Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Starship Flight Test
April 20th, 2023Wow. It launched. 2X the thrust of Saturn 5. It cleared the tower, made it through max Q, but the first stage didn’t separate. “This does not appear to be a nominal situation.” And then, “Rapid unscheduled disassembly.” Via: SpaceX:
Hello CBDCs, Goodbye Freedoms
April 19th, 2023Via: Peak Prosperity:
U.S. Navy Tests Iron Man-Like Jetpacks
April 19th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: Gravity Industries showcased their Iron Man-like jetpacks at a field training exercise earlier this month in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Gravity worked with the Joint Prototyping and Experimentation Maritime program at Naval Surface Warfare Center to conduct multiple mock exercises with the jetpacks, including rapid transit from shore-to-sea and sea-to-shore missions.
Brain Images Just Got 64 Million Times Sharper
April 19th, 2023Via: Duke: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is how we visualize soft, watery tissue that is hard to image with X-rays. But while an MRI provides good enough resolution to spot a brain tumor, it needs to be a lot sharper to visualize microscopic details within the brain that reveal its organization. In a decades-long technical […]
Elon Musk Says US Government Had Access to Private Twitter DMs
April 17th, 2023Shocking, if you have amnesia, or never heard of the Utah Data Center in the first place. Via: Summit News: During an upcoming appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show, Elon Musk reveals that the US government had full access to people’s private Twitter DMs. Musk told Carlson during a segment which is set to air tonight […]
Live Feed: Starship Flight Test [Scrubbed]
April 17th, 2023Update: Scrubbed — Via: SpaceX:
OpenAssistant Released
April 16th, 2023That didn’t take long. I thought it would take at least several months for them to attain something GPT3.5-like. Nope. Via: Yannic Kilcher:
IMF Unveils New Global Currency Known As The “Universal Monetary Unit”
April 15th, 2023Via: The Economic Collapse Blog: The “Universal Monetary Unit”, also known as “Unicoin”, is an “international central bank digital currency” that has been designed to work in conjunction with all existing national currencies. This should set off alarm bells for all of us, because the widespread adoption of a new “global currency” would be a […]
Musk Incorporates X.AI
April 14th, 2023Via: The Verge: Elon Musk has created a new company dedicated to artificial intelligence — and it’s called X.AI, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The company, which a Nevada filing indicates was incorporated last month, currently has Musk as its director and Jared Birchall, the director of Musk’s family office, listed as […]
What Are Transformer Models and How Do They Work?
April 14th, 2023Via: cohere.ai: So why would a transformer model build text word by word? One answer is, because that works really well. A more satisfying one is that because transformers are so incredibly good at keeping track of the context, that the next word they pick is exactly what it needs to keep going with an […]
