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Ananyo Bhattacharya

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Ananyo Bhattacharya

@Ananyo

Chief science writer @London_Inst. 'The Man from the Future', on the unparalleled influence of John von Neumann, available everywhere. For my substack see link.

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Joined February 2009

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Ananyo Bhattacharya
@Ananyo
Jun 8
Our @Nature comment this week on the use of AI in maths and theoretical physics - and why the community should embrace it! Authors @London_Inst & @GoogleDeepMind. First draft 8 months ago but edited many times as the field steamed ahead! Free-to-read link at the end of 🧵1/
Ananyo Bhattacharya
@Ananyo
Aug 5
A biopic on this incredible lost woman of computer science is an open goal for some visionary director/backer...
Ananyo Bhattacharya
@Ananyo
Oct 12, 2021
For #AdaLovelaceDay21, a long thread on Klári Dan von Neumann, writer of the first truly useful, complex programs ever to have been executed on a modern computer and to my mind, the most overlooked person in the history of computing 1/
Ananyo Bhattacharya
@Ananyo
Aug 4
The situation is, thankfully, nothing like what's been going on in the US, but the increasing ringfencing of research funds for “strategic government and societal priorities” suggests little sympathy for basic research.
Time for Andy Burnham to smile on UK science
From ft.com
Ananyo Bhattacharya
@Ananyo
Aug 3
In the future, computers can make better computers and humans lose the ability to do mathematics. The rediscovery of basic mental arithmetic gives humans the edge they need to win an interstellar war... Isaac Asimov’s 1958 story ‘The Feeling of Power’ archive.org/details/1958-0…
Ananyo Bhattacharya
@Ananyo
Aug 3
"Raygun", an AI tool, can resize proteins to up to half or double their size with no loss of function! Crazy stuff.
This AI Raygun can shrink and supersize proteins — opening the door to easy editing
From nature.com