big secret to happiness is just liking stuff. finding more stuff to like. finding ways to like stuff you didn't before. recognizing what it feels like to like something and doubling down on that. what feels frivolous is actually the whole ballgame

Toyota’s Lunar Cruiser is absolutely massive, this will be the first ever real pressurized rover ever made and is capable of acting like a mobile base! Either SpaceX’s Starship or Blue Origin’s Blue Moon will deploy Lunar Cruiser on the surface of the moon. It’s the first time

Can't think of a better way to close out 2025 than seeing the head of NASA ask my former student @matteopaz06 to apply, with a fighter jet ride as a signing bonus. Matteo was one of my students in the Eurisko program, which, during its operation from 2020-23, was the most

Using a mocap suit to kick yourself in the balls with a robot is a great metaphor to close out 2025.

🚨 A student in the US just discovered MILLIONS of new space objects. The astronomy world was recently shaken by a discovery from an unexpected source: a teenager still in high school. Matteo Paz, a student from Pasadena, utilized archival data from NASA’s retired NEOWISE

Big Tech has a new playbook on how to acquire startups w/o triggering anti-trust acquisition: call it a licensing deal… while all key staff from the company (founders, key folks also join. Leave a zombie company behind. Google did it with Windsurf & Character, Meta with Scale

The entire robotics industry is about to compress a decade of progress into 18 months, and nobody’s pricing it in. The hardware has been ready for years. Boston Dynamics had Atlas doing backflips in 2018. The bottleneck was never motors or actuators. It was that every robot

Saw the Muppet Christmas Carol (again), as is traditional: this is my holiday movie (along with Charlie Brown). Thoughts this year: - the first time I saw this movie, I picked up the book (for the first time) and was amused and tickled at the fact that the lines in the muppet

Younger brother came into town for the holidays, we were talking about crypto yesterday. Trying to figure out why it's been so weak, even with strong equity markets. He threw me a curveball. "Crypto isn't that cool anymore." Blew my mind. The kid is 22. "Prediction markets

Y'ALL THIS STORY AND THE ATC AUDIO IS INCREDIBLE!!!! Yesterday at Rocky Mountain Metro Airport in Denver the pilot of a Beechcraft King Air became incapacitated and went NORDO with ATC but his aircraft was equipped with Garmin's new Emergency Autoland feature. Well, not only

>have a problem in my code >ask AI, the answer is wrong! >google >see Stack Overflow answer, but wrong in the same way! >AI was clearly trained on it >who's the author? >it's me! So me from almost 10 years ago managed to poison LLM training set with the misinfo!

Dick Van Dyke recently turned 100 years old and is no longer permitted to play with LEGOs.

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Dad called. "IT question" he says. "Yes this is the IT department how can I help you today?" I said. He says he needs help transferring apps from one ipad to another. I'm like, Dad you only have 1 ipad. He said no. No time to explain. We need to act fast. <thread>

so they kind of nailed that makeup in Mary Poppins huh

Prufrock-3 is ready to dig its 5th tunnel! In advance, the Monster passed its final tests, tilting the 480,000 lb shells ±10°. Prufrock-3 will then tilt down and mine directly into the ground - no concrete, no pit, zero civil prep. Allows rapid, safe and inexpensive launch.

This is Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, a single player narrative-driven action RPG and spiritual successor to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Working on KOTOR was a defining experience of my career. This is a dream come true for me and our team of incredible

The older I get, the more I realize preparation always beats planning. Planning is based on the expectation of order. Preparation is based on the expectation of chaos. Plan for order and you'll be destroyed by chaos. Prepare for chaos and you'll thrive in any condition.

Asked by the WSJ whether he spent $500 million renovating the 5th Avenue Tiffany flagship, Bernard Arnault replied: “You cannot dream when you talk numbers. When you create desire, profits are a consequence.” You need to be creating desire.

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