Comment Weâ(TM)re already doing this (Score 3, Informative) 61
https://www.cs.wisc.edu/2025/0...
And DARPA has a whole program for it:
Comment Meanwhile, at Carnegie Mellon... (Score 4, Interesting) 193
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
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?...
Comment It can't answer basic questions factually... (Score 4, Interesting) 57
...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:
Comment Separate from the rebranding of covid.gov... (Score 5, Insightful) 213
...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.
Comment It's more than just one name: more have been found (Score 4, Interesting) 87
And the likeliest explanation is things connected with the GDPR "right to be forgotten":
Comment The Web3 Fraud (Score 4, Insightful) 65
What is
Hype.
"So why this hype? Because the cryptocurrency space, at heart, is simply a giant ponzi scheme where the only way early participants make money is if there are further suckers entering the space. The only âoeutilityâ for a cryptocurrency (outside criminal transactions and financial frauds) is what someone else will pay for it and anything to pretend a possible real-word utility exists to help find new suckers."
Comment Re: If Xianjing is a workers paradise (Score 3, Insightful) 156
Ah yes, the disgusting and false refuge of Chinese (and Russian) apologists and propagandists to the worst abuses of authoritarians: âoethe US does it too.â
Comment Nice job slipping pro-CCP propaganda into the summ (Score 5, Insightful) 156
These abuses are not âoeallegedâ; they are happening, and they are not based on dubious âoeresearchesâ [sic]:
https://www.propublica.org/art...
There is a genocide happening in Xinjiang; one that is erasing an entire culture, language, religion, and history of a people.
https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
Comment Want to *actually* resurrect RSS? (Score 4, Informative) 16
When Google killed Reader, I did, and never looked back.
Comment Re:Merge them all. bloat... (Score 1) 76
Sadly true.
Let us not forget that the Navy led the US Space Program, and lobbied to push the Army out of the way.
Then failed to launch a missile that didn't blow up, until AFTER the Soviets beat us into space with Sputnik 1.
Then the job was given to the Army, which dusted off a Redstone missile, and nailed it first time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The Navy leadership has done well since, but suffers to this day from a degree of arrogance and Not Invented Here thinking.
But that's just my opinion. Take it or leave it as you wish.
Comment Re:Turn it off (Score 1) 98
This sound like a job for...
A quick shell script.
Strikes me as a Tempest In A Teapot...
<yawn/>
Comment It does NOT mean it is live and transmissible (Score 5, Informative) 95
From: Dr. Tara C. Smith
I've also seen this misrepresented already. "SARS-CoV-2 RNA was identified on a variety of surfaces in cabins of both symptomatic & asymptomatic infected passengers up to 17 days after cabins were vacated on the DP but before disinfection procedures had been conducted"
Say it with me: *viral RNA doesn't necessarily mean live virus was present.* Now you're going to see "coronavirus can live on surfaces for 17 days!" over and over, but we don't know that based on this study and for those using live virus, it's much shorter.
Comment UW-Madison has also had tuition frozen since 2013 (Score 1) 153
...and while it sounds great, it's been a disaster for funding the needs of the educational mission of the university:
Comment Much simpler explanation (Score 3, Insightful) 161
When Kwast says things like, "The technology is on the engineering benches today. But most Americans and most members of Congress have not had time to really look deeply at what is going on here. But I've had the benefit of 33 years of studying and becoming friends with these scientists. This technology can be built today with technology that is not developmental to deliver any human being from any place on planet Earth to any other place in less than an hour," the only thing he can be talking about that has a connection to reality is something like what SpaceX proposes with Starship:
Comment Re:That, and 90% from 10 rivers in Asia and Africa (Score 2) 97
It's not supposed to be "impressive", and if the amount of plastic in the oceans has certain environmental consequences, the Earth doesn't do per capita calculations when deciding environmental impacts.
But yes, by all means: let's keep focusing on straws and bags, ignoring China and India on greenhouse gas emissions -- because they are "developing", or they have more people -- and rejecting nuclear power.
