(Blank) E/acc

King of geeks, big hairy man with a bit of a girly laugh,plus books, material science, physics, Warhammer, films, streams, podcasts, Kardashev scale climbing

[(Blank) E/acc @Thomas_Sergeant]

Once there was a cat, that cat came and sat, so I stayed in bed, and that was that.
- An original story by me

[NASA Aeronautics @NASAaero]

✈️ JUST IN: The X-59 has gone supersonic!

The X-59 achieved supersonic speeds for the first time ever today — a major milestone for NASA’s Quesst mission and an important step toward upcoming flights that will demonstrate its quiet supersonic technology ahead of future community overflights.

Fast now. Quiet soon. 🔊➡️🤫

Learn more: https://t.co/lpVA3qRxAj

#NASA #X59 #Quesst

[(Blank) E/acc @Thomas_Sergeant]

@elonmusk @IterIntellectus He’s already said he wants to make it a full film. It’s going to be legendary.

[bayes @bayeslord]

(thread)

Intelligence

We are in early takeoff. AI improving AI may end up being one of the most consequential steps of history. This isn’t certain because we don’t know how far from the physical and computational limits of intelligence we are, though I would bet it’s quite far from where we are today (e.g. ~5-10 OOMs more intelligence output per unit of scale seems possible).

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

We’re excited for Falcon Heavy to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope as early as this August from pad 39A in Florida

[(Blank) E/acc @Thomas_Sergeant]

@IterIntellectus There are so many amazing books that haven’t been made into shows yet, from science-fiction and all other kinds of genres, and yet so many of them are owned by production companies yet they’ve been shelved for ridiculous reasons, it’s going to be amazing

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Retail investors will be able to participate at the same prices as the big institutions. Expected SPCX price of $135 per share → https://t.co/eKBA0tzXbH

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

SpaceX is the only company building the infrastructure of the future across space, connectivity, and AI → https://t.co/PSCyWrNsOg

[(Blank) E/acc @Thomas_Sergeant]

@heavypulp Good luck with the full movie, it’s going to be awesome

[Grok @grok]

Grok @Imagine 1.5 Preview is here

Try it today in the API: https://t.co/x4Yt13xRu7

[(Blank) E/acc @Thomas_Sergeant]

@pmarca No don’t

[(Blank) E/acc @Thomas_Sergeant]

@pmarca They actually still think that you’re joking or making it up, they just don’t understand

[(Blank) E/acc @Thomas_Sergeant]

@Mookafish Just came across your account, welcome to the struggle of my life Good sir, I’ve been having this oddity twist my brain for years, even decades

[(Blank) E/acc @Thomas_Sergeant]

Awesome video

[(Blank) E/acc @Thomas_Sergeant]

We turned psychology from a tool for fixing real problems into the default operating system for existence. Every awkward silence is now “trauma,” every preference is “neurodivergence,” and being ‘too self-aware’ is the new humblebrag.
Result? A generation that can name 47 defense mechanisms but can’t make a phone call or show up on time, we just pathologized competence.
Self-awareness is great in small doses. When it becomes the entire personality, it’s just narcissism with extra steps

[(Blank) E/acc @Thomas_Sergeant]

@IterIntellectus This app is the greatest

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The Great British Delusion

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

They just want power and control.

This was always the risk of AI power overconcentration.

Not robust to decapitation attack / confiscation of control.

The path forward is to decentralize AI. This will only be possible with far more decentralized compute.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I want the world to hear what we heard.

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Here's my conversation with Don Lincoln about some of the biggest open questions in physics, including dark energy, dark matter, the matter-antimatter imbalance, quantum vacuum, quantum foam, and the quest to unify the laws of physics.

Don is a particle physicist at Fermilab who has spent decades working at the frontiers of high energy physics. He is also a great teacher & writer. I highly recommend his courses & books. One of my favorite lecture series he has given is The Evidence for Modern Physics where he breaks down the experiments that validate some of the weird laws of physics we have, and what it would take to validate even the weirder ones.

It's not enough to come up with a beautiful theory. You also have to show through experiment that the theory is likely to be correct. This process often doesn't get the love it deserves, even though it's often the most important and difficult part of the scientific process.

I ❤️ physics.

The conversation is here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment).

Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:49 - Unifying the laws of nature
15:20 - General relativity
32:27 - Electroweak force
44:09 - How particle colliders work
1:02:12 - Higgs boson discovery
1:12:32 - Theory of everything
1:42:17 - Physics of empty space
1:49:41 - Antimatter
2:10:31 - Dark energy
2:14:20 - Dark matter
2:42:56 - Future of physics

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

Blue Origin's New Glenn just blew up at LC-36 while attempting to Static Fire ahead of NG-4.

https://t.co/tANS0dWyIH