Koen Van Roy

Reductionist, thinking in terms of fundamentals. It's all easier said than done. Objective: 'Stay Smart, Hungry, Humble and Foolish'. Time is a Gentleman.

[Laia y Frodo @laiayfrodorw]

Lewis Hamilton Ferrari F1 2026 vs Bugatti Bolide en Monza

[Els Ampe @ElsAmpe]

A picture is worth a 1000 words..
@amcafee @tijd @lecho #tourtaxis

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

Okay this is genuinely insane.

SpaceX just unveiled a satellite whose only job is to run AI. Not internet. Not GPS. Just compute, floating in orbit.

It's called AI1, and the reason behind it breaks your brain.

AI data centers on Earth are hitting a wall, not a chip wall, a physics wall.

They need staggering amounts of power and water just to stay cool, and we're running out of grid and land to build them.

So Musk's answer is: stop building them on Earth.

In orbit, the sun never sets. Free power, 24/7. No water for cooling, you just radiate heat into the vacuum of space. The two things choking AI on the ground barely exist up there.

And here's the wild part: Musk says it's easier to build than a Starlink satellite. Strip out the complex antennas and it's "a lot of solar cells, a radiator, and some laser links."

One AI1 carries the compute of an Nvidia GB300 rack, the same hardware data centers fight over down here.

AI1 is just the first one. The plan is a constellation of up to a million of them.

And the timing isn't an accident, SpaceX goes public this week at a ~$1.75 trillion target. This isn't a rocket company anymore. It's positioning itself as the power grid for AI, in space.

The race for AI compute just left the planet. Literally.

@SpaceX

[Ivan Van de Cloot @IvanVandeCloot]

Je moet toch geen vader van dochters zijn om te weten dat een maatschappij kapotgaat als dit kan?:

[Raf Liekens @rafliekens]

Betogers hebben vorige week het centrum van Brussel afgebroken. Maar het intern onderzoek bij de Brusselse politie gaat niet over de vraag hoe dat kon gebeuren. Het gaat over een agent die een sigaar rookte. Waanzin.

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

https://t.co/j58CYkil13
Man attempts to behead another man in the street.

"No evidence of terror at this stage, say police"

If that isn’t terror, what is? How much more terrifying does it need to be to qualify as terror?

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

This map shows annual truck traffic on European main roads, colored by route distance. The map gives a sense of on which corridors the long distance traffic travels and how far the infrastructure interdependencies within the network road reach. Very helpful information when planning charging infrastructure. Source: https://t.co/UxbVIPHAeq HT Jakob Rogstadius

[Koen Van Roy @EternalHumanoid]

@grok Summarise Elon’ first principles to its essence.

[Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️ @EricJorgenson]

Everyone can use @elonmusk's "Magic Wand Number" and "Idiot Index"

They're universal ideas, helpful in any industry.

[Wise @trikcode]

Before AI, I had 5 unfinished projects.
After AI, I have 128 unfinished projects.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

The Gaza war was fought with proportionality, outstanding protection of civilian life, and was started by Hamas.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Sam Harris has written the best thing you’ll read today.

https://t.co/gI0wZZNH4m

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If the key to becoming a billionaire is to exploit people, as some politicians claim, we at YC are idiots. We've spent the last 20 years choosing the wrong founders and teaching them the wrong things. Or maybe we do actually understand startups, and the politicians are wrong.

[Koen Van Roy @EternalHumanoid]

Complete dissociatie👇

[Wouter Duyck @wduyck]

“Scholierenprotest”. Het is hilarisch, schrijnend en dieptriest hoe onze verwende samenleving blijft denken dat deze “jongeren” ageren binnen gedeelde kaders, normen en waarden. Meespelen in ons theater. Wanneer gaat men eens beseffen dat er complete dissociatie en afkeer van onze samenleving is? Bij voetbal, oudjaar, élk relmoment, telkens weer de illusie dat dit rationeel verklaarbaar, verzoenbaar, vermijdbaar is. Dat je kan dialogeren met wie dreigt scholen in brand te steken. “Erger dan een IS aanval”. En dan op straat aan dié mensen naast een brandende auto vragen wat ze vinden “van de onderwijshervormingen”

[Wouter Duyck @wduyck]

“Scholierenprotest”. Het is hilarisch, schrijnend en dieptriest hoe onze verwende samenleving blijft denken dat deze “jongeren” ageren binnen gedeelde kaders, normen en waarden. Meespelen in ons theater. Wanneer gaat men eens beseffen dat er complete dissociatie en afkeer van onze samenleving is? Bij voetbal, oudjaar, élk relmoment, telkens weer de illusie dat dit rationeel verklaarbaar, verzoenbaar, vermijdbaar is. Dat je kan dialogeren met wie dreigt scholen in brand te steken. “Erger dan een IS aanval”. En dan op straat aan dié mensen naast een brandende auto vragen wat ze vinden “van de onderwijshervormingen”

[Naval @naval]

Software platforms are going to be rebuilt for agent-first.

[Tom Blomfield @t_blom]

I just bought a Tesla Model Y

Full Self Driving is one of the most impressive pieces of technology I’ve ever experienced.

I now wish I’d got it a year ago.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Ethiopia was never colonized.

For much of its history, it was one of the poorest countries on the continent.

Meanwhile, Vietnam was colonized by the French, devastated by decades of war, and is now on its way to serious economic prosperity.

If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor, Ethiopia should be rich and Vietnam should be broke. Neither is true.

Can we please retire this excuse?

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

I’ve noticed the same.

[a16z @a16z]

World Labs CEO Dr. Fei-Fei Li: "The world is not made of words."

"Language models have given machines an extraordinary command of concepts, vocabulary, and reasoning, but the physical world, virtual or real, runs on a different substrate."

"Where language models learn the statistical structure of text, world models learn the statistical structure of space and time: how light falls on a surface, how a garden looks from an angle no camera has captured, how objects respond to force and follow the laws of physics."

"Language gave machines a way to talk about that world. World models are how machines will finally come to understand, imagine, reason and interact with it."

Full piece: https://t.co/C9qOJg5wuc