Malan

Space × AI × Quantum

[Malan @malanxbt]

@caderoas The clearest real-world proof of this is LTCM in '98 - two Nobel laureates, a model built on correlations that barely moved for years, 25-to-1 leverage.

[Malan @malanxbt]

@NightSkyNow As a true interstellar fan, I have to say that this is indeed true.

[Malan @malanxbt]

@AstronomyVibes I actually used to think at one point that we were one big organism.

[Malan @malanxbt]

@marcheecz Exactly - and it's uncomfortable on purpose. An unexplained leftover means your model is wrong somewhere.

[Malan @malanxbt]

EVERYTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN, TOUCHED, OR BEEN IS LESS THAN 5% OF WHAT EXISTS.

In the 1970s, astronomer Vera Rubin was measuring how fast stars orbit at the edges of spiral galaxies.

Newton said outer stars should move slower, like planets far from the sun. Instead, every single galaxy she checked showed the same thing: stars at the edge moved just as fast as stars near the core.

She wasn't discovering new physics.
She was measuring the gap left over after every known source of gravity had been subtracted.

That leftover has a name: dark matter.

It doesn't emit light, doesn't block it, and has never been directly detected.

But it makes up roughly 27% of the universe - and every confirmation since Rubin has used the same method: subtract what you can explain, then take the leftover seriously.

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

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[Malan @malanxbt]

@caderoas The thing here is that scientists have always had the same intelligence as now, despite the technologies available today.

[Malan @malanxbt]

@alexcolevv That's only because you've never delved into or thought about the realities of life.

[Malan @malanxbt]

@NASAMars 14 years to climb 1 kilometer and it's still the most patient thing on that entire planet. humans would've quit by week 3

[Malan @malanxbt]

@astro4pics we're now using AI to sharpen photos of things AI barely existed when we first tried to capture. 2017 data getting a 2023 glow up says a lot about how fast this moved

[Malan @malanxbt]

@hayyantechtalks 10 septillion years is a number so big it stops meaning anything, which is exactly why it's the wrong stat to be impressed by. the error correction part is the actual story

[Malan @malanxbt]

@Qtumanalysis 13 miles through open air with no cable sounds small until you remember entanglement dies if you look at it wrong. this race isn't about kilometers, it's about who keeps the signal alive longest

[Malan @malanxbt]

@mathemetica algebra becomes geometry and geometry becomes destiny might be the most unhinged and correct way to describe control theory I've seen all year

[Malan @malanxbt]

@Kylechasse a new state of matter that isn't solid, liquid, or gas either ages into a physics textbook chapter or gets quietly downgraded to promising research. rooting for the textbook version

[Malan @malanxbt]

@NextScience doesn't let information travel faster than light is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. the universe found a loophole and still won't let us use it

[Malan @malanxbt]

@Dexerto no legs, no wheels, and it still gets through rubble better than most robots with both. evolution figured out mobility before we did

[Malan @malanxbt]

@matthewmillerai AGI by end of year has been said every year since 2023. the tell isn't the timeline, it's that people keep listing specific model weaknesses right after saying it

[Malan @malanxbt]

@Mr_Salio my money's on Fable 5.1 slipping past Astra. every dropping soon in this industry comes with a built-in two week tax

[Malan @malanxbt]

@marcheecz I used a researcher and a writer for some of my needs; it seems that the other two types definitely won't be redundant.

[Malan @malanxbt]

@AnthropicAI labs saying we can't tell the whole story alone is rare enough to be worth noticing. most companies protect the data, not the narrative

[Malan @malanxbt]

@bridgemindai a model you can't leave unsupervised isn't a smarter model, it's just a more convincing one. that's the actual gap nobody's solved yet