Imtiaz Adam CS #AI Postgrad |#Strategy #MachineLearning RSI Evolutionary Neurosymbolic |#RL #Agentic | #LLM Liberal | MBA alum @morganstanley @LBS @Columbia_Biz
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🚨: Scientists found a way to make damaged adult retinas repair themselves, reversing vision loss
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🚀Excited to announce Nanbeige4.3-33B!
To push the performance ceiling of small agents, our strategy in Nanbeige4.3 starts with building a powerful teacher first.
Nanbeige4.3-33B delivers SOTA agentic performance among open models at ~30B parameters:
* Strong results on agentic coding and cowork benchmarks.
* When integrated into mainstream agent harnesses, it tackles real-world tasks with cost-efficient inference.
* It will serve as a teacher for upcoming smaller Nanbeige models, starting with Nanbeige4.3-3B.
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#LLM #Agent
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🧠 Your body has a secret way to control blood sugar, and it starts with your next step.
After you eat, sugar from your food enters your bloodstream. But what happens next can make a surprising difference.
Your muscles can absorb sugar from your blood when you walk, even without relying entirely on insulin. During movement, a protein called GLUT4 helps transport glucose into muscle cells, where your body can use it for energy.
And here is the interesting part: you don't need an intense workout to activate this process.
Just a few minutes of walking after a meal may help.
Research published in Sports Medicine found that short bursts of light walking, lasting just two to five minutes, can help reduce blood sugar levels after eating compared with prolonged sitting.
A gentle 10-minute walk may be an easy way to support healthier blood sugar levels.
The best part? You don't need a gym, special equipment, or a strict exercise plan.
Walk around your home. Take a stroll outside. Even a short walk while talking on the phone can help you move more throughout the day.
Source:
Buffey, A. J., Herring, M. P., Langley, C. K., Donnelly, A. E., & Carson, B. P. (2022). The acute effects of interrupting prolonged sitting time in adults with standing and light-intensity walking on biomarkers of cardiometabolic health: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Sports Medicine, 52, 1765–1787.
ALT 🧠 **Your body has a secret way to control blood sugar, and it starts with your next step.** After you eat, sugar from your food enters your bloodstream. But what happens next can make a surprising difference. **Your muscles can absorb sugar from your blood when you walk, even without relying entirely on insulin.** During movement, a protein called GLUT4 helps transport glucose into muscle cells, where your body can use it for energy. And here is the interesting part: you don't need an intense workout to activate this process. 🚶 **Just a few minutes of walking after a meal may help.** Research published in *Sports Medicine* found that short bursts of light walking, lasting just two to five minutes, can help reduce blood sugar levels after eating compared with prolonged sitting. A gentle 10-minute walk may be an easy way to support healthier blood sugar levels. The best part? You don't need a gym, special equipment, or a strict exercise plan.
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🧠 WHAT IF A NASAL SPRAY COULD HELP THE BRAIN REBUILD AFTER A STROKE?
What if the key to recovering movement after a stroke could be delivered through the nose?
Scientists at ETH Zurich and partner research institutions are investigating a way to deliver special antibodies directly into the brain using a nasal spray.
The target is a protein called Nogo-A, which limits nerve fibers from growing new connections. After a stroke, blocking this protein may help surviving brain cells rebuild damaged movement pathways.
In preclinical stroke models, this approach showed promise for restoring movement-related function. Could a simple spray one day help people regain lost abilities?
The research is promising, but human trials are needed to establish whether this approach is safe and effective for stroke patients.
ALT **WHAT IF A NASAL SPRAY COULD HELP THE BRAIN REBUILD AFTER A STROKE? What if the key to recovering movement after a stroke could be delivered through the nose? Scientists at ETH Zurich and partner research institutions are investigating a way to deliver special antibodies directly into the brain using a nasal spray. The target is a protein called Nogo-A, which limits nerve fibers from growing new connections. After a stroke, blocking this protein may help surviving brain cells rebuild damaged movement pathways. In preclinical stroke models, this approach showed promise for restoring movement-related function. Could a simple spray one day help people regain lost abilities? The research is promising, but **human trials are needed to establish whether this approach is safe and effective for stroke patients.**
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🇬🇧🇪🇺 Rejoining is closer than ever.
Burnham calls for free movement and the single market to return.
2016–2025: EU+ net migration fell from +322k to −42k; non-EU+ rose from 82k to 350k.
From the economy to immigration, Brexit was all a huge lie.
With Russia threatening Europe and Washington absent, we need a united Europe.
Burnham must have the courage to put rejoining the EU in Labour’s next manifesto.
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🚨 This is huge.
Andy Burnham is now openly saying that EU free movement would not be a red line.
Free movement was one of the central reasons Britain ruled out the Single Market after Brexit.
If that red line goes, the door to much deeper economic reintegration opens with it.
Burnham hasn’t committed to restoring free movement yet.
But he is now publicly questioning one of the fundamental assumptions on which hard Brexit was built.
And his argument is devastatingly simple:
Pre-Brexit European migration was often circular - people came, worked, and went home.
Post-Brexit Britain ended free movement and then experienced much higher net migration.
Brexit did not solve immigration. It changed its nature, while damaging trade at the same time.
Thank god we’ve moved beyond “make Brexit work” to reconnecting Britain.
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Obama just had a mic drop moment, mocking Trump:
“He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory. It's gold everywhere.”
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Obama: "The guy has become billions of dollars wealthier in office. Nobody disputes this! It's just -- how do you do that when you're supposed to be looking out for you? And the worst part of it not a single Republican in Congress has done anything to stop it."
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Barack Obama was speaking in support of Democratic candidates at a campaign rally in Ohio ahead of the midterm elections when he targeted Donald Trump's record as US President.
The former president said the Trump administration displayed 'incompetence, the likes of which we have not seen in modern times'.
Sky News approached the White House for comment.
🔗 trib.al/yuvASwl
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This supercut is likely to make Trump VERY upset. The difference between Trump and Obama is on full display, and the contrast is absolutely devastating. Watch until the end...
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🤩 Andy Burnham is now openly discussing:
Single Market membership
Customs Union membership
free movement
and potentially a referendum later in this Parliament.
This is reopening the Brexit settlement itself.
And importantly, he is framing it as part of a wider radical repositioning of Britain in response to Trump, Europe, security and economic weakness.
The red lines are moving one by one.
First trade.
Now free movement.
Next comes the unavoidable question:
if Britain needs the Single Market, Customs Union, European security and eventually a referendum, what exactly is left of Brexit?
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🔴 The more @andyburnham opens the conversation about Britain moving closer to Europe, the stronger Labour’s polling gets.
Meanwhile Reform’s attempt to reassemble the bad boys of Brexit is losing momentum.
Perhaps the country is finally moving on, the Brexit spell has been shattered.
Lets move forward towards a more secure, prosperous and European future.
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"Andy Burnham is open to adopting EU free movement"
Finally, a grown up being practical and sensible 👏
Free article by @benrileysmith
thetimes.com/article/491a046…
Burnham said: “Freedom of movement had very significant challenges associated with it and I spoke about them in my previous time in parliament. But, at the same time, it was a type of immigration that perhaps wasn’t as difficult [as now]. Revolving door migration where people would come and then go back is different. The balance of migration has changed, hasn’t it, since then? I think we’ve just got to have an honest discussion about those things.”
"It was generally younger people, not always, but spending a few years, then going back. And obviously the ease of that worked for British people as well."
Analysis by the Migration Observatory at Oxford University shows EU migrants generally tend to stay a shorter time in the UK than non-EU migrants.
Burnham said: “I am positive about closer ties with Europe and I’m not hiding that. I think it will add to British GDP. I think it will give us stronger control of migration. I want to make those arguments.”
My view:
We should be able to discuss mobility with Europe without treating the subject as taboo. People’s lives, work and families cross borders; policy should reflect that reality.
A mature debate would weigh the pressures on public services and communities alongside the benefits of making it easier for people to study, work and build lives across Europe. It would also ask what arrangements give the UK practical control while restoring opportunities we’ve lost.
That’s the kind of conversation voters deserve: honest about the costs, clear about the choices, and focused on what works for people.
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Sense and sensibility #RejoinEU
Brexit has been catastrophic. It's time to rejoin the EU.
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Exciting but early stage research on self-destructing cancer cells.
The peer-reviewed paper is: “Harnessing endogenous carbon monoxide for cancer-selective drug synthesis by Kawai et al.
Journal: Nature Communications, volume 17, article 9603. 17 September 2026.
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What are the mechanisms behind the formation of spiral galaxies? 🌞
To study this process, researchers conducted simulations on a high-performance computing cluster, modeling how the primordial gas of the early Universe transformed into the astronomical structures we observe today.
In the initial stages of the simulation, surrounding gas flows into a region of heightened gravity, where it becomes concentrated. Over the course of several billion years, complex dynamic interactions of matter lead to the formation of a distinct central component.
As the simulation progresses toward the present cosmological epoch, clumps of gas—some of which are compact satellite galaxies—spiral inward toward the rotating galaxy and are eventually absorbed by it.
It is worth noting that the formation process for the Milky Way is not yet complete; in the future, it is expected to undergo a gravitational interaction with the Andromeda Galaxy.
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A COSMIC MONSTER BILLIONS OF TIMES MORE MASSIVE THAN OUR SUN! 🕳️🌌🤯
Somewhere in the vast darkness of space, black holes have grown to sizes that almost defy imagination.
Astronomers have discovered supermassive black holes containing billions — and in some cases, tens of billions — of times the mass of our Sun.
These cosmic giants can power incredibly bright quasars as surrounding gas spirals inward, heating to extreme temperatures before crossing the point of no return. 🔥🔭
The mind-blowing part? Some enormous black holes already existed when the universe was less than a billion years old, leaving scientists with a fascinating mystery: How did they grow so massive, so quickly?
And despite their terrifying gravitational pull, black holes themselves emit no light. The brilliant glow we observe comes from superheated material surrounding them.
The universe is hiding monsters beyond anything we can imagine. ✨
What fascinates you more — the incredible size of black holes or the mystery of how they formed?
Image: Artistic illustration of an actively feeding supermassive black hole.
#BlackHoles #Astronomy #SpaceDiscovery #AmazingPhysics
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The Brexit cat is out of the bag now.
Once a Prime Minister openly starts discussing:
free movement
the Single Market
the Customs Union
and potentially rejoining the EU
there is no putting Brexit back into the box.
The argument now is about how far, how fast and on what terms.
Britain needs to be at the heart of the EU!
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🚨 This energy crisis is like switching on a giant vacuum cleaner.
Money is sucked out of households, farmers, manufacturers and public services through higher fuel and energy costs and transferred towards those producing scarce oil and gas.
🇳🇴 But Norway shows there was another choice.
Instead of simply consuming its North Sea windfall, Norway 🇳🇴 invested its petroleum wealth for the future.
The oil is finite.
The capital created from it does not have to be.
Today Norway’s sovereign wealth fund compounds investment returns for the whole country, allowing one generation’s natural resource to create shared wealth for generations that follow.
😮 Norway’s fund has received about NOK 5.4 trillion in net petroleum inflows.
😮 Its investments have generated around NOK 13.5 trillion in returns.
🇬🇧 Britain had North Sea oil too.
We largely treated the revenues as current income.
🇳🇴 So when oil prices surge today, Norway’s people collectively own an enormous financial asset built from their petroleum wealth.
🇬🇧 British households mainly experience the other side of the equation: higher fuel, food and energy costs while private producers enjoy windfall profits.
🇳🇴 Norway turned an exhaustible resource into a compounding national asset.
🤔 This is the difference between extracting wealth and building shared wealth.
This is why Britain eventually has to confront the obvious.
You cannot solve a structural growth crisis with an endless cycle of tax rises and spending restraint while deliberately keeping barriers between yourself and your largest market.
The OBR still estimates Brexit leaves UK productivity around 4% lower in the long run.
British goods exports have badly underperformed our competitors since the TCA came into force.
So yes, fix planning.
Fix energy.
Invest in infrastructure.
Support industry and farming.
But the biggest structural growth reform sitting in front of Britain is the one Westminster still struggles to say out loud:
📢 reintegrate with Europe.
Single Market.
Customs Union.
And ultimately, if Britain wants its full influence back, EU membership.
You cannot budget your way around geography.
