As soon as I got my first car I took a cross country trip to have sex with a girl I met online.
I financed my meals using a credit card given to me by an anonymous man online and had a threesome with a minor league baseball player, which felt extremely cool at age 19.
Elon Musk says there ultimately be over 100,000 V3, V4, and V5 @Starlink satellites to provide global broadband and direct-to-cellphone connectivity
Starship is expected to launch most future satellites
Grok foundation model V9-Medium (1.5T) has finished training. Evals look good. A lot of Cursor data was added in supplementary training and there is more to come.
Fine-tuning is underway and reinforcement learning begins in a few days. 2 to 3 weeks to public release.
This will be a major improvement over the 0.5T v8-small that currently serves all Grok production traffic, especially for difficult coding tasks.
There will also ultimately be >100k V3/V4/V5 satellites for Starlink broadband and direct to cellphone connectivity.
If growth continues, Starlink will one day carry the majority of Internet traffic. At that point, it is the Internet and everything else just connects to Starlink.
@yunta_tsai They said it couldn’t be done.
Dozens of Starlink satellites simultaneously track Starship at all times and close the link through a gap in the plasma that is located in the leeward region towards the aft end of the rocket.
@XFreeze Neuralink is a much bigger breakthrough than most people realize.
Enabling people to control a computer with their mind and the completely blind to see are Jesus-level miracles.
@aaronburnett Our goal is launching Starship >10k/year, which would be more than once an hour. Probably over 200 tons of useful load to a useful orbit per flight by then.
Fully reusable rockets bias towards higher T/W, as propellant cost dominates cost per ton to orbit.
Even for Falcon 9, which is ~80% reusable, losing the upper stage costs way more than the propellant, so relatively inefficient use of propellant (low T/W) still reduces $/ton to orbit.
Exactly.
The West, particularly Britain, ended the majority of global slavery that had existed for thousands of years in all cultures and did so at great expense in blood & treasure.
That a minority in America and Britain wanted to continue slavery is overshadowed by the fact that a supermajority within the West fought and many died to end slavery.