Andy Turner

'This is insane! RIP painting!' - Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (creator of the first permanent photograph, 1826) #AIart

US registers aliens.gov as Trump pledges UFO files release. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

Whether they realize it or not, anyone saying Trump won’t is actually just hoping that he can’t. This is the typical failure of imagination and wishful thinking of complacent citizens of democracy when facing an autocrat will do anything for another day in power.

I see Question Time has reached its inevitable endgame. It was bound to happen.

@Scaramucci I think I’ve found him.

Here’s the question nobody in Washington is asking about the Diego Garcia strike: how did Iran know exactly where to aim? They don’t have satellite coverage of the Indian Ocean. Someone gave them the targeting data. Who? And what does that make this war?

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I asked Claude to build my daughter an app that plugs into our piano, can read live key strokes, can show her sheet notes and key view and ends with a Guitar Hero style game. All while giving progressively harder songs. Today she’s using It and crushing It.

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@Angry_Staffer Not enough ball room

- Iran won’t close the Strait because that would be very bad for them - we knew they would close it, I expected oil prices to be worse - the strait will open itself - we don’t use it, allies should open it - OPEN THE STRAIT RIGHT NOW OR WE’LL DESTROY YOUR POWER PLANTS

First they came for the cow herders.

A Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) is trying to learn a solution to the Klein-Gordon PDE PINNs are neural nets trained to satisfy a partial differential equation. They use a simple trick of baking the PDE residual straight into the loss. They came out of a very practical pain point. Classical PDE pipelines can be amazing, but they often demand a lot of setup work such as meshes, stencils, and stability tuning. Once you build a solver, it’s usually tied to one geometry and one discretization choice. A PINN flips the workflow. You represent the solution itself as a smooth function uᵩ(x,t) and you enforce the physics wherever you choose to sample the domain.

@ThatTimWalker @Heccles94 And may not have been Iran.

@ThatTimWalker @Heccles94 It transpires the attack was a few days ago, prior to the UK’s decision. Diego Garcia and London are a similar distance from Iran.

Why is Starmer so desperate to drag the UK into Trumps ilegal war?

A simple method called half-moon bunds, used in parts of Africa, captures rainwater to restore dry land and bring back vegetation. 📹lead. tz

The Cat Ba langur, found only on Cát Bà Island, Vietnam, is one of the rarest primates. Babies are born bright orange before turning black. Fewer than 80 remain in the wild, threatened by hunting and habitat loss.

Ron Weasley yelling “Expensive Petroleum” while filling up his car might be the peak of comedy 😭🔥

A mystery that all these people are just dying like this. Any idea who could be responsible, @Reuters ?

I’m going to tell you how much worse it was at the start of the PC Revolution for white collar workers trying to adapt, vs today with AI Today, presumably every white collar worker has access to a smart phone and/or a PC/laptop. Back then, a PC cost $4,995 , an off brand was $3,995. 5k in 1984 is about $16k today. It was really expensive. The only reason I could learn how to code and support software is because my job let me take home a PC to learn. By reading the software manual. Literally. RTFM. Or pay to go to training. Classes that started at hundreds of dollars then. It was expensive. It absolutely limited who could get ahead. Today, ANYONE can go to their browser, to the AI LLM website of their choice, and type in the words “I’m a novice with zero computer background, teach me how to create an agent that reads my email and …” That concept applies to LEARNING ANYTHING Think about what this means. Any employee of any company can say “ I need to learn how to xyz for my job , which is to do the following: Tell me what more information do you need to help me be more efficient, productive and promotable”. Or “ what new skills can you teach me that will help me reduce my chances of getting laid off “. Or “what suggestions do you have for me to communicate to my boss, who I barely know, to help my chances of staying employed “ These aren’t great prompts. But they are a start that anyone can take. Think about how incredible that is. Back in the day was so much harder for white collar workers. It was harder for new grads because unless they took comp sci, they probably had never used a PC. Big Companies are going to cut jobs. No question about it. Small companies is are going to need more and more AI literate thinkers who can help them compete or get an edge What I tell every entrepreneur, and it’s more crucial today. “ when you run with the elephants there are the quick and the dead. Adopt tech quickly , you can out maneuver big companies. “

It's now possible to walk from Westminster to the Tower entirely along the north riverbank (only straying a few metres to go beneath bridges). First time in London's history this has been possible. Details on link londonist.substack.com/p/an-historic-…

"THE SWIMMER [1968] is a surreal, unsettling, and highly stylized masterpiece, featuring an unforgettable performance by Burt Lancaster, and directed by Frank Perry. It is based on the 1964 short story of the same title by author John Cheever. It follows a man’s delusional journey across suburban pools, which serves as a profound allegory for the decline of the American Dream, personal failure, and the loss of youth. A "suburban odyssey" that blends a dreamy, sunny aesthetic with dark, psychological undercurrents, it acts as a blistering satire of upper-middle class affluence, vanity and denial. The film is known for its dream-like, sometimes disjointed narrative, with some viewers seeing it as an interpretation of the descent into Hell."

You can build your own humanoid at home. Asimov – Here be Dragons is now available for presale. $499 deposit, $15,000 target price. asimov.inc/diy-kit