John Langdon

[John Langdon @realwizardly]

Can a three 12gb Nvida 1080Ti graphics cards be used for a local Ai cluster?

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

Holy SMOKES… DMSO combined with vitamin C ERASED 86.7% of the world’s MOST COMMON skin cancer in just 8 weeks.

The basal cell cancers were NO MATCH for the low-cost topical solution in this study.

It also CLEARED 56% of squamous cell carcinomas, while 44% of lesions SHRANK by over 85%.

94% of patients AVOIDED surgery.

Larger clinical trials should be launched IMMEDIATELY, as 20% of Americans will develop skin cancer in their lifetime.

[👑G👑 @3mrwellington3]

No toilets? Interesting...

[John Langdon @realwizardly]

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[ChurchillMaverick @ChurchillPath]

Причина, по которой американские реактивные двигатели уже полвека занимают лидирующие позиции в мире, заключается вовсе не в каких-то гениальных секретах конструкции. Дело в том, что почти никто другой просто не способен их производить.

Многие думают, что самое сложное в создании реактивного двигателя, это его конструкция и чертежи. Но это не так. Можно передать кому угодно полный комплект технической документации, и человек всё равно не сможет изготовить даже одну работающую турбинную лопатку.

Вот вам представление о масштабах технологии: одна турбинная лопатка размером примерно с ладонь может стоить столько же, сколько совершенно новый Audi. В самых передовых военных и высокотехнологичных двигателях цена одной лопатки может достигать стоимости BMW 5-й серии.

Но самое удивительное заключается в другом: эти лопатки не являются цельными металлическими деталями. Внутри каждой из них находится сложнейшая трёхмерная сеть охлаждающих каналов, по своей сложности превосходящая кровеносную систему человека.

По этим внутренним каналам циркулирует охлаждающая жидкость, которая выходит наружу через сотни микроскопических отверстий, каждое из которых тоньше человеческого волоса. В результате на поверхности лопатки образуется невидимая газовая плёнка, защищающая металл от воздействия пламени с температурой в несколько тысяч градусов. И это только система охлаждения.

Сам материал представляет собой ещё одно технологическое препятствие, которое практически никому не удаётся преодолеть. При таких температурах обычный металл просто расплавился бы.

Лопатки передовых реактивных двигателей изготавливают из никелевых жаропрочных суперсплавов с монокристаллической структурой. Это означает, что вся лопатка представляет собой единый непрерывный кристалл без границ между зёрнами и, соответственно, без слабых мест, характерных для обычной металлической структуры.

Лишь немногие страны в мире освоили эту технологию литья. Но даже после отливки работа ещё далека от завершения. Каждую лопатку отдельно взвешивают и покрывают специальным защитным слоем ещё до того, как она покинет завод.

При сборке инженерам приходится учитывать разницу в массе отдельных деталей, измеряемую микрограммами. Причина проста: такие двигатели вращаются со скоростью в десятки тысяч оборотов в минуту, создавая колоссальные центробежные нагрузки.

Даже отклонение в массе, сопоставимое с весом человеческого волоса, при таких скоростях может привести к разрушению всего двигателя.

После установки лопатки должны выдерживать тысячи часов работы, постоянно подвергаясь экстремальным циклам нагрева и охлаждения, не растрескиваясь и не деформируясь. Здесь нет права на ошибку.

Поэтому главное препятствие в производстве реактивных двигателей заключается вовсе не в чертежах. Оно заключается в составе сплава, технологии получения монокристаллов, геометрии внутренних охлаждающих каналов и точности изготовления, измеряемой микрограммами.

За всем этим стоят десятилетия накопленного промышленного опыта и технологических знаний, которые невозможно просто скопировать или наверстать за короткое время.

P.S. Стоит уточнить: технология монокристаллических лопаток была действительно впервые освоена в США (Pratt & Whitney), однако Великобритания (Rolls-Royce) и Франция (Safran) уже несколько десятилетий самостоятельно владеют полным циклом производства таких лопаток, от собственных сплавов до серийного литья.

Они не зависят от американских поставок в этой области и используют эти технологии в своих двигателях (Trent, LEAP и др.). Клуб стран, способных изготавливать такие лопатки, ограничен, но он не является чисто американским.

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

The Muslim Turks loved flaying alive Christians. During the Ottoman period, they applied it mainly against Greek rebels to deter and discipline others. As usual, the Christian victim was beaten, publicly humiliated, and tied to a special scaffold for immobilization. Then, skilled executioners removed his skin with sharp knives before the crowd. Here are 3 characteristic cases.

The first concerns Dionysios, Greek Bishop of Larisa and Trikki, who lived in the 16th–17th centuries. An enlightened hierarch with brilliant studies in philosophy, medicine, theology, and more at major Western universities, he earned the title "Philosopher." In the early 17th century (1601 and 1611), he initiated two revolutionary movements in Thessaly and Epirus. Both failed, and in 1611 he was captured alive. In Ioannina's central square, before a crowd, he was skinned alive in a martyrdom lasting five hours, aged around 70. The vandalism continued: his flayed body was thrown to dogs, while his skin was stuffed with straw and bran, dressed in archiepiscopal vestments, and paraded through the city with music for days. Finally, it was sent to the Sultan and ended up discarded in the royal stables.

Another well-known case is that of Daskalogiannis. On June 17, 1771, he was led to a central square in Chandax (Heraklion). A wooden scaffold with a special seat had been erected. Tied tightly to it, he was flayed starting from the head by a monstrous executioner who threw pieces of skin to the crowd, saying: "Take leather for your boots!" A second executioner periodically showed him his flayed face in a mirror, mocking: "Look, captain, how well the red suits you!" Relatives (brother and daughter) in the crowd went mad at the sight. He endured steadfastly and died when the flaying reached his shoulder blades. His flayed body remained exposed in the June heat for days in that square (now named in his honor) until the stench forced the Turks to bury it.

The third case is that of the Venetian Marco Antonio Bragadin. He was executed by flaying in August 1571 in Famagusta, Cyprus, after defending the island alongside the Greeks. They first cut off both of Bragadin’s ears and his nose. While he was in captivity, a massacre of all the remaining Christians in the city took place. After being left in prison for two weeks with his wounds festering, he was dragged around the city walls carrying sacks of earth and stone on his back. Next, he was tied to a chair and hoisted to the yardarm of the Turkish flagship, where he was exposed to the taunts of the sailors. Finally, he was taken to the main square, tied naked to a column, and flayed alive. Bragadin’s quartered body was then distributed as war trophies among the army, while his skin was stuffed with straw, sewn back together, reinvested with his military insignia, and exhibited riding an ox in a mocking procession through the streets of Famagusta. In 1580, his skin was stolen by Girolamo Polidori and brought back to Venice, where it remains today in the Basilica di San Giovanni e Paolo.

The martyrdom of flaying (skinning alive) is ancient. Herodotus mentions that it was originally practiced by the Scythians. He describes how the barbarians Scythian warriors treated conquered foes, using their enemies' skin to manufacture leather trophy items. Archaeology has confirmed Herodotus' account. Scalp flaying was called "periskythismos" due to this Scythian custom. It was always a sign of barbarity and fortunately an exception rather than the rule. The punishment was also used by the Romans during persecutions of Christian martyrs, the best-known case being the apostle Bartholomew.

If you want to support me in the effort I’m making, please consider becoming a subscriber to my X account for only $2. I write about the ancient, medieval, and modern history of Greece and what Christians went through because of Islam. Always with primary sources and historical facts.

- Homer Pavlos

[Trump Girl 🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲 @MAGA__Patriot]

A little something for the feminists, the "no new foreign wars", crowd and the cheap seats in the back...

[Bruce @realPatriotBAC]

Elon Musk: "Even if I'm criticized by the whole world, I won't let go of X." The reason makes you think.

Reporter: "Why are you so attached to X?"

Elon: "What do you mean by that?"

Reporter: "Since the acquisition, it's been nothing but criticism, right?"

Elon: "That's true."

Reporter: "Politicians criticize you too."

Elon: "Yes."

Reporter: "There are conflicts with regulatory authorities."

Elon: "That's true."

Reporter: "Honestly, wouldn't it be easier to sell it?"

Elon: "Why?"

Reporter: "You have Tesla and SpaceX, don't you?"

Elon: "I do."

Reporter: "There's no need to stay in the center of controversies, right?"

Elon: "But what would that solve?"

Reporter: "...... Huh?"

Elon: "I think it's important to have a place where opinions can be exchanged freely."

Reporter: "But there are unpleasant opinions too, aren't there?"

Elon: "Of course."

Reporter: "There are wrong opinions too."

Elon: "That's true."

Reporter: "So, shouldn't there be restrictions?"

Elon: "How far to restrict?"

Reporter: "That's..."

Elon: "Who decides which opinions are correct?"

Reporter: "..."

Elon: "It's easy to protect only the opinions we agree with."

Reporter: "Yes."

Elon: "But what about when contrary opinions arise?"

Reporter: "..."

Elon: "That's where the real test of free speech happens, don't you think?"

[John Langdon @realwizardly]

Love this one!

https://t.co/c37akWxh9x

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Tesla is celebrating Halloween this year by having a Cybercab autonomously drive around Austin with skeletons inside haha 🎃

[🇺🇸🍊🧡southerngalpal 🧡🍊🇺🇸 @belleofva]

Do you know why numbers have their shapes?

[Shiestynurse @shiestynurse]

I can’t believe this but I gotta do it. I never wanna hear MAGA NURSES CAN’T BE NURSES. The shit I hear from liberal nurses is beyond unprofessional. I hope this nurse learns from this report I’m about to make on her. I’m just glad I stepped in and helped the patient who was attacked by 2 random people.

[David Carbutt @DavidCarbutt_]

The unthinkable is about to happen to SpaceX

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

BREAKING: The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled that illegal aliens detained by ICE DO NOT have a constitutional right to receive bond for the duration of their immigration proceedings.

MAJOR WIN

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Elon Musk hilariously explains why Optimus has to learn like a toddler, by playing, making mistakes and getting better over time 😂

“In order for Optimus to get the training data we need, we actually need to make a lot of Optimi. So we need to make, I think, on the order of 10,000 or 20,000 bots and then have them do self-play. We're building up an Optimus academy where Optimus can practice doing a very wide range of tasks

And then we can use that data in a flywheel to make it better and better at these various tasks, a big difference with Optimus versus the cars

Is we don't have this vast fleet of cars from which we can gather training data. So with Optimus, we have to bootstrap it by making the robots and having them do self-play, which is really how a human learns to navigate the world

You can see this when you have a toddler and they grow up and they initially are wobbly and they don't know how to do things, and eventually they, they learn to wipe their own ass, which is a big milestone, because anyone who's had kids knows

And then they learn to read and do all sorts of things and be able to do these things. And they learn this by playing

And we actually need Optimus to play at scale in order to have it be really good at tasks in the real world”

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Elon Musk: Neuralink's Blindsight vision implant is coming soon

"Even if somebody's completely blind, we can write directly to the visual cortex"

The first version will offer low-resolution vision, but the long-term goal goes much further:

"You would have very high resolution and be able to see multispectral wavelengths. You could see in infrared, ultraviolet, radar. It's like a superpower situation"

[GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE @GOP_is_Gutless]

🚨This is a MUST READ: it’s a post from a French Citizen: Brivael Le Pogam, this is the best description of what has occurred in France I have seen, read his words:

Le Pogam: “To every American, and to everyone watching France burn from abroad:

Do not blame the French people for this.

We never asked for it. We never voted for it. And the one time we were clearly asked, we said no.

Here are the numbers your media won't show you.

70% of the French say there are too many immigrants in France today.
79% want a tougher immigration policy.
77% disapprove of the government's record on immigration.
83% want foreign criminals and long-term unemployed foreigners sent home.
And no, it's not just the old. 69% of French 18 to 24 year olds support suspending legal immigration for three years.
This is not a fringe. This is the French people.
In 2005, we were asked if we wanted the European Constitution. 55% voted no. Three years later, our politicians passed the same text under another name, through parliament, without ever asking us again.

That is modern France in one sentence. The people say no. The elites do it anyway.

So who is responsible? The politicians who lied to us. A class of leaders formed in the same schools, the same forums, the same networks, loyal to each other before they are loyal to their nations.

In 2017, at Harvard, Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, bragged about his Young Global Leaders program in four words: "We penetrate the cabinets." He added that it was true in France. Emmanuel Macron was one of his Young Global Leaders.

It's the same project in Brussels with Ursula von der Leyen and in Paris with Macron. Borders treated as an obstacle. Nations treated as relics. The people treated as a problem to be managed.

What you are watching in France is not the French people failing. It is the end of the globalist project, an abject, quasi-communist dream of a world run by unelected planners. It is collapsing everywhere in Europe at once, and the West has to cut this cancer out before it takes the rest of the body with it.

The peoples of Europe don't want this. They never did.

So when you see our town halls burning, don't say "the French chose this."

The French never chose this.

They were forced into it.

If you're French and you agree, repost this so the world hears it from us.

If you're American, look at us carefully. Then choose differently on November 3rd.”

Hope that wakes you up…

Vote RED 🇺🇸

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Somewhere right now, a person who has never built anything is writing an article explaining why Elon Musk doesn’t know what he’s doing.

They call him a fraud from behind a screen he built the future on. They call him dangerous from a platform he owns. They call him greedy while he pledges $10.5 billion in SpaceX stock to 72 million American children.

The man they describe does not exist. The man they ignore just made a car fly.

These are people who have never built anything that survived contact with reality. Their entire careers exist in the space between an opinion and a deadline, and they have confused the ability to describe the world with the ability to understand it.

He operates in the physical layer of reality. The layer where the math either closes or the rocket doesn’t come home. Where the car either drives itself or it crashes. Where the satellite either reaches orbit or it becomes debris.

No opinion survives in that layer. No spin. Just physics and results.

He built the vehicle that carries NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. The satellite constellation delivering internet to active war zones. The EV that forced every automaker on Earth to abandon their combustion roadmap. The brain chip that let a paralyzed person control a computer with their thoughts.

They say he hoards wealth. He just pledged one SpaceX share from his own holdings to every child in America. 72 million kids. Not a foundation. Not a tax shelter. A direct ownership stake in the company building the future.

Those kids now have skin in the game. A reason to care about launches, about engineering, about what gets built next. Not because someone told them to. Because they own a piece of it.

The people calling him greedy have given the public nothing but their opinions and the privilege of listening to them.

The criticism didn’t escalate because he got worse at engineering. It escalated because he bought X.

He cracked open the algorithm. Handed the public square back to the people using it. Broke the power of a small class of gatekeepers to curate reality for everyone else.

They spent decades telling the public what to think. He gave them a platform and told them to think for themselves. The meltdown has been dressed up as concern for democracy ever since, but what they are actually mourning is the monopoly.

These are the people who lecture about misinformation from newsrooms that retract stories quarterly. Who demand accountability from a man who tests his work in front of the entire planet while they publish behind editorial boards that answer to no one.

An engineer puts a rocket on a drone ship and the whole world watches it land or explode. A journalist puts an opinion in a headline and if it’s wrong, nothing happens. No consequence. Just a correction buried where nobody reads it.

One of these people is accountable to physics. The other is accountable to their editor. And the one accountable to their editor keeps telling the one accountable to physics that he doesn’t know what he’s doing.

They had one advantage. The bottleneck. The ability to stand between the public and the information and decide what got through. Not truth. Access. He didn’t compete with them. He made the bottleneck irrelevant.

A rocket doesn’t care about your headline. Gravity doesn’t read your editorial. And the laws of physics have never once adjusted to fit a narrative.

They own the words.

He owns the work.

One of them is going to Mars. The other will write an article about why he shouldn’t.

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

Mirroring riots from the USA, where pallets of bricks were delivered to the centre of disorder.

Pallets of glasses bottles dropped into the middle of French riots.

Find out who did this, and you're half way to finding the truth.