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AI researcher at DeepMind and host of The Cartesian Cafe podcast. Previously an academic mathematical physicist working in gauge theory and quantum field theory.

AI researcher at DeepMind and host of The Cartesian Cafe podcast. Previously an academic mathematical physicist working in gauge theory and quantum field theory.

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