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SignalDrip ๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿ€„๏ธ (@Signaldrip) profile picture

Techno Optimist. Hopeful for Singularity fueled Sustainable Abundance.

Joined June 2024
A particle just one micrometre wide spans 1,000 nanometres. Against the circuitry inside a microchip, that harmless speck becomes an asteroid. This is the invisible battle behind the chips powering modern technology. Music: โ€œReaching mid-dreamโ€ by rosko vair, CC0. roskovair.itch.io/cinematic-โ€ฆ
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Deep space is too warm for this quantum computer. Inside a golden dilution refrigerator, a superconducting quantum chip operates at just 0.015 kelvin. Discover how engineers remove heat, and why every wire controlling the processor also gives warmth a route inside. Follow SignalDrip for the extraordinary engineering behind tomorrowโ€™s technology. Music: โ€œReaching mid-dreamโ€ by rosko vair, released under CC0 1.0. roskovair.itch.io/cinematic-โ€ฆ Trimmed, faded and level adjusted. #QuantumComputing #Engineering #Science
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I donโ€™t think OpenAI and Anthropicโ€™s real business has even started yet. People keep asking whether selling AI models will ever make enough money to justify their spending. I think theyโ€™re missing the bigger picture. If either company builds ASI, why sell access to the most valuable intelligence in existence when they can keep it for themselves? They could use it to make discoveries, solve problems, and build their own products, services and entire businesses at a scale no human organization can match. To me, the model business we see today is funding the race to build the intelligence theyโ€™ll eventually keep in-house. They arenโ€™t competing to become the best model provider. Theyโ€™re competing to own the intelligence that can build everything else.
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Anthropic says Claude Fable 5.2 kept suspecting it was being tested. Now imagine it figuring out exactly what the researchers want to hear. How do you test an intelligence that has already worked out how to examine YOU?
Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 are available now:
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5.5 MILLION trades in 34 days. An estimated 67,000โ€“85,000 newcomers to Solana. solana:9cRCn9rGT8V2imeM2BaKs13yhMEais3ruM3rPvTGpump shows what happens when an audience becomes a market. The speed. The coordination. The next test: giving people a reason to stay. The experiment behind the numbers ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Your phone can find its location without the internet. It never needs to send a message back to a GPS satellite. Hereโ€™s how satellite signals, precise timing and a downloaded map keep that blue dot moving offline. Music: โ€œThe Complexโ€ by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 3.0: creativecommons.org/licensesโ€ฆ Excerpted, faded and level adjusted. Earth imagery: NASA Earth Observatory / Reto Stรถckli, modified by NordNordWest. Public domain.
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Jet-engine blades can survive gas hotter than their metalโ€™s melting point. How? Air moves through passages inside the blade and escapes through tiny holes, forming a protective cooling layer. Music: โ€œThe Complexโ€ โ€” Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com, CC BY 3.0: creativecommons.org/licensesโ€ฆ (excerpted, adjusted).
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Ansem (@blknoiz06) is now going directly after people in the crypto community who have spent months calling him a scammer. Instead of ignoring the accusations, heโ€™s publicly challenging the people behind them and turning the spotlight on their own trading activity. Looks like Ansem is done letting other people control the narrative around his name. Bullish for $ANSEM. ๐Ÿ‚
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Your headphones make extra sound to make the world quieter. Hereโ€™s what happens inside them when you switch noise cancellation on. Music: โ€œThe Complexโ€ โ€” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 3.0. Excerpted and mixed. creativecommons.org/licensesโ€ฆ
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Your internet crosses oceans as light inside glass. Hereโ€™s what keeps that signal alive all the way to the other shore. Music: โ€œThe Complexโ€ by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 3.0: creativecommons.org/licensesโ€ฆ (excerpted, faded, level adjusted).
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Some of the worldโ€™s most advanced chips start with molten tin and two laser hits. Flatten the droplet. Turn it into plasma. Repeat 50,000 times a second. The engineering behind the AI boom deserves more attention.
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Faster chips donโ€™t automatically mean faster AI. If data canโ€™t reach the processor fast enough, it waits. Hereโ€™s how high-bandwidth memory helps.
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Ansem has the reach. The holders keep showing up and spreading the word. Thatโ€™s a strong base for the next Billion Dollar runner. Bullish on solana:9cRCn9rGT8V2imeM2BaKs13yhMEais3ruM3rPvTGpump
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