Logarithmic maps are incredibly useful for algorithms on surfaces--they're... local 2D coordinates centered at a given source. Yousuf Soliman and I found a better way to compute log maps w/ fast short-time heat flow in "The Affine Heat Method" presented @ SGP2025 today! 🧵show more

We are proud to announce our first contribution to... open source Computer Vision research! 🚀 Today, we’re publishing on Hugging Face a 1,000 3D Maps Dataset under CC-BY-NC license, designed to accelerate progress in 3D perception and spatial AI. Our way to give back to the global AI community and show how DePIN can make an impact. 🧵 👉show more

I was today years old when I found out... Apple Maps works even offline in flight mode It's super fun and easy to look down from the plane and know what city or country you're looking at The landing was fun too I'm like a child when I'm on a plane, sorry 🙃show more

What looks like a server boiling underwater is actually... one of the most advanced cooling technologies used in modern computing This demonstration showcases a two-phase immersion cooling system, a method increasingly explored for high-performance computing and AI infrastructure where traditional air cooling becomes less efficient. Instead of using fans to move heat away, server components are submerged in a specialized non-conductive dielectric fluid that safely surrounds the electronics without causing electrical short circuits. As processors generate heat, the liquid absorbs thermal energy and begins to boil directly at the component surface.show more

Some updates on the multiview vistadream pipeline with Rerun!... Rerun came in extremely useful here, as being able to visualize depths at each stage of the pipeline allowed me to debug some nasty bugs. Since the last time, I was only working with a single image input. I've added in VGGT as my multiview pose + depth estimator. It works REALLY well for getting camera poses, but the depths are not that great. To try and fix that, I estimated depth maps from MoGeV2 for each of the views, and scale+shift aligned them so that they would match up to the confident sections of VGGT's depth predictions. You can see in the video just how much sharper the visualized 2d depth maps are! The biggest issue continues to be the multiview consistency 🫠 That's up next, along with actually training the Gaussian splat. Lots of work went into actually understanding inputs+outputs for VGGT. I had some funky bugs where the confidence values would all collapse to true I'm also really excited for this pipeline to use Difix3D+ Nvidia instead of Flux Inpainting, it seems like a better suited for a multiview pipeline.show more

When we first found Bianca, she was living on... a tragically short chain in her own dirt. She was so incredibly shy, but the one thing that always gave away her beautiful spirit was her signature tippy-tap dance. Fast forward to today, and Bianca is thriving in the USA with her amazing family. She even got dressed up today all ready for Hawaii! Oh to see a dog go from the most heartbreaking beginnings to living a true dream life. 🥲show more

A 14-year-old American girl bought a house in cash... at 16 while her classmates were taking exams. It started with one Google Maps search - she found an HVAC company with 4.8 stars, 280 reviews and a website too embarrassing to show clients. Copied their data into ChatGPT 5.5 - 2 minutes later a complete brief, an hour later a live site with booking and a reviews section. Called the owner and showed him the preview. He signed the $900 invoice the same day. Then she stopped looking for clients by hand. Outscraper pulls 200 businesses from Google Maps in 10 minutes - name, email, rating, review count. ChatGPT 5.5 writes a personalized email for each one with their real business data. 500 emails a day, 3% respond, 10% of those become clients. Month one - $3,800. Month six - $22,000. Two years - $380,000 and a house. Five million businesses on Google Maps are still waiting for that call.show more

Satya Nadella: Microsoft’s latest Wisconsin AI data center keeps... yearly water consumption no higher than that of 1 local restaurant. "The cooling loop is filled once and the data centre can operate effectively with zero water consumption. Daily water usage across a year is roughly equivalent to what a single restaurant would use" The mechanism is mainly about replacing evaporative cooling with closed-loop direct-to-chip liquid cooling, so water moves like coolant inside a sealed machine rather than being boiled off into the air. Hot GB200-class AI racks produce too much heat for normal air cooling, so cold liquid is pushed through pipes into the servers and across metal cold plates touching the hottest chips. The liquid enters the rack cool, absorbs heat from the chips through cold plates, then exits the rack at a higher temperature and carries that heat through pipes to a huge cooling system outside the compute floor. Microsoft says Fairwater sends that hot water to cooling “fins” beside the datacenter, where 172 20-foot fans blow air across the fins and dump the heat into the outside air. The important detail is that the air cools the water through metal surfaces, so the water does not need to evaporate the way many older datacenters use cooling towers. The cooled liquid then returns to the servers, repeats the loop, and keeps absorbing heat from the chips. In older data centers, heat is often removed partly through cooling towers. Hot water meets moving air, some water evaporates, and that phase change carries heat away. Effective, but it consumes fresh water continuously. But Firwater is a closed loop because the same coolant keeps circulating through sealed pipes: it absorbs heat from the chips, releases that heat through radiator-like fins, then flows back to the chips again. For Wisconsin Fairwater, Microsoft says more than 90% of the facility uses closed-loop liquid cooling, while the remaining portion uses outside air and switches to water only on the hottest days. ---- From "Microsoft" YouTube channel, (link in comment)show more

Sometimes the stars are aligned. Today was a very... moving day: The Israeli hostages were released and I presented my credentials to Petr Pavel . There is no place better suited than the Czech Republic to present credentials on such a meaningful day and we deeply value the Czech support in our darkest time. To hear our national anthem “Hatikva (hope) played at the Prague Castle on this historical day meant the world to me. I had a very good courtesy meeting with Petr Pavel . I will work hard to reinforce our bilateral relations.show more

🚨 DIAMOND IS ABOUT TO REPLACE SILICON IN NEXT-GEN... CHIPS. Scientists are now producing large single-crystal CVD diamond wafers that could revolutionize electronics. Diamond conducts heat 5× better than copper and over 10× better than silicon while also handling extreme voltages, high frequencies, and radiation. Why this matters: • Thermal Superpower: Diamond acts as its own heat sink, solving one of the biggest problems in high-power chips • Ultra Wide Bandgap: Handles massive voltage and extreme temperatures without breaking down • High Frequencies: Electrons move incredibly fast, perfect for 6G, radar, and advanced telecom • Radiation Hardness: Ideal for satellites, space tech, and nuclear applications The deeper implication is massive: We’re at the early stages of a materials revolution. As silicon hits its physical limits with heat and power, diamond one of the most extraordinary materials in nature could power the next era of AI chips, electric vehicles, and aerospace systems. What do you think will diamond semiconductors become mainstream in the 2030s? Follow for more frontier materials science and future technology.show more

A massive wildfire tore through Bivona, on the Italian... island of Sicily, last night, threatening homes and a marble processing plant in the Contrada Savarini area. Firefighters faced difficult conditions as aerial support was delayed, with emergency services stretched to their limits by more than 40 wildfires burning across the island at the same time. This is exactly what the climate crisis looks like in the Mediterranean. Rising temperatures, prolonged heat and increasingly dry conditions are creating the perfect environment for fast-moving, destructive wildfires.show more

grok bot + obsidian is basically superhuman mode... my... agent team now has a second brain... a karpathy-style llm wiki for every bot, every decision, and every piece of research. p.s. this video was made and edited by grok bot in cap (here’s how i set it up in roughly 5 minutes) 1/ create one obsidian vault on the chief of staff’s computer. make Home.md the door. 2/ create Hunt folders for twitter, github, hacker-news, reddit, product-hunt, and inbox. 3/ create Ship folders for drafts, digests, angles, and builds. 4/ create the CoS wiki: Index, How-it-works, Today, and Decisions. 5/ create Maps for Jarvis, Hooks, and TELOS. 6/ use graph colors: gold for wiki, teal for maps, blue for twitter, green for github. 7/ file first. every note gets a date and a folder. 8/ scouts write into Hunt and never ping you. chat only receives a short digest. 9/ nothing in the vault posts, pays, or sends. the final yes stays human. 10/ run the daily loop: 08:00 IST for the Daily note, then agency reports at 08:14, 14:14, and 20:14. 11/ performance writes to twitter/live-score. staff engineer writes to builds/. 12/ lock decisions in Wiki/Decisions so dead posts don’t get remade. 13/ earn hooks in Maps/Hooks: trend -> foil -> hook family -> artifact -> lock. don't waste time reading this. give it to your agentshow more

Building gigawatt scale datacenters in the oceans may be... even easier than I had previously thought. Normally for OTEC cold deep sea water and warm surface waters are needed. Because that gigawatt is generating a lot of heat as an end product of compute, along with some additional solar thermal collection, we won’t need warm surface water at all, allowing these datacenters to go almost anywhere with enough depth. Additionally, that gigawatt of heat may be hotter than surface seawater normally used for OTEC, allowing for much shallower piping (200m instead of 1000m) while also being more efficient. The availability of unlimited cold water for the condenser is the key factor we can’t replicate on land. This brings the potential energy generation for ocean based compute up from 10 terawatts to potentially thousands of terawatts, as the locations are not limited to areas with the warmest surface waters. The excess energy needed for hundreds or thousands of people to also live on these structures is minimal compared to that needed for compute.show more

I came to crypto for the money. But somewhere... along the way, I looked up and saw something bigger: an online universe connecting anyone, anywhere. I fell in love with the stories, the people, and the moments blockchain makes possible. I wanted to tell them. Over the last 6 months, I’ve worked closely with Phantom on a short series called HUMAN.EXE, a collection of some of my favorite stories, centered on the people pushing crypto forward. Crypto changed my life. And for millions of others, it’s creating new paths to ownership, access, and possibility. These are the stories that made me believe. Excited to finally share them.show more

One thing I found useful when I was researching... skate materials is the napkin test. If you rub a PTFE skate against a pad for a bit and hold it near small paper scraps, it attracts them. That’s triboelectric charging in action, and it’s just something PTFE does because of where it sits on the triboelectric series. POM doesn’t really do that in the same way. I’m not saying that’s the only reason feel changes over time, there are probably other factors too. But when I was deciding what to run on Skyline it felt like an unnecessary variable to keep around, especially for players who are actively trying to build consistent muscle memory.show more

I allowed distraction and disheartenment to prevent this post... today so here it is, better late than never. If you are looking for a church to attend on Sunday, go check out an Orthodox Church. We are original Christianity. Founded at Pentecost in 33 AD, we have by-name Succession back to the Apostles. We are a hospital for the sick, not a courtroom for the guilty. We are a church full of sinners, yet produce holy Saints. Come and see☦️show more

TRUE Seasonal games, like Path of Exile, Marathon, or... even EFT (we'll see today), are designed in a way for players to engage with the seasonal content and then move on. Between seasons/leagues, I can play a new game, say Elden Ring, or God of War: Ragnarok, enjoy the game, and look at my calendar and know that on May 29th, at 1:00 PM PST, the new PoE league drops and I will LOG IN. And, that time away (whilst playing other titles) makes the return experience that much more enriched. This might be an odd segue, BUT... I still keep seeing posts about "concurrent players abysmally low, dead game," etc. People who are posting this stuff literally have zero IQ. I know it's all rage bait and engagement farm, but, sadly, it pushes a false narrative and poisons and seeds a negative perception that spreads throughout the gaming community; whether it's with EFT, Marathon, Hunt: Showdown, Path of Exile, and other seasonal games. And, I know when these types of posts acquire mass engagement because people come into stream every day asking, "this game isn't dead yet?" Just cuz a game is off season, doesn't mean it's dead lmao. Sucks cuz I know creatives at the studios probably catch wind of these posts and I'm sure it's a bit demoralizing and stuff... Marathon is still getting heat about it's concurrent player count; trust me, if UbiSoft Singapore are still pumping out content for that AAAA game, Skull and Bones, other studios will be just fine. Marathon, Marauders, EFT, Hunt: Showdown, etc., they ain't goin nowhere. GGG didn't necessarily come up with the philosophy, but they doubled down on it; kudos to them for taking the risk, paving the way for other seasonal games. W economy reset. W wipes. W progression resets. Obviously, this isn't for everyone; casual players get left behind, but I'm a gamer, and I need a game to satiate my gaming addiction, Minecraft ain't gonna cut it for me big dog.show more

You actually killed the hype for Suisei being added... to the game. The first HoloLive member being added and you decide to screw everyone over for no reason other than greed. You’re a multi billion dollar corpo backed by Tencent and Disney so make a better product instead of this awful business decision. The game has been buggy, the launcher is terrible and you keep wasting money on gambling in creative maps. I think its finally time to cancel Fortnite crew, the skins haven’t been good, and the price doesn’t justify the decrease in rewards. That community note building up is gonna cook you good.show more