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Iran used a weapon worth one hundred and fifty dollars to shoot down a billion-dollar American military aircraft.
For the first time, America had met its true adversary.🚀🔥🇺🇸
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One founder, one deck, fifty cold inboxes, mostly silence.
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Charlie Munger: "I would expect Microsoft and Apple and Alphabet to be strong fifty years from now. Really strong."
"[But] it's hard to predict how your world is going to change [in] 70, 80, 90 years. Just think, they wiped out the shareholders of General Motors, they wiped out the shareholders at Kodak. Who in the hell would have predicted that? Technological change can destroy a lot of people."
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OpenAI just ordered 100,000 Blackwell GPUs from NVIDIA. A Chinese developer put one of NVIDIA's $3,999 desktop AI boxes on his office desk and ran the same robot simulator the big labs train on $50,000 racks.
The demo was a single empty cube floating in an empty world. Fifty frames per second. He posted the clip with one line. Is this how home robotics starts or is this an expensive toy.
The clip went viral the same week NVIDIA shipped the second batch of Sparks to developers. 1.8 million views in 72 hours. Every American hardware engineer shared it as proof you could finally own the rig. Every Chinese commenter left the same Mandarin reply: pause at 1:42.
Pause at 1:42. Ignore the empty cube on the screen. Ignore the FPS counter. Look at the memory readout in the top bar. 2.4 GiB used. 87.4 GiB available. The cube is sitting in three percent of the memory.
The empty 84 gigabytes of memory was not headroom for a future robot scene. The empty 84 gigabytes was already running.
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He had not bought the Spark to train robots. He had bought it because robots were the only workload NVIDIA shipped a 128 gigabyte chip for. The slow memory that ruined the box for real robotics was perfect for what he was actually running. Twelve hundred ensemble weather simulations in parallel.
Robot training needs fast memory because every frame is a step in a training loop. Weather ensembles need huge memory because every city is a parallel simulation that does not talk to the others. The Spark's chip is six times slower than a gaming card. It is also five times larger. The trade off only matters if you know what you are running. He knew.
Wellington 16C on March 28. Tokyo 16C on March 20. Every city in the wallet was a city the ensemble had simulated three hours before the public forecast posted.
Comments turned into a detective board. Someone slowed the clip to 0.25x. Someone else compared the wallet's trade timestamps to the timestamps the public forecast services updated their data. Every trade landed during the three hour gap. The Spark had been catching it.
Six months ago a 14 year old in Shenzhen pushed an AI agent to GitHub. Judges said no real world application. 3,100 forks later. The developer in the office cubicle had been one of them. He had wired the agent into the Spark the same week NVIDIA shipped his box.
The empty cube was not a benchmark. The empty cube was a screen saver running while the agent occupied the other 84 gigabytes.
The Isaac Sim install was not the project. The Isaac Sim install was the proof he could justify buying the box on company expenses.
The question about whether this was a real tool or an expensive toy was the only thing in the video designed to be answered by the audience.
He was not a Chinese developer testing whether home robotics had arrived. He was the first developer to figure out that the box NVIDIA had marketed for the wrong workload was the cheapest weather simulator on the market.
The clip is at 1.8 million views. The forum thread is still arguing about the six times memory penalty. The Spark on his desk is still running. The wallet is still hitting cities the public forecast services have not updated yet. The cube is still floating in three percent of the memory.
The country with the better robotics demo has the smaller wallet. The dev with the wrong tool for the job has the bigger one. He just had to install a robot simulator for one afternoon.
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Top 10 Mature Hollywood Movies You Shouldn’t Watch Around Family🔞🔞
1. 365 Days
2. Fifty Shades of Grey
3. Fifty Shades Darker
4. Fifty Shades Freed
5. Basic Instinct
6. Eyes Wide Shut
7. Unfaithful
8. Secretary
9. Original Sin
10. Closer
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The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.
The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.
The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.
The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.
The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.
The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.
The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.
Now it is today.
Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.
He is confident.
He has always been confident.
The confidence has never been the problem.
The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.
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A Canticle For Leibowitz is a classic early (1959) post-apocalypse novel where an order of monks preserved the last remnants of learning (the memorabilia) after a nuclear exchange turned the remains of society into book and scientist burners.
I first read it in the 80s as a mass market paperback that I somehow lost along the way. Other paperbacks from that time are yellow with age and getting brittle, but still readable.
I read it again in the late 2000s on a first edition Kindle. I eventually migrated to iPads for Kindle reading, but every couple years I would come across an old Kindle in a drawer, charge it up, and check out what I had been reading on it. They eventually stopped working entirely.
I’m just finishing reading a new Folio Society edition, printed on heavy, acid-free archival quality paper. If it doesn’t get soaked or burned, it could still be in good shape for centuries.
The ephemeral nature of digital storage does give me some pause. We can still read Sumerian tablets full of administrative trivia from four thousand years ago, but there are no known copies of some important software products from just fifty years ago.
I am a proud supporter of the Internet Archive!
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President Xi Jinping sent a message of congratulation on Commemoration of the 55th Anniversary of China-U.S. “Ping-Pong Diplomacy” and Launch of China-U.S. Youth Sports Exchange Events.
President Xi pointed out that fifty-five years ago, Chinese and American elder statesmen, with exceptional political wisdom and strategic foresight, reopened the door for friendly exchanges between our two peoples, and created the remarkable story of “a small ball moving the globe”. Today, young Chinese and Americans meet together to renew this bond and launch a series of sports exchange events that will contribute meaningfully to the cause of China-U.S. friendship.
He expressed the hope that all sectors of Chinese and American societies, especially the younger generation, will draw wisdom and strength from history, enhance mutual understanding and affinity through exchange and cooperation, and make progress hand-in-hand by learning from each other. It was also hoped that the two peoples will not only develop a stronger bond, but also make new contributions to the steady, sound and sustainable development of China-U.S. relations.
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Charlie Munger: "At the height of the Nifty Fifty craziness, a home sewing company [Simplicity Pattern] was selling for 50x earnings."
"The Nifty Fifty was absolute dementia."