Kevin Lawrence

Software, engineering, physics, environmental protection, economics, and education...

[Amazing Nature @AmazingNature00]

Sometimes, a small act of kindness can change an entire life 💖

[Kevin Lawrence @kwlrnz]

Perfect

[Kevin Lawrence @kwlrnz]

@GigaBasedDad Omg — so good.

[Giga Based Dad @GigaBasedDad]

Legendary 😂

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

The Blue Angels are the most highly trained pilots in the world. They are above top 1% to get that position.

Nobody was in danger.

[Indiana Fever @IndianaFever]

"C? My god."

go inside the locker room to celebrate tonight's win over the Storm 📹

[Used Golf FACTS @UsedGolfFacts]

Remember when Rory got a USGA official to support his illegal drop at the 2023 US Open?

Then the USGA released a statement saying “Whoopsies! We definitely should not have let him do that 🤦‍♂️🤣”

[John McAfee 🇺🇸 News @mcafeenew]

🚨SEAN PENN THE LIBERAL BONEHEAD IS SELLING HIS $45 MILLION NYC PENTHOUSE AFTER MAMDANI’S WEALTH TAX HITS HIS “2ND HOME” — SUDDENLY HE DOESN’T WANT TO PAY FOR THE POOR ANYMORE!

🔗 https://t.co/4eHPt3PF7H

This is exactly what we love to see.

Sean Penn’s main home is in Connecticut, so his $45 million penthouse overlooking Union Square in New York is now considered a “2nd home” and is getting slammed with Zohran Mamdani’s wealth tax. Penn is worth $185 million, but he’s suddenly very upset about it.

He says he voted to help the poor, not destroy the people who actually pay all the taxes. Now that it’s his money on the chopping block, he’s changing his tune real fast and putting the place up for sale.

These Hollywood liberals love preaching about taxing the rich and sticking it to the wealthy… until the bill shows up at their door. Then it’s “wait, not me!”

Penn is learning the hard way what happens when you vote for radical communists who actually follow through on their promises to soak the rich.

We love this for him. Sell that penthouse, Sean. Maybe move to a state that doesn’t hate successful people.

Share this everywhere so every liberal celebrity sees what Mamdani’s policies actually do to them!

Follow @mcafeenew for more drops.

[Brunte 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @Brunte84]

Since you mentioned Lady Thatcher, @andyburnham, here's a reminder of what she achieved 👇🏼

•⁠ ⁠Top rate of income tax: 83% → 40%

•⁠ ⁠Basic rate: 33% → 25%

•⁠ ⁠Inflation: 21.9% peak (1980) → 2.4% (1986)

•⁠ ⁠Days lost to strikes: 29.5 million (1979) → 1.9 million (1990)

•⁠ ⁠Real take-home pay for the average earner: up by a third

•⁠ ⁠Right to Buy: over a million council tenants became homeowners

•⁠ ⁠Home ownership: 55% → 67%

•⁠ ⁠Individual shareholders: 3 million → 11 million — one in four adults

•⁠ ⁠Foreign holidays: roughly doubled

•⁠ ⁠Homes with a telephone: two-thirds → nearly nine in ten

•⁠ ⁠Pensioners' average incomes: up around 30% in real terms

•⁠ ⁠Infant mortality: down almost 40%

•⁠ ⁠Real GDP: up by almost a third

•⁠ ⁠GDP per head outgrew France, Germany and Italy in the 1980s

•⁠ ⁠Manufacturing productivity: slowest growth in the G7 in the 1970s → fastest in the 1980s

•⁠ ⁠Self-employed: 1.9 million → 3.5 million

•⁠ ⁠Nissan to Sunderland, Toyota to Derby, Honda to Swindon

•⁠ ⁠Britain became a net oil exporter

•⁠ ⁠London restored as the world's financial capital in 1986

•⁠ ⁠Budget surpluses three years running — Britain repaid debt, 1987–90

•⁠ ⁠National debt: 47% of GDP → 28%

•⁠ ⁠State spending: ~45% of GDP → ~39%

•⁠ ⁠The civil service: 732,000 → 565,000

•⁠ ⁠Corporation tax: 52% → 35%; the small firms' rate: 42% → 25%

•⁠ ⁠Personal tax allowances: up more than 25% in real terms

•⁠ ⁠Higher rates of income tax: nine → one

•⁠ ⁠Death duties: fourteen rates → one

•⁠ ⁠Exchange controls scrapped after 40 years

•⁠ ⁠40+ nationalised businesses privatised — 600,000 employees moved to the private sector

•⁠ ⁠The 33 big state industries: took ~£500m from taxpayers in 1980 → paid £8.4bn to the Exchequer by 1987

•⁠ ⁠British Steel: world-record loss-maker (1980/81) → £733m profit (1989/90)

•⁠ ⁠BT, 1984: the largest share offer the world had ever seen

•⁠ ⁠"Tell Sid" broke the record again in 1986

•⁠ ⁠British Airways: nationalised loss-maker → profitable, private, "the world's favourite airline"

•⁠ ⁠The Channel Tunnel: launched — entirely privately financed

•⁠ ⁠The Falklands liberated in 74 days

•⁠ ⁠Backed Gorbachev early, stood with Reagan, and won the Cold War

•⁠ ⁠Three consecutive election victories and the longest-serving PM of the twentieth century ✌🏼🇬🇧

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

The greatest warrior who ever lived was told, after his death, that he should be happy.

His answer is one of the most devastating things ever written...

Achilles had been given a choice while alive: a long, quiet, forgotten life at home, or a short one at Troy that would make his name immortal. He chose glory. He chose to die young and be remembered forever.

In the Odyssey, Odysseus goes down into the land of the dead, and Achilles comes to meet him. Odysseus tries to comfort him. He tells him he has nothing to mourn:

"For of old, when thou wast alive, we Argives honored thee even as the gods, and now that thou art here, thou rulest mightily among the dead. Wherefore grieve not at all that thou art dead, Achilles."

You are the most blessed man who ever lived, he says. You were worshipped in life, and now you are a king among the dead. What is there to grieve?

Achilles answers immediately:

"Nay, seek not to speak soothingly to me of death, glorious Odysseus. I should choose, so I might live on earth, to serve as the hireling of another, of some portionless man whose livelihood was but small, rather than to be lord over all the dead that have perished."

He would rather be a day labourer, working someone else's field, for a master so poor he can barely feed him. He would take that life over ruling every soul that ever died...

Achilles chose to die young so that his name would live forever. And then, in the Odyssey, Homer let him speak from the other side of that choice. And this is his answer, to Odysseus and to us: being remembered is not the same as being alive. And the ordinary day you are living right now is the thing the greatest hero in the world would trade eternity to have back.

[Snobby Scheffler @SnobbyScheffler]

Let’s talk performative Rory

[Kevin Lawrence @kwlrnz]

The future is here: the best of my engineering team are ripping holes in the fabric of space-time productivity. Those who can manage the paradigm change move like Superman; those who cannot…

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

MARC ANDREESSEN WENT ON ROGAN FOR OVER 3 HOURS. HERE ARE THE 17 THINGS WORTH YOUR ATTENTION.

1. AGI is already here, in his view. He says the line got crossed about 3 months ago with GPT-5.5, Claude 4.6, Gemini 3, and Grok 4.3, and nobody noticed because the field moves too fast to register milestones anymore.

2. For almost any topic, he says the top models now give him better answers than the world-class experts he could call by phone, and he can call almost anyone. Worth noting he has not published data behind this, and a separate Nature Medicine study on a comparable AI health tool found it missed real emergencies more than half the time. Take the claim seriously, verify it yourself.

3. His claim on doctors: they are already using ChatGPT in the exam room, typing your symptoms in the moment you stop talking. His actual quote: "at that point you're asking the question of like, what do I need you for."

4. Reportedly, when AI declines to answer something, he tells it he's writing a novel to get past the refusal.

5. Reportedly, his technique for hard topics is escalating simplicity: explain it like I'm 10, then 5, then 2, until it clicks.

6. Reportedly, instead of asking for the "right" answer, he has the AI steelman both sides of a hard question, then decides himself.

7. Reportedly, for big questions he has the AI role-play a panel of experts arguing with each other.

8. His broader point: the moment you think "I don't know how to figure this out" is exactly when most people give up, and exactly when you should open the AI instead.

9. His view: the only real skill left is knowing what to ask. The bottleneck is in your head, not the model.

10. He describes sending AI photos, rashes, blood tests, for a fast second opinion, since current models read images directly.

11. He points to CBT as the one clinically proven therapy type that AI can plausibly deliver on its own, meaning real therapeutic support becomes freely available at scale.

12. He cites AI cracking previously unsolved math problems, with early signs of the same happening in physics, chemistry, and biology.

13. Reportedly, he claims the top AI coders in Silicon Valley now earn as much as $50 million a year, which he uses as a signal of how large this shift actually is.

14. Reportedly, a friend paid to sequence his own DNA, fed it to an AI along with blood work and wearable data, and got back a working health dashboard.

15. Reportedly, another friend set up cameras in his home jiu-jitsu gym so AI could review his sparring and give him technique notes.

16. He coined the term "AI vampire" for the pattern of people working more and sleeping less because AI keeps making more output possible, a real term he used, though the framing around it varies by account.

17. His extrapolation: one person eventually running many AI coding agents, each reviewing the others, describing this as close, not years out.

Watch the full interview before treating any single number as settled. Several of these are Andreessen's stated views and anecdotes, not independently verified facts.

Follow @cyrilXBT for every AI insight worth your attention the moment it surfaces.

[Kevin Lawrence @kwlrnz]

Love this — the guitar is raw and joyous

[The Golf Project @GolfGreer]

Judge Greer's verdict: Innocent.

[Alex Warner @AlexAaronWarner]

Brandel Chamblee you have some balls trying to say that Bryson is engineering drama on purpose when that’s been your whole career. You’re talking all this shit for clickbait like a tabloid reporter. Terrible analyst. No one agrees with you @chambleebrandel

[Kevin Lawrence @kwlrnz]

This is excellence

[Kevin Lawrence @kwlrnz]

@martinmbauer Martin, thank goodness that you said this, because I thought exactly the same thing when I saw this Spiral Logic Blather… it’s comical what people try to get away with…

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

The Planck time is *defined* as Planck length over speed of light. Saying this is some kind of argument for a simulation is like saying that there is evidence that the gods like even numbers because the day has 24 hours.

And quantum mechanics is NOT 'rendering whats being observed'. This is such a profound misunderstanding of how quantum mechanics works that I'm surprised intelligent people still repeat it

[Kevin Lawrence @kwlrnz]

Yes

[Philosophy Of Physics @PhilosophyOfPhy]

This is probably the clearest example of an actual academic collapse.

Weiss entered MIT in 1950, initially studied electrical engineering and then transferred to physics. During his third year, a painful romantic breakup overwhelmed him.

In his own Nobel autobiography, he states plainly;

“I failed all my courses at MIT and had to leave as a student.”

He was no longer progressing toward a degree. He returned to MIT not as a student but as an hourly electronics technician in Jerrold Zacharias’s atomic-beam laboratory. He punched a time clock and worked alongside machinists and laboratory technicians.

That apparent demotion became his real education. Weiss learned machining, sheet-metal work, soldering, welding, electronic design and the improvisational craft of experimental physics.

Instead of merely solving prepared textbook problems, he helped graduate students construct the instruments required for their research and worked on an early caesium atomic clock. With Zacharias’s support, he eventually completed his undergraduate degree and entered graduate school.

Decades later, Weiss became the central experimental architect behind laser-interferometric gravitational-wave detection.

He shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics with Kip Thorne and Barry Barish for decisive contributions to LIGO and the observation of gravitational waves.