Ed Keohane

[Ed Keohane @edkeohane]

@docmilanfar Shannon said that the semantic aspects are irrelevant - (syntax first, semantics 2nd ie transparent). LLMs, convolution, diffusion etc are in the opposite quadrant to this (semantics 1st, syntax 2nd, ie emergent). But in GNNs they're both primary. Maybe it's vectors vs nodes.

[Amazing Physics @amazing_physics]

After three years of waiting, careful calculations, and precise astronomical timing, Leonardo Sens captured this shot.

[Ed Keohane @edkeohane]

Great kid-friendly product. And we just found out you can use it as an alarm clock.

[Matt Clifford @matthewclifford]

Underrated UK tech success story - @bendrury and team have built something amazing at Yoto. My kids are totally entranced.

[Ed Keohane @edkeohane]

@PhysInHistory @Ananyo wrote a great book about him - The Man from the Future. Well worth reading. https://t.co/XwJPjkjAgL

[Matt Clifford @matthewclifford]

It's deeply weird that the unsustainability of our long-term fiscal position isn't a bigger part of our national conversation. We're so bad at paying attention to slow moving catastophes (cf. economic stagnation).

[tobi lutke @tobi]

This is the beginning of something really big

[Ed Keohane @edkeohane]

Nice.

[Zain Shah @zan2434]

Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see.

@eddiejiao_obj, @drewocarr and I built a prototype to see how this could actually work, and set out to make it real. We're calling it Flipbook. (1/5)

[Matt Clifford @matthewclifford]

The idea that ministers' LLM usage is FOI-able is insane. Government should have contested this way more strongly. Clearly should have fallen under the policy development exemption, otherwise we more or less guarantee no minister will use AI at a time that adoption is key!

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

I wouldn't bet a lot on it yet,... but I think I'd bet on similar happening in the UK within a decade.

[Michael Burry Stock Tracker ♟ @burrytracker]

Michael Burry just called the bottom on software stocks

He opened a new 3.5% position in PayPal $PYPL at $49.38 yesterday

And is adding Salesforce $CRM and MSCI $MSCI this morning, per his Substack

His recent purchases:
• PayPal $PYPL
• Fiserv $FISV
• Adobe $ADBE
• Autodesk $ADSK
• Veeva $VEEV

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

Everyone is talking about the impact of closing the Strait of Hormuz on oil and gas. I haven't seen much discussion of the war's impact on helium.

Most people think of helium as being a fun gas you use for children's balloons. But helium is actually one of the most important industrial gases, used in rockets, MRIs, quantum computers, and most importantly, in the production of semiconductors.

Qatar produces ~30% of the world's helium as a byproduct of its natural gas wells, and that supply is now cut off from the global market. 🧵

[Richard Jones @RichardALJones]

Great piece from @thomasforth on the shrinking graduate premium in the UK. The UK's skills problem is not a problem of supply, it's one of demand; our regional economies are not complex & successful enough to absorb the number of graduates we produce.
https://t.co/NO8fOIfyqP

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Walking is really good for you compared to other forms of exercise. And you don't have to do all that much to get most of the benefit. (via @EricTopol)

[tobi lutke @tobi]

at least for small tools, keeping the code and throwing away the prompts is the 2025 equivalent of throwing away the source and keeping the binary.

[Ed Keohane @edkeohane]

@PavolRusnak Great prompt.

[Matt Clifford @matthewclifford]

Good piece: growth isn’t a London thing, shouldn’t be and never has been

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

Holy shit...Stanford just built a system that converts research papers into working AI agents.

It’s called Paper2Agent, and it literally:

• Recreates the method in the paper
• Applies it to your own dataset
• Answers questions like the author

This changes how we do science forever.

Let me explain ↓

[Ed Keohane @edkeohane]

@dwarkesh_sp I think Vaclav Smil's books are excellent and the complete opposite of this.

[Alex Chalmers @chalmermagne]

new from me for @worksinprogmag: how France achieved the world’s fastest nuclear buildout

I tell the story of how France defied the global backlash against nuclear power by aligning local incentives, embracing standardisation and abandoning a failed domestic design. 🧵

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Standing under Starship