G.D. Sanders
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For Memorial Day, I wanted to remember two of my granddad’s close friends from the Army Air Corps days in WWII. The photo was taken in San Francisco at Joaquin Garay’s Copacabana, just prior to shipping out to the southwest Pacific theater.
@mathandcobb an explicit drawing doesnt seem possible, but maybe the last paragraph satisfies your request. (its essentially a projection of the lattice construction in another field into R^2)
$PLTR Maven: ‘Insatiable appetite’ for AI: Maven usage surged for strikes on Iran, Pentagon AI chief says 🇺🇸🛡️🦾🔮 DoD users tore through 20 billion tokens a day as Palantir’s Maven Smart System was "leveraged" to help plan and coordinate Operation Epic Fury’s 13,000 airstrikes on Iran, officials said. May 12, 2026 WASHINGTON — Pentagon planners and military staffs made unprecedented use of artificial intelligence during the 38-day air war against Iran, according to officials and newly disclosed usage figures for the DoD’s Maven Smart System (MSS). “Operation Epic Fury leveraged Palantir’s Maven Smart System in order to conduct strike missions across the entire battle space, 13,000 targets in 38 days,” the Pentagon’s Chief Digital & AI Officer (CDAO), Cameron Stanley, told the SCSP AI+Expo Thursday, adding that troops have shown an “insatiable appetite” for the tech. “[AI tools] allow us to take all of this data, synthesize the data, and make better decisions, faster, on the battlefield.” MSS is an AI tool suite that evolved from the original Project Maven experiment to a multi-purpose military planning tool built by contractor Palantir. (A separate offshoot of Maven is run by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.) During Epic Fury, MSS saw unclassified usage surge by 38 percent and classified usage by 89 percent, a Pentagon spokesperson told Breaking Defense, measuring month-to-month. Measured by “tokens,” the individual mathematical operations underlying generative AI, peak daily usage rose 4,425 percent. At one point, the spokesperson told Breaking Defense, daily usage hit approximately 20 billion tokens. For comparison, in civilian contexts, a single question-and-answer with a chatbot can require several hundred tokens, while an individual power user with a high-level paid account — someone using AI to write code, for instance — can burn up to a quarter-million tokens a day... By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. 🇺🇸🛡️🦾🔮🌟 breakingdefense.com/2026/05/insati…
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