dude computers are actually so fucking insane when you really think about it. we literally figured out how to write some fake-ass rules called code and somehow convinced rocks to follow them. like actual rocks. sand, melted, purified, carved into tiny pathways where electricity just flows in patterns. that’s it. that’s the whole magic.
and yet from that we get operating systems, compilers, kernels, networks, distributed systems, machine learning models, entire virtual worlds running inside other virtual worlds. billions of tiny electrical decisions per second, all because we defined some abstract logic.
humans basically invented a language of instructions and taught matter itself to execute it.
@chamath@grok tell me what the income tax is for people who earn over $1m in the netherlands. Oh and while you are at it, also list the new wealth tax in 2028 there
30 million euros to potentially cure pancreatic cancer.
The US spent nearly $30 billion on pancreatic cancer care in 2020. Most of it managing a disease with a 5-year survival rate under 10%.
That's 0.1% of what we spend managing this disease annually. This is where resources should go, toward breakthroughs.
This is the kind of research I'll always stand behind. Not managing disease. Curing it.
An AI artist named Sienna Rose has 3 songs getting streamed in the Spotify top 50 and I'm pretty sure nobody knows it's an AI artist
Selena Gomez just posted one of the songs on her Instagram for the Golden Globes
World’s first urban-use high-altitude wind turbine completes test flight in Yibin, China.
The S2000 SAWES reached 2,000 m, generated enough electricity in an hour to fully charge 30 EVs, and connected to the grid.