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SITUATION DETECTED: Fable 5.2 has solved two open problems in theoretical physics. Both concern black holes, and the effort to unite the two linchpin theories of modern physics, relativity, and quantum mechanics.

Un pigeon, un chat, des cochons d'Inde et des poissons en impesanteur.

Our new booster engine, Northstar, was built from the ground up by a scrappy team focused on weight, cost, manufacturability, and performance. More than 65% of the engine is additively manufactured using our in-house 3D printing capability. Northstar can be assembled in less than a day and produces 715,000 pounds of thrust.

Before bullet trains, there was this. Duchess of Hamilton, 1938. Peak British brilliance. Art Deco on rails ❤️

definitely a surprise. a bigger surprise would be if the former Limetree refinery in St. Croix is able to restart. the environment for it is welcoming, but the refinery would need significant investment. perhaps that situation is looking up?

Palmer Luckey says analysts claiming it's too expensive to manufacture in the US are lying to protect megacorps "I think I have a more realistic view than almost anybody. One of the problems with all these analysts that are telling you that it's going to cost $37,000 to build an American iPhone or $100,000 to buy an American computer." "They're trying to prop up a status quo that the megacorporations want to keep going. They want to outsource everything. They want to hire cheaper non-American labor." "They are willing to say and do anything to convince you that it can't be fixed, that it can't come back, that America is this helpless, neutered, post-relevant empire, and it is just not the case." "How do I know that? Because I have to make stuff in America every day because I work in the defense industry. The stuff that Anduril makes every day is not actually that different from a computer. My drones are basically computers. They have memory, a GPU, a CPU, sensors, batteries, a rugged integration." "The only difference between an Anduril attack drone and a laptop is a keyboard and a screen. That is not that hard to figure out, especially for a guy like me who started Oculus and comes from the consumer electronics space." "We're not going to let people lie about what America can and can't do anymore. We're just going to do it."

I’ve heard several OAI people say there are unfixable bugs in hardware that are exploitable by AI models directly speaking machine code so even if we could solve software that’s not enough. We need defense to move faster than offense if that’s even possible we may just have a new normal that requires adapting to insecure software (bank transfers require going into a branch and taking a dna test 🤣😬)

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CLAUDE MYTHOS JUST MOVED UP THE TIMELINE FOR QUANTUM COMPUTING Anthropic published it this morning. They gave Claude eight standard quantum subroutines, a checker that verifies the answer is right, and told it to find cheaper circuits. The big one is elliptic-curve point addition. That’s the step a quantum computer would run to break the keys behind Bitcoin and most of the internet. Claude found a design with 17x fewer gates than the best one humans had published, using 12% more qubits, it ran for 53 hours with almost no human input. Second one, a decoder inside Google’s own optimization algorithm. Claude cut the gate count 12x against Google’s construction and got the scratch qubits from 665 down to 19. Every estimate of when quantum computers become useful, or dangerous, assumes humans design the circuits by hand over years. If an AI does it in a weekend, every one of those timelines gets shorter. Anthropic’s own words: this could bring useful quantum computing “within reach sooner.” The people on the paper were Harvard’s Mikhail Lukin and Susanne Yelin. Lukin co-founded QuEra. $INFQ $IONQ $QNT $QBTS

👁️ Scientists have unlocked the secret to natural eye repair by removing a single protein that blocks the retina from regenerating. For decades, medical science operated on the assumption that mammalian eyes could not repair themselves once vision loss occurred. Unlike zebrafish or amphibians, human retinas lack the innate ability to regrow damaged cells, rendering conditions like macular degeneration and glaucoma largely irreversible. However, researchers have identified a key biological obstacle preventing this natural repair process: a protein named PROX1 that acts as a strict molecular stop sign inside retinal support cells. By developing a targeted therapy to neutralize this protein, scientists successfully prompted mouse retinas to reprogram their own cells and naturally rebuild light-sensing tissue. The intervention led to long-term vision recovery, proving that the cellular machinery for eye regeneration was merely dormant rather than lost. This breakthrough marks a monumental shift in ophthalmology, offering real hope that future treatments could actively restore sight rather than simply slowing down its decay. source: Kim, M., Lee, E. J., & Kim, J. W. PROX1 inhibition restores vision through retinal neural regeneration. Nature Communications.

New from our STEM Fellows Program: Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude. Given plain-language instructions, Claude Mythos 5 designed quantum circuits that improve on the best published ones, sometimes by an order of magnitude or more. More efficient circuits reduce the resources needed by quantum algorithms, which could bring quantum computing applications in chemistry and materials science within reach sooner. Read more: anthropic.com/research/desig…

U.S. ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION HITS RECORD LOW AS DRINKING HABITS SHIFT Americans are drinking less alcohol than ever recorded, according to Gallup, despite the country becoming less religious. The biggest declines are among Catholics, nonreligious Americans and infrequent churchgoers — groups historically more likely to drink. Meanwhile, concerns about alcohol's health risks are rising across all religious groups. Gallup suggests changing health attitudes, rather than religion, may be driving the nationwide decline.

After World War II, Deming taught Japanese business leaders and engineers how to use statistical process control and quality management. His methods transformed Japan from a producer of cheap goods into a global economic power.

Gökyüzünün en boş yerine bakmak için on gün harcadılar. Ve o boşluk, şimdiye kadar çekilmiş en kalabalık fotoğraflardan birine dönüştü. Aralık 1995'te Hubble Uzay Teleskobu'nun ayrılabilir zamanı, enstitü müdürü Robert Williams'ın elindeydi. Bütün astronomlar teleskobun peşindeydi: parlak yıldızlar, ünlü bulutsular, bilinen galaksi kümeleri. Williams ise Büyük Ayı takımyıldızı yakınında, tek bir parlak yıldızın, tek bir bilinen kümenin bile olmadığı bir nokta seçti. Bu nokta gökyüzünde, yüz metre ötedeki bir tenis topunun kapladığı alan kadardı. Bazı meslektaşları bunu teleskop zamanının israfı olarak gördü. Teleskop 18 Aralık'tan 28 Aralık'a kadar durmadan o noktaya baktı, yüzlerce pozlama aldı. Fotoğraf çıktığında kare boş değildi. İçinde yaklaşık üç bin galaksi vardı. Bazılarının ışığı milyarlarca yıl önce yola çıkmıştı ve o güne kadar görülen en uzak cisimler arasındaydı. Williams bir şey daha yaptı. Veriyi kendine saklamadı, herkese açtı. Kimse özel hak sahibi olmadı, kimse beklemek zorunda kalmadı. Şimdi gözünü kendi hayatına çevir. Senin de bir noktan var. Bir arkadaşlık, bir hayal, bir kapı. Bir gün baktın ve "orada bir şey yok" dedin. Gözünü ayırdın, çünkü boş görünen yere bakmak en pahalı dikkatti ve parlak yerlerde yeterince iş vardı. En rahatsız eden kısım şu: Derin Alan'ın bize öğrettiği şey galaksilerin çokluğu değil, o noktanın bütün bu zaman boyunca orada olmasıydı. Boş sandığın yer boş değildi, sadece yeterince uzun bakılmamıştı. Ve bunu öğrendiğin an müjde gelmiyor, hesap çıkıyor: o yere bakmadığın yılların hesabı. "Boş" kelimesi çoğu zaman bir ölçüm değildir. Bakmaktan vazgeçmenin en kibar adıdır. Sen hayatında hangi yere "orada bir şey yok" dedin ve ona kaç gün baktın?

As committed supporters of the ICC we regret and strongly disagree with the announcement of sanctions to be imposed upon the Court by the United States. – Joint statement of 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 ⬇️ auswaertiges-amt.de/de/newsr…