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Erwin Kuhn

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Computing @BrimstoneEnergy. We're decarbonizing cement.

Joined January 2018
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One step closer to actually building companies in Europe 🍾

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my colleagues in the College, Commission services, MEPs, Member States, and my team. Together, we have worked tirelessly to advance an ambitious EU agenda. It has been an honour & privilege to serve the common European interest🇪🇺

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Now the key question is whether this log-scale gets us to new scientific discoveries before requiring a Dyson sphere

This may be the most important figure in LLM research since the OG Chinchilla scaling law in 2022. The key insight is 2 curves working in tandem. Not one. People have been predicting a stagnation in LLM capability by extrapolating the training scaling law, yet they didn't…

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“In the study, researchers looked at 12 brain samples from people who had died with dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. These brains contained up to 10 times more plastic by weight than healthy samples.” Wow


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Join @JeffBezos for a tour inside @blueorigin's New Glenn Production Facility at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This video was shot on May 30th, 2024. 00:00 - Intro 00:40 - Interview Starts [Lobby] 05:20 - Recovering Saturn V Engines 08:35 - Tank Production 16:40 - Second Stage…


Best recruitment ad for this segment of the 21st century just dropped

neets who thought they had freedom with their gig economy life are in shambles right now, and their best option is go build submarines



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Schedule-free optimizers (x.com/aaron_defazio/…) are surreal. I've read the paper, looked into the math, and tried to understand what's happening. It all seems like an incremental improvement at best (like LaProp (arxiv.org/abs/2002.04839) or Adam-Atan2…

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Schedule-Free Learning github.com/facebookresear… We have now open sourced the algorithm behind my series of mysterious plots. Each plot was either Schedule-free SGD or Adam, no other tricks!

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Evolution is a better mechanical engineer than you

The bacterial flagellar motor can spin at 100,000 RPM in one direction, then switch gears and flip to spinning in the other direction. How does this work? Cryo-electron microscopy reveals some of the nanoscale mechanics involved: nature.com/articles/s4156… youtu.be/MsPPyNWhqPo



Surprised about Rolls Royce making a nuclear reactor? Wait until we have gacha games about tokamak reactors

MiHoYo, the developer of Genshin Impact, has led a $65m funding round in Shanghai based Energy Singularity which is a company involved in nuclear fusion technology, tokamak devices and operational control systems. The company plans to build its own Tokamak device by 2024.

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1/ I just finished a 2.5 week trip through China today, my first visit in about a decade. I was there for family reasons, but it also happened to be my first time in the country as a tech industry observer My amateur travel journal on the China tech market -

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Realistic combustion engine simulation that runs at 80,000 FPS, produces sound and predicts horsepower +-10% from technical specs Computers are so fast man youtube.com/watch?v=RKT-sK…


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crazy that the only one of these companies founded in the City of San Francisco is Saudi Aramco

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A remarkable example of human's extraordinary ability to do "cross-embodiment transfer": the person steers himself in 3rd person "NPC view" by streaming the camera feed from a drone following him to his VR headset. We are born to process egocentric view, yet we have no trouble…


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Elon’s stock clawback situation would have been cut from Atlas Shrugged to keep the novel believable


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We recently released our latest paper from @NormalComputing on "Thermodynamic Natural Gradient Descent" (TNGD), showcasing a groundbreaking approach to AI optimization. But how does it work? TNGD combines the power of GPUs and innovative thermodynamic computers called…

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POV it’s the 1970s and they’re establishing the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission as you’re trying to build a new nuclear reactor

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The very first simulated image of a black hole, calculated using a 1960s punch card IBM 7040 computer and plotted by hand by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978

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Biotech is going to get absolutely wild in the next 2 decades

Thinking about this woman who used CRISPR to make her testicles produce estrogen (and it worked) I wish stuff like this was more researched and implemented widely Getting a "feminization vaccine" once and escaping the dependency on regular hrt is the Holy Grail of transition

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Apple using Apple Silicon in its own data centers (not nVidia chips) to power Apple Intelligence Very interesting, and getting little attention so far


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The great cultural division of our time is not between Left and Right, but between people who think The Best Has Already Happened vs people who think The Best is Yet to Come. This division runs across traditional party lines: - the Left has Wokes/ProgLeft who think the past was…


Out of all the charts and maps saved on my phone, this one has been by far the most useful one

If you don’t understand this chart, keep staring at it until you do.

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