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A physics based explanation of why life exists in the universe medium.com/p/1131c68fc784
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David Galbraith
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David Galbraith
@daveg
Technologist and VC, former architect. Invented these (i.e. link in bios: https://t.co/5p8DVMxINg ), among other things.
London and Geneva Katılım Temmuz 2006
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@daveg It’s very clear neither of you has been to Switzerland or spent much time there since you’d know you don’t need AC because at best you have a handful of hot days in the entire year. The average temperature in July in Geneva is in the 80s and quickly cools at night.
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The Swiss grid is almost completely carbon free, yet it is largely illegal to install air conditioning in a house in Geneva, without a doctor's note and heat pumps have the a/c mode disabled and fines issued if used. A mean spirited degrowth mindset that transcends class and hides behind an environmental narrative even when it has nothing to do with the environment, like here. This is emblematic of a pathological hatred of the future and progress, that is a threat to Europe.
Atticus@redl3tters
One of my business school friends comes from a wealthy Swiss banking family and lives in the ritzy part of Geneva where the average house is in the tens-of-millions range. When I visit, I stay in his guest room and sweat profusely at night because, for all their wealth, these bozos can’t understand the unmatched pleasure that is a nice, cool room to sleep in at night. Bunch of uncultured rubes.
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@VirGatuss @aramh @0xMaxSF Yes the post was about Geneva insanity despite the Swiss grid being low carbon, not Switzerland as a whole, apologies.
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Actually, it's a more accurate derivative of it. I just recognized the weird y axis which I didn't have time to fix before it went viral a while back.
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Nice to see my Rome population chart still being used.
Balaji@balajis
Western civilization has collapsed before. But a few scholars preserved the ideas that once made Rome great. They made a backup, and it did eventually come all the way back. It just took one thousand years.
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karpathy pulling up to the office for his first day on the research team
MTS@MTSlive
SITUATION DETECTED: Andrej @Karpathy has joined Anthropic.
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Chinese high speed rail is twenty times less expensive per mile than HS2.
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When a 50 minute rail journey takes 30 years to build and costs more than a literal moonshot, or where renovation of the houses of Parliament building is set to cost 40 billion and take 20 years the problem isn't the projects themselves, it's elsewhere. And this is the culture that Andy Burnham promises to make better through nationalisation but in my view would make it worse. I feel we are about to replace the efficiency of SpaceX with the ineffectiveness of the European Space Agency.
Channel 4 News@Channel4News
The government has just set out details of what remains of HS2, and it’s nothing like the big bold project that was promised...
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Interestingly this is Gresham of Gresham's Law (good money drives out bad money).
In modern systems it happens where currencies don't float against each other and people hoard the good and spend the bad, like dollars vs rubles in Soviet Russia.
Muse@xmuse_
One of the most shockingly underrated masterpieces of the Renaissance is Anthonis Mor’s portrait of Sir Thomas Gresham (c. 1560), now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. When people see it today, especially in high-resolution pics, they often mistake it for a 19th-century photograph or even a hyper-realistic AI generation. The skin texture, the eyes, the subtle sheen on the black fabric, make it feel almost disturbingly modern. Yet this painting, created over 460 years ago, barely registers in the mainstream conversation about great art. It deserves far more recognition.
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Unpopular opinion. Late 16th Century Dutch painting is the pinnacle of the Renaissance. It is to Italian, what ancient Roman sculpture was to Greek. It makes Titian and Bronzino or even Michelangelo's Last Judgement look hopelessly lost as over stylized Mannerism.
Muse@xmuse_
One of the most shockingly underrated masterpieces of the Renaissance is Anthonis Mor’s portrait of Sir Thomas Gresham (c. 1560), now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. When people see it today, especially in high-resolution pics, they often mistake it for a 19th-century photograph or even a hyper-realistic AI generation. The skin texture, the eyes, the subtle sheen on the black fabric, make it feel almost disturbingly modern. Yet this painting, created over 460 years ago, barely registers in the mainstream conversation about great art. It deserves far more recognition.
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Why this is like self driving, which needed to be 10x better, based on insurance data, before the battle was won. Human analysts are occasionally wrong, but they are accountable. To make AI accountable there needs to be an insurance product for it and underwritten based on quantifyable lower risk than humans.
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@demian_ai Missing from the table is the "Audit Tax." In finance, the cost of being wrong is infinite. If that $21 note misses a single $HPE capex sustainability risk, the "93x ROI" is actually a multi-million dollar liability
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Semianalysis published a table last night that does more for the demand side narrative than 6 months of analyst commentary lol.
Token cost vs human labor cost on 9 real internal workflows. and EVERY SINGLE ONE had ROI over 10x (most landed between 60 and 90x)
The workflow that stuck was an initiation note on $HPE, covering roadmap, balance sheet, and capex sustainability. The cost in tokens was 21,33$.
The cost in analyst time, at 20 hours and 50 dollars an hour, was 2k dollars (so ROI of 93x)
You can argue about how generalizable a single workflow is but it's hard to argue with the moment the analyst sees the receipt. The workflow does not go back. The senior analyst will not return to a process that costs 90 times more, and the junior will not be allowed to.
The reason this is not cyclical demand is the reason the cotton gin did not roll back. Once the labor cost of a task drops by 90 plus percent, the unit of work changes.
The old workflow is not slow, its gone.
The buyers of intelligence at every desk in finance, law, consulting, and biotech are about to spend the next 2 years rediscovering that they have been paying 100x more than the new floor for the same answer.
The other line in the SemiAnalysis post that stuck out was that banks are not using this yet. Most enterprises are not. The token bill of the next 24 months is going to be funded by people who saw a 21 dollar receipt and could not unsee it.
The demand curve does not bend until the supply curve does
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Three times the payload. 100 tons. Like throwing a blue whale into orbit.
Latest in space@latestinspace
BREAKING 🚨: SpaceX's Starship V3 megarocket is set to make its first launch on Thursday (May 21) It's the most heavily redesigned Starship since flights began in 2023 Liftoff is targeted for 6:30 PM ET from Starbase, Texas 🚀
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I've taken this idea to create 13 steps from a flint axe to ASML's chip lithography machines interactive.davidgalbraith.org/toolgenealogy/
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The equivalent of the genes for human culture are tools, not the artifacts they create, which are analogous to the phenotype. For this reason I'm interested in a family tree of tools, the tools that made the tools that made the tools.
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Michael Levin@drmichaellevin
Ever wanted to talk to a gene regulatory network? Ever wonder what they could do in a different context, embodiment, space? New #preprint! @YanboZhang3 "Language Game: Talking to Non-Human Systems" arxiv.org/abs/2605.16321 An early step in our program of developing ways to talk to organs, cells, molecular networks, and far weirder kinds of agents.
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Manchester is becoming a Europeam city with dense urban center residential, while London remains a US style one with a collection of residential around a commercial center with very few inhabitants.
Tom Harwood@tomhfh
Today 100,000 live in the centre of Manchester. By 2035 that could soar to 250,000. In 1990 the number was only around 500. That's not a typo. Five hundred.
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@JerryBarnett I wouldn't describe those as the urban epicenter anymore than La Defense in Paris.
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@daveg It used to be... But now there's also Westfield East / west, Canary wharf, London bridge etc... The residential population in the West end and city are both rising. Yes, the centre is quieter than it was but only because there are now multiple centres
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