How many holes can you find in the straw? You might be surprised by the answer!

When your Song of the Week editor's history teacher got bored of teaching history (a regular occurrence) he would play his pupils music instead. Often it was jazz, but sometimes a guy called Leonard Cohen. We weren't keen. This Cohen guy seemed so miserable. 

But in time the pupils got older.

Numberphile LIVE: How Many Pikachus Would It Take To Power A Lightbulb? 

Saturday 21st November, 6:30pm, Oxford Natural History Museum

Featuring talks from Brady Haran, James Grime, Ben Sparks - and hosted by Tim Harford. 

First Friday @11 is here! These sessions are likely to be most relevant for first year undergraduates, but all are welcome!

A course on Singular Learning Theory, exploring its applications in machine learning and mathematical AI alignment.

The course covers the mathematical foundations of SLT and touches on recent developments in how its tools are used in alignment research. The core focus is the role of degeneracies and singularities in governing the behaviour and training dynamics of neural networks. By the end of the course you will be familiar with:

 Advantage in the Age of AI -  Gil Eyal (Engineer, Economist, Entrepreneur & Researcher, Tel Aviv University)

Physics-Grounded Learning of AI Agents for Designing Vaccine Reactors

Human-in-the-Loop Decision-Making for Lipid Nanoparticle Reactor Design

Join us at the University of Oxford for a CS50x Puzzle Day in collaboration with Oxford Lifelong Learning, with Professor David J. Malan from Harvard, Professor Daniel Wilson from Oxford, Dr Nicholas Day from Oxford, and Dr Tom Crawford from Oxford (and Cambridge and Tom Rocks Maths).