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JohnHammersley

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About JohnHammersley

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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    Yes, the rate and nature of the results being produced is impressive, and Anthropic have recently invested in building out more in-house capability to do life sciences research (se…

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    AI is definitely changing maths -- senior/established researchers can now use AI models to speed up their work, which is going to affect early career researchers. At a recent maths…

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    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 atte…

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    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 …

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    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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    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…

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