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David Heaney retweeted
I hate SF Halloween, what do you mean you're the visualization of OpenAI’s solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
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We built PlanAssist to help UK Government planning officers speed up building and renovations across the country.
Built with Gemini, it has shown it can cut the time planning officers spend assessing householder applications by up to 58%. It is now being made available to 12 more councils to help them to make faster decisions. 🏡 → goo.gle/4iQXYkl
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David Heaney retweeted
Meanwhile here's what actually happens if you ask for a timer on the free and dumbest version of Claude.
I can't take these people seriously.
"people who hate AI interacted with an LLM once in 2024 and think it never improved"
*me interacting with LLMs in late 2026
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David Heaney retweeted
It's almost hard to believe, but the US has only a single factory left that makes HMX and RDX, the explosives in nearly every modern missile and bomb - an aging wwii plant in Tennessee that's massively backordered.
A few years ago, a startup called Solugen was making chemicals for the petroleum industry, when by happenstance they heard about this problem. It turns out that the same infrastructure they'd built for other chemicals was a perfect fit to make energetics.
So, that's what they're doing now. They can already make 1/10 of what the old US army plant makes, and in the future will make much more.
This is the SpaceX/Anduril moment for the US military explosives market.
In four days of the Iran war, the US and its allies fired more Tomahawks than the US builds in four years. One bottleneck is energetics production.
So we built a 100% CONUS energetics supply chain with our own capital. Our modular solution makes HMX and other advanced energetics, the explosives in nearly every US missile and munition.
The US builds about 85 Tomahawks a year. The Army's only plant making the explosives inside them is 84 years old, and its $1B upgrade has slipped from 2025 to 2029 or later. That plant is Holston, in Tennessee. It makes about 3% of what it made in 1944, and buyers wait one to two years for its explosives.
Holston makes its chemicals and its explosives on one site, so every expansion means building both plants there. A plant like that takes billions of dollars and about a decade to build. Permitting this in the US is a nightmare, because you’re taking on the risk of a chemical plant and an explosives plant at once. What could possibly go wrong.
We separated the two. Terraforge 1, Solugen’s Houston plant, is tied into Houston's petrochemical infrastructure and makes inert precursors: white powders about as flammable as sugar. They can ship via FedEx or UPS, and sit in an ordinary warehouse. Discreet.
Odin Energetics, our joint venture with Kraken Kinetics, turns them into explosives in shipping container reactors called Nitroforges. It took us six months to build the first one, and they can be set up where the weapons are needed. On-demand energetics. That means no stockpiles or concentrated first-strike targets. Kraken builds the warheads, so every step from chemical to warhead happens in the US. Together we stood up the entire chain from raw chemical to finished warhead.
Odin can already make close to a tenth of what Holston makes in a year. To make more, we’re building several factories at the same time.
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David Heaney retweeted
I hate SF Halloween what do you mean you’re the vaguepost king
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This is such a bleak story about what it's like to try to land a job right now. nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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This is what an experienced gamedev with AI can do.
Those who think this will only bring slop are wrong. In good hands, we can now raise the ceiling much higher.
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David Heaney retweeted
What is life like at different levels of GDP per capita?
In this new chart I visualised it for 12 different dimensions.
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David Heaney retweeted
Has enough time passed for people to admit that the Apple Vision Pro was (is) actually the most innovative and original thing Apple has tried in recent years? And they actually need to continue down this path to push our tech tree forward given the advent of AI and world models?
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Our second product is called Blindsight and it will, as the name suggests, enable even those who are completely blind or have never seen to see.
It is ready from an engineering standpoint. Just waiting on regulatory approval.
Neuralink’s first product is called Telepathy.
It enables high-speed communication with computers or humans simply by thinking. Output bandwidth will vastly exceed the fastest human speech or typing in a few years. Read that sentence again.
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Neuralink’s first product is called Telepathy.
It enables high-speed communication with computers or humans simply by thinking. Output bandwidth will vastly exceed the fastest human speech or typing in a few years. Read that sentence again.
Our engineers recently visited one of our speech restoration study participants for a 72-hour hackathon.
The goal: rapidly prototype as many features as possible to enhance the experience of using Neuralink to communicate with thought.
Here are some of the things we built 🧵
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David Heaney retweeted
What’s a polite way to tell someone, “I’m not discussing this with you because your entire understanding of the subject is built on so many interconnected misconceptions that correcting them would require uninstalling your current worldview and starting the tutorial from birth”?
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Robotaxi updates
Service
– Operating hours are now 6am - 2am
Features
– Rear view camera feed now available to view during your ride
– Trip details can be shared with a friend
– New Live Activity design & experience
– Calm Mode dims the screen & sets cabin lighting to a relaxing state
– Grok now available on our Model Y vehicles
Accessibility
– Improved vehicle locating arrow in the app
– Added haptic feedback to assist users in finding their vehicle
– Music Control via Screen Reader
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David Heaney retweeted
Our engineers recently visited one of our speech restoration study participants for a 72-hour hackathon.
The goal: rapidly prototype as many features as possible to enhance the experience of using Neuralink to communicate with thought.
Here are some of the things we built 🧵
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David Heaney retweeted
How is life at different levels of GDP per capita?
The chart shows the relationship between GDP (gross domestic product) per capita — a measure of average incomes in a country — and people’s living conditions.
Where GDP per capita is higher, living conditions are far better in many ways. Where average incomes are higher, children die less often, fewer of them are born dead, mothers die less often, fewer children suffer from hunger, doctors can focus on fewer patients, people live longer, more people can read, children have better access to education and better learning outcomes, more people have access to electricity and clean drinking water, and people are happier with their lives.
The disparity between countries with a low and a high GDP per capita is enormous. Looking at the first panel, for example, you can see that a child born in one of the poorest countries is more than 20 times as likely to die as a child born in one of the richest.
(written by @MaxCRoser)
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David Heaney retweeted
Zitron’s track record on being wrong about AI feels like when BlackBerry kept saying iPhones would go bust.
“Is this just a big circle jerk?” Jon welcomes Ed Zitron (@edzitron), host of the podcast Better Offline, to make sense of the financial house of cards propping up AI and big tech. New pod out now!
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