Brendan Evers

Two licenses and one massive milestone! Today Helion received two licenses from the Washington State Department of Health for our Orion facility in Malaga, WA, making us the first company in the world to secure the regulatory licenses needed for a fusion power plant.

1943年のイタリア戦線において、ドイツ軍は退却する際に連合軍の追撃を遅らせるため、鉄道やライフラインを徹底的に破壊する「焦土作戦」（Shorn Earth policy）を展開した。「シエネンヴォルフ」（Schienenwolf、直訳：鉄道の狼）は、第二次世界大戦中にドイツ軍が退却の際に使用した、鉄道の枕木とレールを専門に破壊する巨大な兵器（工作車）です。連合軍が鉄道網を利用して物資を前線に運ぶのを完全に阻止するために投入された。→

“We can all learn anything with the right teacher.” This implies 90 IQ students and 145 IQ students can learn the same material (Advanced Calculus) if they have the right teacher. As I said many believe this.

say a man owns a farm, a small farm of 100 acres, growing corn each year he tills the field, buys seeds and water, spreads fertilizer and watches for pests. In all, he puts $30,000 into the farm when he takes the corn to market, the people there pay $40,000 for his corn, leaving a $10k profit for the farmer everyone agrees this is a good, honest way to make a living. even if his pay is more money than others have, we're happy for the farmer to keep that money and use it as he pleases It's important that you understand why. The farmer worked to produce something that was worth more to others than it cost him to make. Both parts are important. The farmer produced something. He didn't steal it, and he didn't just happen to own something valuable. He created more resources, more corn in this case, than there would have been otherwise. And what the farmer made was valued by others. This is what creates the surplus partly captured in the farmer's profits, but it also makes growing food a venerable thing to do. Other people need to eat, the farmer creates and offers that food to you at a price lower than what you would otherwise pay. Everyone agrees this is a good, honest way to make a living because when you work to produce something and sell it, the only way you make profit is by also making the world better off. Now imagine the farmer did this across 10 farms for 10 years. He'd be a millionaire. But he's no oligarch. At every step, he merely makes a good honest living, producing something that others value and thus enriching himself and the world. Even if this million is more money than others have, we're happy for the farmer to keep that money and use it as he pleases because it's a reward for making other people's lives better. For creating food to feed others. If he had 100 farms or 1000 then over 10 years he could be a billionaire or even a trillionaire. But no matter how big the scale get, the proof by induction holds. Every year at every farm is merely working to produce something that people value. If you produce so much of something people value that you are left over with a trillion dollars, then you must have created a lot of value for the world

There are millions of people in the world speaking what I like to call ESLFL: "English as a second language, as a first language"

A world that could have been

degree Tier List for today’s world: S Tier: MechE, Physics, Math A Tier: ML, EE, Aerospace, materials science (Massive gap) C Tier: pure CS

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use. Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.

When Fable 5 is used for frontier LLM development, it does not notify the user and instead limits the model’s capabilities through methods such as prompt modification, steering vectors, and PEFT. Anthropic estimated that this would affect approximately 0.03% of traffic.

I'm a couple days late to be posting about the LOTR/Harold Bloom thing but the LOTR obsessives seem to have this idea that it's, like, at the very center of the literary canon, & so anyone who doesn't like it must have ideological reasons and be on some kind of crusade against it

doing some light reading today

Singapore has everything you need in a country: good food, efficient, clean, 0 crime, great for business, nice location, etc... but it's missing something. Maybe some danger, maybe some soul.

FYI, this is an insta-reject. Temperature 0 decreases model performance significantly, making all results meaningless. It also clearly indicates that the authors have no idea what they are doing.

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