user: JohnHammersley

4089 karma | created 13 years ago

PhD in Mathematical Physics. Co-founded Overleaf (formerly writeLaTeX). Previously designed control systems for driverless cars at Ultra PRT. Fascinated by science and the mathematics of the world.

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OpenAI makes $1B deal to bring Disney characters to ChatGPT and Sora (bbc.co.uk)

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Episteme: A New System for Science (epistemescience.substack.com)

2 pts|3 months ago|2 comments

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Google Pacman – Halloween 2025 (searchplayground.google)

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The Unknotting Number Is Not Additive (divisbyzero.com)

178 pts|4 months ago|78 comments

Great North Run medals show wrong city and river (bbc.co.uk)

2 pts|5 months ago|1 comment

David Bowie's final project discovered locked in his study (bbc.co.uk)

6 pts|5 months ago|discuss

OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are good (simonwillison.net)

69 pts|6 months ago|5 comments

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11 months ago|discuss

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£1.68B accounts trick inflated water firm's books (bbc.co.uk)

6 pts|1 year ago|discuss

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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1 year ago|discuss

2001: Apple Introduces the iPod (bbc.co.uk)

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