Kevin Cuddeback

Data Science. I drink espresso but don’t roast or brew professionally

[Sohrab Ahmari @SohrabAhmari]

There is a subset of American Catholic intellectuals who are so doggedly committed to market fundamentalism that they have to:

(A) narrowly recast almost the entire Social Teaching as a matter of personal charity (leaving them unable to explain, e.g., Rerum's insistence on a just wage as a matter of public justice for the State);

(B) stand utterly alienated from the recent magisterium: from Benedict who praised democratic socialism to now Leo XIV.

At some point, the strain becomes to acute, you wonder why they don't just become Baptists or conservative Lutherans.

[Kevin Cuddeback @KevinCuddeback]

Corn->Ethanol->Cars is a hugely wasteful, outdated “energy independence” mandate post 9/11 and from before EVs became widespread and panels became crazy cheap

[Craig Lawrence @clawrence]

Are we facing a shortage of farmland in the US? We have 60M acres of farmland dedicated to making fuel. 30-40% of all food grown in the US ends up as waste - doesn't get into our mouths. 1/3 the land area of the US is farmland, and only about half of that is actually used to grow food.

And, most importantly, land used for solar can be farmed again. Research on soil health under solar panels generally shows positive results. Reduced erosion, moisture retention, temperature moderation. The vast majority of solar panels don't contain heavy metals, don't leech anything into the soil, don't leave 'glass shards'.

Many farmers are struggling in the US, and leasing some of their land for solar can be the difference between them going out of business or not.

[Kevin Cuddeback @KevinCuddeback]

@2Philosophical_ Premise:
1) the soul has no physical reality
2) the communion of saints is real
3) Heaven is in God’s presence
4) None of these has physical dimension.
Question: How does dispersion / hand gesture work with/against Catholic teaching and acknowledged mysteries?

[Kevin Cuddeback @KevinCuddeback]

What is the source for this? The discussion of water use needs this kind of specifics—kind of like car fuel economy discussions after the Prius debuted

[James Dickey @jamesdickey]

The cooling tech used matters.

Open evaporative: 1.5–2.5 liters per kWh.
Closed-loop dry / direct-to-chip / immersion: near zero on-site.

Dallas-Fort Worth currently has over 800 MW of operating datacenters, and >80% is closed-loop.

[Kevin Cuddeback @KevinCuddeback]

@DumbEinstein @gabriel_horwitz That was my impression—an agreed neutral posture for transitioning

[Kevin Cuddeback @KevinCuddeback]

I join the skeptics: the “empty hand” flip seems like an error a teleoperator would make. So does the head touch.

[The Humanoid Hub @TheHumanoidHub]

Vision + joint states in -> controls out

Figure is livestreaming an 8-hour, fully autonomous shift of the Figure 03 humanoid.

The robot is sorting packages and placing them face down so they can be scanned further down the line.

[Kevin Cuddeback @KevinCuddeback]

@andreysuperior Crazy to see a Snowcrash Turtle 🐢 in his suit and in real life

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

If you told me four years ago that I’d be watching videos of a shotgun-mounted Ukrainian drone mercilessly shooting down a swarm of russian drones, I would have laughed. Yet, here we are.

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

Everyone who cares about climate should understand this. Texas, with no pro-climate policies, has blown passed California in clean energy. In large part because Texas has less red tape and makes it easier to build.

[Kevin Cuddeback @KevinCuddeback]

@cremieuxrecueil Are the trivially false:
trivial and false or
trivially easy to falsify ?

[Kevin Cuddeback @KevinCuddeback]

@boomer_btc @MarcoFoster_ @jamestalarico @TeamTalaricoHQ Ayn Rand struggled to explain why parents would love and nurture children. She rarely depicts it and never advocates it. College students who feel cut off from parents and are postponing family creation are the perfect audience for Rand.

[Kevin Cuddeback @KevinCuddeback]

@clawrence @Dylan_Morri @StonePowerUS I also suspect that quantum computers will start cutting the energy needs by doing way more computation per kWh

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Never underestimate how much time and effort you can waste by trying to automate a process you do not understand manually.

[Firing Line with Margaret Hoover @FiringLineShow]

The framers of the Constitution intended for the House of Representatives to regularly expand as the population grew, but that has not happened for over 100 years.

“It's just a way to restore the logic of the system,” said Yuval Levin of @AEI, who supports expanding the House by 150 members.

“Growing the House is not a silver bullet, but it's part of a larger effort to help Congress help itself.”

[Kevin Cuddeback @KevinCuddeback]

@Gkratt_M @Tendar Russia’s parade explicitly ignores the size of Ukraine’s contribution. If Ukraine hits Moscow on May 9, it’ll be hitting a government that wants to forget Ukrainian valor.

[Kevin Cuddeback @KevinCuddeback]

@LizWolfeReason @lymanstoneky And nobody cared when it was Silents-GenX-GenZ
but now that it’s
Boomer-Millennials-Alpha
We all must do something

[Kevin Cuddeback @KevinCuddeback]

@clawrence @pmddomingos Im curious about Other US high-wind grids like https://t.co/kfcSzfhnKe

And

https://t.co/0U1HPLgggT

[Kevin Cuddeback @KevinCuddeback]

Fuel cell opportunity to leapfrog over mechanical burning. @FuelCell_Energy

[Gaurab Chakrabarti @Gaurab]

You cannot buy a new gas turbine until 2030. Order books at GE, Siemens, and Mitsubishi stretch to 2029. Turbine prices have nearly tripled since 2019. Every AI data center needs power and every gas plant needs a turbine. And every turbine has one part that bottlenecks the entire industry: The blade. It has to survive in gas 500°C above the melting point of the metal it's made from and spin at up to 20,000 RPM under 10,000 g of centrifugal force. Each blade is grown as a single crystal of nickel superalloy, pulled through a vacuum furnace at 3 mm per minute. A set of blades costs $600,000 and takes 90 weeks to grow. The same metallurgy powers modern jet engines. Only 3 companies on Earth can build one. China spent $42 billion trying to catch up. They bought a Russian fighter engine, took it apart, and copied every part. Their copy ran 30 hours between overhauls versus 400 for the original. Modern Western engines run 4,000. You can reverse engineer the shape of a turbine blade. You cannot reverse engineer 60 years of metallurgy.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

It bears repeating that BART installed tall gates to enter the subway and they're gaining $10m in revenue a year plus the need for maintenance is down by

*95.7%*

Passengers who were unwilling to pay a few bucks were causing 96% of the public cleanliness problems!

Pay the fare.

[Kevin Cuddeback @KevinCuddeback]

@cremieuxrecueil @lymanstoneky We need to authenticate data at its source using blockchain