The Soviet Exploration of Venus, Bossart: America's Forgotten Rocket Scientist. Bell Labs, Princeton University, Microsoft Research.
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In the 1940s, science fiction author Robert Heinlein knew that atomic hydrogen would be the ultimate rocket fuel that would make his stories of routine interplanetary travel physically possible. Heinlein was correct, but for other reasons, this super fuel is impossible to use.
Atlas missile designer, Charlie Bossart, studied the possibility of a near competitor, triatomic hydrogen, which was thought to exist at the time. But it was later proved to be unstable.
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The insane landscape of modern drone warfare. Including "dragon drones" dropping molten iron (thermite) onto structures and trenches.
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Grok, what if this picture of my brothers and me were a daguerreotype from the mid 19th century?
Made with AI
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The thermochemistry of clay. From mud bricks to porcelain, clay undergoes a series complex changes, forming different types of ceramic, as the temperature increases.
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Bricks: here is a more sophisticated use of AI by an excellent history of science channel. I generated a report with Grok and fed it to Notebook, but this YouTube video is a full-blown AI video production, script , key images to video, narration, etc.
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A heavy satellite put into a high energy orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office. It likely joins another mystery satellite in a highly inclined 11,000 km circular orbit. This is a new project of unknown purpose.
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RT @BillGates: I appreciated the opportunity to speak with @ezraklein at length about the state of AI. I believe the world isn't awake to…
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Three covers that might be better than the originals.
Last Train to Clarksville by jazz singer Cassandra Wilson. A covert anti-Vietnam song designed to get by network censors of the time.
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Sweet Jane by the Cowboy Junkies. Lou Reed himself said this was his favorite version of the song.
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Donald Mitchell retweeted
HOLY SHIT. OPUS 5.5 IS CRAZY.
Napoleon's sharpest battle lasted a morning and won him Europe. I just had it turn that morning into a complete 5 minute film.
All code.
- It wrote the engine, the soldiers, the score, the voice.
- The hills are the real battlefield from satellite data.
- The sun rises where it actually rose on 2 December 1805.
90 minutes to build. 4 hours to render. $40 (cloud agent credits).
Code + prompt below.
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GPT 6 Astra discusses the problem of creating Artificial Super Intelligence. After some discussion, I had it generate a script for Gemini Notebook.
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How can we know what is the true news about world events? ChatGPT-6 Astra discussed this. It makes good points, but ultimately it doesn't have useful advice. Nobody has time to read court transcripts and watch hours of CSPAN video. We hope professional journalists will do this, but they are only human and have biases and conflicts of interest.
My own solution is imperfect but I don't have a better idea: set X to Following/Recent, and follow a diverse set of news sources (AP, Politico, Reuters, DropSite, Al Jazeera, Jerusalem Post, TASS, China Xinhua, etc.)
It's all propaganda, but I avoid the most extreme stuff -- Nick Fuentis, MeidasTouch, etc. I do follow some independent journalists with strong points of view, like Mike Benz or John Kiriakou, because I think they are smart and knowledgable.
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There is plenty of "AI slop" out there, but I see people learning to make good content with new tools. AI is letting people express themselves visually without the expense and politics of conventional film making.
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