It is a noble endeavor - science, engineering and peaceful exploration hold the keys to our survival and prosperity.

It is also important psychologically to our survival - a reminder there is a bigger pie, that we can solve hard problems, that progress can be made, that competence and education counts, as does courage, and that we can work together for a common cause.

This is the best of America, and for a while we can be proud of the human race.

If not, who has been paying to lobby for these age verification laws ?

That seems a question that we should have an answer to.

Forcing an age check upon linux install seems anti-competitive, and a violation of freedom of speech allowed by the Constitution.

Also impractical and ineffective, unless they plan on some sort of bio-metric confirmation of age.

Will they outlaw computation itself, or constrain a personal quota so that only corporations can access approved LLMs and certainly not run a local AGI ?

As with the insane "encryption is a weapon and cant be exported" policy of the 80s, this will surely force innovation to migrate outside the US.

ie. if everyone is working so hard to pay rent / college, nobody has time to work on side projects in the garage, or go deep into books, or dedicate spare time to a craft or do down a science research rabbit hole.

Im not sure LLMs will free up much time for people in the middle of the economy - they might produce more but get paid the same.

Now is a great time to invest in small startups applying ML to realworld problems, and will result in a lot of useful new tech being built.

Id make a lot of small bets on early stage startups of this kind - and perhaps top up when they get a POC and at MVP / early traction stage.

It would almost be worth buying a building in Danang Vietnam, and hosting small teams for 3m at a time to get more bang for your buck - ie. rent arbitrage / quadruple the effective runway due to low cost of living.

http://pho.tiyuti.com

Just lists of title, pic, blurb, url

Could also use it to play media - so a phone or tablet could act as a remote control from anywhere in wifi reach, and play music on the main TV screen / speakers or on the local device.

Was pretty cool, but didnt have the funds to commercialize it.

BUT I think the bottleneck is _funding_ of small early risky startups to do the needed engineering work.

My notes on this : https://quantblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/digital-twins-the...

LLMs, GPU datacenters attract all the big money, and the med and small VCs seem to be leaving their money in the bank earning high interest rates, unless there is a slam dunk opportunity with guaranteed traction and MRR growth.

We seem to be betting that only the large companies will innovate, when historically this has not been the case - Deepseek is a recent counterexample.

https://quantblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/digital-twins-the...

I have no doubt FeiFei and her well funded team will make rapid progress.

The new tech will unlock a lot of value, but we need an opinionated investor to fund the engineering effort to get us there.

Funding is the bottleneck, not talent or fundamental science.

tl:dr We need a couple of visionary Angel Investors to fund these 3D Skunkworks projects and bring the real world onto the internet.

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- using technology to unlock cheaper energy - using technology to automate boring manual labor - using technology to extend healthy lifespan

Given the demographics collapse and ageing population in most 'developed' countries, we need to look at these other ways of generating economic growth.

- we are nearing or at +1.5C above pre-industrial baseline

- human carbon burning CO2 emissions are at a max and likely long plateau

- mean temp is rising by around +0.3C per decade

- we will be nearing +2.0C in around 15 years, 2040 give or take

- warming is mainly caused by us humans burning carbon, emitting CO2 and some CH4

- if we reach net-zero, we will be at peak CO2 and thus peak heat, for a long while

In addition, the only economically viable way to bring down the temp seems to be deliberate pollution by emitting sulphur or other particles aka Solar Radiation Management to brighten clouds, reduce heat absorption by the ocean. Volcanoes and shipping fuels have essentially proven that this brings down the temperature, in the short term.

We geo-engineered our way into this hot mess, and we will need to geo-engineer our way out of it.

If the temp reaches +2.5 or +3C .. I think that means quite a lot of crop failure, forced migration, geopolitical tension, lack of stable food supply.. and death to a large number of humans seems to follow logically from that.

So, now Ill look at the article to see if any of these tough truths were mentioned .. sorta-kinda no-so-much, it seems like he thinks things are not that urgent. ?!?

Oxide looks to be superb engineering up and down the whole stack, and if it drives more rust code into linux all the better.

Now that linode has been consumed by Akamai, we need an alternative.

Would that select for a particular biota / micro-fauna environment ? or cause less mechanical / chemical inflammation ?

glad it worked in your case.

  - global climate is warming by around +0.3C per decade
  - its caused mainly by humans burning carbon chains for energy, emitting CO2
  - we are currently sailing thru +1.5C above pre-industrial mean temp
  - Methane CH4 is also a strong warming agent, around 20x more potent than CO2, on decade timescales
  - humans are emitting all time high levels of C02, around 40Gtonnes / yr
  - Carbon capture / CCS / DAC need to be millions of times more efficient to be significant
  - we dont have enough room or time to plant trees to remove the CO2
  - net-zero when we reach it, corresponds to max-Co2 which means peak-heat
  - net-zero aka peak-heat might occur bu 2060, by which time we'll be near +2.5C
  - extreme events are not linear in increase in temp [ think of shifting the mean of a bell curve ]

It seems we will need Solar Radiation Management Geo-engineering "SRM" in order to survive that peak-heat and buy us a few decades in which to slowly remove CO2 [ even as we move full steam ahead to de-carbonize our energy system with wind, solar, battery packs, hydro, fission, geothermal and hopefully fusion power ]

Particulates from volcanoes are well known to cause a cooling effect, and its now becoming more obvious that particulates in pollution in Asia, and sulphur impurities in shipping fuels were having a measurable cooling effect - we seem to be warming faster now that Asia and shipping fuels are not producing as much particulate pollution [ thus less cooling effect ]

It seems to me the only "Hail Mary" we have to address the heat problem, is to use SRM to exert a cooling effect - we humans geo-engineered a warm planet over 150 years of burning carbon fuels, and we will need to geo-engineer our way out of this mess.

tldr : Abundant clean energy is needed, but we also have to address the heat problem - with SRM geo-engineering

jesus wept.