Fun fact: The 1998 paper that introduced Google and PageRank to the world ends with this acknowledgment: "Supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement IRI-9411306. Funding also provided by DARPA and NASA." Sergey Brin was on an NSF Graduate

Is Hugo Boss making clothes for ICE?

"Show me the critical path." "Uh, right here. It’s the multiplier it’s failing setup by 1.2 nanoseconds at 600 megahertz." "A nanosecond and a half. An eternity. You’re missing the clock edge by a fucking eternity?" "Well, the synthesizer isn’t packing the DSP slices

Too young to be making dad jokes. 🤣🤣

People always doom when they realize that generative AI is going to ruin the credibility of digital media, but it’s actually very hopeful imo. The internet devolving into a fake scammy slopfest is going to force many of us to return to analog social networks & irl experiences

3 Body Problem plot is playing out in front of our eyes

“I love you, I’m just having timing issues”

The funniest thing is about to happen

Dear X algo. I want to know about physics, cutting edge hardware/AI research, retard trading, and that guy who is building a homemade nuclear reactor!

Gm

𝗗𝗟𝗥 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗴𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹-𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗼 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗱. They used internal force-torque sensors at 8 kHz + deep learning. The robot can feel where you touch it,

Every time you open Google Maps, your phone is talking to at least four satellites orbiting 20,000 km above Earth. Each one beams down ultra-precise timestamps basically saying, “It was 12:00:00.000001 when I sent this.” Your phone measures how long each signal takes to

This region quite literally saved Western Civilization as well

This is by far the most underrated region in Europe. Best gastronomy on the continent. lush forests and mountains. Few tourists.

Class 100 Cleanroom Shed I Built For Semiconductor R&D :)

Pretty crazy how Her (2013) accurately predicted fashion and weird relationships with AI girlfriends in 2025, the year in which the movie is set.

The concept of civilization did not exist in 16th century. The Spanish conquistadors saw the world in terms of Christianity and paganism. They never assumed that pagans can't have good technology. The concept of civilization as we understand it today originates from the French

I can never go on a museum date with my girlfriend because what if they don't allow me to take her back home, since she's a work of art that should be displayed on a museum wall?

New paper! Allow me to introduce TARS = Torqued Accelerator using Radiation from the Sun. TARS (yes inspired by Interstellar!) is a rotating light sail that's capable of launching chip sats into interstellar space using only radiation from the Sun, so let's dive into how it works

eurosummer but we only visit major centers of steel production