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B Webb retweeted
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@stanwawrinka wow! Congrats! Just wow! I wanna play like that!
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AI has now solved a major open problem -- one of the best known Erdos problems called the unit distance problem, one of Erdos's favourite questions and one that many mathematicians had tried.
openai.com/index/model-dispr…
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B Webb retweeted
May 18
Two things can be true:
• RCP8.5 was never a realistic "business as usual" scenario
• The world has made real progress bending the emissions curve downward
@Peters_Glen, Piers Forster, and I explain in a new article (link below).
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CIA 'whistleblower' on the IC timeline for Covid origins: "Credible reporting does indicate that the pandemic may have begun in November 2019 in Wuhan, China and was the product of a lab incident." This discredits lab leak's theory of cryptic transmission leading to two lineages.
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CIA Covid origins 'expert' James Erdman III is an antivaxxer with, let's say, strange theories on origins. h/t kgandersen.bsky.social reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comm…
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B Webb retweeted
Apr 20
Bacteria move around using a molecular machine called the flagellar motor that rotates faster than the flywheel of a race car engine and switches directions in an instant. After 50 yrs, scientists have finally figured out how it works. “My lifelong quest is now fulfilled.” Link⤵️
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Camera traps in a Marburg virus hotspot in a Uganda cave capture, perhaps for the first time, how viruses could spread from bats via intermediate hosts. youtube.com/watch?v=gzL8DL6Y…
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We imagine hunter gatherers living in harmony with nature.
But just 5 million of them drove more than half the world's large mammals to extinction.
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This was similar to Chatgpt's assessment based on a different compilation of the expert consensus. x.com/bratwebb/status/203873…
Chatgpt on Alina Chan's arguments vs counter-arguments : 20-30% probability of lab leak.
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