I average ~500 searches a month, and having non-shit search results with such a major part of my workflow is super helpful

Lmao amazing! If it was actually self-aware it would be ashamed

“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”

Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...

I've actually been to Penistone! There are many places in the UK with stupid names :D

I had a good one 6-7 years ago that I still think about a lot, I don't live in the same country anymore though 🫠

anyways, the one thing I miss about the UK since moving to Germany & then Austria is how much better the live music scene is 💔

the thing about COVID is that I know I can give myself an 'ok' haircut at home for free, so paying and getting a terrible one is distinctly not fun

This week's exercise included estimating a cluster's mass based on its radius, and lots of them have done the task really well so far 😊 I was worried it was too difficult, but I think you can get away with setting a harder problem if it's more fun

No worries!! Keep an eye out and I'm sure we'll take more people on again in the future!

It's actually quite sad that such a big org in Ireland seems purely profit-motivated, with what could otherwise be a nice chance to communicate science to the public

their website seems pretty odd. For instance, that's... a lot of money to charge for some Zoom talks...

I was there in person two months ago for the key handover (I did a two day round trip from Vienna->Heidelberg->Vienna because they were extremely inflexible about key handover dates), but asking for my IBAN then would've been too easy