Present: Stealth Past: CEO & Co-founder @LightOnIO, founded: 2016, IPO: 2024 Rocket Scientist, Nuclear Engineer
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🚨Here is an incredible achievement, @LightOnIO console that you can try for free at LightOn.ai is currently a production environment that just reach *top 5* 🏆 among research experiments (none in prod) in one of the most grueling deep research (RAG on steroids) benchmark out there: where it needs to:
🤯answer 800 super complex questions
💫requiring several argentic turns
📚on a collection of 100,000 documents.
LightOn Console answers them in about 9 turns when the top 1 entry wastes 209 turns on average. Yes you read that right, the top 1 of the leaderboard requires x23 times more inference.
LightOn console is not just good, it saves money and time when you have a large collection of documents. Most humans would not come close to these numbers in terms of accuracy and turns. It is unbelievable and it is in Production for you test at LightOn.ai
At top 12, they show LightOn's tech is competitive with an old open source LLM.
Can't wait to see what LightOn Console does with @Kimi_Moonshot Kimi 3 or @Zai_org GLM 5.2 or with closed APIs of @OpenAI chatGPT 5.6, @AnthropicAI Fable 5 or @SpacexAI @grok !
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#HappyBirthday to ASE Life Member Charles Duke, Jr., who flew to space in 1972 aboard Apollo 16 and is the tenth person to have walked on the Moon!
ALT Official portrait of Charles Duke, Jr.
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Christian, your blog entry should have been called "The New Mapmakers"/"Les Nouveaux Cartographes". I wrote a somewhat similar blog entry 13 years ago and finished the blog entry with:
"The world got bigger"
Quite surprinsingly, Terry Tao was one the people who opened the path then. I am sure he will also lead this new round when he is over this new period. nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/20…
Reading all those recent beautiful essays by Terry Tao, Kevin Buzzard and @wtgowers, I could not resist, but write up my deeply personal perspective on how I perceive and see things:
docs.google.com/document/d/e…
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And they fall....
In my 25 years in electrical engineering and digital signal processing, the halo engineers making the biggest bank have been HDL designers.
They are extremely skilled and very hard to find. The best are PhD’s in communications.
Opus can turn the English language into HDL, refactor your problem to one solvable by HDL, and optimize the architecture .
I’m going to build a LLM benchmark based on HDL quality.
Claude and I started on a build yesterday and it estimated that we could finish sometime around when the Vivado license expires in 59 days.
We finished it an hour ago.
Built, tested, simulated fake data, confirmed on real signals. In one day.
In one day.
My best estimate for a team of 2 PhD’s for this effort: 6-8 months.
This is why premium Tokens won’t be $200/month forever.
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Notnlong ago, people had to manually press a button three times just to type the letter 'C' on a phone
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It was crazy then (but was so central to the survival of the Shuttle program) and is still crazy now.
🛰️👨🚀 Un sauvetage à couper le souffle : pour sa première mission, la navette spatiale Endeavour devait emmener des astronautes sauver le satellite Intelsat 603. Trois sorties extravéhiculaires seront nécessaires pour réussir sa capture.
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Igor Carron retweeted
The tower can supply 134 MW of heat at 85°C to the city district heating network, which is about 1TWh per year or about 100 000 homes (or 5% homes in Paris). This assumes a hot-water network that can accomodate 130MW; today the network is small and mostly steam, so the realistic first step is a local 50 MW loop. About five floors can be liberated as a result.
To the multiple current owners that - from what I heard - are fighting each other: it’ll be more profitable than having offices! Sell the heat to nearby buildings during the winter. (also, can the asbestos be tolerated in such a setup?)
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Yes, Ty-rap FTW!
Please don't believe this slop.
SpaceX does a lot of incredible stuff, but "using zipties" isn't one of them.
We've been using zip ties on spacecraft for decades.
In fact, zip-ties, introduced in 1958, were originally called "Ty-Rap" and were developed specifically for aircraft and spacecraft. They were invented by Maurus Logan after visiting a Boeing plant and seeing how bloody the workers hands were from using string tie.
It's literally in the NASA standards for cable and wire harness assemblies, which is NASA Std. 87394.
Viewable here: standards.nasa.gov/standard/…
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C'est un scandale en fait.
Le seul et unique collège du 1er arrdt va fermer : #Poquelin. Responsabilité de la mairie de Paris. Le directeur au courant depuis juillet n’a rien dit. Les enfants l’ont appris et rapporté aux parents.
Pire, le sujet n’a même pas été évoqué mardi dernier au conseil municipal. Opacité, manipulation, le messsage est limpide : familles, partez !
En attendant, on chante la Marseillaise.
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also known as the RPM, the Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver.
🚀🔍 La beauté de la navette spatiale : cette vue spectaculaire d’Endeavour a été prise depuis la Station spatiale internationale, peu avant son amarrage. L’équipage de l’ISS observait alors la navette afin d’inspecter son bouclier thermique.
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Igor Carron retweeted
The cockpit and the two rear engines are the weak spots.
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This is an image generated by Google AI. SynthID watermarketing confirms it via Google's AI verification system.
Also, the marking and details are incorrect for the A-10.
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