Richard Feynman and the 19 year old me at my Caltech graduation (Found this in my mom's photo album :-) #feynman

Operation Pompous Golem. USN used up ~$billion in precious SM interceptors, risked aircraft carriers, lost F18s and expensive drones, created tons of maintenance expenses that come out of the USN operating budget, bombed innocent people in Yemen, and then just decided it was time.

RT @Alethios3: Steve Hsu argues the US will be increasingly powerless to affect geopolitics in the Western Pacific, pointing to the failure….

Attention Effective Altruists!. If all IVF families used GP's PGT-A aneuploidy screen, the resulting increase in success rates could mean an extra ~100k more babies born through IVF each year. Our PGT-A screen is price competitive with the very old NGS.

Recent survey on attitudes toward embryo screening.

Perhaps the most impactful consequence of Genomic Prediction technology - more accurate detection of aneuploidy in embryos, which leads to higher success rates (pregnancies) in IVF. GP has genotyped well over 100k embryos to date.

AstralCodexTen on polygenic embryo selection (link below in thread). Genomic Prediction pioneered this technology. Recently several new companies have entered the space. Some remarks:. 1. Overton window opening up for IQ selection. GP does not offer this, but other companies

This is the ByteDance IMO paper I heard rumors about recently. They built hybrid systems which uses Lean as well as an LLM. They were able to solve 5/6 problems using the two systems Seed-Prover and Seed-Geometry (which improves weak Lean geometry capabilities). IIUC only

Mary K. Gaillard, 86, Physicist Who Probed the Subatomic Universe, Dies - The New York Times

Very sad to hear of Mary K. Gaillard's passing. She was a brilliant theorist, from whom I learned particle physics in graduate school. She made historical contributions to modern physics and was much beloved by her students. God bless.

Steve and Andrew discuss:. (00:00) - Introduction.(01:35) - Andrew's Background and Swimming Career.(06:37) - Journey into Startups and Y Combinator Experience.(11:30) - Make Sunsets: Concept and Science.(32:53) - Exploring Supersonic and Balloon-Based.

Andrew Song: Global Cooling with Sulfur Dioxide in the Stratosphere — Manifold #91. Great conversation with @ASong408 . Andrew Song is a co-founder of Make Sunsets, a company addressing climate change through solar geoengineering. The company launches balloons filled with sulfur.

Hmm. Once again that ancient Eastern civilization seems to be ahead on this. BBC: A video game on 'gold diggers' is fuelling a sexism debate in China. The players in the live-action Revenge on Gold Diggers are male protagonists lured into relationships by manipulative women

What does Feynman mean by "the true culture of modern times"? . Not mincing words, he refers to "the greatest adventure that the human mind has ever begun" . None can claim themselves an educated thinker or intellectual without mastery of a significant portion of the material in

I chose the example page almost at random - I liked the picture! Seems very trivial but thinking about the problem helps explain how semiconductors work. Our modern world is built on semiconductor technology, but perhaps 1% of the population at most understand how it works -

You can't go back in time. But perhaps look at this book. It's accessible to non-math people but also has insights for VERY mathy people who don't understand real physics. There's even a page that explains "tensors" - might be useful for would-be AI engineers ;-) . If

RT @unusual_whales: Nvidia, $NVDA, CEO has said: If I were a 20-year-old again today, I would focus on physics in college.

Guess which model wrote this. [Scene: A minimalist glass box floating above the Pacific. Steve Hsu has been invited to “beta-test” the new AGI.]. AGI: Dr. Hsu, thank you for agreeing to this interview. My training corpus contains 3.7 million academic papers, yet the phrase