Nathan Tankus

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09 October 2026 12:41

On 10/31/18 I walked in on Anwar Shaikh & Lord Skidelsky having a drink (Robert & I had dinner plans) & what they were talking about was Keynes' writing on magic & Sir Isaac Newton. It's strange that they are now both dead & I am the only one who will remember that conversation

Ran Boydell

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06 June 2026 09:52

"Last year over 80% of new generation in Africa Mid.East South+Southeast Asia was wind and solar. Not because those countries are woke, or trying to please their World Bank or BRIC Bank overlords, but because renewables represent the cheapest way to secure additional power for growing economies."

Timothy Gowers

wtgowers.bsky.social

21 May 2026 09:04

OpenAI's claim that this is a central conjecture in discrete geometry is not an exaggeration. This will I think be looked back on as the first time that AI solved a major mathematics problem (defined as a problem that all experts in some subfield had thought about). openai.com/index/model-...

Michael Liebreich

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31 January 2026 14:24

Forget climate science culture wars. Here's an update on the actual climate science - being discussed by two people who really know what they are talking about: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzyS...

Michael Liebreich

mliebreich.bsky.social

26 January 2026 14:42

This is very cool - showing how countries might be transitioning from the primordial soup of bioenergy to the sunlit uplands of electricity via the trough of fossil. A simplification, of course, but what a visual! claude.ai/public/artif...