TheQuantumBard @thequantumbard

A snippet of a thought I sent to a colleague today; I hope this helps someone. “Ai is certainly disruptive, but Pandora’s box is open and we must embrace or be replaced 😉 I would never presume to blunt Occam’s Razor, but the simplest answer is normally but not always right. Leaders with heart, integrity, vision and passion can still change the world as we embrace these new tools. We can’t be like 1440 scribes reviling the Gutenberg press (wonky analog, I acknowledge). “

@realDonaldTrump Made this a few months ago ;-)

Wow. Just wow

Elon Musk just named it. Starmind. One million AI satellites, each a flying data center wider than a 747, cooled by panels that glow their heat into the void. This is not Starlink. Starlink moves internet. Starmind moves thought. Each satellite, the AI1, carries 150 kilowatts of compute on a 70-meter span of solar cells, runs the model on board, and beams the answer down. No building, no grid, no water. The reason is in SpaceX's own IPO filing. The AI market it values at 26.5 trillion dollars hits a wall of electricity and water that Earth cannot supply at a sane price. Orbit erases both. The sun never sets up there, and a 147-year-old law does the cooling: in a vacuum, heat escapes only as infrared, so a panel facing the 3-kelvin void radiates it straight out, no water touched. Run that panel hotter and it sheds heat 16 times faster for double the temperature. What Earth data centers burn rivers to do, a glowing wing does for nothing. Musk flagged the problem himself, in the same filing. SpaceX cannot get enough chips to build this yet, and the fab meant to fix that, Terafab, ten times the size of Tesla's Austin gigafactory, may fail. The prototypes do not fly until 2027. Astronomers are already in revolt over a million new lights crossing the sky. Days ago, Masayoshi Son, who owns the whole AI stack on the ground, called space data centers pointless. Musk just named his and put a million of them on the drawing board. One man is reading his balance sheet. The other is betting on the laws of physics. The piece works out which one the void rewards.

Poles Burn on the Logarithmic Sea A rational function can be drawn as a living terrain. In this scene, moving roots and poles shape the logarithmic potential U(z,t)=log|R(z,t)|, with R(z,t)=∏ⱼ(z-aⱼ(t))^αⱼ / ∏ₖ(z-bₖ(t))^βₖ The surface rises and folds according to this potential, while the glowing particle threads move along its level curves through dz/ds = i conj(L)/|L|, where L=R′/R Emerald lanterns mark the roots. Royal-blue lanterns mark the poles. Every ten seconds the poles heat to red, burst into falling embers, vanish, and regrow from the same analytic structure that shaped the sea beneath them. #Mathematics #ComplexAnalysis #RationalFunctions #MathematicalArt #3DAnimation #GenerativeArt #LogarithmicPotential #ZerosAndPoles #CreativeCoding

A Black Hole Can Be Dragged Through Spacetime A Black Hole does not have to sit still. Einstein’s equations allow a stranger possibility... a Black Hole that accelerates. This is the C-metric, an exact solution of General Relativity describing an accelerating Black Hole. The Black Hole accelerates because the geometry of Spacetime says it must. The C-metric is one of those exact solutions that reminds us how wild General Relativity really is. Gravity is not just attraction, and Spacetime is not just a stage. Sometimes the stage itself contains the force. #Astrophysics #GeneralRelativity #Einstein #CMetric #BlackHole #CosmicStrings #Spacetime #Cosmology #Mathematics #Physics

We're flying through space right now! The sensation of static is deceptive. Our planet is hurtling through space at incredible speed: rotating on its axis, orbiting the Sun, and all of this, together with the Solar System, is moving around the center of the Milky Way.

Você está mais próximo do tamanho de todo o universo observável do que da menor escala conhecida da natureza, o comprimento de Planck. Apenas reflita.

@DavidFischer @grok Polkinghorne. Sorry. His book on this is called “One World”

@DavidFischer @grok Use John Polkinhorne’s math as a an Astro Physicist. The relation between expansion in the earliest moments after the “big bang” are 1 in 10 to the 60th power

Never give up!

Elon Musk was asked how fast AI is moving. His answer wasn’t about the technology. It was about the one man who got it all right and was still too conservative. Musk: “I have to give credit to Ray Kurzweil in being actually remarkably accurate in his predictions. If anything, I think he was perhaps a bit conservative in his predictions.” Kurzweil spent 30 years making forecasts that made serious people uncomfortable. He predicted timelines that sounded impossible. He was mocked for it. He was right about nearly all of them. And Musk just called him conservative. Musk: “The dedicated AI compute appears to be growing by a factor of 10 every six months.” 10x every six months. Musk: “Almost a 100x improvement per year, at least for the next few years.” Moore’s Law was a 2x improvement every two years. That single curve drove every technological shift of the last 50 years. The internet. Smartphones. Cloud computing. All of it rode a 2x curve. AI is on a 100x curve. And the current infrastructure isn’t running beside the new one. It’s becoming it. Musk: “Probably a lot of the data centers, maybe most of the data centers that currently do conventional compute, will transition to AI compute.” Everything that runs the world you know is being rewired for the world that comes next. Human beings process the future in straight lines. We take the speed of the last decade and project it forward. Exponential growth doesn’t work that way. It’s invisible until it’s everywhere. The most aggressive forecaster in the history of technology was too conservative. That’s not about Kurzweil being wrong about the direction. That’s about the human brain being wrong about the speed. The limit was never the technology. It was the organ we use to comprehend it. And that organ hasn’t been upgraded in 200,000 years.

@elonmusk A thought popped into my head yesterday driving (best thought stimulator other than a shower). You’ve said the odds we’re in a simulation are a billion to one. That means conscious intelligence — whether simulators, post-human ancestors, extra-dimensional beings, or something else — already exists beyond our civilization, right? We went from Pong in the late 70s to Elden Ring-level worlds in one human lifetime. If consciousness is already “out there,” does making us multiplanetary still remain the critical bottleneck for expanding it? Your post today really made it click. Curious what you think.

@goddek 5th and church food court

Join us today at 1pm CT for Tears of Aihrde - A Motley Fellowship. The 'Rats have talked to the Fey and a plea was made to fight back. With Fritz on their side and with the Trees seeking vengeance the 'Rats get ready for what is ahead. How will they fair against the Orcs? What other challenges will they face? Who still lurks in the shadows and watches silently? Tune in today to find out more! Twitch.tv/BlueBoxRPG

Join us tonight at 5pm CT for Greyhawk Awakening Book 3 Sea of Dark Sun - Scale or Head? Enala of the Unbroken has found the Shaqat beetles, but had to flee from Bezrak. Tyk has brutally bested Holten Phett in single combat, but will the party pick a scale off the snake, or cut off the head? twitch.tv/blueboxrpg

Join us tonight at 5:30pm CT for Loremaster's Arcanum - Perilous Depths of the Underdark! We will explore the setting, how to run an adventure in the Underdark, and character ideas for the realm of Drown and Duergar ! twitch.tv/blueboxrpg

Join us tonight at 5pm CT for Greyhawk Awakening Sea of Dark Sun - Red Obelisk. After an intense talk with Marius Lucius works his magic on Holten Fet seeming to befriend him. Kalak waited on the outskirts waiting to get close to the others, but when none came close he stormed off to build his trinket through the night. What will happen as the group approaches the Red Obelisk? will they destory the beetles and free the slaves? Tune in tonight to find out! twitch.tv/blueboxrpg

Day 2 of Virtual #Greyhawk #Convention early 7am EDT with The "Ever-mysterious" DM Tim "Reverse Dungeon". Streams @trolllordgames @ChaoticGoodGmng @Blueboxrpg @LGosumba! RPGs, Discussions, and The Grand Joust of Altimira Saturday with @lukegygax @AlyssaFadenMaps! #DnD #ttrpg