Weird how people say they're honoring their religion by employing schoolyard level tricks to get around sacred precepts, as if God can't see through “not touching, can’t get mad" style reasoning.

Interstellar PE rollup play is dragging Jupiter-class planets into Brown Dwarfs just on the cusp of enough mass for hydrogen fusion, turning their surrounding frozen asteroid hellscapes into viable M-class planetesimals.

Not to name names but AI products that tell you exactly what to do and say such that people no longer think for themselves is the premise of the Butlerian Jihad.

Commercial air travel has to be the highest ratio of "might of engineering" to "shittiness of human experience" It would be more enjoyable to take a paddleboat or walk for the same number of hours as flying on a plane, to say nothing of airports.

Did life start on Earth? Take a bunch of organisms, plot the log(genome size) versus time of first fossil. You get a complexity doubling time of ~400 million years. Going all the way back to 'zero complexity' though lands you ~8 billion years before the Earth formed.

First new blog post in a while, exploring how biology is the most advanced tech-stack in the known universe and AI and Robotics will enable us to one day grow things like rockets.

The purpose of intelligence is to understand the universe, and the destiny of intelligent beings is to explore it in its entirety. Earth is our school, our training ground, preparing us for the greatest adventure still to come - a life among the stars.

At New Founding, we respect the dignity of the noble zeppelin.

Tantalum, indium, sapphire, inconel. Artisinal materials. Refined. Materials you'd have an affair with after a long and uneventful marriage to austenite, quenched and nickeled to 304.

Coming to a NeurIPS near you