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WHAT A RUN 😱
Teenage Australian phenom Cameron Myers sets the world U20 record with a 3:47.48 run in the Wanamaker Mile, the fastest junior mark indoors or out and an Australian senior record to boot.
Teenage Australian phenom Cameron Myers sets the world U20 record with a 3:47.48 run in the Wanamaker Mile, the fastest junior mark indoors or out and an Australian senior record to boot.
February 9, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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I realise Deepseek is very two weeks ago, but I was trying out a new extraction prompt on its reasoning model and umm….
February 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I realise Deepseek is very two weeks ago, but I was trying out a new extraction prompt on its reasoning model and umm….
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Best podcast in the world
The new episode of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs is now up! Part three of our look at "Never Learn Not to Love", the Beach Boys, Charles Manson, and Huddie Ledbetter, this one is where the villain turns up. Not Charles Manson, not Murry Wilson, the *really* bad man. John Lomax.
February 1, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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This has such a weird defensive energy delivered via a jumble of ideas.
The real kicker is at the end on why China shouldn’t get chips: “they're beholden to an authoritarian government that has committed human rights violations, has behaved aggressively on the world stage”
Bro, I have some news 👀
The real kicker is at the end on why China shouldn’t get chips: “they're beholden to an authoritarian government that has committed human rights violations, has behaved aggressively on the world stage”
Bro, I have some news 👀
I love it when tech CEOs blog about their competitors. Fascinating Dario Amodei post on DeepSeek and what it means about export controls darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-...
February 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
This has such a weird defensive energy delivered via a jumble of ideas.
The real kicker is at the end on why China shouldn’t get chips: “they're beholden to an authoritarian government that has committed human rights violations, has behaved aggressively on the world stage”
Bro, I have some news 👀
The real kicker is at the end on why China shouldn’t get chips: “they're beholden to an authoritarian government that has committed human rights violations, has behaved aggressively on the world stage”
Bro, I have some news 👀
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“It’s strange having to go around and do eight laps.” 🔁
Australia’s Cam Myers shares his first impressions of indoor track after running 3:53.12 for a new U20 indoor mile world record in his first race under a roof.
🎥 INTERVIEW: youtu.be/PvUl9YNgM1o?...
Australia’s Cam Myers shares his first impressions of indoor track after running 3:53.12 for a new U20 indoor mile world record in his first race under a roof.
🎥 INTERVIEW: youtu.be/PvUl9YNgM1o?...
January 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
“It’s strange having to go around and do eight laps.” 🔁
Australia’s Cam Myers shares his first impressions of indoor track after running 3:53.12 for a new U20 indoor mile world record in his first race under a roof.
🎥 INTERVIEW: youtu.be/PvUl9YNgM1o?...
Australia’s Cam Myers shares his first impressions of indoor track after running 3:53.12 for a new U20 indoor mile world record in his first race under a roof.
🎥 INTERVIEW: youtu.be/PvUl9YNgM1o?...
🔥🔥🔥 Canberra’s finest 🔥🔥🔥
🚨 U20 INDOOR MILE WORLD RECORD 🚨
In his first-ever indoor race, Cam Myers takes down German Fernandez’s 3:53.12 indoor world U20 mile record from 2009. Takes the win at the Dr. Sander Scorcher at The Armory.
He’ll be in the Wanamaker Mile at the Millrose Games with an opportunity to go faster.
In his first-ever indoor race, Cam Myers takes down German Fernandez’s 3:53.12 indoor world U20 mile record from 2009. Takes the win at the Dr. Sander Scorcher at The Armory.
He’ll be in the Wanamaker Mile at the Millrose Games with an opportunity to go faster.
January 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
🔥🔥🔥 Canberra’s finest 🔥🔥🔥
This is amazing. Cannot wait to listen my 5 favourite songs and top friends and put a rainbow gif as my background.
skyspace.me/index.html?n...
skyspace.me/index.html?n...
January 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is amazing. Cannot wait to listen my 5 favourite songs and top friends and put a rainbow gif as my background.
skyspace.me/index.html?n...
skyspace.me/index.html?n...
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Donate to Wikipedia.
Do it today, and every time one of the broligarchs has a tantrum because he can’t buy it
Do it today, and every time one of the broligarchs has a tantrum because he can’t buy it
January 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Donate to Wikipedia.
Do it today, and every time one of the broligarchs has a tantrum because he can’t buy it
Do it today, and every time one of the broligarchs has a tantrum because he can’t buy it
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australian government needs to cut waste says guy who has received $37 million in government benefits from one program (r&d expenditure incentives) in one year
January 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
australian government needs to cut waste says guy who has received $37 million in government benefits from one program (r&d expenditure incentives) in one year
New season of The Man in the High Castle is weird.
January 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
New season of The Man in the High Castle is weird.
Doing god’s work.
Day 2 of SK8plotlib development completed 💪🛹👩💻
Today I did a complete rewrite of the physics engine - it is now MUCH more stable, supports user input, and can rotate the board to match the line below it!
All you need to do is pass a matplotlib figure to sk8plot() - it sets itself up automatically!
Today I did a complete rewrite of the physics engine - it is now MUCH more stable, supports user input, and can rotate the board to match the line below it!
All you need to do is pass a matplotlib figure to sk8plot() - it sets itself up automatically!
January 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Doing god’s work.
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Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
January 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
Unexpected use case for Claude this week - reading notes from my neighbour. He’s in his 80s and organising trees on our border to be trimmed. Absolutely no chance I can read his handwriting so uploaded to Claude which (somewhat surprisingly) nailed it.
January 18, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Unexpected use case for Claude this week - reading notes from my neighbour. He’s in his 80s and organising trees on our border to be trimmed. Absolutely no chance I can read his handwriting so uploaded to Claude which (somewhat surprisingly) nailed it.
Another banger in the genre of hot takes from substackers who are confused about what AI is actually useful for and therefore concluding it is dumb.
Great and very informative post from @mattdpearce.com on how people used AI during the LA wildfires
Spoiler: they mostly did not at all. it's still too unreliable for news and health-related info
mattdpearce.substack.com/p/people-sto...
Spoiler: they mostly did not at all. it's still too unreliable for news and health-related info
mattdpearce.substack.com/p/people-sto...
People stopped using AI during L.A.'s wildfires
AI had a trust problem when lives and homes were on the line.
mattdpearce.substack.com
January 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Another banger in the genre of hot takes from substackers who are confused about what AI is actually useful for and therefore concluding it is dumb.
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The Guardian have documented a year in my life living with #LongCovid.
Please watch this short documentary to learn what it's like living with this debilitating disease and why we need urgent treatments.
www.theguardian.com/society/vide...
Please watch this short documentary to learn what it's like living with this debilitating disease and why we need urgent treatments.
www.theguardian.com/society/vide...
‘The pandemic isn’t over’: my year of long Covid – video
Darren Parkinson is one of about 2 million people living with long Covid in England and Scotland. The illness is having a detrimental impact on his life, stopping him from being the kind of active and...
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The Guardian have documented a year in my life living with #LongCovid.
Please watch this short documentary to learn what it's like living with this debilitating disease and why we need urgent treatments.
www.theguardian.com/society/vide...
Please watch this short documentary to learn what it's like living with this debilitating disease and why we need urgent treatments.
www.theguardian.com/society/vide...
Telstra bringing in Accenture to "do AI" at a price tag of $100m per year. So they expect $100m annualised cost out at a minimum. Retail customers will likely never be able to talk to a human at Telstra again.
www.capitalbrief.com/briefing/tel...
www.capitalbrief.com/briefing/tel...
Telstra and Accenture agree $700m global AI joint venture
Telstra and Accenture have agreed to a proposed joint venture to accelerate Telstra's data and artificial intelligence roadmap.
www.capitalbrief.com
January 15, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Telstra bringing in Accenture to "do AI" at a price tag of $100m per year. So they expect $100m annualised cost out at a minimum. Retail customers will likely never be able to talk to a human at Telstra again.
www.capitalbrief.com/briefing/tel...
www.capitalbrief.com/briefing/tel...
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Australian COVID-19 weekly stats update:
The risk estimate has risen to 1.2% Currently Infectious, or 1-in-86. That implies a 30% chance that there is someone infectious in a group of 30.
#COVID19 #Australia
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The risk estimate has risen to 1.2% Currently Infectious, or 1-in-86. That implies a 30% chance that there is someone infectious in a group of 30.
#COVID19 #Australia
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January 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Australian COVID-19 weekly stats update:
The risk estimate has risen to 1.2% Currently Infectious, or 1-in-86. That implies a 30% chance that there is someone infectious in a group of 30.
#COVID19 #Australia
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The risk estimate has risen to 1.2% Currently Infectious, or 1-in-86. That implies a 30% chance that there is someone infectious in a group of 30.
#COVID19 #Australia
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25mm of rain in 20 minutes resulted in a skylight leak over the box sets. Drying them of and it strikes me that back in the day they were all-in on terrifying covers.
(Brahms Requiem I can understand, but why make Casals look like a devil? And the Beethoven sonatas are lovely)
(Brahms Requiem I can understand, but why make Casals look like a devil? And the Beethoven sonatas are lovely)
January 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
25mm of rain in 20 minutes resulted in a skylight leak over the box sets. Drying them of and it strikes me that back in the day they were all-in on terrifying covers.
(Brahms Requiem I can understand, but why make Casals look like a devil? And the Beethoven sonatas are lovely)
(Brahms Requiem I can understand, but why make Casals look like a devil? And the Beethoven sonatas are lovely)
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after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
January 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
Increasingly convinced that folks like Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos, Andreessen and those All-In podcast clowns spent their teens desperately wanting to be @mods on IRC channels and now we’re finding out why nobody let them.
January 10, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Increasingly convinced that folks like Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos, Andreessen and those All-In podcast clowns spent their teens desperately wanting to be @mods on IRC channels and now we’re finding out why nobody let them.
If you’re outraged by this I have some news for you about the business model of Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Google. 🤨
A hack has exposed that some of the world’s most popular apps are likely being co-opted by rogue members of the advertising industry to harvest sensitive location data on a massive scale — and potentially sold to US law enforcement.
Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location
A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.
www.404media.co
January 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
If you’re outraged by this I have some news for you about the business model of Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Google. 🤨
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On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.
January 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.
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@thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
That's a shit ton of Influenza for "summer".
We do get occassional out of season waves... Don't remember it reaching this level.
That's a shit ton of Influenza for "summer".
We do get occassional out of season waves... Don't remember it reaching this level.
(1/4) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Week ending 4 Jan 2025
🔸COVID is at a moderate level of activity
🔸COVID positivity rate: 9.4% (-1.6%)
🔸Number of laboratories reporting COVID: 2 out of 4
🔹COVID: 1,956 (+8.3%)
🔹Influenza: 639 (+38.3%)
🔹RSV: 426 (-0.7%)
#COVID19nsw
🔸COVID is at a moderate level of activity
🔸COVID positivity rate: 9.4% (-1.6%)
🔸Number of laboratories reporting COVID: 2 out of 4
🔹COVID: 1,956 (+8.3%)
🔹Influenza: 639 (+38.3%)
🔹RSV: 426 (-0.7%)
#COVID19nsw
January 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
@thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
That's a shit ton of Influenza for "summer".
We do get occassional out of season waves... Don't remember it reaching this level.
That's a shit ton of Influenza for "summer".
We do get occassional out of season waves... Don't remember it reaching this level.
Hang on… you’re telling me they had fact checkers on that website? 🤔
January 8, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Hang on… you’re telling me they had fact checkers on that website? 🤔
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First fatal case of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S. News media quick to point out "underlying condition." Reminder: Almost everyone in the U.S. has an underlying condition, especially these days.
January 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
First fatal case of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S. News media quick to point out "underlying condition." Reminder: Almost everyone in the U.S. has an underlying condition, especially these days.