https://docs.paralleluniverse.co/quasar/

But I believe the author moved to a Big Corp which sells databases, working on some big project which took all his time...

Flamanville running at 100% generates 32TWh. It is amortized in 9 years. I'd say it's doing pretty okay even with its ballooning cost.

https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&...

Also, both wind and solar (especially solar) change vastly under a sub-daily aggregation.

Let's look at the wind right now: uniform wind across Germany:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#2026/09/04/1200Z/wind/surface/...

Let's look at the wind earlier: uniformly no wind across Germany:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#2026/09/02/0000Z/wind/surface/...

Hmmmm.

First degree: It came into your home from the factory through the shop. 80% product + 20% diesel.

Second degree: Product is aluminum can + water + ingredients. Aluminium came to be a can through 70% refined aluminum + 15% diesel (transport) + 15% electrical energy (pressing the can). Water was pumped locally: free from the ground + 100% electrical energy. Ingredients came from a farm: 80% local product + 20% diesel.

Third degree: Electrical energy came from 40% gas turbines, 30% hydro, 30% wind farm. Ingredients from farms came from soil 40%, 35% nitrogen fertilizer (== gas), 25% diesel (machines)

... and so on

If you decompose everything all the way, the global tally is either matter, which is given to us by nature for free. Or energy; The sources of which being vastly composed of fossil fuels. Fossil fuel prices affect everything.

These fossil resources being finite we can also conclude we're experiencing a centuries-long hay-fire. But hey, we're merely plateauing right now; and most of us won't be here for the harder part of the crash.

And I didn't even mention climate change.

IBM is now just a consultancy.

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https://incredible.pm/

A potential solution would be to have a reputation system, with some light pageranking in it. People who care about their reputation are bound to rate other likewise people higher. I don't think such loyalty exists between vibetalkers.

It's obvious we're not alone, and 2 distinct clusters would form (with people on a spectrum in between)

https://cdn.aaai.org/ojs/20591/20591-13-24604-1-2-20220628.p...

Steps would be:

- A first hybrid query with bm25+query vector

- rank some first results locally (ask the LLM for relevance, usefulness? ask the human?)

- query in active learning manner; providing positive and negative examples to orient the direction of better results. It'd silence the polluting components from the original query

- iterate

If anyone's hiring for remote roles, I'd love to give that technique a try

However it seems the software part is always a blocker, and these architecture only address well a handful of program types.

Is this time different? I think it is. The paradigm here is about small threads that yield very often, and we have that way of programming: Erlang, Go, Java's virtual threads.

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A nuclear reactor moves the entire market down, including the costs to the consumer when he buys solar energy.

Here is a UN document explaining it: https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2025-09/GECES-21_2025_...

The robotics will need to connect vision with motors with haptics with 3D modelling. And to propagate gradient seamlessly. For calibrating torque with the the elastic deformation of the material for example. After all matter is not discreet at small scales (staying above the atomic scale)

All this will require all modules to be compatible with differentiability. It'll be expensive at first, but I'm sure some optimizations can get us close to the discreet case.

Also even for meshes there is a lot to gain with trying to go the continuous way:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/DDG/

I had a lot of fun writing the article! And it is only half a joke

My intuition for so-called world models is that we'll have to plug modules, each responsible for a domain (text, video, sound, robot-haptics, physical modelling) It'll require to plug modules in a way that will allow the gradient to propagate. A differentiable architecture. And JAX seems well placed for this by making function manipulation a first citizen. Looking at your testimony comforts me in this view

You did not miss much though: it just rotates the scene.

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