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XPENG showed off Iron, a 5'10" humanoid robot weighing 153 lbs The robot is reportedly already working in their vehicle factory and runs on their in-house Turing AI chip Wonder where they got the hips from

At yesterday's Tesla event, the Optimus bots were remote-controlled and voiced by humans. While the demonstration was interesting, I think Tesla could have been a bit more transparent by doing a few things differently: 1. It would have been helpful if Tesla showed the people controlling and speaking for the bots, instead of keeping them behind the scenes. 2. During the presentation, Elon mentioned that the bots would serve drinks, but there’s a difference between them serving autonomously and being controlled to create that impression. It might be helpful to clarify that distinction in the future. 3. Employees referred to the bots as "human-assisted," as seen in the video below, which implies some level of autonomy. However, it seems all movements, except for walking, were remote-controlled. A more accurate term might have been "teleoperated" or "telepresence" to include the speaking. Tesla is clearly still in the early stages of developing this technology, and this demo was more about showing what’s possible in the future.

i've been going on and on about this, but basically, AI flips electricity on its head. previously, nearly half the cost of electricity to the consumer was allocated towards distributing it where (and when) you want it. AI data centers want upwards of hundreds of megawatts of power in one place, most of the time. (and for training they don't care about latency) The most constrained thing isn't even the energy itself -- there's a surplus during the solar peak -- it's often the sheer availability & the interconnection. It now can take multiple years to get a grid interconnect to draw power of this magnitude, if the location can even handle it. The capital cost of the power infrastructure is just a tiny fraction (like 3%!) of the capex of the compute, and even just the depreciation of the compute exceeds the cost of even premium power. Hence, AI hyperscalers and those that aspire to be in their class are traveling to where the power is, are building where power has been (and there's legacy transmission to support it, like old nuclear plants) and are getting into the business of actually building powerplants and reactors. Utilities and transmission and distribution companies, interconnection queues, all are used to react much slower -- over many years -- unlike the top technology companies, now vying to compete at the highest levels of AI performance. Since ~99% of energy technologies previously died withering while waiting for utilities to consider them bankable, this represents an extremely fertile, attractive new state of play if you're bringing a new energy technology to market (💁🏻‍♀️🔆). Whereas before you'd have to brave what was once called a "green valley of death", now you have teracap companies like microsoft bidding on: - Conventional, large nuclear fission - Small modular nuclear reactors - Engineered Geothermal - Fusion! - Stirling Engines 😬 - Who knows what else - Maybe you, Anon! Even Tesla is standing up gas generator arrays to burn fossil fuels for their AI power supply. Shit is getting real

Study points to animal origin of Covid-19. Were definite proof, but pretty strong evidence. The whole point of the scientific method is to mimimize the effect of human cognitive biases, preconceived ideas, and prejudice. Scientists make a hypothesis, then collect data to constitute evidence for whether the hypothesis is true or false. One reason for the peer review process in science is to identify methodological flaws in a piece of work. A major characteristic of the process of science is to systematically question claims and see if results can be reproduced or not by different groups than the original authors. The history of science is replete with experiments whose results showed the opposite of what the scientists set out to establish. An example? The 1887 Michelson-Morley experiment attempted to show the existence of the luminiferous aether by measuring differences in the speed of light in various directions due to the motion of the earth. Instead, it showed that the speed of light was constant and independent of the motion of the observer. This was explained theoretically by Einstein's theory of special relativity in 1905 (he used the constancy of the speed of light as a premise).

Donald Trump’s racist remarks about immigrants during today’s Moms for Liberty meeting: “Our country is being poisoned … they’re going into the classrooms and taking disease, and they don’t even speak English. It’s crazy.”