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"I can say with no irony or hyperbole that GPT-3 is the most important technical object I’ve seen since the internet itself"

https://t.co/E0V1cVuZOV

Junior offspring and I were having a fab time learning about various thought experiments and then we got to Schrödinger's cat and it really freaked him out.

https://t.co/fUqk3nflVC

Am I understanding this correctly? Britain just don't want 'a level playing field'?

RT @GeorgeMonbiot: This is massive, and horrific. @NFUtweets is secretly lobbying the government to allow #neonicotinoid pesticides to be r…

Bad reviews not withstanding, it's hard not to like #RaisedByWolves if you're a #scifi fan.

"… the cognitive limits of social fish." https://t.co/N0jNgB342j

Apparently this is real. https://t.co/DMBqUwufgH

@Philip_Goff @Cal_Thinks I've been thinking about this for almost 30 years, since breaking from the church at 17 & profoundly missing the act of prayer in difficult times particularly. I started by asking how it provides comfort & answers to those with faith and concluded that… 1/

Empathy promotes compliance with social distancing and mask wearing.

https://t.co/iowKpXzn8x

I'm usually running on fumes by this point in the year, but more exhausted than usual it seems. Really worried about how things will play out in 2021. Sure I'm not alone.

RT @Peston: Here is the EU Commission’s summary of what the free trade agreement confers on the UK compared with full EU membership. Much o…

The Dunning-Kruger Effect might be a data artefact.

https://t.co/VWhCU5atJf

I'm quite interested in how the idea of #empathygap might play into attitudes about #COVID19.

https://t.co/AOKN60Ictn https://t.co/XHEtAY5JJL

Also, the #IdentifiableVictimEffect – https://t.co/eKj3n8Z22g

Which other cognitive biases are impacting peoples' attitudes to #COVID19?

The Last Light of 2020.

#HappyNewYear everyone! https://t.co/HlqiQtYJtk

RT @acgrayling: https://t.co/jsGmklWDaU

Introducing Via Getty. https://t.co/C2U940K83c

Daniel Hannan – @DanielJHannan – thinks the ends justify the means. But whose ends? https://t.co/vLdbW9X7mT

RT @robertshrimsley: Essential reading – this thread and in particular the first two charts. Look and learn lockdown sceptics https://t.co/…

I wonder if the Sunk Cost fallacy applies outside business to beliefs in general? We invest emotionally into ideas which sometimes prove to be false/damaging & end up elaborately rationalising to sustain the belief. What happens when the cycle ends? https://t.co/0EDmC0vm7R

Perhaps this isn't such a surprise but apparently being angry makes you more prone to memory errors. https://t.co/IZ99pRLuAc

Listening to #anyanswers on @BBCRadio4 today. Heartbreaking really. So much struggle, but hard to articulate sometimes because there are always other people who have it worse. Personal difficulty doesn't always get easier to deal with knowing you're not alone.

RT @Cloud9weather1: Dark skies over Somerset – Hudreds of thousands of starlings take off at dawn from 'Starling city' to visit the bird ta…

Positive thinking and visualising success can be counterproductive. https://t.co/a2ordPnPS2

Down with Pizza. Up with Calzone,

By then the main players will have moved on into guilty obscurity, the missing funds will be harder to identify and the murkiness of the whole thing will be obscured further by economic emergency. Disaster capitalism is a thing. Some people treat chaos as a ladder.

@virginmedia Broadband down for 2 hours now. Run service check. No issues there. Do I really need to wait 5 days for an engineer? Green light flashing on Hub. Any clues?

RT @BusinessSchools: Quant School: Department of Mathematics – UCL – MSc Financial Mathematics – https://t.co/wH5efpyqKE – @MathematicsUCL…

RT @paulmasonnews: Big mea culpa from the FT: they were wrong on fiscal austerity. Great. All the years of leftists being ridiculed at Davo…

@MartinSLewis it's completely obvious in retrospect but did you know that scammers track twitter conversations with broadband providers to identify targets? Just happened to me. Don't you think companies like @virginmedia should highlight this risk to people who engage here?

@virginmedia – crazy: 2 more scam calls this morning: 1 from "BT" & 1 from 'Virgin Media' both knew my broadband is down. The 1st hung up when challenged., 2nd confessed immediately & after I suggested they might want to find a better job, asked me for one! @MartinSLewis 1/2

".. there now exists a robust body of research to show that when we experience distress… engaging in introspection can do 'significantly' more harm than good…"

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RT @BadCOVID19Takes: https://t.co/RhPobNYLC9

"Conspiracy theories divide society into competing realities, and, when you zoom in, you see the fault lines run through families and friendships."

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It was kind of predictable that generously donated laptops from the public might have this problem, but newly unboxed machines? The supply chain must be compromised, right? https://t.co/rxzccE4Rtk

@EnervateShadow @HeaneyrP @GarryC1204 Well, I'd be a case in point if you'd shown me some evidence that H1N1 or Covid was a hoax. As it is the best information I can find suggests neither of them is. I guess you must have some more reliable sources I'm not aware of.

Isn't it weird how you can infer this means there almost certainly won't be any easing of restrictions in February. https://t.co/ggJHjzokCr

"It was not that ‘Oumuamua visited us but that the sun and its attendant planets, moving through space at 450,000 miles an hour, moved past it, the sun’s gravity bumping it as a ship’s wake disturbs a piece of flotsam."
https://t.co/rsRvjsRRmS

@_feeohna Fisk had a huge impact on me when I was 11, and this book in particular!

You could also try William Sleator who writes this rather marvellous #scifi for children.

Sometimes the thought of someone discovering a book for the first time almost makes me jealous!

Ethicists, get your head round this:

US has 'moral imperative' to develop AI weapons, says panel.

https://t.co/5VRmQwXv1d

Blimey. Nothing gives you a sense of the value of your own time quite like contract work or freelancing.

RT @garwboy: Dear Allison Pearson and co: People’s Grief is More Important Than Your Attention Seeking https://t.co/xYvpyOt9JX

Sharing th…

RT @robinhood: Lovely to have all these new followers .. can we just check that you know that you’re following The World Wide Robin Hood So…

RT @NoMansSky: never in my 3 days of trading have I ever seen anything like this

I'm quite interested in the Intellectual Property status of the various vaccines. Any clues?

Algorithm, design me a plotline. Toggle exploitative, ON. https://t.co/Fr6hBHSSQ0

Music discovery of the week. 1.

https://t.co/Olcd3uks24

Music Discovery of the week. 2. https://t.co/H3okj04SrO

What creative thing would you be doing if there was enough time in the world?

RT @SaveRedlandLibr: #Dante's descendant seeks to overturn poet's 1302 corruption conviction

Seven centuries after the poet was found guil…

RT @TheSYLEPress: Nine years ago today, Sam Youd (better known as John Christopher) left this planet …

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When Brains Dream

https://t.co/AqHnEq8yvJ

When I was at primary school in Bristol in the 80s, the police introduced a scheme where if you found a policeman and told him your postcode you would get a sticker in a book. I can't remember what happened when you got 10, though… https://t.co/PgwOuHhwm9

The equation that connects neuron firing, fluid convection, and the Mandelbrot set. https://t.co/QJwCouNXv2

Quantum Mechanics, Free Will and the Game of Life

https://t.co/UsJBaJXmhE

RT @ProfSteveKeen: Interview on the physics-blog Physical Attraction about the travesty that is Neoclassical climate change economics https…

A new thought experiment indicates that Quantum mechanics doesn't work without complex numbers.

https://t.co/erKemPaprp

So apparently Elon Musk is building Thunderbirds!

https://t.co/oRTNSB330F https://t.co/ZcXLg8zZ87

People who are hostile to revising their beliefs in the face of new information are more likely to hold anti-vaccination sentiments.

https://t.co/doJeeA3NLk

Scientists detect 13 billion year old radio blast:

"Hi! Is anyone there? Hi? Can you hear me? Hang on, let me check my mic settings…No joy? I think you might be muted."

https://t.co/Bmgnt7dmzt

RT @LuWrites: Just a reminder that the Bristol Short Story Prize is currently open – closing date is 5 May, so still time to get writing. I…

RT @BarristerSecret: Any politician of any party who claims that the answer to tackling violence against women is simply a matter of “tough…

Hidden in a box of old photographs I found this poem I wrote as a teenager. It is just like time travel.

#TeenagePoems https://t.co/TCGZT4RtlG

I wonder if my friends would prefer to be microbes in a biome, insects in a colony, soldiers in an army or vegetables in an allotment?
https://t.co/2IFaQctkaQ

RT @TalesOfBeyond: Submitted by @ChronoRomancer https://t.co/NxWLdwaMEI

RT @DrAaronB: Parenting tip: gently dissuade nihilism. https://t.co/4v1Hm7agz9

After a year of lockdown, many of us are finding it hard to think clearly, or remember what happened when. Neuroscientists and behavioural experts explain why.

https://t.co/VO95h39nRl

RT @doug_parr: This is quite a conclusion to editorial from the historically pro-nuclear power Nature journal

https://t.co/bIYouvb9dk http…

"Mainstream economists reach mathematical conclusions about their model of the economy that they don’t like…and are then willing to make patently absurd assumptions to rescue their desired equilibrium conclusion." – . @ProfSteveKeen

https://t.co/TgBkqgaQU0

Can anyone else see the huge fire spreading across the hills beyond Newport?

RT @LettersOfNote: On this day in 1955, John Steinbeck asked Marilyn Monroe for her autograph. https://t.co/6dp1PgiBa5

RT @xkcd: Types of Scientific Paper https://t.co/crpSNv9Er5 https://t.co/ZOJYH6xyhF

RT @ScienceNews: Today’s most advanced clocks keep time with an incredibly precise rhythm. But clocks’ precision comes at a price: entropy.…

According to the media today has been dubbed #SuperThursday but no one seems to want to take the credit for who did the dubbing.

What would Bergerac do?

One of the things about not being anonymous on Twitter is that (I think) you have to be cautious when talking about your children – but after this week I have to say #thankyouNHS @NHS

This is probably worth re-visiting. https://t.co/Kl0aSZD3bV

Who would you rather funded your political parties?

Hadn't really thought about this till now but I wonder what the impact of the lowered voting age was in Wales?

https://t.co/k3IE0hamTH

RT @TACJ: Amazing. https://t.co/Kr9RlEawkf