Michael Stovenour

@blind_via I’m not too sure about this. Don’t you need a turret for the field of vision? Would you propose a 360 degree wrap using 4+ cameras on the upper torso?

Solid argument for just not giving robots a head, they don't need it

We don’t need to imagine what would happen if the cost of oil plummetted, that is exactly what happened in the mid to late 1800s. Prior to that oil was from whales and other exotic, expensive sources. We learned to extract and refine it. The price plummeted, availability soared, and 20-30 years later the automobile, along with cheap energy, radically changed the standard of living across the world. I agree that AI will have a similar impact on how we live. It is a force multiplier, just like how an ICE engine is rated in horse power. A single farmer can now plow thousands of acres. A single programmer can now build and maintain entire software systems. But there is another effect, the OP describes, most of the population can afford to own and has the skill to drive a car…. AI will do this for software and hardware systems that rely on software. Imagine the productivity increase if every business process can have a piece of software specifically tailored to the process, which can also be easily modified as business needs change. That’s where we are going.

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@SpaceX you have no idea how much good will you are creating and how much this will inspire the next generation of leaders in our country.

I love these. There’s a lot of information compressed into one image.

@StarshipGazer Where is this?

The official Starship test flight 13 countdown clock is ticking here at Starbase.

@blind_via It is a great lesson that there are people that will take what other people built. There are makers and there are takers.

My son left his bike outside the gate, and someone stole it. I tried to warn him not to leave his toys outside. Life lessons

@_Stocko_ This might explain it.

why does For you look like Following now?

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@blind_via Base Power is basically doing this for grid battery storage. You should check out their business model.

@MikeStovenour that is a big undertaking, but cool.

If Nvidia offered you a $1000 a month to host a mini data center in your back yard the size of an Air conditioner, would you do it?

@blind_via What if we turn the table on the question? Can a bunch of individuals build and operate a super GPU cluster? Run open source models and sell tokens? Who is building that control plane?

@MikeStovenour this is quite possibly part of the deal, that you have to pay the electric bill. changing the practicality of this idea depending on where you live or what you power home energy source is

The coding models are good enough now that we need to transition to using OpenAPI documents as the source of truth for our API code. All API changes need to start with an update to the YAML API definition. Then let the models adapt the server, clients, and all the test cases. Every API test harness needs to use the OpenAPI spec. as the input and then validate that the server matches the spec. It the spec. isn't good enough, fix it first.

Outright telling me I'm wrong is very annoying, but simple counter view points are the foundation of intelligent discourse. Others see things I don't see. It is true that some people seem to enjoy pointing out my blind spots, but that's how we get to intelligent discourse. The alternative is the larger mass that simply don't care enough to exert the effort needed to open my horizon a little. They seem like NPCs to me.

That one guy who loves to disagree with everything you say, but that is why they are there. They don't hate you, as much as they love to disagree with you. LOL.

@andrewmccalip Once we learned to amass knowledge and pass it to the next generation, the snowball started rolling downhill.

Less than 100 miles away, about 50 tons of steel and copper are spinning at exactly 3,600 RPM. A giant rotor slews magnetic fields through copper windings and, per Faraday and Maxwell, induces a synchronized 60 Hz sine wave across an entire grid. That electromagnetic wave propagates through grain oriented silicon steel, laminated transformer cores, kilometers of aluminum conductor steel reinforced cable, SF₆ insulated switchgear, substations switching hundreds of kilovolts, distribution transformers, oxygen free copper wiring, silicon MOSFETs, ferrites, multilayer ceramic capacitors, and the USB C cable plugged into my phone. There, power feeds a capacitive touchscreen. A transparent matrix of indium tin oxide is deposited on glass. The controller continuously scans the grid. My finger changes the mutual capacitance by a fraction of a picofarad, perturbing the local electric field just enough for dedicated analog front ends to detect before software reconstructs the touch. Iron ore. Bauxite. Silica sand. Copper ore. Lithium brines. Rare earths. Refined. Alloyed. Crystallized. Doped. Implanted. Deposited. Etched. Polished. We purified sand into nearly perfect single crystal silicon, grew boules, sliced wafers, placed dopant atoms with nanometer precision, fabricated chips containing tens of billions of transistors, synchronized them with clocks billions of times per second, and engineered them to execute matrix multiplications at a scale no human could comprehend. Somewhere along the way, matmuls started to look like us. That is an astonishing thought. The towers of abstraction are staggering. No one person built this. No one person fully understands it. Yet every morning millions of people wake up tired, answer emails, argue over specifications, chase margins, fix defects, make payroll, and try to cover their mortgages. Somehow the whole machine keeps humming. A planetary Swiss watch assembled from physics, markets, bureaucracy, ambition, error, and human necessity. And after all of that, I touch a piece of conductive glass and step into the Roman forum of modern thought, where millions of minds test ideas against one another in real time. Clockwork humanity. It staggers the mind.

BREAKING: SPACEX IS TARGETING THIS UPCOMING THURSDAY FOR STARSHIP FLIGHT 13 🫪

I can’t stop laughing. 🤣

@blind_via Completely my speculation, but they clearly show the compute modules as both modular and swappable in their video.

@MikeStovenour Have they spoken about it directly or are you just speculating how they could?

This technology is how SpaceX will change out the satellite data center compute modules as GPUs age. No need to deorbit the entire satellite. Reuse the solar panels, radiator, and communications infrastructure.

@paramountplus app is the worse experience. It makes you watch commercials over and over. I watched an episode about 75% through and all the commercials. The next day the app forgot I had watched it and started from the beginning of the episode. I can’t fast forward past any of the commercial breaks. It took me 10 minutes to forward through to where I left off, stopping for 2-3 minutes at each commercial break. Miserable experience. I’ll do anything to avoid using this app.