Alex Rukundo

Worldwide information of interest & a passion for ICT, IEC, Strategy & Analysis.

[Alex Rukundo @arukundo]

Quote of the Month- "Si vis pacem, para bellum.”

[6G Flagship @6Gflagship]

Vasishta said radio networks were built around proprietary silicon. Software-defined networks change that, but they need accelerated compute to run AI applications that earlier systems could not support. 3/5

[Physical Superintelligence @psipbc]

Today Physical Superintelligence PBC is announcing solutions to five long-standing problems in quantum information theory.

https://t.co/LjmLz0mCtF

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[6G Flagship @6Gflagship]

The 6G Resilience Summit is open. Prof Matti Latva-aho, Vice Rector for Research at #UniOulu, welcomes the room “If connectivity can be made resilient in the demanding conditions of the North, it can be made resilient anywhere.”

#6GResilienceSummit #6G @LatvaMatti

[6G Flagship @6Gflagship]

Prof Eduard Jorswieck, @tuBraunschweig: redundancy and resilience have a cost. The real design question is not how many paths you have, but whether that cost is weighed into the system from the start.

#6GResilienceSummit #6GFlagship #6G #resilience

[Alex Rukundo @arukundo]

@URA_CG Deepest condolences to you & your whole family. MHSRIEP.

[For all Curious @fascinatingonX]

Finland just pushed electricity through open air. No cable. First ever nation to achieve this.

Researchers at the University of Helsinki and the University of Oulu fired high-intensity ultrasonic waves to carve an invisible channel through the air, then guided a spark down it.

Lasers handle the rest. Power-by-light beams energy to receivers where you really don't want a conductor: nuclear plants, high-voltage stations.

Radio-frequency harvesting pulls microwatts from ambient waves, enough to retire millions of disposable sensor batteries.

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

Prices, since start of the year.

European natural gas: +233%
UK natural gas: +212%
Heating oil: +134%
Brent crude: +91%
Gasoline: +87%
US crude oil: +79%
Coal: +40%

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

European Natural Gas price.

1st of January: $28

Now: $93

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

Rice futures price

1st of January: $9.5

Now: $17.5

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

German Natural Gas price.

1st of January: $30

Now: $95

[Antonio Grasso @antgrasso]

Who decides whether a Bitcoin payment is valid? Not a bank.

Independent nodes check it against shared rules, while miners add blocks.

That allows BTC to move without a central operator, but protecting your private keys remains your responsibility.

Microblog by @antgrasso

[The Market Mind @Market_Mind_]

The Entire Semiconductor Ecosystem

Semiconductor Industry Stack (From Raw Materials to End Products)

Every computing device relies on an interconnected 8-tier hierarchy, from Japanese silicon ingots and American EDA code to Dutch lithography systems and Taiwanese foundries.

[Block @blocks]

Meet Dessa, our speech model trained from scratch on human conversation.

Hear it for yourself: https://t.co/FDmoXNPpIh

[Alex Rukundo @arukundo]

@BloombergTV ℹ️ 💡 Kuwait has 1 of the world's biggest diesel refineries.

[Alex Rukundo @arukundo]

@BloombergTV V insightful & informative with lots of clarity wrt different oil&gas blends [crude vs products], customer servicing, quantities both now & planned, the transport & logistics + tankers & pipeline capacity +... just the superb resilience.

[Alex Rukundo @arukundo]

Kuwait Petroleum CEO's very insightful & informative interview on @BloombergTV, enjoy! https://t.co/24tDeB0Dri

[Alex Rukundo @arukundo]

@jackprandelli 💡💡💡.

V insightful.

[Jack Prandelli @jackprandelli]

Who pays when a tanker gets hit?

3 letters in the contract decide it.

Incoterms set the point where risk passes from seller to buyer:

EXW at the seller's door.

FOB, CFR and CIF once the cargo is on board at the port of loading.

DAP and DDP at the destination, before unloading. DPU after unloading.

Most people miss this: under CFR and CIF the seller pays the freight, but the buyer carries the risk from the moment the cargo is loaded.

Read the contract before you read the price.

[jack @jack]

We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.

https://t.co/r0qFLdvd6c

[Elena Neira @elenaneira]

Dessa does not need a text-trained language model in the middle to formulate an answer. Its conversational capabilities were learned directly from human speech.
https://t.co/0mzzVaon3i