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by tectonic 11d ago
Well done!
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by tectonic 4mo ago
Seeing both the Starlink mass simulators deploy and the camera view from the last simulators looking back at Starship was really cool.
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by tectonic 5mo ago
Really needs sort by distance.
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by tectonic 8mo ago
Of course: https://m.xkcd.com/2977/
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by tectonic 8mo ago
The level of negativity in these comments is surprising. We can certainly debate whether billionaires should exist at all, but given that they do, here’s one who’s putting his money towards advancing cutting edge science instead of buying a
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by tectonic 10mo ago
Cool, congrats on all the work you’ve put into this!
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by tectonic 10mo ago
My laptop has stickers, one of which is a photo of my previous laptop and its stickers. One of those is a photo of the laptop before that…
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by tectonic 10mo ago
This is cool!
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by tectonic 1y ago
VIPER lives again!
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Consensus Deep Search(consensus.app)
5 points by tectonic 1y ago|0 comments
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by tectonic 1y ago
Yes
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by tectonic 1y ago
That was made by Erik Wernquist, he's awesome. https://vimeo.com/erikwernquist
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by tectonic 1y ago
I agree, soon systems of agents will be trained with good engineering practices not just locally-good code. Already when I work with current SOTA agents I find myself basically pair programming with them, providing senior guidance and cutti
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by tectonic 1y ago
The first orbital launch attempt from continental Europe, and the first of Europe’s batch of newspace commercial launch startups. I hope they figure out what happened and iterate quickly!
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by tectonic 2y ago
Why is this flagged?
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by tectonic 2y ago
Me too! I learn so much about coding from that server in high school, it was definitely a formative experience, learning to code with other teens all over the country.
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Brain is full of microplastics: are they harming you?(nature.com)
6 points by tectonic 2y ago|0 comments
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Drone footage of the explosion of Deep Blue Nebula-1's high-altitude VTVL test [video](youtube.com)
2 points by tectonic 2y ago|0 comments
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by tectonic 2y ago
One likely source of FRBs are magnetars, which are just absurd objects. We wrote about them in Orbital Index a little while ago ( https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2023-03-15-Issue-210/#magne... ): These highly magne
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by tectonic 2y ago
I think they are more drawing an analogy between the atom one or more black holes with a cloud of particles around them. Black holes are quantum mechanical and so the resulting system could behave much like an atom, including having things
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by tectonic 2y ago
Memorize your blockchain private key, promise to give half to whoever wakes you.
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by tectonic 2y ago
It’s why we have many tiger’s eyes gemstones and banded iron deposits.
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by tectonic 2y ago
This is more or less why I created Huginn. Excited to see more people thinking about systems that let you set complex triggers to know when the world changes.
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by tectonic 2y ago
NIAC awards are so fun. We write about them frequently in Orbital Index because they're crazy and weird and speculative. Here are some recent favorites: - https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2024-05-15-Issue-269/
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by tectonic 2y ago
We'll be covering this in detail in this week's Orbital Index. https://orbitalindex.com One thing that's unusual about this mission is that it required a loitering communication satellite orbiting beyond the far s
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by tectonic 2y ago
China's progress and this accomplishment are very impressive, the more the merrier. But NASA does have two nuclear powered humvees driving on Mars at the moment.
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by tectonic 2y ago
Glad you’re a fan! It shouldn’t, unless it was 6+ months I think.
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by tectonic 2y ago
Super cool! We have been tracking this mission in Orbital Index for a while. https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2024-03-13-Issue-260/#chang... This mission required a communication satellite that loiters on the far
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by tectonic 2y ago
Slightly longer term, I think the real threat is from synthetic biology + AI.
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by tectonic 2y ago
The number and scale of data centers around Dulles is just crazy. The power consumption must be absurd.

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