Realizing the potential benefits of AI requires a resilient energy system and skilled workforce to build and maintain it. Today in a new paper, we are sharing policy opportunities to reach these benefits that focus on three areas. Read more about our recommendations and

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I’ve met with so many families over the years who have longed for education freedom. And that day has arrived. Proud to sign school choice into law today. Texas now empowers parents to choose the school that’s BEST for their child.

At Pimco/Pacific Life I and others helped give Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger one of their first loans to a down-and-out Berkshire Hathaway in the mid 70s. I knew nothing about insurance and candy stores but was sold by his long-term vision of the economy and markets.

Waiting for the Los Angeles Dodgers to play, but it's a rainy night in Georgia. youtu.be/X7VsQwVSqXw?si…

It's Sunday morning, and the birthday of jazz trumpet legend Maynard Ferguson. Ferguson was born May 4, 1928, in Montreal. He passed away in 2006. youtu.be/zkK12MAOJdc?si…

Jazz trumpet legend Maynard Ferguson, who was born on May The 4th, 1928, plays the theme from Star Wars. youtu.be/P_8M-L08Ypc?si…

Remember. The real #StarWarsDay is May The (4)^2 May 16th, 1943. RAF Squadron 617 launches Operation Chastise - The Dam Busters. It really happened. youtu.be/lNdb03Hw18M?si…

Spending the last hours of May 4th getting hooked in for the new week with high voltage. Maynard Ferguson (May 4, 1928 - August 23, 2006) youtu.be/xQO7Dq51NRQ?si…

A beautiful example of great story telling and writing. GR/scriptwriters getting a point in elegantly without brashness or bluntness to enable people to think for themselves. Fermat’s Theorm S2EP12. youtu.be/whihpXEpWsg?si…

“What is a video? It’s a sequence of static images. Turns out, mapping them to a Klein bottle improves AI performance.” — Gunnar Carlsson

Rain in Georgetown, Texas.

"A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused." - Rudolf Spielmann (May 5, 1883 - August 20, 1942)

This was me at 22, trying to build a $1B company.

This is an SNL skit ready to go, but they won't do it. Same guy showing up again and again in disguises.

All credit to Wolfenstein. But.... in 1995, I fell down an air shaft as Kyle Katarn on an Imperial Base with secret Death Star plans. Dark Forces. Andor got nothing on me.

Active thunderstorm atmosphere on the AM bands in Texas with "Copperhead Road" by Steve Earle coming in from Window Rock, Arizona, and the Navajo Nation on KTNN 660.

Poster for the "Geometric Science of Information" (GSI) Disclaimer: partial and incomplete due to space limitation franknielsen.github.io/GSI/

Georgetown is now subsidizing Uber and zTrip rides. The rides have to be within Georgetown or to BSW or Seton hospitals in Round Rock. Riders pay the first $4. The city of Georgetown pays the next $10. Riders pay anything over $14. georgetowntexas.gov/rideGTX Press release:

Power is back. We're coming up on the anniversary of the May 19th, 1938 founding of the Perdenales Electric Cooperative. I wonder what a young Congressman Lyndon Johnson would think about us checking outages on our smartphones. It's come full circle. map.pec.coop