A NASA NIAC project will try to Mapping Alien Continents using formation-flying optical interferometer. Two hierarchical nullers ~100 km apart that first suppress the host star by ~10¹⁰ in visible light, then combine the leftover planet light as a Michelson interferometer. That baseline gives an angular resolution of order 1 µas at 500 nm. An …
NASA Advanced innovation study will try to enable the next generation of solar sails featuring very high characteristic acceleration–potentially up to 2 mm/s²–and large effective areas exceeding 10,000 m², to support future ultra–high delta-V missions. These advanced solar sails would significantly transform space exploration and utilization, making possible a range of missions currently beyond the …
This is the nextbigfuture GDP PPP forecast scenario, not an IMF, Anthropic, or consensus forecast. It took the Anthropic economic forecasts for their base case and their bullish case. I then aligned national data for Taiwan and other countries as of this year. I then used OpenAI GPT 6 to build the scenario where AI …
I have been able to do 4 pull-ups with a neutral grip. This is the first time in my life that I have been able to do any pull-ups. I had more strength and lower weight in my 20s but I had bad technique. I now realize I was just going arms and not getting …
Tesla already sold the car. Could it keep earning from that same vehicle for years—and eventually earn while the car is parked? There are or will be three current and future revenue streams for Tesla cars. FSD subscriptions, autonomous rides, and Digital Optimus—the vision of AI performing computer-based work using Tesla hardware. Cybercab gets the …
This is the nextbigfuture GDP forecast scenario, not an IMF, Anthropic, or consensus forecast. It took the Anthropic economic forecasts for their base case and their bullish case. I then aligned national data for Taiwan and other countries as of this year. I then used OpenAI GPT 6 to build the scenario where AI productivity …
Jensen Huang says AGI has arrived. What can you actually do with it? I explain why I moved from $20 to $200 a month on AI—and how I’m using it to finish work I used to put off. We look at GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable and Grok, the next compute expansion, and what increasingly capable …
Tesla is letting people sign up to buy robotaxi fleets. The presentation at the event described dynamic pricing. Tesla has officially started offering Cybercab rides to the public. Info after the event. Per teslayoda – Cybercab can be purchased by fleet managers first — at $25-30K per unit. Fleet managers will be sold Cybercabs. The …
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will create enormous cosmic panoramas, which astronomers will use to explore everything from dark energy and dark matter to distant planets and black holes. The first observations will start in early 2027. It is launched and is moving to position. Roman will collect light from far across the universe …
Anthropic released FAble 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 and they continue to get better at agentic coding and scientific research. Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads, wherever usage is billed by token. This is because we’re reducing our pricing on cache reads (where the model reads inputs that …
David Friedberg on @theallinpod says the neoantigen approach is sequence the tumor, make the protein, put it back in the body, let the immune system destroy the cancer. Sequencing and protein production are cheap now, and the technique came out of decades of NIH-funded research. “You can pay someone $50,000 to do this for you …