Franz Bruckhoff

Self-taught AI researcher / tech analyst / investor
WIP: Lean neurosymbolic AI lab
Ex–top-chart iOS indie dev
peak $40k MRR, 5M+ reached

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Towards Deep QA & The Star Trek Computer: Natural Language Processing may become a $16B industry by 2021.

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@dianalokada he'll thank you for it later, because most other kids just get to play games optimizing short-term reward prediction errors

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@dianalokada sounds like a fun social activity

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@inferredbylisa What's stopping you?

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@MarioNawfal I’m not surprised. When the EU’s founders dream of moving to SF, something’s got to be wrong with the EU. Chinese founders can go to Shenzhen, which is absolutely amazing, but Europe is a big wasteland when it comes to that. Nowhere to go for ambitious people other than to leave.

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@TheBestqueenx Way better than what paying rent looks like

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Well, and those millions of AI compute satellites in multi-GW mega-constellations with their vast radiator arrays are going to cast shadows on grass as well, with some decent stretch of the imagination. Haven’t heard any environmentalists make that argument yet.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

As the global competition in artificial intelligence heats up, Chinese developers are sinking data centers beneath the ocean surface to dramatically reduce cooling costs.

The innovative approach already has underwater facilities operating off the coasts of Shanghai and Hainan. These subsea data centers take advantage of the ocean’s naturally cold and stable deep waters for passive cooling.

Traditional land-based data centers spend 40 to 50 percent of their energy on cooling. By submerging the servers, operators say they have cut that share to under 10 percent. This eliminates the need for massive industrial chillers, sharply lowering electricity consumption, carbon emissions, and freshwater usage.

Yet the strategy carries significant environmental risks. The intense heat discharged by densely packed servers is raising alarms among marine scientists. Rapid deployment in the race for AI supremacy could create artificial warm zones in the ocean, potentially harming sensitive marine ecosystems and forming localized dead zones.

With the long-term effects on ocean life still unknown, critics argue that this underwater expansion risks prioritizing technological speed over careful stewardship of the marine environment.

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@dominictsz Looks better than most luxury apartments in Portugal at 30x that rent.

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@GabrielD_Ouro @levelsio 😂

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@levelsio Btw, do they have restrooms as well? Imagine drinking coffee but your gf still needs 3h.

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@levelsio It's also for girls. In case they realize how exhausting it really is, so they can recover in the store and maybe forget, rather than going home and ordering on Amazon / etc.

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@Midnight_Captl @GavinSBaker Saw that coming

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@typesfast I hear this Henry story all the time. What else did they invent after that, other than Pastel de Nata which hypothetically deserves a Nobel Prize based on how delicious it is?

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@emmysteuer Truth

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@jenzhuscott @X @nikitabier Maybe the algo believes that this is what you need, even before you believe it too. It’s like gaslighting or something.

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@sierracatalina I won’t share this with my neighbor. We have a good connection.

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@anumness Super cool. He might be solving the distribution challenge for you.

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@mandylu I have one

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@SirDWindscale @nikitabier Plus you expose yourself to deepfake scammers. Going on video is quite dangerous nowadays. Allows full 3D reconstruction to fake online ID verification etc.

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@SteveSkojec @lauramatsue Also can’t use the words “operational” and “shifts” anymore. AI should’ve gotten its own language. Aiglish or so. We could’ve learned it.

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@lauramatsue Very true