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If you want to see what I’ve been working on for many many months, take 24 minutes to watch the first episode of the SpaceX documentary.
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"The most important thing in the next 3-4 years is data centers in space.
In every way, data centers in space, from a first principles perspective, are superior to data centers on earth.
In space, you can keep a satellite in the sun 24 hours a day. The sun is 30% more intense, which results in six times more irradiance than on Earth. So you don't need a battery.
The cooling in these data centers is incredibly complicated. Space cooling is free. You just put a radiator on the dark side of the satellite.
The only thing faster than a laser going through a fiber optic cable is a laser going through absolute vacuum. Link satellites with lasers, and you have a faster and more coherent network than any data center on Earth."
This is my fifth conversation with @GavinSBaker.
Gavin understands semiconductors and AI as well as anyone I know and has a gift for making sense of the industry's complexity and nuance.
We discuss:
- Nvidia vs Google (GPUs + TPUs)
- Scaling laws and reasoning models
- The economics of AI compute
- Why Blackwell's delay mattered
- The bear case on the AI capex buildout
- Data centers in space
- The mistake SaaS companies are making
Few people love investing more than Gavin. His closing answer about why he loves it turned into a full reflection on his investing origin story, which I had never heard before.
Enjoy!
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
5:03 The Blackwell Transition
23:15 The Prisoner's Dilemma
27:12 The Bear Case: Edge AI
37:19 Meta, Open Source, and Model Depreciation
43:08 Geopolitics and Rare Earths
50:42 Data Centers in Space
56:06 Power Constraints as a Governor
1:11:31 The SaaS Mistake
1:16:17 Nuclear and Quantum
1:22:25 Gavin’s Investing Origins
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GERMANY BUILT A ROAD THAT DRINKS STORMS FOR BREAKFAST
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Researchers at Seoul National University have created a liquid-particle composite called a Particle-armored liquid roBot (PB) can deform, engulf, and merge without losing its structural integrity, enabling it to perform functions that are difficult for rigid robots
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Never enough…
Keep on accumulating no matter the price.
Your future self will thank you.
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This photo was taken in our rent-controlled apartment in Toronto, with my mom‘s painting on the wall. The suit cost $99 which included a free shirt, tie and socks. A great bargain! He wore this suit every day to his bank job in Toronto. I couldn’t afford a second suit. We were happy 😃
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BREAKING: ‼️🤖
Google makes quantum computing breakthrough with new chip capable of solving computational problems in under 5 minutes, that would otherwise take the leading supercomputer: 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years
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🚨THE WORLD’S FIRST CARBON-14 DIAMOND BATTERY: OFFERING 5,000 YEARS OF POWER
Scientists in the UK have unveiled a groundbreaking carbon-14 diamond battery, promising up to 5,000 years of uninterrupted power.
Using the radioactive decay of carbon-14—famous for dating ancient artifacts—the battery generates low-level power by trapping electrons in a diamond structure, essentially creating a solar cell but with radiation instead of sunlight.
Think pacemakers that never need a battery change or spacecraft like Voyager 1 staying online for millennia.
It’s a permanent, no-replacement-needed power source that could revolutionize everything from medical implants to space exploration.
Source: Toms Hardware
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While Jaguar's new rebrand is being publicly mocked by Elon Musk...
Oppenheimer's Oscar-winning cinematographer just dropped an ad for Volvo.
It broke every rule in marketing — and the internet can't stop talking about it.
Here's the full story (& why everyone's in awe)🧵
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If you want a Telo in the next 3 years… you’ll need a deposit soon. Line is growing! To be clear:
-All deposits for Telo are fully refundable.
-We don’t touch any money used for pre orders. All held in escrow.
-It’s $152 to reference the length (152”)
telotrucks.com/pre-order
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Immigration and world poverty, brilliantly explained with gum balls.
Trust me, this is worth a watch.
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Playing around with @krea_ai scene transfer.
Watch how the view changes (based on the reference image) as the character remains consistent.
The new presets make it incredibly easy to get good results!