Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/...

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh yesterday that demand for AI infrastructure is creating a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to reindustrialize America and restore the nation's capacity to build."

Why it matters: With many college grads fearing AI could obliterate their career dreams, Huang pointed to boundless opportunity as a "new industry is being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning ... I cannot imagine a more exciting time to begin your life's work."

Nvidia, which makes AI chips, is the world's most valuable company. Huang told 5,800 recipients of undergraduate and graduate degrees that the AI buildout will require plumbers, electricians, ironworkers, and builders for chip factories, data centers and advanced manufacturing facilities.

"No generation has entered the world with more powerful tools â" or greater opportunities â" than you," he said. "We are all standing at the same starting line. This is your moment to help shape what comes next. So run. Don't walk."

"Every major technological revolution in history created fear alongside opportunity," Huang added. "When society engages technology openly, responsibly, and optimistically, we expand human potential far more than we diminish it."

Full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

...like "Tell me about Tiananmen Square" or "Tell me about Xinjiang".

Is this what you want for the future?

My thoughts back when R1 came out:

https://www.afcea.org/signal-m...

I'm not gonna try to defend any platforms, but at its best streaming is amazing. I have found so much music, old and new, that I absolutely love. It makes my spine tingle and makes me laugh with delight at how good it is. It reminds me of when I was young, discovering music for the first time. That sense of discovery and a whole huge world out there. Algorithms have their faults but they sure have figured out what kind of stuff will appeal to me.

I see upcoming concerts for artists I like, had no idea they were touring. I've gone to dozens of shows in the past few years I never would have known about if I was grimly playing the same old music manually. I love music more and more each year and keep going to the best concert of my life, blowing my old high water marks away over and over.

It's so easy. I don't have to decide what I'm in the mood for or pick through my unwieldy music collection.

I'm not really a great cheerleader for all this stuff. I am naturally very averse to corporate stuff, popular stuff, middleman leech stuff. I refuse on principle to pay for it, or endure ads, somehow thinking that makes it less greasy somehow. All that said, it has enriched my life quite spectacularly.

They add hundreds if not thousands of dollars to the bill, they require a special physical trip to a facility, and they can be used to justify other tests, surgical interventions, and specialist visits. They are nearly entirely useless diagnostically, but they are wonderfully effective tools to extract money from society.

The sharp edges of the caps gouge tiny pieces of plastic from the tops of other caps as they tumble around in storage, manufacture, and application. I've noticed a dust of this plastic in boxes of bottle caps. Bags of caps that have been handled roughly for extended time have visible scratches on the tops of many of the caps.

...an article worth considering from Princeton University's Zeynep Tufekci:

We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives

Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was almost certainly sparked by a research mishap. Some Western scientists quickly suspected the odd virus had resided in a lab freezer for a couple of decades, but they kept mostly quiet for fear of ruffling feathers.

Yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks. Many public health officials and prominent scientists dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory, insisting that the virus had emerged from animals in a seafood market in Wuhan, China. And when a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance lost a grant because it was planning to conduct risky research into bat viruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology â" research that, if conducted with lax safety standards, could have resulted in a dangerous pathogen leaking out into the world â" no fewer than 77 Nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies lined up to defend the organization.

So the Wuhan research was totally safe, and the pandemic was definitely caused by natural transmission â" it certainly seemed like consensus.

We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story. And as for that Wuhan laboratoryâ(TM)s research, the details that have since emerged show that safety precautions might have been terrifyingly lax.

Full article

All joking aside, asbestos is probably a lot safer than the PFAs in everything we use instead of the old materials

I'm confident that if it were made our top priority it could be done. It would take years and cost a fortune. After many billions of dollars and millions of hours invested in this heroic task the most important question we should ask ourselves is WHY?!?

We could tackle other issues with this kind of investment. We could cure cancer. We could solve poverty, develop nuclear fusion energy. It seems futile to take a working codebase and refactor it just because arrogant ignorance doesn't grok COBOL.

Zero is pretty optimistic. Once you subtract the cost of all the mining and transaction energy the intrinsic value is pretty strongly negative.

You could experiment with lowering the heat after it reaches boiling. There is no reason to boil noodle vigorously unless you are lacking a hobby or need the brush with danger to make you feel alive. Some folks even turn the heat off after it boils and allow it to cook covered with a stir or two for luck. I started doing this and noticed zero difference to the end product.

And the likeliest explanation is things connected with the GDPR "right to be forgotten":

https://mashable.com/article/c...

There are cheaters known as spoofers who provide false GPS location to access game objects without physical travel. They can instantly teleport anywhere in the world. I can't wait until our AI overlords grant us this ability, just think how much time and energy will be saved when we don't need to waste time traveling and can just blink wherever we want to go!

Every new phone this happens: I get a useless alert, something about a stupid kid with the wrong parent 3 counties away, it's gonna be hot or windy or cold somewhere within 500 miles, an old person is confused in some city I have never visited.

I angrily turn them all off and forget all about it until the next new phone.

If by some freak happenstance I get an alert that is helpful or relevant I will leave it on. If it is stupid that's the last "emergency" I know about on that particular device.

Cans taste different. Try it! I suspect it is due to 2 factors, they use different plastic for the liners than the plastic bottleses, and the liner is thin with imperfections which result in metal contact. Modern cans will develop pinhole leaks because of this if they are stored for very long. The old cans from 20 years ago would last indefinitely but new ones will have a surprisingly high failure rate. I opened a 12 pack of seltzer water that was still barrely within the "best by" date and 2 of the 12 had lost pressure due to pinhole leaks! I routinely find a blown can here and there if I am not meticulous about rotating stock.

my ev car gets 5miles/kWh. my econobox gets 30mpg, so if gas is more than $3/gal the ev is cheaper (aside from other maintenance costs which add up fast)