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@elsleightholm @Cambridge_Uni Congratulations

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@DrRadchenko Congratulations

[Ash Jogalekar @curiouswavefn]

As a computational chemist with no background in cloud engineering, I want to worry about science, not about cloud compute details. I wanted to be able to use GPUs for calculations involving tools like alphafold, boltz2 and long MD simulations with OpenMM.

Using Codex, I was able to set up an Azure cloud backend in a few hours with just a simple initial prompt, an interactive process and no coding knowledge or even terminal use. A critical aspect was being able to set explicit permissions to automatically detect GPU-heavy calculations in a multistep workflow to prevent cost explosions.

https://t.co/RzNDraCi5I

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

Adam Brown (@A_G_I_Joe) is back!

General relativity is said to be the most beautiful idea the human mind has ever produced.

Most of us will never get to fully appreciate its elegance by taking the 20-lecture graduate course Adam taught on it at Stanford.

But in the video below, Adam distills the key idea at its heart so clearly and compellingly that even I could keep up lol.

At the core of general relativity, Einstein is trying to figure out the principle behind a particular coincidence: that the mass that resists acceleration and the mass that gravity pulls on just happen to be exactly the same. Adam then leads us through the path of insight which Einstein called his “happiest thought.”

Then Adam lectures on black holes. First, by showing how even under special relativity you could create a perpetual motion machine if black holes weren't truly black. And then, by explaining why the observations of an infalling observer and a distant bystander to the black hole would be so radically different

Adam leads Blueshift, the team at Google DeepMind cracking science and reasoning.

Which gave us the opportunity to discuss at the very end how close we are to AIs that could rediscover general relativity from scratch. Stay till the close for some philosophy of science.

0:00:00 – The coincidence that led Einstein to general relativity
0:16:42 – Gravity is a consequence of curved spacetime, not a force
0:31:46 – Why black holes prevent unlimited energy extraction
0:47:12 – Black holes are the ultimate power plants
1:13:50 – What falling into a black hole would actually feel like
1:18:51 – The three ways we know black holes are real
1:24:21 – The first time we saw gravity bend light
1:29:33 – How far can AI get without experimental evidence?

Look up Dwarkesh Podcast on YouTube/Spotify to watch. Enjoy!

[𝙰𝚕𝚎𝚡 𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚕 @alexrblackwell]

“…if rongorongo is a (logo)-syllabic writing system encoding a Polynesian-type language, why it has not been deciphered yet after 100+ years of continuously renewed efforts by trained, knowledgeable, and ambitious people or by eager aficionados…?” https://t.co/KQuGXyzRsb

[Chris Miller @crmiller1]

Fun podcast on the critical chemicals needed to make chips and the strategic ramifications of China's growing production of key chemicals--and rising Western dependence, with @jordanschneider https://t.co/PQjBKgUSJV

[Yacqub Ismail @Yacqubismial]

@_AashishReddy Congratulations

[Yacqub Ismail @Yacqubismial]

@Discoplomacy Is that because the party has not developed any talented, younger operatives since 2007?

[Greg Ip @greg_ip]

Greenspan wasn't just a thrill to cover as a journalist. Every meeting with him left me smarter. Equilibrium interest rates? Go study Knut Wicksell. Pessimistic about the U.S. potential? Read George Terborgh. He knew the meaning of the 1948 recession because he lived through it. He didn't just devour data: he created more of it. My column on the only celebrity central banker the world has known: https://t.co/AK1nM1mSyt

[Stephen Dziedzic @stephendziedzic]

Former senior official Marc Ablong on AUKUS. Long piece, worth a read. He thinks the strategic logic holds. But he's worried about the "trapdoor" in the middle of the optimal pathway (Presidential approval to sell Virginias to Aus) - wants a "stated hedge" https://t.co/4gLmZBuB97

[Yacqub Ismail @Yacqubismial]

@deanwball @OpenAI Congrats

[Olivier Schmitt @Olivier1Schmitt]

Further proofs corrections today: on a forthcoming article about French diplomacy, and a forthcoming book chapter with @ElieTenenbaum on French defence policy post-2022.

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

I've written our finance special report this year (one of the few bylined pieces in The Economist!) It's on what I see as the decaying status of US Treasuries, the world's only real safe asset, and the worrying long-term problems for global finance as that role is eroded.

[Yacqub Ismail @Yacqubismial]

@huwsteenis @apolloglobal Congratulations

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@Discoplomacy Sure

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@africanrhizome @thenewpress @LAReviewofBooks Congratulations

[Hal Tasaki @Hal_Tasaki]

To those who have long awaited a truly modern, pedagogical textbook on thermodynamics:
Now you can appreciate the beautiful cover illustration by Mari Okazaki @cafemari of our book! Please wait a little bit more for the book; we are working on the proof.
https://t.co/5U0qo9Bcg8

[Yacqub Ismail @Yacqubismial]

@GrayConnolly I thought that Conservatives were skeptical about an international court.

[Megan Greene @economistmeg]

The case for raising U.K. interest rates is growing https://t.co/ZswQ4tpx8R

My latest in @FT.

You can find more analysis behind it in my recent speech: https://t.co/sucMStcOi3

[Yacqub Ismail @Yacqubismial]

Definitely worth looking forward to.

[Ho-fung Hung @hofunghung]

proofreading time