Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven
and
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space

You wouldn't have guessed, would you?

'teach itself' ... 'knit together the stuff of intelligence ' whatever tf that means. Absolutely not. Infuriating.

... Humans design a learning algorithm and prepare the training data. Then they leave the algorithm in the dark of a data centre for a couple of months, during which time it gradually recombines each of its billions of moving parts, knitting together the stuff of intelligence."

And then you start looking at ultra-marathoners! E.g. 268 miles from the Peak District to the border of Scotland! Completely insane.
www.thespinerace.com/race/montane...

Definitely en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student..., see under History

Those are some rather beautiful guouls

Training helps, but don't look at the 10 km distance

Resting before a run can improve performance, but only up to a point

I've pulled the data and analyses into a quarto report here: simonthelwall.github.io/runner_repor...
The code for the report is here: github.com/simonthelwal...

Some highlights:

I've done a lot of running this year:

Oh, I wonder if it's a nictiana i'd forgotten about.
www.rhs.org.uk/plants/69785...

Oh, weird. Hmm

Also really nice to note that the authors have shared code AND fake data so that you can give it a go yourself.
Definitely going to try this.
github.com/etiennechlt/...