(Delayed) Substack column now live, picking through England's issues... at Ellis Park but also the bigger picture (11 yellows in six Tests!) 📖: This aimless Fin Smith kick being immediately countered by pure class by Damian Willemse summed things up well.show more

There's an Instagram account of a gym bro that... lives in Gaza He shares every single day about what he's going through: how many times he's been relocated, how many family members have been bo**ed by Israel, drone strikes, famine, fighting for food, etc One of the coolest is that not only is he a gym bro who lifts with empty bags of flour and practices calisthenics to stay fit, but he also accepts crypto donations In one of his Instagram stories, he said that he's raised over $45,000 in crypto, which is amazing because, according to him, one bag of flour costs $360 in Gaza right now This, of course, is only for people there who are fortunate enough to be able to even find food because of the man-made Stage 5 famine being enacted there right now by Israeli forces (funded by American tax dollars) This legend is a part of an even bigger, growing population of Palestinians living in Gaza who have started vlogging their oppressed existence Hasan Piker (even if you hate him), just recently had another 16-year-old kid on his stream who lives in Gaza as well, who shared his everyday life (talked about the same things: being displaced, starved, sh** at, the usual genocide things) but just like he was any other zoomer living in the US. It is so incredibly dystopian to me that you can open up TikTok or YouTube and see what's happening live. And then you meet someone like this guy who is around our age, just vlogging it. When in reality, he's living through one of the greatest genocides of our lifetime. And not just that. But people see it, scroll, and decide to never talk about it bc they're "not political" I've linked his information below if you want to donate, he accepts SOL as wellshow more

You study in China and your class ends at... 9pm... By the time you walk out, the campus is buzzing with a different kind of energy, street vendors calling out, the smell of barbecue skewers in the air, aunties and uncles dancing in the park, and tired students lining up for bubble tea or noodles before heading back to dorms. It's exhausting, yes! but there's also something powerful about it. You realize you're not just studying for a degree, you're training your discipline, your patience, and your resilience. Not everyone gets to chase their dreams this far from home, walking back through unfamiliar streets late at night with a backpack full of books and a head full of ambition. And in those moments, you learn that growth often hides in the places where comfort ends.show more

🚨 BREAKING: Scientists just discovered hidden structure in water... Not deep inside it… but in the top 4 molecular layers at the surface. For decades, physics simplified water like this: → molecules point “up” or “down” → rough orientation picture → good enough Turns out… that was wrong. The new discovery Water at the surface doesn’t just tilt… it twists And that twist: • changes layer by layer • forms an ordered pattern across ~4 molecules deep • controls how water behaves at interfaces This region is insanely thin: ~8 angstroms (just 4 molecules thick) But it governs: • atmospheric chemistry • biology • ocean reactions • basically all surface interactions What they found: Instead of random structure… Water forms a layered, alternating twist pattern Like a molecular helix stack at the surface Why this matters: We’ve been modeling water wrong at interfaces And that affects: • climate models • chemical reactions • nanotech + materials • biological systems The deeper shift: Structure isn’t just position… it’s orientation + rotation This fits a bigger pattern showing up everywhere: Reality isn’t just particles… It’s geometry + alignment across layers Follow me I break down where even “simple” things like water stop being simple.show more

NEWS: President Trump GOES OFF on Truth Social: “Once... again, The Failing New York Times has attempted to grossly mischaracterize what should be hailed as the restoration of Beauty and Grandeur to our Nation’s Capital as something else completely. Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House, had been left in disarray after decades of neglect and lack of maintenance. The fountains didn’t work, the grass and trees had died, the walking paths and benches were almost unusable. Also, because of security threats caused by rioters and protestors ripping up the stone pavers, and throwing them at our brave men and women from the Secret Service and Law Enforcement, my Administration decided to rebuild and beautify the Park.” “I made a multimillion contribution to the effort, and got others to do the same, but was not in charge of handing out the contract. That was done by the National Parks Service, and they gave it to the largest and most respected Construction Firm, for many years, in D.C., Clark Construction — A greatly respected firm, by far, the biggest in D.C. Not only did we add brand new fountains, but we completely beautified the Park, adding a new irrigation system, sod, trees, park benches, and more. It’s turning out magnificent, under budget, and way ahead of schedule! We want to have it complete by July 4th. Once again, people will come to the front door of the White House by walking through a magnificent Park befitting these Hollowed Grounds, not a dead, dirty, rusting, and very dangerous place like it was before we got involved. In fact, D.C. itself is now a safe and bustling place again. The Crime Numbers are the best they’ve had in Recorded History. The New York Times should congratulate us, instead of trying to make us look bad. We look forward to continuing to MAKE WASHINGTON, D.C. GREAT AGAIN, and want to thank Clark Construction, the Department of Interior, and the National Parks Service on A JOB WELL DONE! President DONALD J. TRUMP”show more

Arms sales: China Needs More Responsibility Instead of Glorifying... the Market It's been a while since Beijing stopped picking sides in wars, they just want to win at all costs. They sell weapons, components, or drones to both contenders, rake in huge profits, and still claim to be "neutral and peaceful." Pragmatism without hypocrisy, and it's nothing new. In Ukraine, at the start of the war, components and drones served both sides. Later, they cut off direct supplies to both, but everyone kept buying through third parties, and the Chinese obviously know about it. Profit guaranteed. In the recent Thailand-Cambodia war, they sold VT-4 tanks and S26T submarines to Thailand, and guided missiles - to destroy the tanks sold to Thailand?-, rockets, and artillery to Cambodia. Chinese weapons exchanging fire from both sides, but the Chinese say it's just "normal defense cooperation." Israel and Iran is another perfect example: a Chinese state-owned company has been operating the port of Haifa in Israel since 2021 and is now involved in rebuilding the destruction caused by Iranian missiles, while selling ballistic missile components to Iran to repeat the feat and financing Iran's reconstruction until Israel repeats it too. In Africa, the effect is the same: in Sudan, they sold to the government, and weapons ended up with the RSF paramilitaries because they were also bought by the Emirates and passed on to Sudanese rebels; in the DRC, they sell to the government, but Chinese weapons also end up with militias like M23 through resale by Uganda and Rwanda; in Libya, they sold to Gaddafi, but right after his fall, they kept doing business with both main factions, and still do today. None of this started now. A classic from the 80s: in the Iran-Iraq war, China was the biggest supplier to BOTH sides at the same time, billions in tanks, missiles, and artillery for each. Obviously, this kind of policy was done by the West a long time ago, but it always faced criticism from the media. Anyone in the arms market knows that the Chinese maintain strict control over their sales. Even simple price quotes are centralized and selective. There's no way the government doesn't know exactly where the weapons are going. They're making the same mistakes the West made in the past.show more

I want all of you to watch this short... video sent to me by a Zimbabwean doctor working in the paediatric section of the country’s largest individual hospital, Sally Mugabe. Things have deteriorated to the point where cockroaches are moving freely in the wards, as you can see. This simply requires pest control, but when the wrong people hold important positions, hospitals end up like this. I asked some of the hospital managers why things are like this. “We are not being given the money,” is what all three managers I spoke to told me. They told me that they now just mop when there is no detergent, and they said this is a terrible thing in a children’s wards. One of the managers told me that mothers struggle at night with kids crying due to the coachroaches. It comes down to corruption and how it is destroying every facet of public life under Zimbabwe’s dictator, Emmerson Mnangagwa. Corruption is seemingly eroding essential public services like healthcare, which have a direct and significant impact on the well-being of Zimbabweans, especially the most vulnerable.show more

Look at these photos Falcon 9 soaring into the... sky. Falcon Heavy and Starship ready for the next mission. Starlink antennas simple, clean, ready for any terrain. The Boring Company’s machine that looks like industrial sculpture. Futuristic tunnels full of Teslas. And the man whose vision stands behind it all. It’s not a coincidence. It’s not just “technology.” It’s class itself. Zero unnecessary ornaments. Zero exaggeration. Just a pure, very high-quality product. You hold it in your hand, step inside, or look at it and immediately feel that everything is refined to the last detail. It works. It looks right. It lasts. Elon Musk has this rare quality: he’s a man with class. He doesn’t flaunt luxury or add things just “because they photograph well.” He chooses simplicity but the kind that’s executed perfectly. And he transferred exactly that same philosophy to his companies. The result? Engineering at the level of fashion. Design that’s modern yet has timeless elegance. Products that don’t just do the job they impress with their quality and quiet confidence. It’s no accident that the rocket looks like a work of art. That a Tesla interior feels minimalist yet luxurious. That a Starlink dish looks like it was designed by someone who understands aesthetics, not just connectivity. They all share one common thread: class. Not the loud, flashy kind. The real kind quiet, self-assured, and uncompromising. If you value things that are simply well-made without unnecessary bling, but full of character and top-tier quality this is the essence of what Elon has built. Elon Musk Starlink The Boring Company SpaceX Tesla Neuralinkshow more

🚨 He simply typed to Claude: "Build me a... bot that prints money on Bitcoin every 5 minutes". This guy pulled $16,000+ in pure profit in a couple of hours just by using claude code. If you thought making money in crypto was hard, look at this screenshot. Meet the anon going by 0x5fCe. He joined polymarket literally days ago and his stats are absolutely mind blowing: > Predictions: 27 > Biggest Win: $8,727 > All Time Profit: $16,073 But the craziest part is HOW he’s trading. Look at the bottom of the screenshot. He’s betting on: "Bitcoin Up or Down in the next 5 minutes." A human physically cannot analyze order books and charts with that kind of speed and phenomenal accuracy. How did he do it? I dug a little deeper, and this is pure alpha 🧠 This guy isn't some genius Wall Street quant. He simply took the new Claude Code, fed it the Polymarket API documentation, and asked it to write a high frequency trading bot to analyze BTC micro impulses. It took exactly one evening to build the bot. He ran the script, went to sleep, and woke up to a bot that literally printed him a car. Almost 9 grand in profit in just 5 minutes. This isn't trading; it's a legal money printer. He locked in his profits and is likely tweaking his Claude prompts right now to deploy the bot with bigger volume. As soon as numbers pop up there, a new bloodbath will start. If you want to watch AI extract money from the market live, or just try to copytrade his bets, you need to monitor this wallet 24/7.show more

🚨 JUST IN: Justin Baldoni breaks his silence for... the first time since the bombshell lawsuit against Blake Lively. This interview was recorded in November 2024, after the It Ends With Us movie premiere and promotional events, but before the lawsuit was filed and The New York Times hit piece dropped. It goes live Monday, February 10, 2025, and I have a feeling it’ll give us a glimpse into what Justin was going through at the time. And knowing what came next, things likely got even worse after Blake Lively’s bombshell allegations went public. Behind the scenes, during this period, tensions were high. Justin was pressured by Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively to release a public statement he didn’t agree with, forcing him to take full accountability for the bad press and production issues. At his own movie premiere, Justin, his family, friends, and team were sent to the basement. Then, during the movie promotion, he was snubbed and separated from the cast. Watch the episode on YouTube: Watch the promo clip, his words hit differently now. ⬇️ #JustinSpeaks #BlakeLively #JusticeForJustinshow more

Some microbes carry a protein, called SNIPE, that "chops... up" phage DNA as it's being injected into the cell. This is a new mechanism for phage defense! CRISPR–Cas and restriction enzymes also evolved to fight against phages, but they work by recognizing sequences. SNIPE works, instead, by sensing "touch." SNIPE is a protein with about 500 amino acids. After it's made by the ribosome, it latches onto ManYZ, two proteins which sit on the cell's inner membrane. (ManYZ is an importer; it brings mannose and other sugars into the cell.) Once attached to ManYZ, SNIPE sits and waits for an invading phage. Some phages, including lambda, actually infect cells by pushing their DNA through this ManYZ channel. Lambda uses its "tail" to reach inside the protein channel, basically, and inject its DNA. When this physical touch happens, though, SNIPE is waiting. As soon as the phage DNA starts entering the cell, and passes through ManYZ and SNIPE, it gets immediately destroyed. This means that SNIPE is the first phage defense system discovered, so far, that uses spatial positioning at the injection site to destroy invaders. But there are caveats, of course. If you untether SNIPE from ManYZ, such that it can freely diffuse through the cell, it will chew up the bacterium's genome. It is not a highly discerning nuclease! Also, SNIPE is not found in most bacteria. A prior pangenome study, which sequenced lots of different microbes, found that roughly a third of well-studied bacterial lineages had at least one member with a SNIPE-like protein. (For this paper, they just ported one of those homologs into an E. coli laboratory strain.) And finally, because SNIPE's mechanism is tightly tied to ManYZ, it cannot be used to defend against phages that enter the cell through different routes. T4 phages, for example, inject their DNA straight through the cell membrane and into the cytoplasm, without interacting with ManYZ. This is a nice basic science paper. Applications TBD. (Just remember that scientists figured out that bacteria had a phage defense system, called CRISPR-Cas, many years before it was repurposed into a gene-editing tool.) P.S. The video below shows how cells with the SNIPE gene (middle row) kill invading phages, and thus continue growing and dividing. Empty vector (top row) refers to bacteria carrying a plasmid with no SNIPE gene; this is a control group. And SNIPE E414A refers to cells which received a mutated SNIPE gene, where the glutamate at position 414 has been changed to an alanine, thus destroying the protein's nuclease activity. These cells also die when they get infected with a phage.show more

Unich IDO: $UN Is Preparing For Liftoff Unich IDO... is officially live. The sale starts at $0.15 , with a second-round price of $0.175 , and a total of 100 million $UN tokens allocated across both rounds. To fuel organic growth, there’s an 11% referral system - 8% paid out in USDT, 3% in $UN - giving early supporters a strong reason to bring others in. But what makes this IDO especially compelling is what happens after . Unich has confirmed that it’s in talks with multiple centralized exchanges, and at least one top-tier CEX listing is expected soon after the IDO ends , right when tokens begin unlocking and public trading kicks off. At the same time, liquidity will also be seeded across top Solana-based DEXs . That means $UN will be live and tradeable on day one , whether you're a CEX or DeFi user. And it’s not just talk. $UN is already listed on Coingecko, Dropstab, Cryptorank, and Bybit . These platforms track performance, fundraising, and legitimacy. So while the CEX listings haven’t been publicly named yet, the groundwork is clearly being laid. All the right pieces are lining up for $UN. Unich IDO is your shot to get in before things go live. If you missed $NEAR at $0.40, this might be your second shot - $UN at $0.15 . Every second brings us closer to the Unich IDO price push. Miss this, and you’ll wish you acted sooner 👇 ————————— Unich: The World's First Billion-Volume OTC Exchange, Trusted By 5+ Million Users. Author: Sanket Sharmashow more

I spent 48 hours running AI from my phone.... Here are 11 things that turned out to be possible and 3 that almost cost me money Forgot my laptop at home and thought the day was lost. Opened a terminal from my phone and decided to see how long I could last Lasted 2 days. Not just lasted but made $840 What works from a phone: 1. Set up Claude Code through SSH in 10 minutes while riding the subway 2. Get Telegram pushes every time a wallet enters a position 3. Copy a trade with 1 tap without taking out my earbuds 4. Launch scripts by voice through Shortcuts 5. Monitor 3 wallets simultaneously without a single lag 6. Get a morning report at 7 AM as a regular message 7. Rebuild the bot when it crashed while sitting in a cab 8. Check PnL without opening a browser 9. Add a new wallet to tracking in 30 seconds 10. Set up auto-copying without confirmation on verified wallets 11. Get a full strategy breakdown of a wallet through Claude Code in a regular chat And here is what almost killed the deposit: 1. My finger slipped and I entered at twice the planned size. Did not notice for 20 minutes. Got lucky that the position ended up in profit but it could have gone very differently 2. My phone died at 2 AM. Missed the exit signal and the position dropped $110 while I slept. By morning I realized that a power bank is just as much a part of the strategy as the bot itself 3. The delay when copying was 40 seconds. On a 15-minute market that is an eternity. The price moved from 8 cents to 23, and instead of a 12x return I got a 4x. Still profit but you feel the difference immediately Total for 48 hours: +$840. Screen time on the phone: 47 minutes. Never needed the laptop The entire time I was following the same wallet. That is the 1 that was sending me signals at 2 AM: The phone turned out to be a fully functional control panel. But this control panel has no safety switch. And that is worth remembering every time you are tapping with 1 hand in the coffee lineshow more

Let’s be absolutely clear with the facts from today’s... “march against the far right” which I attended from the start. 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1. These were left-wing organisations from all over the UK. Every union under the sun was in attendance. National Education Union are definitely indoctrinating children within the teacher and school environment, just look at their presence today. It is very concerning. Watch what they teach your kids. They, as an education union, along with Unite the union: join a union, were also fighting over who got to be at the front of the march today, thanks to two lesbian powerhouses not having it. Comedy gold 😂 2. The second video shows over 100 coaches being used to bus in all these so-called “concerned citizens” on organised transport. They are all part of a left-wing narrative which just doesn’t work anymore, we see exactly what they are doing. That was the entire left-wing loony left in attendance. That’s it. That’s them. This is a major point! We have millions who know what’s right, and the left wing in this country is about to get the shock of their lives in the next elections, swept off the map. That was a panic march. They know it’s coming! 3. There was no working class at this march! Fact! It was all middle and upper class people who attend the usual Palestine marches and Palestine Action events. They hate the Union Jack flag and they hate the working class. This was a stunt by the well-organised unions to pretend the country is behind them which it is not. And that was clear as day to witness today. Also a clear panic march. 4. We don’t have much to worry about. These people are not in the real world. They are privileged and wealthy. And as I said, that’s the crowd, that’s them. They are in total fantasy land, and it’s now time for the adults to get back in charge. 5. Long live England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✝️🇬🇧show more

[Discrete Fourier Transform] by Hand ✍️ In signal processing,... the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) is no doubt the most important method. But the math involved is extremely complex, literally, involving a summation over a complex number term e^(-iwt). I developed this exercise to demonstrate that underneath such complexity, DFT is just a series of matrix multiplications you can calculate by hand. ✍️ Once you see that, it should not surprise you that a deep neural network, which is also a series of matrix multiplications, with activation functions in-between, can learn to perform DFT to process and analyze signals so effectively. How does DFT work? [1] Given ↳ Signals A, B, and C in the 🟧 frequency domain: ◦ A = cos(w) + 2cos(2w) ◦ B = cos(w) + cos(3w) + cos(4w) ◦ C = -cos(2w) + cos(3w) ◦ Each signal is a weighed sum of four cosine waves at frequencies 1w, 2w, 3w, and 4w. ◦ We will apply Inverse DFT to convert the signals to time domain representations, and then demonstrate DFT can convert back to their original frequency domain representations. ↳ Signal X in the 🟩 time domain. X is sampled at 10 time points 1t, 2t, …, 10t: ◦ X = [-2.5, -1.8, 3, -0.7, -1.0, -0.7, 3, -1.8, -2.5, 5] ◦ Suppose X is also a weighted sum of the same four cosine waves, but we don’t already know their weights. We will apply DFT to discover them. [2] 🟧 Frequency Matrix (F) ↳ Write the coefficients of A, B, C as a matrix F. Each signal is a row. Each frequency is a column. ↳ A → [1, 2, 0, 0] ↳ B → [1, 0, 1, 1] ↳ C → [0, 1-, 1, 0] [3] Cosine → Discrete ↳ Sample from the continuous cosine waves at discrete time points 1t, 2t, 3t, to 10t. [4] Cosine Matrix (W) ↳ Write the samples as a matrix, Each frequency is a row. Each time point is a column. [5] Inverse DFT: 🟧 Frequency → 🟩 Time ↳ Multiply the frequency matrix F and the cosine matrix W. ↳ The meaning of this multiplication is to linearly combine the four cosine waves (rows in W) into time-domain signals (rows in T) using the weights specified in F. ↳ The result is matrix T, which are signals A, B, C converted to the time domain. Each signal is a row. Each time point is a column. [6] Transpose ↳ Transpose T, converting each signal’s time domain representation from a row to a column. [7] DFT: 🟩 Time → 🟧 Frequency ↳ Multiply the cosine matrix W with the transpose of matrix T. ↳ The purpose of this multiplication is to take a dot-product between each time-domain signal (columns in the transpose of T) and each cosine wave (rows in W), which has the effect of projecting the signal onto a cosine wave to determine how much they are correlated. Zero means not correlated at all. ↳ The result is an intermediate version of the “recovered” frequency matrix where each column corresponds to a signal and each row corresponds to a frequency. ↳ Compared to the original frequency matrix F, this intermediate matrix has non-zero weights in the correct places, but scaled up by a factor of 5 (n/2, n=10). For example, signal A, originally [1,2,0,0], is recovered at [5,10,0,0]. [8] Scale ↳ Multiply each value by 2/n = 1/5 to scale down the intermediate matrix to match the magnitude of the original frequency matrix F. [9] Transpose ↳ Transpose the recovered frequency matrix back to the same orientation of the original frequency matrix F. ↳ Like magic 🪄, the result is identical to the original F, which means DFT successfully recovered the frequency components of signals A, B, C. [10] Apply DFT to X: 🟩 Time → 🟧 Frequency ↳ Now that we have some confidence in DFT’s ability to recover frequency components, we apply DFT to X’s time-domain representation by multiplying W with X. ↳ The result is the an intermediate matrix. [11] Scale ↳ Similarly, we scale down by a factor of 5 to obtain the recovered frequency components of X (a column). [12] Transpose ↳ Similarly, we transpose the recovered column to row to match the orientation of the frequency matrix. ↳ Using the coefficients [0,0,3,2], we can write the equation of X as 3cos(3w) + 2cos(4w). Notes: I hope this by hand exercise helps you understand the essence of DFT. But there is more technical details, such as: • Sine: The complete DFT math also includes sine waves that follow a similar calculation process. • Phase: Here, we assume all the cosine waves are aligned at the origin, namely, phase is 0. If a phase p is added, for example, cos(w+p), we will need to calculate the sine component and use their ratio to figure out what p is. • Magnitude: If phase is not zero, the magnitude will need to be calculated by combining both cosine and sine terms.show more

The current state of the Islamic Republic is quite... strange. From a social restrictions perspective, it is utterly incomparable to when I was young or even 5 years ago. This goes far beyond people choosing to mass defy hijab laws - the restrictions against things like mixed dancing, concerts, music festivals, rave like atmospheres, drinking, recreational drugs, and all sorts of out of marriage sexual relationships are dissolved to a unrecognizable very low bar compared to the past. No it's not Turkey or Dubai (yet) and yes people still do get in trouble frequently (particularly businesses who host things - which is why you'll go to high end restaurants where everything is happening and they don't care but they'll immediately stop you if you take a picture out of fear it will go viral). But the cat is out of the bag. In every corner of the country the rules are flagrantly defied. Not just in cute underground parties at some well connected kid's house or some hippies doing drugs in a desert 3 hours from the city - no very much in the open, often advertised on social media, and not hidden at all (both videos are from the last month - the second video is in Shiraz). This was unthinkable just a few years ago. On the other hand the political atmosphere is currently closed at a level I don't remember other than the first few months after the 2009 election. It resembles the Islamic Republic of the late 80s more than what we've seen for most of my life. And from an international relations perspective all caution & restraint are gone and you see the most extremist elements (who ironically were kept in check by the older Khamenei who mistrusted them just as much as he mistrusted liberals) increasingly running the show, eagerly acting in a way that I struggle to describe in anyway other than delusional insanity. The economy is shattered to a level in which even the upper middle class are struggling to make ends meet, let alone the poor who are living through unthinkable conditions. This is a very different Islamic Republic from the "normal" baseline my generation is used to. Quality of life continues to nosedive at a horrendous level. Uncertainty is everywhere. External attacks are no longer a fear but a near daily reality. It is increasingly unclear who (if anyone) is in charge and what direction they are trying to steer the country in. The current situation might last for a bit as a transition state, but it is very difficult to imagine something this unstable, with so many contradictions, and this reckless, being durable. At some point very soon something will have to give. It can't last forever like this.show more

This grandad found a 500 year-old, 17ft deep well... under his living room in Plymouth, Devon, England. As well as, he also found a 16th Century BC, Bronze Age Sword and Coin from 1725 AD, inside the well :- The 70 year-old Colin Steer has spent last decade digging out well after he found it while redecorating living room of his home. He noticed a dip in floor while carrying out DIY, which led him to uncover well. While digging it out, Steer found what he thinks is the leather casing of a sword, which he believes could date the structure to 1500s. The 70-year-old said: "I found what seemed to be a leather casing of a sword when I was about 5ft into dig which leads me to believe that well could be medieval. "However it could date back to even earlier than that because we have no real way of accurately dating it at moment." He said that house was constructed in 1895 and he moved there in 1988 but it was 10 years ago while decorating that he saw the dip. "I immediately thought someone must have buried someone under there or that we had a sinkhole. "Since that moment, I decided I was going to dig it out and see what I would find. The hole is currently 17ft deep and there is about another 4-5ft that I want to dig out when I eventually get round to it. Since I began digging out well, I have also found a coin from 1725. In late 18th Century AD, during reign of George III, government issued large copper coins known as "Cartwheel" penny and twopence. An ancient sword was also discovered inside the well. Historically, sword developed in Bronze Age, evolving from dagger; earliest specimens date to about 1600 BC. The later Iron Age sword remained fairly short and without a crossguard. At the bottom of well the is about 4ft of water, so everything that I did out now will be wet and mucky stuff." Colin wants to go another few feet further down though before he finishes and although he is bringing up mud into his living room, he says that his wife Vanessa is understanding and is equally interested in the well. His plan is to then extend well wall up into his living room and use it as a coffee table which he thinks will make an attractive feature. He is also keen to find out why the well is actually there and consulting old maps have not given any answers. He said: "I would extend the walls of the well up through the floor and then add a round tabletop on top to make it into a coffee table. I think it would be a great feature for our front room. We still aren't really sure about why the well is there". The 17ft hole in the couple's living room is currently covered over by a sheet of Perspex and a trap door so that it is safe. Colin and Vanessa have grandchildren who love to look down the hole through the sheet of Perspex and they are very intrigued by unique feature in their grandparent's home. He added: "It is a good thing to show off to people as it is not something that you see every day. I have actually even tried some of water that is at the bottom of the well. It was really clear and tasted fine to me. I am going to get it tested for bacteria and if everything came back good then I could even bottle it up and sell it." According to the researchers, this well belonged to a wealthy or noble families, because only high status families could afford their own private well - most likely in the basement of your house, during medieval and late medieval times. Because, it was common for external wells to be poisoned in Medieval times, which is why castles would have them built internally. It could take decades to construct the well but it was worth wait to have your own clean water. To prevent well from collapsing, some were lined with stones, bricks or wood. Researchers also stated that, according to the preservation status of this well, it looks that the well was regularly maintained, to keep functional for long. It also involved periodic cleaning to remove debris, prevent contamination and maintain quality of water. #archaeohiatoriesshow more

Rosy Team 💌 ❝This day, for you and for... us, is warm, joyful, and one that shines with stars in the river of time Perhaps, right now, you're still working hard, or maybe you're already in your sweet dreams Yet this phrase, "Happy Birthday Zhao Lusi," which has been repeated by countless people, will become the most uplifting and reassuring force of today! It will be a force that brings a smile to our faces from the beginning to the end of the day These forces come from every corner of the world, gathering together, and at this beautiful moment, we raise our glasses in celebration with you, separated by the full moon, the sunrise, clouds, and waves Look, so many people love you! May you, at 26, become a "more mature child," handling things with calmness, yet remaining romantically innocent. May you have the strength to challenge the rules of the world, and genuinely say, "Growing up is wonderful." You can also boldly remain a child, protect your inner self more firmly, and pursue what you love with greater determination. We have walked through your 25th year together. We’ve savored the pear blossom wine hidden beneath the phoenix trees (A Yin), held Duan Wu— who has picked pearls from the depths of the sea, in our hearts, remembered the bright and sparkling smile of Xu Yan, and are moved by the passionate vivacity of Ruan Yu who runs barefoot. In the future, we will accompany you through more roles in life, experiencing each moment when you give your all. We believe that they will bring even more unique brilliance into your world. This pure and open heart will surge like the ocean and stretch endlessly like green grass. At 26, we’ll still be here. Wishing you a Happy Birthday, be happy everyday. May you have days that are fun, full of hope, and endless anticipation 🎂❞ HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZHAO LUSI #RosyBloomsAt26show more

🚨 THE BIGGEST BOTTLENECK IN AI ISN'T COMPUTING POWER... ANYMORE IT'S MOVING DATA. Instead of laying new cables, Chinese researchers have upgraded existing fiber infrastructure by doing two things at once: Using three wavelength bands (C + L + S) instead of the usual two. Using four cores inside each fiber instead of one. Each core acts like an independent highway, and each band acts like an extra lane on that highway. Together, they’ve reportedly increased transmission capacity per core by nearly 50% and overall data throughput by up to 5×. This matters enormously for AI. Modern AI clusters move terabits of data per second between thousands of GPUs. The biggest bottleneck is often not the chips themselves, but moving data fast enough between them. If you can push 5× more data through the same physical cables, you can train bigger models faster and reduce network congestion. Why this is significant: • It shows multi-core + extended spectrum technology moving from labs into real-world commercial use • The system has already run over 35 km of existing telecom network • It could be especially useful for submarine cables and large-scale data center interconnects • China is also eyeing it for its “Eastern Data, Western Computing” project The deeper implication: We’re reaching the physical limits of how much data we can push through single-core fibers using traditional methods. By combining spatial multiplexing (multiple cores) with spectral multiplexing (more wavelength bands), engineers are finding new ways to keep scaling bandwidth without having to dig up the planet to lay new cables. This kind of breakthrough is quiet but foundational it’s the kind of infrastructure upgrade that will determine how fast AI and cloud computing can actually grow in the coming years. The future of data movement might not require more cables. It might just require smarter ones. How important do you think multi-core and multi-band fiber will be for keeping up with AI’s exploding data demands? Follow for more frontier networking, photonics, and infrastructure technology.show more