danielkhent 6 months ago

“Chinese Satellite Crushes Starlink With 2-Watt Laser Fired From 36,000 KM in Space” High-throughput optical link from a geostationary satellite. Not really apples to apples comparison to Starlink. GEO prioritizes broad coverage and capacity, while LEO prioritizes real-time responsiveness. #technology

Chinese Satellite Crushes Starlink With 2-Watt Laser Fired From 36,000 KM in Space

danielkhent 6 months ago

The AI Boom Is Driving a Massive Geothermal Energy Revival #geothermal #AI

OilPrice.com

The AI Boom Is Driving a Massive Geothermal Energy Revival | OilPrice.com

Enhanced geothermal energy is receiving massive investment from Big Tech to meet rising AI energy demand, with global forecasts predicting dramatic...

danielkhent 6 months ago

Iceland declares threat to Atlantic Ocean current a national security risk #climatechange https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/iceland-sees-security-risk-existential-threat-atlantic-ocean-currents-possible-2025-11-12/

danielkhent 6 months ago

World’s Largest Cargo Sailboat Completes Historic First Atlantic Crossing #renewableenergy #environment

Marine Insight

World’s Largest Cargo Sailboat Completes Historic First Atlantic Crossing

Marine Insight - The maritime industry guide.

danielkhent 6 months ago

Old fashioned breaking and entering industrial espionage Glad to see not everything is going AI. #industrialespionage #AI

Sports Auto Moto

Alpine : des intrus visitent les locaux de l'équipe, des soupçons d'espionnage industriel au menu

Alpine a été visité par des inconnus, avec des soupçons d'espionnage industriel dans l'air.

danielkhent 6 months ago

Unfettered Capitalism Nearly Wiped Out America’s Wild Animals Once. It Just May Again. Economic war on wildness. #ecopsychology https://time.com/7289151/america-wildlife-animals-extinction-essay/

danielkhent 6 months ago

Programming Cells: Towards an Automated Genetic Compiler Vibe coding cells. Yikes. #genetics #vibecoding

PROGRAMMING CELLS: TOWARDS AN AUTOMATED ‘GENETIC COMPILER’ - The Science and Applications of Synthetic and Systems Biology - NCBI Bookshelf

One of the visions of synthetic biology is to be able to program cells using a language that is similar to that used to program computers or roboti...

danielkhent 6 months ago

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity (in the middle of the day). Mine while the sun shines #renewableenergy

Electrek

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity

Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

danielkhent 6 months ago

Iceland starts drilling into a volcano? I like the sentiment, but I don’t think there is any drilling going on. Too bad, because this would be a good first step towards an evil lair. #geothermal #evillair

Iceland starts drilling into a volcano — 100 MW to power 50,000 homes from extreme heat

danielkhent 9 months ago

“If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then?” #postscarcity

The Conversation

If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then?

AI’s evangelists are promising a future of almost unimaginable prosperity. There’s good reason to be sceptical.

danielkhent 10 months ago

“Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database” Wow, just like a regular human coder. We are in trouble. #AI

theregister

Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database

: AI ignored instruction to freeze code, forgot it could roll back errors, and generally made a terrible hash of things

danielkhent 11 months ago

Can AI run a retail store? Bodega owners beware… #AI https://venturebeat.com/ai/can-ai-run-a-physical-shop-anthropics-claude-tried-and-the-results-were-gloriously-hilariously-bad/

danielkhent 11 months ago

“Ranxerox a New York” - Stefano Tamburini / Tanino Liberatore “powerhouse of violence, drugs, obscenity, graphic erotica, amorality, and provocations of all kinds” #NowReading #book

Retrofuturista

RanXerox: The Brutal Cyberpunk Masterpiece (Review)

Ranxerox is a satire of contemporary society highlighting the violent and sadistic elements inherent in it.

danielkhent 11 months ago

danielkhent 0 years ago

Tracing the thoughts of a large language model “What language, if any, is it using ‘in its head’?” #AI #LLM https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language-model

danielkhent 0 years ago

LLMs Can Now Reason Beyond Language “Human reasoning naturally operates through abstract, non-verbal concepts rather than strictly relying on discrete linguistic tokens.” #AI #LLM

MarkTechPost

LLMs Can Now Reason Beyond Language: Researchers Introduce Soft Thinking to Replace Discrete Tokens with Continuous Concept Embeddings

LLMs Can Now Reason Beyond Language: Researchers Introduce Soft Thinking to Replace Discrete Tokens with Continuous Concept Embeddings

danielkhent 1 year ago

LLMs Aren’t Mirrors, They’re Holograms The article is pretty soft, but the idea of a re-entrant symbolic hologram is interesting… #AI #LLM

Psychology Today

LLMs Aren’t Mirrors, They’re Holograms

An LLM isn’t a mirror—it’s more like a hologram, one that reconstructs meaning from language.

danielkhent 1 year ago

Major Lithium Deposit found in deposit running southeastern Oregon to north Nevada #renewableenergy

UNILAD

Scientists discover $1,500,000,000,000 lithium deposit in US state

Mining is already underway in one state, but another is debating whether or not to begin drilling - with an endangered species inhabiting it

danielkhent 1 year ago

“Engineers build record-breaking wind turbine with material no one saw coming” Pretty cool. But no one thought of wood before? #renewableenergy

The Cool Down

Engineers build record-breaking wind turbine with material no one saw coming: 'It's not difficult to envision'

A Swedish company has turned to wood for a more sustainable construction material for wind turbines.

danielkhent 1 year ago

Photovoltaic spheres called “Sphelar by Kyosemi” that capture light from all angles Not sure if this is real. A sphere with ~20% efficiency? #renewableenergy #solarpunk https://unionrayo.com/en/japan-unveils-photovoltaic-spheres/

Sphelar Power Corporation

Development story - Technology - Sphelar Power Corporation