Danielle Fong 🔆
@DanielleFong
@lightcellenergy, making a quantum internal combustion engine, a solid state portable powerplant, using light. 𝕏 prodigy
San Francisco, CA
Joined: 2/8/2008
Archived: 11/5/2024
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goodbye interesting tweet that refreshed away from the timeline. i’ll never see you again
@elonmusk come on elon https://t.co/qgBSj1iEtV
fingers are not medically necessary??? incredible revenge engineering, but medical insurance is a parasite holy shit https://t.co/tbtzY8Yd81
if this looks 50% as cool as it does on this video it could be really sexy on tight clothing, changing color as you breathe https://t.co/F1DiObsDcM
𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 https://t.co/KF3WADMQn9
ʰᵉˡˡ ʸᵉᵃʰ https://t.co/0RgZy3TRFH https://t.co/XVPQMgeyqt
glad the spirit of shitposting is alive and well, in astrophysics https://t.co/7EdL3AaIno
good summary about the floaty rock drama so far “if you’re not following LK99, you’re missing out on the most fun thing happening or the internet now. Feels like the old internet.” https://t.co/ETlt031ObZ https://t.co/Sko7FDzeI7
my cofounder presented a study that showed teenagers learn better if they can sleep in a little more, and the school came back with “well we can’t adjust it now, we have a contract with the bus drivers” oh, so the school is for the benefit of the bus drivers?? much like the port is for the benefit of the longshoremen, and the polity is for the benefit of the politicians, eh?
language tutors https://t.co/A7L3oqCqpg
what can't you solve with lasers https://t.co/ULMekrLXWY
wholesome tech https://t.co/NVFByOMelJ
@elonmusk yeah i saw this, they hide it, but if you set it up without internet it should enable you to make a local account, or you can make a new local account it’s a pain! https://t.co/luzL6cAjU1
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man, i thought yann was joking it's kinda wild to be like elon, nobody will ever hear of your work, since you didn't publish https://t.co/nmUaxTHuRj
deep german L. blowing up these cooling towers is stupid as hell. even if you close the nuclear plant you can use cooling towers for powerplants / data centers. the government rushing this through after it was revealed that the recommissioning cost was lied about is actual sabotage supported by nefarious foreign interests (russia aligned...) imho
black on (esp elderly) asian violence has exploded in oakland, and it makes me fucking enraged. it’s like this is my grandma here, and this young man is taking her stuff and punching her in the face if asians complaining about this is racist, where are the black voices denouncing this
a laugh like stealing fire from the gods https://t.co/p068KzMrhy
when tesla claimed that they were going to have batteries < $100 / kWh, practically all funding for american energy storage companies tanked. tesla still won't sell you a powerwall or powerpack for $100/kWh. it's like $1000/kWh and $500 for a megapack. the entire VC sector in the US was bluffed and spooked by Elon. don't be stupid in this way again.
@thechosenberg W
people don’t understand this, but because of the collapse of industrialized society (manufacturing leaving the west) whole generations of smart people in various fields simply didn’t pass on skills. in advanced manufacturing, *most* of the top talent is the equivalent of hedge chemists, or taking side gigs as data scientists, or are hobbyists, or retired. i assume this is Not true in China. the point is a lot of new expertise needs to build up here. a lot of that is going to come from outsiders, reviving lost arts, and sharing what they learn along the way, unlocking new resources. cc @SamoBurja
this is basically correct and is one of the main facts shaping the world today. most people, because they do not try to get big things done, have no idea. but if you travel to any rapidly developing country, you will gain perspective. things are being kept from happening
incredible https://t.co/3jn6obx4gB https://t.co/GXz4rnjhBJ
sunny day, so I went to check the California electricity price map. sure enough, pretty much everywhere, the current price of electricity is negative. poor generators that can't easily throttle their output, like nuclear or geothermal, apparently have to just pay for the privilege of outputting power, if they can't get rid of it any other way in certain areas, the pricing is quite negative
MAYBE FIND ANOTHER HOBBY https://t.co/C0hRRDM4mf
ok so idea, you put this on the Apple Vision Pro or whatever and have it make neat video game sounds as you collect coins or mana or XP or whatever, and then like, generalize to other tasks https://t.co/PMKl0vaVcd
a trillion humans among the stars, not 500 million in dark ages, is a better way to protect and spread life in a vast universe that rarely harbors it. we will not fade into that dark night, or evaporate under the expanding death throws of a dying sun. don’t give up on the gift of consciousness, invention, and human ingenuity. we have barely begun ✨
they injected matthew perry with ketamine more than 20x in 4 days. he died choose life, bros
more signage like this please https://t.co/r5EhpKt1zO
people being mad about elon buying up a fraction of a platform and shitposting about how things should be done around here; when this is america. it’s how it works
re superconductor, asked my old princeton buddy, now a materials science prof at nyu https://t.co/WDlMLGEpRh
imagining if ʻOumuamua were a hunk of superconductor some type 2 Kardashev civilization lost track of, and it’s just been accelerating and ping ponging off the interstellar magnetic fields ever since https://t.co/qEIvZNQhRm
mfs when they get einstein as their patent clerk https://t.co/c4p05ApwPn https://t.co/cXBjWMn4gi
“if i asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a (faster??) horse” https://t.co/QjWfU8xePp
anti nuclear is like, so over https://t.co/LGRhdbmDoR
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instead of having a baby in nine months, have six girlfriends, and have a baby in just a month and a half https://t.co/B11dR94DW7
tried ayahuasca, and got psychically one-shotted by mind flayer demons residing in the depths of my soul here what that taught me about B2B SaaS,,, 🧵 (1/420)
almost all of the hypervolume is on the hypersurface https://t.co/KeK9coXeEs
wow ppl need to be making families, there are so few new ppl 🫨 https://t.co/Dg4ZbtrGpI
ignoring this is planning to lose https://t.co/uHvClUsM6d
wonder if this will condense enough water at night to alter the desert https://t.co/X64PbEOeKk https://t.co/K7C0k5Umc9
“so… what does roon do?” “he’s uh, at openai.” “what does he do at openai?” “i think, uh, he’s like their head prophet”
imagine you just bought this. what would you do with it? https://t.co/v6T6R33uQR
i've been going on and on about this, but basically, AI flips electricity on its head. previously, nearly half the cost of electricity to the consumer was allocated towards distributing it where (and when) you want it. AI data centers want upwards of hundreds of megawatts of power in one place, most of the time. (and for training they don't care about latency) The most constrained thing isn't even the energy itself -- there's a surplus during the solar peak -- it's often the sheer availability & the interconnection. It now can take multiple years to get a grid interconnect to draw power of this magnitude, if the location can even handle it. The capital cost of the power infrastructure is just a tiny fraction (like 3%!) of the capex of the compute, and even just the depreciation of the compute exceeds the cost of even premium power. Hence, AI hyperscalers and those that aspire to be in their class are traveling to where the power is, are building where power has been (and there's legacy transmission to support it, like old nuclear plants) and are getting into the business of actually building powerplants and reactors. Utilities and transmission and distribution companies, interconnection queues, all are used to react much slower -- over many years -- unlike the top technology companies, now vying to compete at the highest levels of AI performance. Since ~99% of energy technologies previously died withering while waiting for utilities to consider them bankable, this represents an extremely fertile, attractive new state of play if you're bringing a new energy technology to market (💁🏻♀️🔆). Whereas before you'd have to brave what was once called a "green valley of death", now you have teracap companies like microsoft bidding on: - Conventional, large nuclear fission - Small modular nuclear reactors - Engineered Geothermal - Fusion! - Stirling Engines 😬 - Who knows what else - Maybe you, Anon! Even Tesla is standing up gas generator arrays to burn fossil fuels for their AI power supply. Shit is getting real
man it’s so dumb that there was a fucking lab leak and coverup and the only people who are upset about it are weird nerds on here and, like, 911 truthers who believe in lizard people. in a sane society people should be pissed about the epistemic state of that every day
puberty induces irreversible change, no one should have to suffer through irreversible change without their consent a shame on those who force it for others
lmao it’s real absolutely bodied https://t.co/wzP3A0cIFg
in my humble opinion this is v strong evidence that there is something; it’s not like people come up with high temperature super conductors randomly, hard to fake. finding a superconducting effect at any temp in an insulator is a strong sign, but, making it high quality enough to be room temperature is another great leap. iirc, the original authors made 8000 samples (correct me if i’m wrong @altryne) and achieved success <10% of the time. lots of room to improve quality and yield
i want to believe (unverified but you better believe lk99 groupchat is chasing down sourcing 😉) https://t.co/7VJUIVF6Oq
there’s zero existential cost to being yourself, and eternal return https://t.co/wLwcRFJR0S
every generation of technology there are control mechanisms that are implemented with some combination of evolving whatever had worked before and mixing in whatever was possible at the time. once a solution is found, it can take a very long time for anybody to recompile along a different technology stack. there's a lot in cars like this, internal combustion engines etc
immersive linear algebra The world's first linear algebra book with fully interactive figures. https://t.co/vO7Vn68RdS via HN https://t.co/dJrdvxt8S1 https://t.co/ec4CgiwdME
sf story: house burns down, owners apply to rebuild it. years later they give up, unable to convince the itty bitty nimby committee. the complaint is that is doesn’t fit the neighborhood. they were going to build the same house
@bilawalsidhu the psychopathy that persecuted and allowed him to be persecuted has never been answered for.
jfc https://t.co/ZkMVRMbKRN https://t.co/kl3tdm6Qov
"The Breakthrough" (hearing this in the superconductor space) incidental discovery! the quartz tube broke, but then, the material that they recovered, had the property that they desired. amazing. we use quartz tubes too (and often break them) 😅
high agency behavior https://t.co/wSBQLg9Q3P
when i was a kid reading encyclopedias and astrophysics books for educated amateurs (‘cause that’s what i wanted to read…) i arrived in kindergarten where we were literally learning letters from the alphabet one by one it was kafkaesque torture & my teacher called me a smartass https://t.co/3HYognDwhk
low key this slaps https://t.co/zsZ4Pwcej3
degrowth is a stupid plan that wouldn't even work. the only way out of this century with the human dream alive is to figure out a lot of new things and do them at scale. we will do it
people are asking if it would replicate or not and even varda team is aiming next week. you software twitter people are having a <1-3 day attention cycle moment you cannot pip install copper phosphate! you need to get things and then make them do things. it takes time lmao 😂
probably nothing! https://t.co/e0oY2o2Ufu
fasting before chemo works the mechanism is basically that chemo kills cells that are splitting; in a fast, healthy cells stop splitting, whereas cancer cells cannot help themselves, and are attacked. this particularly protects the immune system https://t.co/zrKjzH7gqN
i told myself i was tired, but i can't stop thinking about it https://t.co/oyYHNtJxRf
accelerate https://t.co/zUXWvYeHLf
i’m sorry what https://t.co/wLc4ZjHVXp https://t.co/PVPaasmH57
new floaty rock video from an OG author Q's from my brain 🧠💭 - is it the same sample as they had shown before? - what is the strength of the magnet / field - what is the weight / what are the dimensions of the sample - wonder if it can hold on sideways like that other (poorly sourced (?), leaked (?) LCT video) - did anybody try magnetic torque experiments?
GDPR completely nerfed the experience of visiting any website in the open web, and essentially helped lock in dominance of platforms for which you do not have to accept their fucking cookies. feels like nobody over there talks about this, or even cares. people only have ~2 billion seconds to live. bureaucrats commit billions of nanomurders every day and nobody counts it
this encampment under the highway has my friend’s backpack airtag, and presumably all his stuff (and personal documents) is it possible to get the police to respond?? they are menacing the area near bestbuy and rainbow. we verified the location with a mesh of airtags it’s 4 camps with a lot of stuff. looks fortified. there were two guys who looked like lookouts active when we scouted it. RT or QT to help pressure the cops to do their jobs. do Not try to batman this, e/accs 🫡
@hi__hassan extremely goated
nobody has an adequate mental model of how deprived independent hardware scientists pursuing holy grail technologies have been for $$. yes of course you are doing experiments in your kitchen, your shed, your basement, your garage. of course you are sleeping in the lab. that's all you get! be happy you get to pursue a dream. it is not like i have been replete with capital either, and this is *after* having been a favored one, of billionaires. thin days, indeed. but that means that the space of material technologies, hard technologies, is profoundly more virgin territory than people imagine. ripe for exploration -- for the bold
Yesterday multiple Russian state media published this essay, which was apparently written for the scenario where Russia *won*; Bellingcat exec dir. @christogorzev reports Since deleted, but https://t.co/Tb2OWrODZm had it gtranslate & i formatted it 💁🏻♀️ revealing, insane stuff https://t.co/gmYkXLXO9z https://t.co/5E0VPzb0zo
this squirrel thing is infuriating. this kind of stupid government overreach is exactly the kind of idiotic petty tyranny that trump supporters (rightly) rail against. you almost could not come up with a more perfectly designed scenario to get out the right wing vote. of course trump has already capitalized on this, and kamala has said nothing. could well tip the election. will we learn our lesson? will anyone
feels like this is an extremely deep idea, close to information theory. noise encodes information? information *to who* https://t.co/JhQ6GpRysC
this is going to feel really bad on the way down, but versions of this demographic story are playing out everywhere. i think we actually need a significant retooling of civilization to value and support young families. all the efforts at population control, but nobody really was counting on the hysteresis after we want to turn it off
i wonder what will happen https://t.co/3O7hSxpMnQ https://t.co/CD7wcd6Kxl
everyone be asking me for my fusion analysis https://t.co/cPUnX2cTAM
sci-hub is fundraising. if you're a cryptozillionaire, maybe kick in some bitcoin to help free access to scientific papers https://t.co/tfRuvSKPEc
look at this with your eye and imagine the magnet field lines pinned along the long axis of the sample, the 1d superconductor magnetic torque theory does it make sense now? https://t.co/naEveRW0aU
you really can fly across the continent for like the price of an uber if you can successfully pass the iq test of avoiding buying any add ons
probably oversharing, personally i have pretty high confidence (like 80-90%) that the v high diamagnetism (even extreme) and flux exclusion behavior in some lk99 samples or related is due to superconductivity, and not some ferromagnetism, exotic super diamagnetism, but, the information ecology is so polluted that i think ekeing out clearer answers is going to take the hard work of proving it (or not? harder to prove a negative with a craft material) myself information from china is getting shut down by the government (due to trying to prevent stock speculation, apparently). people are tightening up. journalists are asking questions. normies are getting involved. none of this is helping answer the physics questions, so it's a better idea to just go out and look imo
@elonmusk @AutismCapital i couldn’t believe my eyes. she is wearing a mask. how many layers of horseshit are there
kei truck (anti drone anti-air laser technical) https://t.co/sGbVbropRV
.@samoburja check this out MIT study resolves how Roman self-healing concrete works. https://t.co/wW1jb4Ewpo https://t.co/gRlwlSU5l1
we’re not going back https://t.co/vrwcS3lp6Y
@Noahpinion yes all the time. basically my theory is that once word processors came up, the marginal cost of paperwork declined, and we ended up with way too much. the size of laws exploded as we exceeded our natural limitations
live at the NVIDIA AI conference https://t.co/ITrlaYhpmA
i mean if this is real seems superconductor to me https://t.co/F2zQCopryu
this is high culture of my people https://t.co/QwB76PsILQ
shai hulud, king of the dessert https://t.co/piaaTNcP9t
someone posted this on bsky and i had to steal it https://t.co/fNRD9PHYNy
we’re still talking about inflation as a single number but the price charts always look like this https://t.co/IHHukWjUpV
fuck this man https://t.co/hdiNIcxKbB
can hardly believe how cheap the pricing is for solar panels. for like $80 (in bulk) you can get a 2.4m x 1.3m bifacial panel that's 665 W peak. solar walls / fences economical? 👀 https://t.co/ljoSgVxT2n
you can just do things https://t.co/oJXn0zbyOn
swear to god this statement reads like it was written by chatGPT https://t.co/HKD05CJGLl https://t.co/ARhUbvx2G5
guys, you keep trying to recreate ilya. we can’t. but we can recreate him in the aggregate https://t.co/ozGCyYv7oH https://t.co/zxUeGxV75l
ultimate factorio https://t.co/4ydhqkMZxt
my O1 was approved!! 🥳🇺🇸🫡 i’m proud to say, in the eyes of the government, I am an extraordinary alien 👽 https://t.co/qVQG9IDu9J