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The Golden Horn (1851), by Théodore Gudin

Aircraft are thirsty and burn lots of fuel, right? Wrong. The average fuel efficiency of air travel today is about 67 mpg per passenger. That makes it more fuel efficient than your drive to work. The best hit 100mpg/passenger. How did aviation manage it? A thread.

Bright Lights out this Friday. #BrightLights

Ryan Gosling driving with Nightcall by Kavinsky for 4 hours

3 is scary.

Oasis Reunion CONFIRMED for 2025. The band will announce its comeback this week. Rumor has it that they have booked several venues for next year, including 10 nights at Wembley Stadium. #Oasis

Lex Fridman Have you read Asimov’s Foundation books? They pose an interesting question: if you knew a dark age was coming, what actions would you take to preserve knowledge and minimize the length of the dark age? For humanity, a city on Mars. Terminus.

Rothko Chapel

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Cancel culture has been canceled.

This could be an incredible revolution in Cosmology. The Dark Energy model of the universe, which won a Nobel Prize in 2011, may be completely wrong. The accelerating expansion instead is simply because time runs faster in the voids between galaxies. Let me explain:

2) Conclusions: 1) Lowering the cost to train will increase the ROI on AI. 2) There is no world where this is positive for training capex or the “power” theme in the near term. 3) The biggest risk to the current “AI infrastructure” winners across tech, industrials, utilities

Paphos half marathon 2025 done!

AGI is here, everybody.