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[wei 🦋 @whereswei]

bits & atoms would be an adorable title for a children’s physics podcast

[wei 🦋 @whereswei]

noah kahan’s northern attitude is a criminally underrated track - the chorus has been reverberating in my dreams for the past fortnight

[wei 🦋 @whereswei]

@ericvishria this is adorable, peak parenting. your kid’s curiosity is worth much more any stock - however blockbuster

[wei 🦋 @whereswei]

@patrick_oshag helen fisher’s anatomy of love, & frans de waal’s tome exploring morality in bonobos

[wei 🦋 @whereswei]

sweet how close the amodei siblings are, their mother did a great job raising them

incredible testimony to the well trodden dynamic complementarism of a deeply technical lovable geek + humanities steeped wordsmith

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

It is precisely when faced with adverse circumstances that the human person is called to reconsider the fundamental questions that have gently prodded the heart of countless generations to more serious reflection: “Where are we going? Toward what goal do we wish to orient ourselves? What direction should we choose as a people and as a human community?”

[wei 🦋 @whereswei]

cuddles & medical lego w godson - who just learnt “forceps” at the ripe old age of 3

cutie patootie in his beatles inspired graphic tee i got him from SFO

[Goodfire @GoodfireAI]

Neural networks might speak English, but they think in shapes.

Understanding their rich *neural geometry* is key to understanding how they work – and to debugging and controlling them with precision.

Starting today, we’re releasing a series of posts on this research agenda. 🧵

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

C. S. Lewis, just to remind you what's important as we head into 2026

[a16z @a16z]

Marc Andreessen on the advantages of beginners:

@pmarca

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

Ever since the Japanese physicist Ukichiro Nakaya produced his seminal catalog of snowflake shapes 77 years ago, researchers have sought to understand the interplay of factors that lead to different shapes. https://t.co/thivxWujVV

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

The Earth’s path in space. Splendour of the heavens, 1923. ✍️

[Derya Unutmaz, MD @DeryaTR_]

In the age of AI, the greatest human assets are no longer knowledge or expertise, but curiosity, agency & compassion.

This trio works as a stable “human advantage stack” curiosity identify the gaps, agency solves them into reality & compassion ensures it’s for the human benefit.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

LLMs represent the "library" phase of AI. The next phase will be the "scientist" phase. A library contains answers, but a scientist knows how to find answers that don't exist yet.

[Albert Einstein @AlbertEinstein]

"Creativity is intelligence having fun." — Albert Einstein

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

Oh, the lights are shining so brightly everywhere ✨

As we wrap up 2025, Webb captured a star-studded glimpse into Westerlund 2, a cosmic nursery that reminds us to look forward to the beauty of new beginnings.

https://t.co/VtYQvsCGc1

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

Simone de Beauvoir on how chance and choice converge to make us who we are https://t.co/aATYaHacYN

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is the most detailed view of a human brain to date.

A team of researchers used electron microscopy (EM) to image a cubic millimeter-sized piece of human brain tissue at high resolution and this is a single neuron with 5,600 of the nerve fibers that connect to it.

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Srinivasa Ramanujan was born 138 years ago today. He said his formulas came to him as revelations from God.

[Philosophy Of Physics @PhilosophyOfPhy]

The mathematician plays a game in which he himself invents the rules while the physicist plays a game in which the rules are provided by nature, but as time goes on it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which nature has chosen"

-Paul Dirac