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The effective way the clarinet player does a musical call and response to the singer is just mesmerizing. "Tu vuo' fa' l'americano" by Renato Carosone: cover by Hetty and the Jazzato Band, an Anglo-Italian jazz quintet.

So, ditch the laptop to take notes by hand? I wouldn't say to do that just yet. But definitely ditch the journalists who don't tell you how dubious the studies they're reporting on actually are.

One of the best things I have seen in a while. Ukrainian performers impressed the judges of “Britain’s Got Talent” and received the Golden Buzzer. The computer-gaming performance group Anti-Gravity delivered a spectacular performance on the show Britain’s Got Talent. Judges Simon Cowell and Alesha Dixon were so impressed that they both tried to press the Golden Buzzer at the same time. Viewers called the Ukrainians’ performance one of the most creative of the season.

How much of EU oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz? Between 4% and 6% of all imports. In comparison, in 2021, 29% of the EU's imported oil came from Russia. That is down to 1% and exclusively for Hungary and Slovakia. Why on earth would European NATO nations be expected to deploy their navies to help China, which gets 38% to 40% of its oil through the Strait of Hormuz? What kind of 5D Chess is this?

@andrewztan Scientists making more than professional athletes? A good start 😄

Portuguese intelligence has warned foreign state-backed hackers have launched a global cyber campaign to access the ​WhatsApp and Signal accounts of government officials, ‌diplomats and military personnel-Reuters

For decades, peer review has been treated as the gold standard of scientific validation. Yet many scientists know the reality: the system is far from perfect. Peer review is broken and sometimes even corrupted. The process can be slow, inconsistent, and vulnerable to bias. Reviewers are sometimes asked to judge work outside their true expertise. In other cases, they may be evaluating ideas that challenge the very paradigm in which they were trained. And occasionally, reviewers are simply competitors. Ironically, the most prestigious journals can also be the most conservative. Truly new ideas are often met with skepticism, while safer work that fits the current narrative moves more easily through the system. Increasingly, papers are judged less by the originality of the idea and more by the volume of data, the sophistication of statistics, and the beauty of the figures. Science risks becoming data-rich but idea-poor. But there is an important reality to remember: journals do not ultimately decide the impact of scientific work. Impact is decided later, by the community. By the scientists who read it, test it, debate it, and cite it. In the end, citations and ideas determine the legacy of a paper, not the impact factor of the journal that first published it. Science has always advanced by questioning assumptions. Perhaps it is time we also question the system that filters scientific ideas.

That's it 😮 Microsoft is releasing Copilot Cowork to perform any task across your apps and files. And they've collaborated with Anthropic to create it! But you're not limited to only one model... which is a huge advantage compared to other tools.

Scientists just copied a Fruit Fly's biological brain and trapped it inside of a computer. Not an AI model trained to act like a fly... A total digital copy of a fly !! This is some sick sci-fi stuff: - They scanned and copied the brain, neuron by neuron, synapse by synapse, from electron microscopy data. - Then dropped that brain into a simulated body in a video game like environment. The fly walked. It groomed. It fed. Nobody taught it anything. The behavior was already in the wiring. The entire premise of modern AI is that intelligence is something you train into a system. This is proof it's something you can transfer out of one. Wild times

This (very small) study hints at something more interesting. If you use AI to support learning while coding you can gain additional skills, if you delegate all intellectual work to AI you learn nothing. This has also turned out to be true in other larger RCT studies in education

@koug_yy @bigyooj github.com/mweinbach/agen…

most students have no idea they get claude opus 4.6 for free github literally gives it away if you verify student status steps to get free access: 1/ apply for github student developer pack - go to: education.github.com/pack - sign in using your github account (or create one) - click on get student benefits - verify your student status using official university email or valid student id card - submit application for review 2/ wait for verification - github reviews your student status - approval typically takes a few days - you receive confirmation email once accepted 3/ activate github copilot - log in to your github account - navigate to copilot settings - enable copilot under student benefits - confirm access to all ai models 4/ install github copilot in vs code - open visual studio code - go to extensions marketplace - search for github copilot - click install - sign in with your github account 5/ start using ai models - go to copilot model settings in vs code - choose from 15 available models or use auto mode - select the model that fits your task what you get for free as a student: - access to multiple advanced ai models (worth hundreds of dollars per month) - all completely legal and free for verified students all available ai models for students: - gpt 4.1, gpt 5, gpt 5 mini, gpt 5.2 codex, gpt 4o, o3, o4 mini, claude opus 4.6, claude sonnet 4.5, claude haiku 4.5, gemini 2.5 pro, gemini 3.1 pro, gemini 3 flash, gemini 2.0 flash, grok code fast 1 why this matters: - claude opus 4.6 alone normally costs money - gpt 5 and gemini 2.5 pro are premium models - github gives students access to 15 different ai models for free - this is worth hundreds of dollars per month - most people do not know students get this

Today marks the 45th anniversary of the ZX81, one of the most successful home computers of the early 1980's in the UK! #KevinToms #FootballManager #ZX81 #Sinclair #RetroComputers #HomeComputers #Microcomputers #80sComputers #PersonalComputer #RetroPC #UKComputers #UKRetro

45 years ago Today, the Sinclair ZX81 computer was launched with 1kB RAM

Inteligência Artificial e Educação... hoje comigo na @RTP2 rtp.pt/play/p16075/e9…

Prof. Donald Knuth opened his new paper with "Shock! Shock!" Claude Opus 4.6 had just solved an open problem he'd been working on for weeks — a graph decomposition conjecture from The Art of Computer Programming. He named the paper "Claude's Cycles." 31 explorations. ~1 hour. Knuth read the output, wrote the formal proof, and closed with: "It seems I'll have to revise my opinions about generative AI one of these days." The man who wrote the bible of computer science just said that. In a paper named after an AI. Paper: cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/…

People are rediscovering the positive manifold. All performance is tied together, including creativity and mathematics.

According to the self-proclaimed experts who get quoted at times like this, the corpus of international law can be reduced to one simple rule: "Terrorists and communists are always allowed to strike democracies, but democracies are never allowed to strike back."

Footage from Abdanan, Isfahan, Saqqez and many other cities and towns in Iran coming in. People are celebrating over Khamanei's death following US-Israeli airstrikes on his compound. In addition, there are reports coming in of clashes between IRGC and Basjii forces trying to supress protests in Karaj and Mashhad. #Iran