Wow, the compression on the video here makes this unrecognizable. The HDR video looks amazing.
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Wow, the compression on the video here makes this unrecognizable. The HDR video looks amazing.
Fiber ice. Is this is thing?
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This is amazing. Need. Sketch, rig, and train a robot in 5 minutes. youtu.be/5wi53Z2_sAk?...
Amazing. Let’s get starship and new Glenn up to speed and start building in the future up there. Just don’t fly through the microwave laser.
Pretty wild that SpaceX was able to catch this thing again. The upper stage went 💥, but this was pretty impressive. And just this morning Blue Origin got to orbit. Yesterday payloads to the moon. Heating up.
brb packing for my move to the cloud cities of Venus youtu.be/0az7DEwG68A?...
Wild that Blue Origin 🐢 and SpaceX 🐇 are both launching this Friday. The New Glenn rocket is a LONG time coming. Big day for the titans of the space industry. And for humanity? It’s hard not to be excited, but it’s also been tainted for me with the political 💩
Design fiction is the deliberate use of diegetic prototypes to suspend disbelief about change.
"Fiction has the same function that games have. In playing, children learn to live, because they simulate situations in which they may find themselves as adults. And it is through fiction that we adults train our ability to structure our past and present experience." Umberto Eco Novelist, semiotician, cultural critic
The mantra of “ the future is in the past” is rattling around my head as I read this book.
the objective shouldn’t be, ‘How do we produce that brilliant new killer product?’ It should be a dynamic process that never really stops, with pathways for feeding critical insights from those explorations back into the organization, in ways that will actually seize on and focus people’s attention
Here’s a 🧵 with some insights from the Design Fiction books.
Four books. Manual of design fiction. TBD Catalog. Androids dream of electric sheep. It’s time to imagine harder.
Time to cozy up and get to reading Design Fiction. Thanks for the present kids.
Just got the books. Pretty hilarious so far. One joke book full of ads from possible futures.
I’m noticing a lot of AI backlash here on @bsky.app. Very different that what I’m seeing on other platforms. Can someone break down the thinking?
Like the Qwerty keyboard. Not the best keyboard, but the better alternative is worse if everything with a keyboard would have to change and everyone would have to relearn it.
I’ve heard it called “lock in”. Once enough infrastructural and technology is built on something else, it’s locked in. You can’t change it. That’s why it’s so important to get platforms right the first time.
My 14-year-old son and I are loving it. I keep thinking each new episode is going to fall off like some of their other series. But each one delivers. Either through new characters, themes, or digging deeper into the characters we have. Very smart show so far 🐘
They delivered. Heartwarming moments and a pretty good twist.
Also interesting to see how all-in they went on practical effects. Like watching a Muppets movie. It seems like almost everything inside their virtual production volume is physical, but everything outside is digital. Must be so fun for the kids to act against.
Anyone else overly excited for the new episode of Star Wars Skeleton Crew tonight? Stranger Things meets Goonies meets, original Star Wars vibes? My son and I are pumped.
The two dots in the lower right are gas giant 🪐s orbiting the thing that looks like the eye of Sauron in the middle. Incredible 🤩 Seems the other things are stars? Looks like 🪐s but the article says just two gas giants.
Makes sense, I think. 🤔 it’s not that we are using the other universes for computational power. It’s just the fact that they exist and then we can pick the one that we’re in? I just don’t get how this helps compute anything. Like what kind of questions would a quantum computer answer?
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It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch.
If you want to write it out, it’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. This mind-boggling number exceeds known timescales in physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe.
Proof of the multiverse? blog.google/technology/r...
Willow’s performance on this benchmark is astonishing: It performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 1025 or 10 septillion years. 🧵
I was having a discussion with some coworkers and remembered a very useful concept for making gesture systems more stable: “Hysteresis”. A good example is a thermostat which might turn on when the temperature gets down to 66 but then not turn off again once the temperature gets above 69.
I love it when characters realize they have starkly different ideals. Looks like a good scene to me. What issue is this in?
