Pondy23

[Pondy23 @Pondy23L]

At hindi ko maipapangako ang kulay rosas
Na mundo para sa 'yo
At hindi ko maiilawan ang lahat ng anino
Pero sisikapin ko at hindi ako magpapahinga
Hangga't hindi mo pa magawang muling ipagmalaki
Na ika'y isang Pilipino

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

1/ Azure surpassed $75 billion in revenue for the first time this year, up 34 percent year over year.

It has been quite the journey from 0 to 75!

We have come a long way from Project Red Dog... we now add as much capacity in a month as we did in our first five years!

Super grateful for the trust so many customers have placed in us through the years.

[Robin Brooks @robin_j_brooks]

Macro 101 on China tariffs. If China doesn't transship goods to the US, it must export them to the rest of the world (ROW)). Supply of goods to ROW goes up. Since ROW demand is unchanged, prices must fall to generate demand. US tariffs are a deflationary shock for China and ROW.

[Pondy23 @Pondy23L]

@7x7r4p0l473 I don't see how Sara getting Russian propaganda support helps Digong's defense team convince ICC judges that he should be given Interim Release. Like Sara's other sablay moves, her interview with RT will likely backfire on her father's case.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow, a prime number with 420 digits!

[Jason Kelly @jrkelly]

Yep! That’s because benchtop lab work is too expensive to get beyond 400 teams who can raise enough money to afford it.

Software got distributed bc we massively centralized and scaled the physical part of software programming by inventing then scaling planar semiconductor manufacturing. Eventually chips got cheap enough you could have a PC.

Need to do that for the physical part of programming cells - ie the lab work. Pipettes and benchtop equipment are the vacuum tubes of this analogy — automation and liquid droplet handling are semis. Have to move on if it’s ever going to get cheap.

[Michael Turner @Michael71T]

"This is my Philippine territory! This is my Philippine territory", shouts Zambales-based fisherman Francis Alaras, while confronting China Coast Guard near Scarborough Shoal.

Filipino fishermen like him are subjected to CCG' bullies in their own territory. 1/4 @PingpingTweets

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

South Korean researchers developed a gummy-like robot using water droplets coated with Teflon particles

PB can shape-shift, pick up debris, move across water, and merge with another similar robot

[Kevin Dalton @TheKevinDalton]

Meet DJ Daniels, the 13 year old honorary Secret Service agent with terminal cancer from the State of the Union.

I’m not crying, you’re crying.

[Jim Bianco @biancoresearch]

5/16

Enther MALA

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

NEW: Microsoft just unveiled Muse!

It's an AI model that can generate minutes of cohesive gameplay from a single second of frames and controller actions.

The implications for gaming are absolutely massive:

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

A couple reflections on the quantum computing breakthrough we just announced...

Most of us grew up learning there are three main types of matter that matter: solid, liquid, and gas. Today, that changed.

After a nearly 20 year pursuit, we’ve created an entirely new state of matter, unlocked by a new class of materials, topoconductors, that enable a fundamental leap in computing.

It powers Majorana 1, the first quantum processing unit built on a topological core.

We believe this breakthrough will allow us to create a truly meaningful quantum computer not in decades, as some have predicted, but in years.

The qubits created with topoconductors are faster, more reliable, and smaller.

They are 1/100th of a millimeter, meaning we now have a clear path to a million-qubit processor.

Imagine a chip that can fit in the palm of your hand yet is capable of solving problems that even all the computers on Earth today combined could not!

Sometimes researchers have to work on things for decades to make progress possible.

It takes patience and persistence to have big impact in the world.

And I am glad we get the opportunity to do just that at Microsoft.

This is our focus: When productivity rises, economies grow faster, benefiting every sector and every corner of the globe.

It’s not about hyping tech; it’s about building technology that truly serves the world.

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

One of my favorite Microsoft interview questions was:

"Why does a mirror invert the image horizontally but not vertically? Why are you backwards but not also upside down?"

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

A Brief History of https://t.co/kppfMDnE2Y! Nothing official, just the conjecture as I recall it:

Microsoft’s first internal webserver, circa 1988, was a Compaq 386 sitting in the HR copy room with a note on it to “Never Turn Off!!!”

The first public site, about 1990, was run on a Northgate 486 scavenged from a build lab. It was used as a test bed for network changes, like the Winsock implementation.

At one point, the site was hosted on a laptop – until “Craig” took his laptop on vacation and then chaos ensued! So ownership transferred to “Mark”, with it becoming a managed service.

In 1995 we see the first “Death Star” website, as pictured here. It had initially been running on an EMWAC server, but shortly after the time of this screenshot, it was running IIS 0.9.

Reports vary on the hardware – some say a Compaq 386, whereas others claim it was Compaq ProLiant under "Henry’s" desk in Building 2. Either way, it was migrated to a proper Dell rack mount server at this time, but it was still hosted informally.

In the late 90s, hosting evolved from the makeshift “under a desk” arrangement to being hosted by ITG, Microsoft’s Internal Technology Group, in Building 11. Mark and his team set up the official site, including WWW, FTP, and even Gopher servers.

Apparently, this setup used 3 Compaq 386 servers – at a cost of about $50K.

https://t.co/kppfMDnE2Y is now part of Microsoft’s global cloud ecosystem (i.e., Azure). It’s served by a massively distributed, load-balanced network of high-performance servers across multiple data centers and regions. Precise numbers are not public.

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[Trinh @Trinhnomics]

I'm listening to Jonas Kaufmann thinking about tariffs and Asia. His voice is beautiful (we got tickets to see him 22 Feb - highly recommended). I'll do thread later on regarding tariffs etc but my bandwidth is limited lately given the admins.

Remember that US tariffs only matter for the 4.1trn that it imported from the world in 2024 - making it the biggest importer in the world or #1 customer.

Despite higher tariffs, the US has one of the lowest trade-weighted average tariffs in the world. What does that mean? If Trump wants & gets reciprocal tariffs, others will have to fall to US levels or the wall of protectionism rises to reciprocate others' wall of protectionism.

An example is the EU 10% tariff on auto for the US while the US has 2.5% on the EU auto.

So either the EU drops tariffs to 2.5% or the US can raise to 10% or pick at other items.

Meaning, it's the EU choice & rightly so to have 10% on the US, just like it's the US choice to do whatever it wants with goods coming from the EU.

The issue here of course is that the US is the largest importer of goods globally. There lies the headlines.

If you import almost nothing from the world and u raise tariffs, no one actually says you are protectionist because they gain nothing and lose nothing.

Who is good at dealing w/ the US? Look to Japan. They are the pros. They have an FTA & has been deploying tons of FDI to the US. Hence I think Japan will be unscathed.

[Andrew A. Michta @andrewmichta]

The United States is revising the rules of the int'l system because they've become corrupt and highjacked to a point where they now hamper instead of empowering our prosperity and freedom. For too long, the systemic stasis we lived under hampered us and enabled our enemies. 6/10

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

Joan Andrews Bell is 76 years old. She is a peaceful and devout pro-life activist

Merrick Garland’s DOJ gave her a 2 1/2 year prison sentence

Yesterday, she was set free by Donald J. Trump

[Bam Aquino @bamaquino]

Today we remember the life of our dear Tita Cory - mapagmahal na ina na nagsakripisyo, nanampalataya sa Diyos, at naniwala sa lakas ng pagkakaisa ng taumbayan. Maligayang kaarawan, Tita Cory Aquino!

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

If you're worried about AI as a programmer, keep in mind that the first thing that was going to put programmers out of business was Fortran.
Giving scientists access to a "formula translator" would obviate the need for programmers, after all, as they just could do it all themselves in Fortran!
Just before I went to college, back in 1988, I was flipping through a book called "Careers in Canada". Excited to have my career choice vindicated, I looked up programmer.
However, the book advised not to go into programming because computers would soon program themselves, and there would be no need for programmers.
This was 1988, mind you. I somehow managed to just squeak in an entire career before the end came, I guess :-)
Interesting time to be alive - from getting a computer science degree before the web to ChatGPT.

In other words, it's not the first time the sky was falling.

[Pondy23 @Pondy23L]

@pyBYpy @Schuldensuehner Deepseek was trained on ChatGPT API responses so it actually builds on a great foundation. Needless to say, this use is against OpenAI's terma of use.

[Pondy23 @Pondy23L]

@Scobleizer From the presser, Larry Ellison mentioned how processing granular citizen medical records at scale can help an AI identify cancer markers through a simple bloodtest. Moreso, AI can be trained to create MRNA based vaccines targeting the most prevalent cancer markers/cells.