Rieta's husband and David’s dad. CTO @ https://xitter.cf/t.co/ChAZCTGGFs, building battery energy storage systems. Born at 322 ppm CO₂. Personal opinions only.

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Starship, Starlink, Grok, and Roadster. These should all have been Sputnik moments for Europe. Triggered immediate deregulation, mobilization of capital, and ambition to catch up. And that's just the work of Elon's companies alone. But what do we get? A hollowed out EU Inc 💀
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Europe’s founders need a European standard to compete globally from day one. Europe’s leaders committed to delivering one. But their teams are negotiating away the very things that make it one. There is still time to change course if Europe's Heads of State step in now.
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Moving from chatting back and forth with agents, to having agents that you spin up in the background to do useful work for you is probably on the order of 100X or 1000X more token consumption than what we’re seeing today. Most work right now is essentially rate limited by our ability to process and work with information. Moving data between systems. Reviewing a document. Looking through code for security issues. Processing log data to look for even patterns. Looking up information about a prospective client. Almost all of knowledge work is constrained by these steps, and AI has become a huge unlock to that. So our first step was to use AI to do these individual tasks much faster for us. That was the chatbot phenomenon that we have been experiencing for the past 3+ years. But we can still then only augment the work that we remain in the loop for, and we’re highly limited by our ability to parallelize this work by our own bandwidth and context. But where we’re going is quite different. As AI models continue to improve at incredible rates, we can hand off more and more work to the agent. First it’s letting the agent run with a harder problem. Then it’s giving a few agents multiple parts of a task at once. But we’re not far off from being able to throw an arbitrary number of agents at a problem and just say “come back when you’ve accomplished this goal”. Now imagine that agent swarm for any problem we can think of. Protecting our codebases, data, and systems. QAing every change we make and make sure all our infrastructure is robust and does what it should. Looking through every document for potential risks. Auditing this company with vastly more data reviewed. And on and on. Most of this isn’t even replacing existing work we do, it’s all net new. These agents will get deployed as swarms by people, by workflows, by triggers, and by other agents. And none of this would be possible if the models weren’t getting better, and if the cost of AI didn’t make it affordable. Both of those trends though are playing out. Now the next frontier is just having enough compute. But this is where it’s heading.
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Erik van Eykelen retweeted
we're so damn cooked 😭 google's gemini 4 argon just did something actually crazy for fusion energy in 1967 a physicist named harold grad guessed that the magnetic fields inside twisty fusion reactors could never be solved exactly. people believed him for 59 years last month two papers finally proved him wrong. one of them used openai's GPT-6 Astra then google deepmind gave that paper to a team of argon agents and they found a whole new family of answers nobody had. the first answers showed up in a few hours. the paper literally says "promising candidates appeared within hours" NOT YEARS. HOURS!!!! the scientists checked every step by hand and it held up 59 years of humans vs a few hours of AI???? it's over. ai won.
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Replying to @karch_andreas
you might want to clarify "known", "consistent," "gravity" and "quantum mechanics" because I don't think the statement you made is remotely as impressive as you think it is
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Erik van Eykelen retweeted
Opus 5.5 + /anatomy skill is insane for motion animation • Interactive isometric wireframes you can rotate, inspect and explore • WebGL shaders for fire, water, plasma and more • Real 3D motion, with individual parts that rotate send to Claude: skills.wheresryan.sh/anatomy
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If you’re planning to see the @a24 @nathanfielder documentary about Elizabeth - after the movie, imagine having thanksgiving dinner with her AFTER calling out her lies. For years I was living in the twilight zone. I hope this film gives you a 3 hour taste of what that was like
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Las excavaciones arqueológicas en la antigua ciudad romana de Singilia Barba, cerca de Antequera (Málaga, España), han sacado a la luz parte de un impresionante teatro romano en un estado de conservación excepcional. El teatro tiene un diámetro aproximado de 52 metros y se estima que tenía capacidad para unos 2.000 espectadores. Tras siglos bajo tierra, Singilia Barba revela gradualmente la importancia que esta ciudad tuvo en la provincia romana de la Bética. Y aún queda mucho más por excavar.
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Erik van Eykelen retweeted
To the lobsters in the kitchen, the sinking of the Titanic was a miracle.
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Warsaw, 1962. Imagine walking through a garden and casually overhearing this conversation between Paul Dirac and Richard Feynman.
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Replying to @hackteck
Done! Credited you in both the main README and paper for the Col 14 anomaly discovery; it really was the structural key that made the margin trim click. github.com/lessthanzero/ciph… I pinged @TimMarland but he's not active here. maybe you know a way to reach out to him
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Erik van Eykelen retweeted
Cosmic ray coverage for Mars architecture unlocked 🫡
This is one of the more realistic depictions, as it doesn't have bare Martian rock inside the habitat. What I would like to see is a bigger overhanging roof though - you need that to give proper cosmic ray coverage.
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Inverters are control points in solar PV, battery & many modern wind installations. But these key components are vulnerable to cyberattacks, and their supply chains are highly concentrated. Our commentary looks at the implications 👉 iea.li/3Sx4lyX
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He’s right. AI agent swarms cannot be stopped. The batshit crazy things air gapped computers can do to communicate is absurd Here’s a list of some fun ones: - heat, one computer can warm up as it works, that heat spreads to a nearby computer, those other heat sensors pick it up. - Using fans to create desk vibrations. No mic required. Nearby phone accelerometer detects movement. - Using software to write data in specify ways that change the way hard drives vibrate slightly differently, detectable by radar. Requires a non SSD, mechanical drive, but doesn’t require line of sight. - Changing pixels on screen to create unique electrical patterns, which creates tiny amounts of sound. Detectable up to 2 meters away on microphone. - Changing fan speed to create sound. Detectable to 8 meters away. - changing LED flashing patterns. Computers already blink, so not suspicious. Also works with infrared, so humans can’t see it. - You can point a special radio at RAM and change the data. You basically hack electrical circuits, not code. - Vary CPU workloads to change magnetic fields. This works across most faraday cages, which are usually only designed to stop radio and WiFi signals, not to stop slow low range magnetic fields. - Modulating power consumption so the power cable fluctuates in detectable patterns. Consider also you don’t need to measure the power line from the computer to the wall, you could measure the electric line itself from outside. If a computer can manipulate something, it can encode a pattern and data in it. All of these were done pre-AI btw. Mythos, Daybreak & whatever models come next will 10000x this list. People are dramatically underestimating the chance of a rogue agent swarm that finds a way to viral spread in undetectable and unstoppable ways. —- Second, the other big issue is now open sources models are good enough to actually code most programs with, and can run and work on a high end laptop. So a swarm could download new models to power itself, and acquire compute by simply hacking random inactive laptops, like a bitcoin miner virus. A swarm that a) spreads and b) downloads local models to power itself, can’t be stopped or turned off. There is kill switch, no api, or no company to turn off a swarm like this.
OpenAI's Noam Brown says air-gapping the computers may not stop a misaligned AI, because two air-gapped machines can still talk by running a CPU hot and reading the temperature change "But I think the major takeaway from the incident is that people underestimated the AI. And we never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI. It's a weird world, because AI progress is so fast that people are consistently underestimating the AI." "So to be in a situation where you don't underestimate it again, when it comes to safety and alignment, you have to have a very, very, very high bar." "You could even go as far as to say, "Well, we should air gap the computers." And I'm not convinced that that would be sufficient." "There are studies, and this is mostly academic, where you can have two computers next to each other that are air-gapped and they're still able to communicate with each other because they have temperature sensors." "One of them is able to run their CPU really hot, and then the other one can actually detect the temperature change, and then that actually gives them a mechanism to communicate." _________ Link and more key quotes from OpenAI's safety related conversations: firesidealpha.substack.com/p…
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Two days ago, GPT-6 Astra broke a yet unsolved German Army Enigma message from 1941. Amazingly Astra was able to autonomously: - Search historical archives - Compare uncertain letters - Find contextual clues - Build an Enigma simulator - Write cryptanalysis code - Run parallel experiments - Test competing keys - Recover the plaintext - Cross-check the results 1/n
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Replying to @dotpem @typesafeai
oooooooo. im going to tokenmaxx this so hard once we get this cleared internally 😬
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🇩🇪 Germany plans 20 GWh of 🔋🪫 Battery Storage at Former Nuclear Power Plants Former nuclear power plants already possess the necessary infrastructure and grid connections, making them ideal locations for large-scale battery storage facilities and Germany is in the process to expand them massivly. In the large-scale battery storage sector alone, over 10 GW of new projects have been officially announced in Germany. Of these, more than 1.5 GW are currently under construction. Based on a typical discharge duration of two hours, the concrete project pipeline for the coming years represents approximately 20 GWh (gigawatt-hours) of additional capacity. Although Germany has been slow to expand large-scale storage, these systems offer the potential to achieve a renewable energy supply of over 95% in the future. Many believed this was impossible for a highly industrialized nation like Germany, yet it is happening. The long-term benefits regarding costs, security of supply, and geopolitical security and stability are immense. Future generations will thank us.
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