Anchor - “Where do those four (Virat, Root, Smith,... Kane) compare with Sachin Tendulkar ?” James Anderson - “ Just below Tendulkar ” 🫴♥️show more

In a heartwarming and unforgettable moment at S.P. College... Chowk in Pune, a young man named Soham Margaje got the surprise of his life while waiting at a traffic signal. A Range Rover pulled up beside him, the window rolled down, and a familiar voice said — "Where is your helmet? Drive slowly!" — and there stood none other than Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar himself. With no stardom or arrogance, the cricket legend simply cared for the safety of a common Pune youth and reminded him of traffic rules, like an elder brother advising a younger one. Soham was left completely speechless seeing his idol right in front of him. The incident is not just about an unexpected celebrity encounter — it is a powerful message about road safety delivered by the most beloved cricketer in the world. Sachin's simplicity and genuine concern for a stranger's safety has once again won millions of hearts across the nation. Wear your helmet. Even Sachin is watching!show more

Is there a market for an intelligently designed TWIN... 60" 🌽 system? 60" strip till = 1/2 HP 1/2 the units of everything Could be more aggressive with depth of tillage in zone + CC biomass simultaneously Bigger tires Manure integration More intensive continuous cropping It has been proven from many growers that a simple modification of 52"8"52"8"52"8" rows not only fills the yield gap from 30's but could provide an uptick with the right hybrids able to capture more light and CO2 in more of its leaves and roots Banding nutrients deeper in the soil WITH big Covers that stay alive a lot longer. This adds resilience and keeps soil in place. Video is at Zack Smith plot this year where twin 60's outperformed 30's The plot was supposed to just compare 60's with 30's but we both knew static 60" rows will yield from 88-95% ... just like wide row cereals a slight modification to ensure root and plant spacing quickly narrows the gap while creating the bandwidth for more activities and synergies.show more

June 4th, 1994 our lives forever changed. We said,... “I do!”. With those two words, we said, yes, to all the highs, the lows, and everything in between. God has blessed us with four absolutely amazing children who are now amazing adults, with their own best friends/significant others (that they’re doing life with), we have three incredible grandsons, and a beautiful granddaughter on the way. We’ve lived where we both grew up (on the East Coast), and have now been out here in San Diego for just over 11 years. We’ve gotten jobs (and lost jobs), we’ve had more times than we can count where we couldn’t make ends meet, even though both you and I were working two, and sometimes three jobs at a time, and we’ve been blessed in ways that we could’ve never dreamed of. We’ve watched both my parents pass on, and are now dealing with the overwhelmingly difficult challenge of seeing your parents struggle with their own health in ways that no one should have to go through. Through it all (even in the midst of the chaos), we’ve been blessed to be by each other‘s sides! I thank God for you every day, Jillian! I love our adventures together (the big ones where we fly to somewhere we’ve never been before, and the little ones where we hop in the car with no agenda, and just drive). I love when we find ourselves in deeper conversation, laughter, and tears of joy then ever expected, and in the moments of silence, where no words are even spoken, but when we’re together, just being where our feet are. As the world (as we know it), keeps getting crazier and crazier, let’s continue to keep Christ in the center of all we do, keep leaning on and lifting each other up when it’s needed, and keep living the lives that we have been so incredibly blessed to live together. I love you with all my heart Jillian. Happy 32nd (heading into our 33rd year), Anniversary.show more

🚨When Ian Bishop reveals why 90mph pacers are born,... not made🚨 Carlos Brathwaite🗣️: "Bish, how would you describe Ian Bishop the bowler back in those days?" Ian Bishop🗣️: "Very intense! My whole life was centered around being the best version of myself. I remember during my Test career, my wife argued with me, saying, 'You never celebrate five-wicket hauls , you’re just constantly pushing VHS tapes of past tours into the VCR at 1 AM trying to figure out how to get Mark Waugh or Steve Waugh out!' I had an eclectic mix: running up like Malcolm Marshall, jumping like Joel Garner, and following through like Michael Holding." Host (Nicholl)🗣️: "Can a bowler truly be taught to bowl fast from scratch?" Ian Bishop🗣️: "That's a polarizing question. Since retiring, I see so many biomechanists and fast-bowling coaches on social media. But I’ve yet to find ONE who took a kid from primary school and turned him into an out-and-out 90mph international bowler! They fine-tune fast bowlers who already exist, but you can't just take anyone off the street and teach 90mph. That fast-twitch fiber is raw athletic talent." Carlos Brathwaite🗣️: "What’s your take on bowling the Yorker in modern T20 cricket?" Ian Bishop🗣️: "The Yorker is gold! Look at Ben Stokes bowling that final over to you in 2016, he came hunting at your stumps and feet, and history wrote the rest. He should've gone wide outside off! A wide yorker is such a lethal defensive ploy because very few batters can hit sixes off it." Host: "Toughest batter you ever bowled to?" Ian Bishop: "Sachin Tendulkar! He used to stand on your good length ball and punch it down the ground for fun. You'd think, 'I didn't do much wrong there,' and he’d still send it to the boundary!"show more

Colmap 4.0 was very recently released, so it inspired... me to do some work to better understand it and its new capabilities with Rerun. I want to really understand how Colmap, and in particular, pycolmap, works outside of just calling it via the CLI. So my goal is to use the low-level pycolmap API to log every part of the pipeline. The explicit goal is to have an alternative to the SQLite database that I can utilize. Instead of SQLite, I want to try logging everything directly to rerun and use RRD. This means I can have deep inspectability and still save the features/matches/2D view geometry, but be able to view it directly in rerun. I think this is one of the superpowers that rerun provides; data and visualizations are deeply integrated. As I'm often working with sequential data (videos), I'm going to specifically focus on four things: 1. Monocular Video Simple: Calls high-level APIs such as pycolmap.extract_features, pycolmap.match_sequential, pycolmap.incremental_mapping. These are basically identical to the CLI options and provide a good baseline. 2. Monocular Video Streamed: Take the above high-level APIs and break them down to their iterator version, logging each component in a streamed manner. This way, I can stream the intermediate features to rerun while the extraction/matching/mapping is happening. 3. Rig with unknown calibration: <- WHAT THE VIDEO SHOWS This is probably the most interesting version and the first one I've been working on. It allows one to set a rig between known sensors, such as in VR/AR devices, leading to much better reconstructions with multiple cameras. This is the case where we don't know the calibration a priori, so we have to run a reconstruction twice: once as a normal Colmap reconstruction with no rig constraints, use this to generate the constraints, and then do it again with the newly found rig. 4. Rig with known calibration: This is the RoboCap example, where we have a pre-calibrated set of sensors, so we don't need to run the two reconstructions and also gain better matching between cameras, both spatially and temporally. Again, this leads to a much better reconstruction! Along with all this, GLOMAP has become a first-class global mapper, making it super easy to use directly within pycolmap! I'm excited to do more with this and compare it to things like pycuvslam, vipe, and other alternatives.show more

In my class, I teach the autoencoder by asking... everyone to stand up. 🙆 Stretch your arms out wide. Imagine you are holding a heavy textbook (like Introduction to Algorithms by Prof. Cormen), the whole thing, every page. Now bring your hands slowly together until they almost touch your neck. The bottle "neck." The final exam is tomorrow and you are allowed one cheat sheet: whatever you can scribble on your palm. All nine hundred pages have to survive the squeeze. That is the encoder. Now imagine you sit in the exam. Push your arms back out to where they started. You try to rebuild the textbook from your palm notes. That is the decoder. Of course you cannot get every page back. What you get back is what mattered enough to write down, and the gap between the two is the loss the network is trying to shrink. I call it AI by Arms 🙆. It gets a laugh, and then it gets remembered. Goal: squeeze four numbers down to two, then rebuild the original four from them. 1. Given Let us start with four training examples: X1, X2, X3, X4. 2. Auto (copy to targets) We copy the training examples straight into the targets. That is the whole trick behind the name: "auto" is Greek for "self", and the data is its own label. 3. Encoder, layer 1 Let us multiply the inputs by the weights, add the biases, and apply ReLU. Negative values get crossed out and become zero. 4. Encoder, layer 2 (the bottleneck) We do it again, and now the four dimensions have become two. This layer is called the bottleneck, because everything has to fit through it. 5. Decoder, layer 1 Let us go back the other way: multiply, add, ReLU. This time there are no negatives to cross out. 6. Decoder, layer 2 We multiply once more and get the outputs Y. This is the decoder's attempt to rebuild the four original numbers from the two it was given. 7. MSE loss gradients Let us compare Y with the targets Y'. The gradient is 2 x (Y - Y'): subtract, then double. Those gradients kick off backpropagation, and the weights start to learn. Your entire education is all about encoding and decoding!show more

In my class, I teach the autoencoder by asking... everyone to stand up. 🙆 Stretch your arms out wide. Imagine you are holding a heavy textbook (like Introduction to Algorithms by Prof. Cormen), the whole thing, every page. Now bring your hands slowly together until they almost touch your neck. The bottle "neck." The final exam is tomorrow and you are allowed one cheat sheet: whatever you can scribble on your palm. All nine hundred pages have to survive the squeeze. That is the encoder. Now imagine you sit in the exam. Push your arms back out to where they started. You try to rebuild the textbook from your palm notes. That is the decoder. Of course you cannot get every page back. What you get back is what mattered enough to write down, and the gap between the two is the loss the network is trying to shrink. I call it AI by Arms 🙆. It gets a laugh, and then it gets remembered. Goal: squeeze four numbers down to two, then rebuild the original four from them. 1. Given Let us start with four training examples: X1, X2, X3, X4. 2. Auto (copy to targets) We copy the training examples straight into the targets. That is the whole trick behind the name: "auto" is Greek for "self", and the data is its own label. 3. Encoder, layer 1 Let us multiply the inputs by the weights, add the biases, and apply ReLU. Negative values get crossed out and become zero. 4. Encoder, layer 2 (the bottleneck) We do it again, and now the four dimensions have become two. This layer is called the bottleneck, because everything has to fit through it. 5. Decoder, layer 1 Let us go back the other way: multiply, add, ReLU. This time there are no negatives to cross out. 6. Decoder, layer 2 We multiply once more and get the outputs Y. This is the decoder's attempt to rebuild the four original numbers from the two it was given. 7. MSE loss gradients Let us compare Y with the targets Y'. The gradient is 2 x (Y - Y'): subtract, then double. Those gradients kick off backpropagation, and the weights start to learn. Your entire education is all about encoding and decoding!show more

over the weekend, i built an app that i... sincerely hope you will never have a need for, but if you do happen to need a friendly, free, private mri viewer designed to make it easy for you to track tumor progression, you can try it here: here's the story: as some of you may know, last last september, my six year old daughter mira was diagnosed with an extremely rare brain tumor called an adamatinomatous craniopharyngioma, and since then our family has been doing everything we can possibly do to find a cure for her. we tortured chatgpt deep research, put together our own private research team, raised $1.4M and donated it all to Hankinson-Mitra Lab research thanks to $MIRA, explored every remotely applicable drug whether on the market or not, and even began working with md anderson to develop a personalized vaccine that we hope can lead to a more permanent cure unfortunately, we received the devastating news last march that the tumor has continued to grow since her initial surgery, and we had to start to consider more drastic options which would have seriously impacted mira’s quality of life. thankfully, with the help of dr. sabine mueller UCSF Benioff SF and the Hankinson-Mitra Lab at the university of colorado, in april, we started her on an alternative but extremely experimental treatment for this disease. to our unimaginable relief, her tumor has responded extraordinarily well to this treatment which combines tocilizumab (an arthritis drug that blocks IL6 receptors) with avastin (a colon cancer drug that inhibhits VEGF proteins). we know this, because mira gets an MRI scan of her brain every few months. and every time we get a new scan, the first thing we do is compare it against her last scan. so we have to find the matching weight of the scan, and then find the same plane, and then carefully find the slices of the scan where the tumor is visible, and then find the closest match to last month’s scan, then adjust the zoom, rotation, and brightness / contrast so they all look the same. we got pretty good at this. but it shouldn't be this hard. so i built last weekend using gemini 3 with some gpt 5.2 xhigh. you just import your DICOM MRI files (either zip, files or a folder), and you can align all of your scans across multiple dates instantly, just click and drag a rectangle around the tumor on any image, and it will use some very clever algorithms to automatically align up and find the closest matching slice from all your other scans, match the brightness / contrast, rotation, pan, zoom, and even shear to make sure the registration is as close as possible, and make it as easy to possible to compare tumor progression. it has a grid view so you can see all your scans for the same location all at once, and an overlay view so you can quickly compare two scans visually (by holding down the space bar to toggle quickly between two scans), along with tools to animate your scans both within the same sequence as well as over multiple scans to show progression. there is no server, it runs entirely locally on your browser - nothing ever gets uploaded and it's all open source: if you've found this useful, please consider a donation to the UCSF Benioff SF hospital foundation, who has given us extraordinary care over the past year or so:show more

EXCLUSIVE: 🚨 Top Democrat Opposition Research Firm And Super... PAC American Bridge American Bridge 21st Century Rolls Out Ad And Mailers Attacking GOP Senator Hyde-Smith Featuring A Woman Who Called for President Trump’s Assassination 🚨 American Bridge 21st Century, the Democrat super PAC that numerous outlets have described as the Democrat Party's largest opposition research operation, is running an ad against Mississippi Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith Cindy Hyde-Smith that features a woman who has repeatedly called for President Trump's assassination online. The ad is part of a campaign that American Bridge's own website files under a page on their website titled "targets." The ad stars "Debby from Hernando," a woman presented to viewers as a lifelong Mississippi Republican who has soured on Hyde-Smith. Debby is actually Debby Quigley, a transplant from Houston, Texas who only recently moved to Mississippi. In the ad, Debby says: "I'm Debby and I live in Hernando. I have voted Republican in the past and I feel pretty betrayed these days. Everything costs more and Cindy Hyde-Smith is just oblivious to it. She cares more about her billionaire donors than the people of this state." The same messaging, with Debby's face and her quotes, is also being sent in mailers to Mississippi voters' homes. The mailers were paid for by AB PAC, American Bridge’s Super PAC. See screenshots below 👇🏻 This is the same Debby Quigley who was photographed in late August sitting next to a woman who was wearing an "86-47" hat in DeSoto County, Mississippi, and who herself has used the term on her social media accounts. "86" is slang for killing or getting rid of someone, and "47" is President Trump, the 47th President of the United States. Debby's Facebook page is littered with "86-47" posts. On April 28, 2026, the same day a federal grand jury indicted former FBI Director James Comey James Comey for threatening to harm President Trump with his own "86 47" post, Debby shared a graphic reading, “I wonder if we all posted 8647 if we would all be indicted?" She captioned it "8647 #8647." The post she shared came from a Facebook group called "Democrats Defending Democracy: We Won't Back Down," where the original poster wrote, "FU DONNIE CAPONE YOU MOTHER F***ING POS!!" This is the woman American Bridge chose to put in front of Mississippi voters as a “disillusioned Republican”. She is not a Republican who feels "betrayed." She is a Democrat activist from Texas who wants the President of the United States dead. When you visit American Bridge's website, the super PAC maintains a page literally titled "targets," that lists elected Senate Republicans and Republican candidates under photos of their faces, complete with a running list of attack pieces against each candidate. Alongside Cindy Hyde-Smith on the "target" page are North Carolina's Michael Whatley Michael Whatley, Minnesota's Michele Tafoya Michele Tafoya, Iowa's Ashley Hinson Ashley Hinson, and Michigan's Mike Rogers Mike Rogers, the Republican running against Islamic communist Abdul El-Sayed for the U.S. Senate. It should alarm every American that the Democrats' largest opposition research operation which doubles as a Super PAC is putting Republican senators on a "target" list and using a woman who openly calls for the President's assassination on social media as the friendly face of its ad campaign. This is yet another example of how the radical Islamic communist faction, which embraces political violence, has completely taken over the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party supports and encourages assassination culture! Will Senate Democrats Senate Democrats disavow? American Bridge needs to retract this ad. RECEIPTS 👇🏻show more

They say General Constantino Chiwenga will come back in... a coffin. They whisper it in the corridors of power. They spread it in the dark corners where fear and ambition mix. When he was sick, many counted him out. The vultures circled. The opportunists sharpened their knives. "He is finished," they declared with glee.But remember Lazarus.Lazarus had been four days in the grave. His body was cold. The tomb was sealed. The sisters wept, and the crowd had all but lost hope. The situation was beyond human repair. Yet Jesus looked at that hopeless scene and said, "DON'T write him off yet." For he shall surely walk out of the grave and dwell among the living.General Chiwenga is no ordinary man. He is a son of the soil, a liberator who stood when others trembled, a leader whose body may have been attacked by illness but whose spirit remains unbreakable. The same God who called Lazarus forth is the same God watching over our nation today. To those who are quick to bury the General: hold your tongues and your pens. The chapter is not closed. The stone is not permanent. Resurrection power is real. To all patriots who stand with truth and constitutional order: Just do your part. Pray without ceasing. Speak truth without fear. Prepare the ground for genuine leadership that puts Zimbabwe first. And trust God to do His own.He who raised Lazarus is more than able to raise a servant who still has work to do for his people. Zimbabwe shall rise. Not through manipulation or extension of terms, but through the will of God and the will of the people. General (Rtd) Winston Sigauke Mapuranga Old soldier. War veteran. Servant of Zimbabwe. May God protect and guide our nation.show more

here we go again. It’s a pretty common theme... to attack me and discredit everything I do, regardless of what I share to prove otherwise. Why? Because it gains traction for all the influencers. i wanted to address the “paper trading” allegations on X, but before i do i want to point out that the ones capitalizing on the engagement are the same ones who have flip flopped their narrative on me again and again. the same people saying i’m a paper trader suddenly decide my trading is real when im losing or in drawdown. whatever positioning gets them the most engagement is the narrative they run with. I’ve been trading for 11 years now and have a longer track record than most in this space. If you go back and watch my YouTube videos you’ll see my broker statements presented. I can appreciate healthy skepticism and will continue to show the statements to those it benefits. Now let’s address the paper trading allegation. A video is floating around that I posted where you see “paper trading” on my screen. Yes, I had paper trading open. But why is the first assumption that I’m a paper trader? Am I not allowed to open paper trading? If I do, I’m immediately a paper trader? That window was open because I tell everyone in my community to paper trade first and I walk them through how to do it. See the attached video that I recorded for my community where you can clearly see paper trading open while I’m walking them through TradingView paper trading. Now let’s assume I’m lying about that and people still want to call me a paper trader simply because I had paper trading open while teaching my community. That would mean I don’t trade real money and that I’m not profitable. Well I’ve posted my broker statements for the last four years, all on YouTube. See attached. Let’s also address my recent trade where I made $18k. When I posted it, people on X said it was fake and that it was paper trading because of certain settings. Here is the attached order ID number for that trade. I’m up $57k this year so far and I’ve stopped sharing trades and updates with the trading community because regardless of whether I share or not, people will continue to come at me because it gets views. All items are attached below. I’ll make a YouTube video soon to address this as well. But give it a break at this point.show more

A good technical LLM interview question: Your RAG chatbot... is working as expected locally. You deploy it behind a load balancer with 3 replicas. Users report that it forgets what they just asked, and answers get worse with each restart. Why did this happen? (answer below) A local setup has one process that owns everything. - The vector index is a variable in memory. - Conversation history is a Python list. - The documents are on local disk. You never treat any of them as infrastructure, because restarting rebuilds all three in seconds and there is only ever one copy. The setup does not carry over to production directly. The vector index might disappear on restart, so the app re-embeds everything on boot and serves empty results until it finishes. Conversation history may belong to one replica, so a follow-up routed elsewhere has no memory of the previous turn. Documents could be on whichever container ingested them, so the three replicas hold three different corpora. None of this is evident with one user and one process. So the actual work in shipping RAG is not just the retrieval logic, but also storing the vector index, the conversation history, and the documents outside the app, where every replica reads and writes the same copy. Which comes down to three requirements: > The vector store needs persistence and has to be reachable from every replica. pgvector inside Postgres keeps embeddings next to the rest of the data instead of adding another system to operate. > Conversation state has to be checkpointed outside the app. LangGraph writes its state to Postgres, so any replica can pick up a thread mid-conversation. > Docs need shared object storage, so ingestion happens once instead of once per replica. If you get those three right, the retrieval logic you wrote in the notebook works unchanged. To learn how all of it is wired together, Akamai's GitHub has a working reference implementation. - rag-langgraph-k8s-quickstart is an airline policy Q&A assistant built with FastAPI, LangChain, and LangGraph. Terraform provisions the LKE cluster, a Postgres instance with pgvector for embeddings, a second Postgres for LangGraph checkpointing, and an object storage bucket for the policy documents, in one apply. - akamai-workshop-ai-inference covers the next step, running the model yourself instead of calling an API, with prefill and decode, KV cache tradeoffs, and continuous batching under real concurrency. Both are available on Akamai's new Developer Hub, alongside their tutorials and code samples. It also links to Edge Case, their Discord, where four developer advocates architect and deploy a production app live every other Wednesday. If you create a new Akamai Cloud account, you can also get $300 in credits for joining. Join here: That said, this post assumes the retrieval logic was right to begin with, and that is doing a lot of work. Most RAG systems fail earlier, at the point where a chunk gets treated as a self-contained unit of meaning. I wrote about the two skills that fix that gap, and why the chunk is usually the wrong thing to embed. Read it below. Thanks to Akamai Cloud for partnering today!show more

Iran just fired missiles at five countries simultaneously. Here... is what actually happened to each of them. Bahrain. Confirmed hit on the US Navy Fifth Fleet headquarters. Bahrain’s own state news agency reported the strike. No casualty figures released yet. This is the command center for every American naval operation in the Persian Gulf. It was struck. UAE. Multiple missiles intercepted by Emirati air defenses. One civilian killed in Abu Dhabi from falling debris. The UAE defense ministry confirmed the intercepts. The Emirates just absorbed an act of war on its sovereign territory from a country it shares a maritime border with. Qatar. Missile intercepted. Zero damage. The Qatari Interior Ministry confirmed. The same country Iran just attacked is the country that hosted Al Udeid for twenty years as a gesture of regional balance. That balance ended this morning. Kuwait. KUNA state news agency confirmed missiles were “dealt with” in Kuwaiti airspace. No reported damage. Kuwait, which stayed neutral through every Gulf crisis since 1991, just had Iranian ballistic missiles flying over its cities. Jordan. Two Iranian ballistic missiles shot down by Jordanian military. Confirmed by the Jordanian armed forces directly. Jordan intercepted Iranian missiles in June 2025 as well. That was in defense of Israel. This time Iran targeted Jordan itself. Saudi Arabia. Fars News claims strikes. No confirmation from any Saudi source. No Tier 1 or Tier 2 verification. Either it did not happen or Riyadh is not yet ready to say it did. Both possibilities carry enormous implications. Now understand what Iran just accomplished strategically. In attempting to retaliate against Israel and America, the IRGC fired missiles at six sovereign nations in a single morning. Not one of those nations attacked Iran. Bahrain did not bomb Tehran. The UAE did not launch strikes on Isfahan. Qatar hosted diplomatic back channels. Kuwait maintained neutrality for three decades. Jordan was mediating. Iran just converted every neutral and semi-neutral state in the Gulf into a potential co-belligerent. Every nation whose airspace was violated, whose civilians were killed, whose sovereignty was breached now has legal and political justification to join whatever coalition forms next. And the damage tells the real story. One civilian dead from debris. Intercepts across four countries. No confirmed destruction of any US military asset. No reported American casualties among 40,000 troops in theater. Iran fired at the entire Gulf and the Gulf caught almost everything. Compare this to what Israel did to Tehran this morning. Precision strikes on the IRGC Intelligence Directorate. Explosions near the Supreme Leader’s office. Three detonations in central Tehran confirmed by Iranian state media itself. One side hit what it aimed at. The other side hit one civilian with debris. This is the asymmetry that will define the next 72 hours. Iran demonstrated intent to strike everywhere and capability to hit almost nothing. The Gulf states demonstrated they can defend themselves. And now those states must decide whether the country that just fired ballistic missiles across their borders gets to do it again. They will not let it happen again. Watch for the joint statement. Watch for airspace coordination between Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Manama, and Kuwait City. Watch for the coalition that Iran just built against itself with a single salvo. Iran did not retaliate against Israel this morning. Iran gave every country in the Middle East a reason to retaliate against Iran.show more

🚨 A HYDROGEN FUEL CELL SUBMARINE DRONE JUST ACHIEVED... WHAT BATTERY-POWERED AUVs HAVE FAILED AT FOR 15 YEARS LONG ENDURANCE, DEEP DEPTH, AND ACOUSTIC STEALTH ALL AT ONCE. The Envoy AUV from Cellula Robotics completed a fully submerged mission covering 2,023 km over 385 hours. Crucially, it did this with a realistic, punishing profile: more than 4,000 turns and maneuvers, not a simple straight-line test. It also operates at depths up to 3,000 meters and produces almost no acoustic signature. Powered by proton exchange membrane (PEM) hydrogen fuel cells, the only byproduct is water. This breaks the long-standing trade-off in autonomous underwater vehicle design where improving one capability (range, depth, or stealth) usually destroys the others. Why this matters: • Battery AUVs have been fundamentally limited by energy density adding more batteries increases weight and drag, which cancels out the gains • Hydrogen fuel cells deliver more than twice the energy density of lithium-ion batteries while enabling true long-endurance missions without frequent surfacing • The vehicle can loiter on the seabed using a suction anchor for days or weeks, dramatically changing operational concepts for pipeline inspection, cable monitoring, and naval surveillance • It is already in the hands of Defence Research and Development Canada The deeper implication: This is more than just an impressive endurance record. It represents a genuine shift in what is possible for persistent, covert subsea operations. For navies and offshore industries that have spent years compromising between mission duration, depth capability, and detectability, hydrogen fuel cells are now offering a practical way to stop making those trade-offs. As these systems mature and scale, we could see a new generation of autonomous underwater platforms that operate for weeks or months with minimal support fundamentally changing how we monitor critical infrastructure, conduct scientific surveys, and maintain undersea awareness. How do you think hydrogen-powered AUVs will change subsea operations compared to today’s battery-limited systems? Follow for more frontier robotics, energy, and defense technology.show more

There are moments in life that quietly remind you... why you kept going even on the longest days, the hardest assignments, the exhausting deadlines and the seasons where all you could do was trust the process and keep showing up. Winning the Tri-Annual Award for the First Quarter of 2026 while maintaining the momentum from 2025 is one of those deeply humbling moments for me. The last 18 months at Next Media have honestly felt like a dream unfolding in real time. A marathon that has stretched me, refined me, challenged me and excited me all at once. From reporting in the field to anchoring, from current affairs to editorial responsibilities, every opportunity has demanded more of me and in many ways helped me discover more of myself. I have always believed that the things we give our time to deserve intention. And work, for me, has never just been work. It has been purpose, discipline, sacrifice, curiosity and relentless commitment to becoming better every single day. Learning. Sharpening. Applying. Repeating. Showing up early. Staying late. Executing with consistency. Sometimes obsessively. But always wholeheartedly. To be recognized four times consecutively across different categories and capacities is something I do not take lightly. It is emotional because beyond the awards, it represents growth, trust, resilience and the quiet unseen work that happens long before the cameras switch on. I am incredibly grateful to leadership at Next Media for believing in me, trusting me with responsibility and creating an environment that constantly pushes excellence. Thank you to every mentor who has guided, corrected, challenged and poured wisdom into me. Your fingerprints are all over this journey. To my teammates, thank you for the collaboration, support, patience and the countless moments behind the scenes that make the work possible. No recognition is ever individual. We carry one another through this work every single day. And above all, I thank God for the grace to keep growing, evolving and doing what I genuinely love. This journey continues. With gratitude. With humility. And with even greater intention.show more

Universities and High Schools have not moved rapidly enough... to guide students to have skills for the next decade. THEY HAVE FAILED. It is a massive crisis that can be averted by understanding what AI and Robotics will bring about. Solutions are knowing how to use these tools and new industries that will rise. But this situation is also on ALL OF US. No “job” is safe from founder to entry level in most industries. You and I, by what we do, will be “replaced” ultimately. What to do? AI and Robotics are tools, the next decade is owned by those who know how to use them expertly, but this is also temporary. We have to understand that what we do for “work” will change giving ultimately a greater value to those that are: Creative Flexible Always learning Willing to be wrong Love being human Love being alive Know history Covet wisdom Knowing all tech has downsides Building strong family and friends Realize many institutions have failed The first four are required for you to be able to live through this period with your sanity intact. The rest will allow you to thrive. There are no true careers at this point anymore. There are advocation and vocations which will either earn you money or give life meaning. We will learn that we are not “what we do”, just like we knew for 99% of human existence. Let that sink in. — You and I are far, far ahead of knowing this and we can do two things: 1) Laugh at the “clueless” 2) Help people understand with grace Go to Reddit if you are 1, in fact don’t follow me because you will not like this next decade and what I post. You are 2 and thank you. Even if you and I have not solved this issue, we can help people understand what is ahead and with determination and creativity bound together to solve it locally. Or human family has done this millions of times. The evidence is: you are here. The Neo Luddite movement has not even begun and it will potentially rip apart society even more than all the fashionable moment in the recent past has. These Luddites will have a good point with the wrong answers cooked up by dying academics that cling to labels, “virtues” and victim hood. It will be readymade for some governments to enter in as “big daddy” to “help us”. You will not like what they do, but you will only know when it is too late. It will include YOU “volunteering” to “leave” by 60, to “help out” CanadaPod style. “Brian, I’m 24 what do I do?”. I hope to do much more here to help. But I do know this: 1) Learn a trade or vocation because it’s valuable. It may also be free to low cost if you do it right. 2) Learn everything you can about USING AI and TRAINING YOUR AI. Your expertise will be in the top 1% for a decade. But not forever. 3) Understand Bitcoin and how it will rise while other things sink. This is a short list for now. We will know more moving forward. When you see videos like this posted below, know one thing: Many of these folks had no real family of mental and physical support. Maybe no parent or one parent. Maybe only a broke system to prepare them for—nothing. This was not their doing. Now it is not your “job” to help them, it is your survival to help them if that is what you need. See some day after the dust settles these 20 year olds will be 40 year olds and running YOUR world. And at some point you may need them more than you think you do. You will need them, as they need you now. THIS IS WHAT PAST WISDOM KNEW. The elders of the past never found the need to piss on the youth and hope for the best. THE YOUTH ARE OUR BEST, let us all find ways to change it, even if every aspect of “the system” wants us to berate them into the ground.show more

ALITO'S DISSENT ON MAIL-IN BALLOTS IS A MASTERPIECE AND... NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT IT While the mainstream media is busy celebrating today's ruling, four justices stood in the breach and said what every honest American already knows. Alito's dissent in Watson v. RNC is not just a legal argument. It is a warning shot about where this country is headed if we do not get serious about election integrity. Read these words carefully. Alito wrote that when thousands of absentee ballots flow in after Election Day and potentially flip the result of an election, charges of a rigged election explode. That is a sitting Supreme Court Justice, in an official dissent, validating what the corporate media has spent four years calling a conspiracy theory. He went further. Alito cited research showing that drawn-out ballot counting produces a large and significant decrease in Americans' trust in elections. Not a talking point. Not a campaign slogan. Peer reviewed research cited in a Supreme Court dissent. The problem is real, it is documented, and five justices just decided to ignore it. On fraud, Alito was surgical. He pointed out that as far back as 2005, a commission chaired by Jimmy Carter and James Baker concluded that absentee voting was the largest source of potential voter fraud in American elections. Jimmy Carter. The left canonizes that man. His own commission said mail-in ballots are the biggest fraud vulnerability we have. And today's majority just threw the door open wider. Then Alito did something remarkable. He painted a picture of exactly what this ruling could produce. A close presidential election. One state still counting. The leading candidate watching his margin shrink day after day as new batches of mail-in ballots arrive. The lead flipping with days to spare before electors must cast their votes. He was not writing fiction. He was describing something we have already watched happen in slow motion in race after race since 2020. He also torched the majority's logic directly. Barrett and Roberts argued that the word election in federal law only governs when voters CAST their ballots, not when officials RECEIVE them. Alito called this what it is. The electorate's choice is not complete, he argued, until all the ballots have been collected and the decision is fixed. A ballot sitting in a mail truck three days after Election Day is not a completed act of voting. It is an open question. And open questions are where fraud lives. He also raised something nobody else is talking about. What is the limiting principle here? If states can accept ballots five days late, can they accept them twenty-one days late? Washington State already does. Can a state eliminate receipt deadlines entirely? Alito asked that question directly and the majority gave no answer. They opened a door and refused to say how far it swings. Thomas and Gorsuch stood with Alito completely. Kavanaugh joined most of it. And Barrett, the justice we were told would hold the line, wrote the opinion that Alito was dissenting against. History will not be kind to this decision. But it may be very kind to this dissent. The greatest dissents in Supreme Court history are often the ones that turn out to be right. Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch put it on the record today. The question is what we do with it.show more