#TIL where exactly the term "abugida" for an alphabet with modified consonant signs to show the following vowel comes from. Besides the South #Semitic letter order shown on the left here, the #Ge'ez script can also be presented as on the right: ʾä bu gi da he wə zo bä gu di ha we zə yo ...

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I'll be very blunt about it, all countries with a coast should be openly sharing oceanographic (physical, chemical, and biological) information. Water recognizes no borders, and eventually, others are affected. 🌊

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Under the auspices of Oxford Physics, we held a discussion on the implications of recent work using genome language models to design novel, viable bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria. drive.google.com/file/d/18Szy...

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I cannot emphasize enough how much GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 are already enough for transformative impact in large sections of the economy. They can reliably do weeks worth of human work when properly guided & harnessed.

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HOST: What should we be doing actively today to prevent a war in Taiwan? McFAUL: Well, the most important thing, to start with, would be to help Ukraine win. If Ukraine wins, that sends message to Xi Jinping about the ability of autocratic countries to attack democratic places.

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