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...

...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

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

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

What is .xyz?

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."

https://www.usenix.org/publica...

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

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...

https://www.nytimes.com/intera...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Use https://feedly.com/

When Google killed Reader, I did, and never looked back.

"The mRNA vaccines are taking over our own cell machinery to produce the spike protein." = how positive-strand RNA viruses, including the COVID-19 virus SARS-CoV-2, work

"Yet somehow the body is supposed to recognize this as a foreign protein and not one of our own." = how the immune system fights viruses

"Secret sauce?" Read the list of ingredients.

The mRNA vaccines are a piece of the virus modified to be less inflammatory in a tiny lipid droplet.

Not really-- this solution is even weirder. We've already been moving toward a "thin client" solution with everything running in web browsers, which actually runs a web application on the server. That's already a push toward the "thin client" model.

This then takes that and runs the browser on the sever, and streams the output locally. So it's like saying, "What if we emulate the thing client on the server too, and try to make a thinner client that just connects to the emulated thin client, which then connects to the server to run things."

If web browsers are such resource hogs that you can't even run the browser on your local computer, it's time to reevaluate what you're doing.

A 2013 Mac can run the 2021 Big Sur. It's not like they are deprecating quickly here.

https://support.apple.com/en-u...

Right now even if you don't think Apple is eating Intel's lunch, AMD certainly is. Their desktop CPUs are faster than Intel and use half the power. Their laptop CPUs are maybe twice as fast with less power consumption. Their EPYC CPUs make the Xeons look like a bad joke.

I think Intel is attacking Apple because of what's coming, not because their first foray into a low-power CPU is a huge threat. We'll see though. Most people who pick a Mac laptop aren't trying to decide if they want Windows or not. They either need Windows, or they don't. Only in the second case are Apple machines in the running.

https://www.serverless.com/ lets you build for any cloud and deploy on any cloud (as long as said cloud has an equivalent feature). We've started using it more lately and it's pretty cool.

Honestly most people with a strong political ideology are assholes.

Nice people spend their time and energy living their lives, not trying to force other people to agree with them.

My biggest issue with removing the port is CarPlay. My iPhone is a $1000 investment -- my cars are a $50k+ investment that lasts a lot longer (hopefully until about 2027). If they remove the port and don't offer some sort of wireless->wired adapter, I won't be upgrading. At this point I have 3 vehicles at my house totalling $130k in cost that all rely on CarPlay for navigation.

There are a couple of such adapters today made by third parties, but (a) you still lose the ability to charge your phone in the car and (b) reports are that these adapters are either somewhat or very unreliable, depending on which review you read. Apple would need to make and warranty and support such an adapter (ideally with a wireless charging pad that goes along with it) for this to be a good solution.