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Project Hail Mary has a devilish contamination subplot.

Probably something like this:

HJ9HP-50 Heliax High-Power Air-Dielectric Coax

https://www.alldataresource.com/Commscope-HJ9HP-50-HJ9-50-HE...

In parallel to renting AI compute from SpaceX, Google ("Alphabet") is also doing an $80 billion public stock offering to raise funds for building more AI compute.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/alphabet-to-raise-80-billion...

FTSE 100 / Russell: changes happened. 5 days from IPO to inclusion.

NASDAQ 100: Changes happened: a) Allow inclusion in 15 days post-IPO rather than 3 months. b) Allow inclusion of companies with very small float. c) allow valuation (index proportion) to be 3x float rather than enterprise value.

S&P: no changes.

I found this interesting: NASA RELL (Robotic External Leak Detector) [1].

    "NASA’s Robotic External Leak Locator (RELL) is a robotic, remote-controlled tool that helps mission operators detect the location of an external leak and rapidly confirm a successful repair. 
    … Two instruments working in sync give RELL its ammonia-detecting superpowers. … Mass spectrometer & Ion vacuum pressure gauge"

[1] (PDF fact sheet from NASA) https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/rell-factshe...

Apparently ivermectin actually _does_ help with screw-worm. So if you're stocked up on it for covid purposes, you're in luck! /s

Maybe they are struggling to put together money for datacenter buildout (Capex).

This seems to imply it doesn't.

https://docs.nvidia.com/dgx/dgx-spark-porting-guide/porting/...

"If the model predicts wrong on your filaments, that’s a data problem, not a model problem. We need more measurements."

…

"… there’s a real path to a proper perceptual colorspace model in the spirit of Mixbox or Spectral.js – predictions that are correct by construction across the full ratio space, not patches on residuals. None of this is hard. The math exists. It’s a data problem."

…

"Not in some distant future. Now. The hardware exists. The slicers exist. The filaments exist."

Another "prophet," Carl Sagan in 1995

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

And when the dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites now down to 10 seconds or less, lowest-common-denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."

- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (with Ann Druyan)

It is very respected in Finland. Having not many natural resources (trees / lumber aside) they made education their national resource. Teachers there are highly respected and have authority in the classroom. Masters degrees are required as well as multi-year in-classroom apprenticeships. Admission to education masters programs are highly competitive.

Archive: https://archive.ph/opmwt

Possibly France, too.

- 70% nuclear

- 26% renewables

- 4% gas/coal

Check out Allium, posted here recently.

https://juxt.github.io/allium/

1) Cool! Only think I can recommend is using use a taller 4:3-ish screen (like a Framework) for this. You could maybe have two columns of text available.

2) More broadly, one tip I've found to reduce phone engagement is to set the phone to black & white only. It's significantly less interesting and prone to sucking you in. (You can do this on iOS & Android.)

Can't wait to see where they stick the cost frontier model updates in the P&L. Maybe some kind of NRE they can amortize so it's outside of EBITDA?

Current investors know the hype is sufficient to not worry about all those niggling financial details and want liquidity now -- retail will buy them out.

X wins over Y

X rules Y

meaningfully

X just Y instead of Z

I can't believe Kurian has not put his foot down about this. Adverse action against accounts over $X ARR absolutely must have review by revenue-carrying people before the action is taken.

Enforce a “seasoning” period, for example don’t let any pull pull versions newer that 30 days. Perhaps with an exception for versions that address known CVEs.

I wonder if users similar to this will continue to do so in the face of 2, 5, 10x price increases (in a post IPO world)

DuckDuckGo uses the bing index/backend. I’ve had it as default for 5-8 years. Probably once a day I’ll add the !g to pop it over to Google. Works great. I search a lot, many different types of queries. When I pop over to Google it’s usually a Boolean query looking for a needle in a haystack (that one comment somewhere where someone is using the same combination of two or three rare items together).

Vastly less but still more traffic than if you didn’t participate. I’m sure they will calibrate it just so.

Really this shows that the operators of 18-wheelers should be paying a lot more. Looks like diesel tax is 20-30% higher, not proportional to the thousands of times more damage the 4th power law implies. (A half-full 18 wheeler is about 40,000 pounds so, let's say 10x the weight of a passenger car).

Do you know how they plan to get the odometer data? Thanks.

I pulled some numbers and I get $239 for the average car and average use based on [1], [2], [3]. Using the same numbers the Federal part would be an additional $79. Do you have different numbers for Washington state? Like, do people drive less than 10,952 / year or have more efficient gas vehicles?

[1] WA gas tax $0.554 (Federal gas tax is an additional $0.184. California is $0.7092.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_State...

[2] Average fuel efficiency 25.4 mpg. https://gocarlife.com/average-gas-mileage-for-a-car/

[3] 10,952 average passenger + light duty miles driven per year. https://truedrivingcost.com/articles/how-many-miles-american...

This is why it's good to consider an open-source product backed by an enterprise support company. Growthbook is an example. If they go poof you still have dozens to hundreds of other companies, and open source base, and can collaborate with the other users (companies) to crate a foundation to carry on development if needed. Or just patch it yourself. There's a continuum depending on how critical and how deeply you exploit it.

From the article: "The couple, who work with a range of trees including willow, oak and ash, said there were currently "a few dozen" growing pieces in their orchard, including stools, benches and "the odd chandelier" in progress."

Yeah it's weird huh? The "average" month contains 4.35 weeks.

(365/7)/12 = 4.3452…

FYI it could be that people are the "AI."

https://surejob.in/captcha-entry-work.html