Head of Petrology, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol. Melts rocks with lasers for a living. Die hard England Cricket fan.
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Normally, I would be pretty confident of an #England victory tomorrow with a scorecard like this. But then I suddenly remembered what Mitchell and Blundell did for #NZ in 2022…
🚀 💥 Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans
www.theregister.com/science/2026...
#space #artemis #rocket
Explosion wrecks rocket and pad, leaving NASA's lunar ambitions looking less than launch-readywww.theregister.com
Via @spectrum.ieee.org: Verkor.io, an #AI chip design company, has created an LLM harness that handled the entire design process of a RISC-V CPU in 12 hours. The result is a chip roughly equivalent to a 2011 #Intel Celeron.
This seems like a significant milestone.
spectrum.ieee.org/ai-chip-design
Oliver T Lord
Overnight, repeated attacks on Russia's oil infrastructure complex in the port city of Tuapse, with nearly the entire facility now in flames.
Several areas of the complex were targeted, with the remnants of Russian air defenses unable to stop incoming strikes.
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The #Hayward, #California factory of humanoid #robot manufacturer 1X, built to produce 10,1000 of its NEO robots per year, using mostly human workers…but slso some NEO robots. youtu.be/ag_rFhvSNmE?...
My recent trip to #Switzerland turned out to be #tech nerd heaven: not only were there autonomous cleaning #robots at #Heathrow and #Zurich airports, but the outgoing AirBaltic flight had free WiFi courtesy of #SpaceX #Starlink, and the return flight was a <1 year old #Airbus A320neo!
Here is another example of the rapid growth in humanoid #robots: #Figure #AI BotQ factory, also in #California, now producing 55 units a week (and up to 24 per day):
youtu.be/YZH1csMhnDo?...
The question is, does the money spent on #AI tokens lead to less or more genuine productivity than would be realised by spending the same amount on human workers?
If less, then this is stupid, uncompetitive and will be a fad.
If more…
Oliver T Lord
After squeezing liquid gallium, we decided to squeeze mercury!
What should we do next?
A: Rubidium
B: Some other metal — you choose!
C: PLEASE STOP TORTURING METALS
Thanks to: @drdrewitt.bsky.social, @fturci.bsky.social and quite a few others not on Bluesky.
journals.aps.org/prb/abstract...
#CricketSky: in case you didn’t know it, the ECB have a site where you can choose teams (e.g. #England, #Somerset, #SouthernBrave) and then sync all their fixtures to a variety of calendars!
ecb.ecal.com
Oliver T Lord
Startup Verkor.io’s agentic AI orchestrated the entire design process from a 219-word prompt
The atomic-scale structure and melting curve of liquid mercury was measured using in situ synchrotron x-ray diffraction (SXRD) at pressure and temperature ($p\text{\ensuremath{-}}T$) conditions up to ...
NEW: Startup CEOs are bragging that they are spending more money on AI compute than it would cost to hire human workers. Astronomical AI bills are now, in a certain corner of the tech world, a supposed marker of growth and success.
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A new class of AI startups say they are taking money that would normally be used to hire people and are spending it on AI compute instead.
