An Impromptu 📕 review, now that I’m through. The closing page, as seen here, was the most entertaining — a GPT acknowledgment to @SamA and the OpenAI team. With a number of the book’s tracts written by GPT-4, and clearly marked as such, I found an interesting pattern — my mind

Making history never looked so good. I always knew the first Model S would end up in a museum, and I am happy to say it now resides in the Petersen Museum, along with the other early Teslas I donated to them. I have compiled some reviews from its 2012 release… and they still

🍄 Update on the first 6 months of America’s first regulated access program for psilocybin from the Oregon Health Authority, at Horizons today: * Over 600 people treated (more than clinical trials to date), and ~70% came from out of state * 182 licensed facilitators across 19

Astonishing Anthrobots 🦠 If you want nanobots to circulate in your bloodstream to fight cancer or repair tissues, how might you avoid the immune system? Build multicellular self-assembling biobots out of the patient’s own cells, specifically tracheal cells that have wisps of

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1984 I toured the storage vault of the Computer History Museum today. Here are a couple cool items from their future Macintosh exhibit: 1) 1981 prototype logic board #4 with Motorola 68000 CPU, wire-wrapped by hand on the backside 2) The outfit worn in the famous 1984 Superbowl

🚀 SpaceX is lofting 84% of all mass to orbit globally. And 15x all Chinese launches combined. According to BryceTech's Q3 Report:

The Soul of a New Machine — from the fastest computer in 1951. As a core memory collector, I flocked to it on my whirlwind tour of the CHM storage archives. Built by MIT for the U.S. Navy, the Whirlwind computer pioneered the use of core memory — the floating central stack here,

A moment, at the Gateway to Mars today. SpaceX is forging the future of our dreams and aspirations.

12 years ago: "The cars are hunting people and there's nobody in them and, oh my god. Run! They're on autopilot and killing people." — Robopocalypse, p.101., describing hour zero of the robot uprising cc @ElonMusk + 🤖 Survival guide by same author: flic.kr/p/4nQLfY

Tesla Dojo Supercomputer Tile — Smart and Beautiful 🤖 💕 This one tile can do 9 quadrillion floating point calculations per second, optimized for AI training. I saw it up close today. Each 15kW tile holds a 5x5 array of blocks, each with 12 D1 multi-chip-module stacks,

Harry Stebbings Steve Jurvetson wants to learn your business. The best will go the distance. youtu.be/3d3sjs6BxEw

Sometimes, I can see dead companies. Chapter 6: While discussing the automotive industry, "Venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson told me flatly that 'Any company that thinks they're not a software company is not long for this world, because the agile way we’ve learned to build

Reuniting the Guidance & Navigation system of Apollo I just got the structural "horse collar" that holds the IMU ball— the large spinning gyro within a gyro that provided two axes of motion sensing. Today, our phones have 3x as many sensors in a tiny MEMS chip. This one was a

Amazing Rings Around Uranus 🪐 This new image from JWST reveals the rings, polar vortex, and many of its 27 moons. Because of the planet’s 98° tilt, the rings are now facing Earth, and the opposing pole faces a 21-year winter with no sunlight. So, the seasons are extreme. Here

Slumber party on the East Brother Island Lighthouse, for its 150th year: 1) On approach to the white crane that lifted our boat out of the water 2) A LED-update to the original fresnel-lensed whale oil wick lamp 3) On the Widow's Walk — the highest lookout balcony 4) One of nine

Our fireside chat from the NOAH conference just went live ► youtube.com/watch?v=lj6lXI… An update for 2023: • 28 new AI unicorns (and the largest first rounds ever in Europe and U.S.) • Crypto crisis of governance • Twitter becomes X, one year in • SpaceX and Tesla inspire a

OMG... It's full of cars! The special Tesla exhibit at the Petersen Museum is extended through April. 1) Exploded view --> so few parts 2) Drive trains: Plaid, 3rd Gen, smalls 3) Wiring harness before the pioneering 48V daisy chain simplicity in Cybertruck 4) Multiplanet futures

The Xmas market in Tallinn, Estonia is the site of the first Xmas tree, part of a ritual in 1441, when unmarried merchants sang and danced around a tree, which they then burned. Pagan rituals often sound like Burning Man. :) 🎄🔥 — My homeland photos: flickr.com/photos/jurvets…

And sometimes MIdjourney missed… and the simpler mind of 2021 was sublime. Prompt: What exists beyond the veil? (VQGAN+CLIP 2021 on left and Midjourney 6.0 2023 on right)