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From Standup Mathematician. Read the Google DeepMind paper about AlphaEvolve here: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/AlphaEvolve.pdf And this is their blog post about the findings: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms and if you really want to get into the details, this Collab should be live soon: https://colab.research.google.com/github/google-deepmind/alphaevolve_results/blob/master/mathematical_results.ipynb Erich Friedman’s Packing Center: https://erich-friedman.github.io/packing/index.html Here are the full-res versions of my circle packing visualisations: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ctncamft9hn19kutb000c/new_26_circles.png?rlkey=63stdka5e5mnw4i5zkui229pa&dl=0…

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From Standup Mathematician. Here is the full MIT Election Data and Science Lab report: https://electionlab.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2021-04/Blue-Shift-in-2020-Election.pdf University of Florida’s Election Lab early voting stats. https://election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2024-early-voting/ Trump quotes from the 2020 election night are 01:09 to 01:20 and 07:31 to 08:22 from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlmaKdbC6ZM&ab_channel=ABCNews CNN have a great timeline of what will happen when: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/02/politics/how-election-night-will-unfold-hour-by-hour/index.html I…

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