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Jensen drove the point home by discussing how these innovations have made him the “Chief revenue destroyer”. He further illustrated this by highlighting that Blackwell had an up to 68x performance gain over Hopper, resulting in an 87% decline in costs. Rubin is slated to drive even more performance gains – 900x that of Hopper, for a 99.97% reduction in cost.
Clearly, Nvidia is pursuing a relentless pace of improvement – as Jensen puts it: “When Blackwells start shipping in volume, you couldn’t even give Hoppers away”
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Eavor is a Canadian geothermal company that does closed loop systems with diamond drills and insulated drill pipe. https://www.eavor.com/technology/
Closed loop and insulated pipe allows a geothermal project to be drilled into hot rock, which is pretty much everywhere, even if there is no water.
They have a demonstration project in Alberta, a 'commercial' project in Geretsried, Germany (4500 meters, 64MW thermal, 8.2MW electric) and a deep demonstration project in New Mexico (5500 meters, no news since early 2023).
From the company website, it looks like the projects work though Eavor doesn't give any data on their projects that would help calculate the economics. The heavy presence of government in their media suggests that, at least for now, significant government involvement is required to get projects built.
Ecologist and The Wild podcast host Chris Morgan recounts the moment Chinese researchers discovered Siberian tigers hunt and eat bears, offering new insight into the dynamics between these two apex predators.
It makes sense to me. Meta knows who their real users are and what their real users want to consume. They know who their real advertisers are and what they are willing to pay to reach their real users.
This means they know what their real users would like to consume but can't, because that content isn't being created.
Why wait and hope that content your real users want to consume gets created? Have AI create that content. Now you have more product for your advertisers to pay for, plus it is the juicy, premium rate stuff you know they'd want to buy.
With all your data, it practically automates itself.
I'm not saying all this is good, just that it totally makes sense if you are in the business of making money and see yourself as doing that by giving both your users and your advertisers what they want.
Of note that even then, for the seemingly impossibly large prime numbers, they gave dual credit to the researcher and the computer used. So, credit for the largest prime in 1963 went to Gillies and ILIAC 2. When that record was broken in 1972, credit went to Tuckerman and IBM 360.
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At a company meeting, he famously said, “We’re always 30 days away from going out of business.” This time it was true. He told employees, “Intel is out to get us. They’re out to kill us, and we have to acknowledge that and fight back. We have to kill Intel.”
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"His father designed the data encryption algorithm.
“My dad's a genius,” said Eap. “It had the highest level of encryption available.”
Not only did Sky ECC provide end-to-end encryption, like Whatsapp or Signal, but unlike those free apps, it also redirected the data on its own secure network.
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This was the basis for users to think the system was secure? Seriously!?!
I'm reminded of the saying 'don't roll your own crypto'. Obviously the authorities were able to crack the crypto, probably at multiple points.
> This was the basis for users to think the system was secure? Seriously!?!
Charisma and similar flavours of "trust me bro" works more than reasonable people would anticipate. See every pseudo science and conspiracy theory ever. Cryptography is no exception.
