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**Arctic Monkeys - Teddy Picker**

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A2XBoxtcUA

science

> **According to mathematical legend, Peter Sarnak and Noga Alon made a bet about optimal graphs in the late 1980s. They’ve now both been proved wrong.**
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> ![](https://m.stacker.news/88530)
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> It started with a bet.
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> In the late 1980s, at a conference in Lausanne, the mathematicians Noga Alon(opens a new tab) and Peter Sarnak(opens a new tab) got into a friendly debate. Both were studying collections of nodes and edges called graphs. In particular, they wanted to better understand a paradoxical type of graph, called an expander, that has relatively few edges but is still highly interconnected.
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> At issue were the very best expanders: those that are as connected as they can be. Sarnak proposed that such graphs are rare; he and two collaborators would soon publish a paper that used complicated ideas from number theory(opens a new tab) to build examples, and he argued that any other constructions would be similarly difficult to achieve. Alon, on the other hand, was banking on the fact that random graphs often display all sorts of optimal properties. He thought that these extremely good expanders would be common — that if you randomly select a graph from a large bucket of possibilities, you can practically guarantee it to be an optimal expander.
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> Today, Alon and Sarnak are colleagues at Princeton University. The details of the bet have become hazy in the intervening 35 years. “It was not extremely serious,” Alon recalled. “We didn’t even agree on what we are betting.”
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> Still, the legend persisted, a subtle nudge to mathematicians to find out who was right. In December, by tapping into a crucial phenomenon in physics — and pushing it to its limits — three mathematicians finally issued a verdict(opens a new tab). Alon and Sarnak were both wrong.
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> **[...read more at quantamagazine.org](https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-proof-settles-decades-old-bet-about-connected-networks-20250418/)**

New Proof Settles Decades-Old Bet About Connected Networks

bitcoin

> **Bitcoin transcends traditional political alignments: decentralized, uncensorable, and beyond state control, it challenges the very foundations of modern power.**
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> ![](https://m.stacker.news/88529)
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> Born in 2009 as a decentralized cryptocurrency, Bitcoin quickly exceeded the boundaries of technological innovation to become a widespread social and economic phenomenon. Its nature has attracted the attention not only of investors but also of political thinkers and activists. Too often forgotten is that the movement that led to the creation of bitcoin originates from the Cypherpunks who merged punk culture (late 70s) with computer culture. This article analyzes Bitcoin’s (non) political identity and how it embraces ideas from both the right and the left.
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> **[...read more at atlas21.com](https://atlas21.com/bitcoin-beyond-money/)**

Bitcoin beyond money

bitcoin_Mining

> **How Braiins Manager keeps miners profitable by smartly pausing operations in volatile energy markets.**
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> ![](https://m.stacker.news/88525)
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> Table of Contents
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> - Real-World Example: How Strike Price Curtailment Saves Costs in ERCOT’s Houston load zone (LZ_HOUSTON)
> - Impact of Strike Price Curtailment:
> - Understanding Strike Price Curtailment
> - Key Features of Strike Price Curtailment
> - Implementing Strike Price Curtailment in Braiins Manager
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> **[...read more at braiins.com](https://braiins.com/blog/maximizing-btc-mining-profitability-with-strike-price-curtailment-in-braiins-manager-cloud-platform)**

Maximizing Mining Profitability with Strike Price Curtailment in Braiins MCP

lightning

> ![](https://m.stacker.news/88524)
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> Over the last two days, we’ve been hacking away on three exciting projects: Sparky Hub, a Spark-based and NWC-enabled payment wallet, Auto-swaps for conveniently transferring funds between your lightning and on-chain balances in Alby Hub and a simple Value-for-Value RSS feed reader.
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> ## Alby Hackdays
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> Crafting an awesome product means deeply understanding both the problem you're solving and the solution you're providing. And that starts with becoming a power user of your own tools — using them daily until you really know them, just like your users do. That’s why we regularly organize internal hackdays.
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> This time, there was an extra rule: vibe-code as much as possible. Why? Because if we want to build the easiest-to-use bitcoin payment tools, we have to experience how users — whether human or AI — interact with our SDKs and products.
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> **[...read more at blog.getalby](https://blog.getalby.com/alby-hackdays-sparky-hub-auto-swaps-more/)**

Alby Hackdays - Sparky Hub, Auto-Swaps & more

UN Claims Mining "Powerful Tool" For Money Laundering

siggy47

This is all Greek to me, might be too late to ask now! Ahahah

Is there money laundering in Bitcoin? Absolutely, but compared to the fiat world, it's a drop in the ocean!

Stacker Saloon

saloon

Most comments wins 👀

Weird sort ordering

elvismercury

Yeah, you got it, the results are in the wrong order.

This search brings up your posts. try that

![](https://m.stacker.news/87256)

https://stacker.news/search?q=%40siggy47+%40elvismercury&what=all&sort=recent

ideasfromtheedge

> **The structural biologist, who has devoted his life to studying the processes behind aging, discusses the surprising things he has learned and the public misunderstandings about longevity.**
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> ![](https://m.stacker.news/87247)
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> Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, the man of death. Although this does not sound like a good moniker, it is: Ramakrishnan is one of the world’s most eminent scientists in the fields of structural biology and cellular processes related to aging and death. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 for his discovery of the structure of the ribosome, a crucial cellular machine responsible for gene expression.
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> In addition to being a leading researcher, Ramakrishnan is also a prolific author. After the enormous success of The Gene Machine, a memoir in which he recounts his human and scientific journey, he published the mighty Why We Die, a book—as its name suggests—dedicated precisely to illustrating the dynamics that regulate aging and which, progressively and inexorably, lead to death.
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> Ramakrishnan was recently in Italy, in Milan, where he gave a lecture at the second edition of the Milan Longevity Summit, the most important Italian event dedicated to longevity and psycho-physical well-being, organized by BrainCircle Italia. It was an opportunity to meet him and ask him a few questions. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
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> **[...read more at wired.com](https://www.wired.com/story/we-are-not-programmed-to-die-says-nobel-laureate-venki-ramakrishnan/)**

‘We Are Not Programmed to Die,’ Says Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan

> **We insist that large language models repeatedly translate their mathematical processes into words. There may be a better way.**
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> ![](https://m.stacker.news/87245)
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> Language isn’t always necessary. While it certainly helps in getting across certain ideas, some neuroscientists have argued that many forms of human thought and reasoning don’t require the medium of words and grammar. Sometimes, the argument goes, having to turn ideas into language actually slows down the thought process.
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> Now there’s intriguing evidence that certain artificial intelligence systems could also benefit from “thinking” independently of language.
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> When large language models (LLMs) process information, they do so in mathematical spaces, far from the world of words. That’s because LLMs are built using deep neural networks, which essentially transform one sequence of numbers into another — they’re effectively complicated math functions. Researchers call the numerical universe in which these calculations take place a latent space.
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> But these models must often leave the latent space for the much more constrained one of individual words. This can be expensive, since it requires extra computational resources to convert the neural network’s latent representations of various concepts into words. This reliance on filtering concepts through the sieve of language can also result in a loss of information, just as digitizing a photograph inevitably means losing some of the definition in the original. “A lot of researchers are curious,” said Mike Knoop(opens a new tab), co-creator of one of the leading benchmarks for testing abstract reasoning in AI models. “Can you do reasoning purely in latent space?”
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> **[...rewad more at quantamagazine.org](https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-make-language-models-work-better-researchers-sidestep-language-20250414/)**

To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language

Memes

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AskSN

What Would You Do With 50 Bitcoin?

> **The estimates are small and uncertain, but balancing risks and benefits is critical.**
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> ![](https://m.stacker.news/87239)
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> Computed tomography scans have become vital, even lifesaving, medical imaging for diagnosing and monitoring health conditions. But they do expose patients to ionizing radiation at levels linked to higher risks of cancer. In [a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2832778), researchers tried to estimate what those higher risks are exactly—and although the estimates come with uncertainty, they may seem startling.
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> Based on data from 93 million CT scans performed on 62 million people in 2023, the researchers estimated that the CT scans would lead to 103,000 future cancers. To put that in context, those 103,000 cancers would account for about 5 percent of cancers diagnosed each year, based on the current cancer rates and the current usage of CT scans. And the estimate puts CT scans on par with alcohol consumption and obesity in terms of risk factors for developing cancer.
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> **[...readmore at arstechnica.com](https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/ct-scans-could-cause-5-of-cancers-study-finds-experts-note-uncertainty/)**

CT scans could cause 5% of cancers, study finds; experts note uncertainty

🤘 🤠

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcBLaVEXBpQ

**Portishead - Sour Times**

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un8EW82GwKc

This is my all-time fave Metallica album! Let's get it! 🤘 