JohnHammersley

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by JohnHammersley 5mo ago
Yes, I share your optimism overall, although I think it is raising a question of what the future role of the researcher is (much like the current debate on developer roles). I attended a conference on AI for maths and open science a few wee
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AI and the Practical Scientist(scholarlyfutures.substack.com)
2 points by JohnHammersley 5mo ago|0 comments
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CERN to host a new phase of Open Research Europe(home.cern)
255 points by JohnHammersley 7mo ago|25 comments
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by JohnHammersley 8mo ago
This is such a well written story, and congratulations Ben, it sounds like it's been a lot of hard but ultimately successful work! I know you'll deservedly get a lot of credit for all your work in remastering the game, but you sho
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OpenAI makes $1B deal to bring Disney characters to ChatGPT and Sora(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by JohnHammersley 10mo ago|1 comments
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by JohnHammersley 11mo ago
Thanks for sharing, I'm interested to know more about how you did this if you have a longer write up somewhere? (or are considering writing one!)
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Episteme: A New System for Science(epistemescience.substack.com)
2 points by JohnHammersley 11mo ago|2 comments
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by JohnHammersley 11mo ago
Yes when I saw stick figures mentioned on HN I immediately thought of his "Animator vs Animation" [1] (to which I've just rediscovered the title!) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npTC6b5-yvM
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Google Pacman – Halloween 2025(searchplayground.google)
4 points by JohnHammersley 1y ago|0 comments
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The Unknotting Number Is Not Additive(divisbyzero.com)
178 points by JohnHammersley 1y ago|78 comments
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Great North Run medals show wrong city and river(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by JohnHammersley 1y ago|1 comments
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David Bowie's final project discovered locked in his study(bbc.co.uk)
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OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are good(simonwillison.net)
69 points by JohnHammersley 1y ago|5 comments
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by JohnHammersley 2y ago
Thanks for the quick reply -- yes, I imagine there is some prior art for this, although I'm often amazed at how hard it still is to print (even just to print to save a pdf) from many websites!
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by JohnHammersley 2y ago
Thank you for working on and sharing this project, it's a wonderful example of how maps help tell / connect the stories through the years. It was also nice to see the piece you drew inspiration from that you linked to in another c
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£1.68B accounts trick inflated water firm's books(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by JohnHammersley 2y ago|0 comments
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Atlas of cells transforms understanding of human body(bbc.co.uk)
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Making the Mandelbrot Set with Excel(divisbyzero.com)
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by JohnHammersley 2y ago
> For example, they seem to not care about instructions to only write a response and no explanation, thus making it impossible to use them in a pipeline I was doing some local tidying up of recording transcripts, using a fairly long syst
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2001: Apple Introduces the iPod(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by JohnHammersley 2y ago|1 comments
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by JohnHammersley 2y ago
Ollama post: https://ollama.com/blog/llama3.2
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by JohnHammersley 2y ago
Amazing, thanks, and thanks for responding to this comment, much appreciated :)
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by JohnHammersley 2y ago
As others have said, a filter on item location would be ideal, but the region might also work. Specifically UK/GB for my use case :) Thanks for putting the site together!
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Fold-and-Cut Hat and Spectre Tiles(divisbyzero.com)
1 points by JohnHammersley 2y ago|0 comments
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Stephen King's The Mist (bookware interactive fiction)(if50.substack.com)
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by JohnHammersley 2y ago
Ah yes, I missed some important context - one of the reasons for moving to a name without LaTeX in it was because we'd just released the first beta version of the visual editor (the rich text mode at the time), and the goal was to keep
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by JohnHammersley 2y ago
I wish I could claim we were that clever! :) Took us about three months to pick Overleaf, we went for it largely because it was a single word, hard to confuse/mispell when said aloud (unlike writeLaTeX), had a connection with writing &
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Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics(acoup.blog)
3 points by JohnHammersley 3y ago|1 comments
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Ring of galaxies challenges thinking on cosmos(bbc.co.uk)
67 points by JohnHammersley 3y ago|55 comments
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Speculative Calendar Events(maggieappleton.com)
5 points by JohnHammersley 3y ago|0 comments

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