️ I've gamified my own run so I can race my own ghost with the Meta Ray-Ban Display.

I built a web app for the glasses, loaded a previous GPX from Strava, and dropped game mechanics on top.

Pick up coins when you keep pace, sprint zones reward extra points if you push, and a mini leaderboard on the lens shows how you're tracking against your past self in real time.

Best part: it actually works. Seeing your ghost 20 m ahead is a way stronger nudge than any number on a watch. 😅

[NXT EU @NXT4EU]

These @Dyson strawberries are from an advanced fully automated farm.

Europe is a leader in Agri-Tech! 🇪🇺

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Why are investment bankers living in two up two downs in South London that were built for manual labourers?

Because we haven’t built enough luxury housing.

When we don’t build luxury homes, the houses that used to be for the everyman become the preserve of the elite.

And everyone else moves *down* the chain. By building luxury homes we can move everyone *up* that chain.

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

No smoking gun, but the preponderance of evidence points to smartphones, not economics, as the culprit for the global drop in fertility:
• In the US and UK, births fell first and fastest in areas that got 4G earliest
• Birth rates were stable in the US, UK and Australia until 2007; in France and Poland until 2009; in Mexico and Indonesia until 2012; in Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal until 2013-15
Each of these inflection points matches local smartphone adoption (see picture).
• The younger the age group, the sharper the drop.
• in-person socialising among young adults is dropping. In SK, by 50% in 20 years
• Sexual dysfunction is higher among heavy social media user
• Effect is largest in culturally traditional societies — Middle East, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa
• Decline holds across countries hit hard by GFC 2008 and those not hit, fast-growing and not growing.
Excellent again @jburnmurdoch.
https://t.co/RYEMXD2bRM

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Wow, Air Transat really crushed it with this ad campaign: World Cup ticket prices vs. flight ticket to countries playing. The end lines turning into contrails is a real nice touch.

[Sky Sports F1 @SkySportsF1]

All the key timings for this weekend as Max Verstappen takes on Nürburgring 24 Hours 🚨

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Still incredible that the DeepMind documentary has footage of exact moment Demis is told that AlphaFold can “easily” predict all known (1-2B) protein sequences “in a month” and he says to do it.

Then, it shows the moment AlphaFold is released to the world.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

I'm thrilled to share this unique collaboration with Artemis Il astronaut @astro_reid.

Artemis II was a unique opportunity to get high-quality imagery of the moon, and Reid was gracious enough to capture some special image sets for me during the lunar flyby.

[Stuart Slyper @SSlyper]

Credit where it’s due. This is a very sensible step. Sure we can argue about the relative merits of using traditional nuclear instead of SMRs but just to hear an Energy minister talk about a new “nuclear golden age” is a big moment. The first sign of pragmatism returning

[Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband]

The contracts have been signed for the first small modular reactors here in the UK.

Delivering energy security and thousands of good jobs.

All part of our golden age of new nuclear power 👇

[Dunvallo Molmutius 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 @molmutius]

I calculated that one (1) of these three new small modular reactors will give out the same average annual energy as 40 square miles of solar panels. And they work at night. And in winter. And when it is cloudy.

[NASA @NASA]

Artemis II Moon mission complete!
✅✅✅✅✅✅

- Space Launch System rocket launched crew into space
- Orion spacecraft kept astronauts safe
- Flew around the Moon, observed its far side
- New human spaceflight distance record
- Crew safely returned to Earth
- Inspired the WORLD

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

"Planet Earth: You. Are. A. Crew."

Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch reflects on what it means to be a "crew."

[Jesica Bossi @jebossi]

Imperdible mensaje de Chistina Koch tras su vuelta del espacio.
Oratoria 10/10.
Contenido 10/10.
Emoción 10/10.
Gente que sí ♥️

[Physics & Astronomy Zone @zone_astronomy]

To think that we aren't just going "to the Moon," but rather traveling to meet it at an exact point in space... changes everything.
​It all comes down to orbital mechanics: arriving at the precise location, at the precise moment.
​One tiny error... and it simply doesn't happen

[delian @zebulgar]

The coolest orbital animation I've seen of Artemis 2

Just really shows you how far away they're flying today and also how precise they need to be to go to the moon

[Southern Guards GC @SouthernGuards]

Jon Rahm speaks about the South African fans after the first ever historic event 🇿🇦🦏🇿🇦

#golf #livgolf @JonRahmOfficial @livgolf_league

[Stuart Slyper @SSlyper]

@SamaHoole Transplant those Dutch to South Africa and give them unlimited red meat. Include a culture whose main way of socialising is to grill meat over fire (braai) often at the end of a long day of hard farm work. What you land up with is the Afrikaaner (and 4 Rugby World Cup trophies)

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

In South Africa, brands repair potholes.

[Autosport @autosport]

Some of Max Verstappen's best overtakes during his NLS victory today 👏⚡️