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Physicist has written a fascinating big beautiful paper.Let’s not be afraid to call it what it is - groundbreaking. For hundreds of years, mathematics had dozens of “basic” functions: sine, cosine, logarithm, square root, exponential. You know these from school. Everyone does. Now it turns out that all of it is one single operator: E(x, y) = exp(x) - ln(y), and the constant 1. Sin, cos, π - everything follows from this neatly , just nest it properly. Nature hid the simplest possible description of reality. And it was just been found. The whole thing is beautiful and remarkable, here the word “groundbreaking” is not a marketing buzzword. For instance, instead of writing π or 3.14, one can now elegantly write E(E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,1),1))),1)),E(E(E(E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,E(E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,1),1))),1)),E(E(1,E(E(1,E(E(1,E(E(1,1),1)),E(E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,1),1))),1)),E(1,1)),1))),1)),1)),1)),1))),1)),E(E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,1),1))),1)),E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,1),1))),1)),E(1,1))),1))),1)),1)),1)),1),1),1))),1))),1)),E(E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,1),1))),1)),E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,1),1))),1)),E(1,1))),1))),1)),1)),1)),1) arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852

The king is angry with the Pope and the citizenry is spreading easily preventable diseases, what year is it

@bennpeifert There was this bar in Melbourne I had to stop frequenting…

Date idea: we drink espresso martinis and set a warehouse on fire

Has Péter Magyar said thank you to JD Vance even once for helping him win the election with a likely supermajority?

@pfau You left out the 40 Tesla magnetic field

Everyone's chasing crazy AI-discovered super complicated quaternary compounds, but there's still stuff to be discovered just from picking two squares on the periodic table and mixing it together the right way.

What the hell @X where is all the news? AI and finance, fine, but world events?? Hungarian election is absent from my feed

Thank you @JDVance We are looking forward to see you supporting AFD in Germany and Le Pen in France. Please dont forget to support Fico. Kind regards, The Free World

Borges Pokemon story where each of us is a Pokemon whose name consists in all the words we speak over our lifetime

@EastlondonDev Link to the paper?

Presenting Meridian: a line to connect deterministic compute and language model AI. From Neural Turing Machines and Differentiable Transformers to The Neural Computer, there’s a rich history of trying to combine traditional deterministic computation with the wildly different architecture of Artificial Intelligence. I’ve spent the last 4 weeks creating a single neural network that has the combined capabilities of a 4B param language model and a deterministic computation engine based on Web Assembly. It allows the AI deterministic integer computations up to 2^32, control flow (while loops and if statements) and a basic filesystem - all implemented as part of the transformer neural network, no external tool calls. With this architecture adding fewer than 1 million parameters to an existing 4B param language model I can take it from <20% accuracy on arithmetic with 4-digit numbers to 100% accuracy on 4 digit numbers and 99% accuracy on arithmetic up to 2^32 without adversely affecting the language model’s performance on non-mathematical tasks. The combined model can precisely execute a range of algorithms including checking number for primeness, finding the GCD of two integers and sorting arrays.

French gov moving faster than most companies we now have a skill to do taxes, what a time to be alive

In a surprise twist, the Epstein files released the attorney general.

My grandfather was an anchor baby. It turns out the best case against birthright citizenship is Donald.

Australia is among the leading adopters of Claude globally, accounting for 1.6% of all Claude.ai traffic. Per capita, Australians' use of Claude is more than four times higher than you'd expect for the size of its population.

That's it. That's the best picture from Saturday's No Kings protests in the USA. The literal Statue of Liberty being detained by police. It doesn't get much more poetic than this.

Why the growth of One Nation? My latest Oped in the AFR. Since the GFC, Australia has quietly dismantled the economic foundations of the outer suburbs and the regions. The car industry, gone. Steel, in some parts in administration. Timber towns, hollowed out by policy decisions made by people who never lived near one. Over 200,000 manufacturing jobs lost in seven years. Textiles, clothing, footwear, effectively eliminated. Wholesale trade contracted. Bank branches stripped from regional high streets. Energy-intensive manufacturing crushed by gas prices that tripled after LNG exports began. Health services in decline or now costing more. Being diagnosed with cancer in a big city is traumatic, in the regions, it’s far more severe as you have to battle day trips to a care facility….try doing that with today’s petrol prices. None of this happened to the inner city. It happened to the people who built things, fixed things, and drove things for a living. And the parties that governed through all of it, on both sides, never really had to answer for it. They called it modernisation. They called it the ‘just’ transition, or a move to a service economy where the service is done by one class of worker to enrich the life of another. One Nation didn’t come from nowhere. It came from exactly this. My new piece in the AFR on the long betrayal that made it inevitable. After you read this, you may realise that the votes wont easily come back. Link below.

@shiri_shh Shipped a V1 feature that took 3 weeks and got 4 upvotes. Someone built a mosquito laser before I finished onboarding.

Simple logic.

Are paper rejections really that bad? My papers get read by ~3 people on average. Each rejection means a resubmission, which means 3 more readers. After 4 rejections, that's double-digit readership.

Good morning @AlboMP & @AngusTaylorMP I am willing to sell you the following dashboard at a fair market value instead of you paying Accenture $20M to deliver a much worse version in 6 months' time. ⛽️ checkpetrol.com.au