While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.
As you go AI native you'll initially see big productivity gains at a task level but quickly hit a ceiling as the bottlenecks shift.
@realfast blog: https://t.co/my60MlXQtA
One bottleneck that will always remain is human alignment - there are no silver bullets to solving that but improving how you communicate as an org is a good first step.
1990s scientists:
We cloned sheep.
We landed robots on Mars.
Scientists today:
For the thousandth time:
The Earth is round.
Vaccines don’t cause autism.
The joke isn’t that science stopped advancing.
It’s that society started believing propaganda bots on X.
For all those eagerly waiting for an update on Apapang, the tiny Amur falcon, let me tell you, he has superbly executed a nonstop transcontinental flight of 4,750 km over 95 hours from the Somalian landscape to arrive in India. Look at the red line with a red dot on the Map. This truly makes Amurs among the most elite long-distance travellers on the planet. He made the first landing near Sone River, close to Varanasi and within an hour of rest, Apapang flew another 200 kms to reach a hill forest landscape near Gaya District to stop for the night. As shared by @sureshwii #Amurfalcons
One of the cool pieces of news to emerge during those last, dark weeks is that nearly 30 inscriptions in Tamil Brahmi were found in the Egyptian Valley of Kings. This discovery means that apperently Indian travellers, likely merchants, had been coming to Egypt in the ancient era.
My 12yo has been preparing for a math exam that has logical reasoning questions like these:
We had a chat about what these questions are looking for. The more creative you are, the more likely you are to get these WRONG.
Others too have spoken about this:
It's important to not let these exams get in the way of your real learning.
#Map shows the submarine cable system which are in the ocean floor that is vital for Internet!
Every time we transfer data from an US/international server, that data travels in these cables 1000s of meters below sea surface..
In India cables land primarily in Mumbai & Chennai