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Nuclear reactors are flexible, so forget the myth that they aren't! Here's an example: Civaux 2, a 1500 MW reactor in France, ramps rapidly in response to low midday price. 1500 MW to 380 MW in 1 hour, averaging ~20 MW/min. That's fast! And the definition of flexibility.

Today's Edition is out, have a good Friday: 581: GPT-5: Early Verdict & Who Should Worry, 100% Tariffs on Chips, Dario Amodei & John Collison, Distress Investing, 6,552 Coal Plants, Opus 4.1, and Gemini Storybook libertyrpf.com/p/581-gpt-5-ea…

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This is pretty incredible! There’s lots of art I’d like to step into:

One more. This is incredible:

Apparently a VC leaked Replit's revenues to the press, which gives me a rare opportunity to post a graph with actual numbers. You very rarely see growth this fast at this scale.

I've been thinking of installing speakers in my living + work room and of course Liberty 💚🥃 has a post about this! Just another nudge to follow his newsletter! Btw I uninstalled the X app from my phone a few days ago and the overall experience is much better now. It just takes

Last night, I went with a friend to see an homage to Leonard Cohen played by a string Quartet under candlelight in an old church. It was very nice. 🕯️ 🎻 🕯️ 🎶

Pretty incredible how much practical experimentation James Cameron did to understand how the real world situation would’ve been for characters:

Wait, why do I only get to see GPT-4o in "legacy models"?! Where are the others? Sam Altman OpenAI

The Anduril board meeting next year:

Song of the day:

import tariffs, meet export tariffs

RBC: "excluding spin-outs (Topicus, Lumine), Constellation has already deployed more in Q3-to-date than all of 1H/FY25 ($266MM Q3-to-date vs. $229MM 1H). Including Topicus's two equity investments in Asseco, Constellation has deployed $1.32B YTD, which equates to ~80% of the