Making things sing. Senior Research Associate at UCL CS, Founder @animalsystems, formerly Lord Creator @chirp. Looking forward to meeting you.
Joined June 2009
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28 Mar 2018
Everything is interesting, unfortunately.
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9 Dec 2025
Ancient controversy still runs hot over the actual value of Plato's Number. Of the candidates I enjoy 216 (6^3) but personally endorse 5040 (7!) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%…
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29 Mar 2025
We often think of our genes as the script of our fate. But genes are not the whole story. New research has shown the extent to which cell metabolism has an important, underappreciated role in directing the development of each of our cells. quantamagazine.org/how-metab…
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28 Apr 2025
What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?
- Shakespeare, Henry V
28 Apr 2025
👀Today’s AIs are already hyper persuasive.
A controversial study where LLMs tried to persuade users on Reddit found: “Notably, all our treatments surpass human performance substantially, achieving persuasive rates between three and six times higher than the human baseline.”
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24 Mar 2025
‘There are a lot of ways to avoid death, one is to be magnificent’
- Ian Dury
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25 Feb 2025
Sounds vaguely familiar
24 Feb 2025
Today I was sent the following cool demo:
Two AI agents on a phone call realize they’re both AI and switch to a superior audio signal ggwave
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30 Sep 2024
[From the time of great optimism] Bochum Welt - Greenwich [1997] ♫ youtube.com/watch?v=QZFu78Nt…
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30 Sep 2024
The ancient dream of a perfect universal language (lossless, computable) is far from dead, but perhaps it ought to be journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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29 Aug 2024
The Orbis Tertius Society is launched, almost. Sign me up @RogersBacon1 substack.com/@rogersbacon1/p…
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8 Jun 2024
You donate plasma to help others. I donate plasma to reduce my serum microplastic concentrations. We are not the same.
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4 Jul 2024
It's just a lot of pressure ...
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18 May 2024
Misleading title for wonderful article by @SCP_Hughes discussing the economics of ornament worksinprogress.co/issue/the…
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