Ok now AI is writing genomes!
Maths proofs. Cool videos. AI adds 'designing genomes' to its list of achievements.
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Kick-assium potassium
We are back on the left of the table again. Hold onto your hats!
NerdNews Deluxe: 17 August
Your (almost regular!) weekly bonus content as sincere thanks for supporting NerdNews.
Racing! The 25 Horses Puzzle. The Solution.
THE PROBLEM:
Racing! The 25 Horses Puzzle.
Crack your mental whip (sparingly!). Good luck.
A jellyfish that lives forever! NerdNews is excited.
The Guardian’s Invertebrate of the Year countdown is on again and as always it is an incredible peek into the world of the spineless.
The first AI song to crack the charts just got busted. Do you care?
Does AI pop grind your gears? Or is it just a bubblegum redux?
You far gone beauty ... Argon?
A noble gas no less!
NerdNews Deluxe 10 August
An AI breakout with a difference; the latest on the Aussie bird flu outbreak, and why have Americans waited 25 years to be able to Slip Slop Slap like us?
Who gives a toss? The Solution.
Heads you win? Or do you?
Who gives a toss? The Heads and Tails problem
Heads you win? Tails you ... hmmm. Wrestle with this gorgeous logic problem.
Into the J-space. The words Claude never speaks.
As Claude has evolved as an AI system, it has created its own inner space, wherein it, in a way, ‘thinks’. Anthropic has taken a look and the operation of this ‘J-space’ is fascinating.
NerdNews Deluxe: help me build it
Total love for my paid subs crew!
Scents and sensibility.
NerdNews takes a good long whiff at childhood memories.
Chlorine - you know what I mean
Burn your eyes ... or put a zing on your fries. With Chlorine, the choice is yours.
More match madness: the solution.
Did you think outside the square(s)?
More match madness.
The matchstick puzzle I posted a few weeks ago got massive traction.
Bongs before Bedtime.
Aussie research opens our eyes about having a sly choof before closing them.
Out of the Sandbox.
AI is now hacking other AI!!! Breathless headlines. I’m doing radio and tv interviews. NerdNews takes a breath and asks ‘what really happened when some AI got out of its sandbox’?
Special Emergency NerdNews: your phone will (hopefully) scream at you today.
If things go according to plan, at 2pm today, pretty much every phone in Australia will blast a shrill siren.