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AI Inference just moved off Earth A Google TPU in orbit answered a prompt from Earth.

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Elon Musk was asked at a conference whether he is happy. The pause before he answered lasted long enough that the audience shifted in their seats. The answer, when it came, was not what anyone expected from the richest man alive. He said he doesn't think happiness is the right framework. He said his brain is "a very, very bad neighborhood" that he wouldn't recommend visiting. He said the experience of being him is one of constant output at the expense of internal peace. The production never stops. The mental simulation of problems, solutions, designs, and possibilities runs continuously, including during sleep, and there is no mechanism to turn it off. The brain that produces extraordinary external results produces extraordinary internal discomfort. He compared his mind to a never ending explosion. Not a metaphor he used casually. An explosion. Constant expansion in all directions simultaneously. The explosion produces the companies, the products, the ideas, and the ambition. It also produces the insomnia, the inability to be present in relationships, the emotional unavailability that every partner has described, and the restlessness that makes ordinary human activities feel like a waste of processing power. The answer was not self pity. It was clinical. He was describing the architecture of his own mind the way he would describe the architecture of a rocket engine: here is how it works, here is what it produces, here is what it costs. The cost of the mind that runs 6 companies is that the mind cannot be peaceful. The peace and the production are mutually exclusive. He chose production. The audience wanted to hear "yes, I'm happy, and you can be too." They got: my brain is a bad neighborhood and the price of what I build is that I never rest. The honesty was so total that the room didn't know how to respond. The moderator moved on quickly. The richest man alive does not experience happiness in the way the question implied. He experiences drive. He experiences the satisfaction of solving problems. He experiences the compulsion to build. But the quiet contentment that the word "happy" suggests is not available to him because the quiet is not available. The engine does not idle. The engine only runs. He answered the question the way he answers everything: honestly, technically, and in a way that made everyone in the room grateful they are not him.

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very weird thing happening rn technical people are sad, they think their skills are now useless non-technical people are desperately wishing they were more technical so they could use agents better

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1/4 Meet Qwenputer: Qwen3.5-4B with a full RISC-V CPU inside its weights, using the model's own Gated DeltaNet layers as RAM. It runs C and MicroPython in its forward passes, no external runtime. On DeepMind math: base 55–90%, base + Python tool 95–100%, Qwenputer 97.5–100%.

A lot of ink has been spilled on GPU financing lately. I spent over a decade trading ABS on Wall St, and structured over $2B+ of debt financings as an operator (including at @tryramp). Figured I'd try to make sense of this market, so I went back to a framework I knew well: aircraft ABS and aircraft engine ABS. My take: a GPU neocloud runs on airline economics, and the debt behind it looks a lot like aircraft engine ABS. The parallels: • Perishable inventory. An empty seat after the door closes is gone forever. So is an idle hour on an energized H100 rack. • 85%+ of cost is fixed (servers, 10-year rack leases, 10-14% debt service). One more hour of compute costs pennies of power. • Utilization is everything. Airlines break even around 80% load factor, a levered GPU cluster around 65-75%. The returns live in those last 25 percentage points. • NVIDIA is Boeing and Airbus rolled into one. Powered shells and grid interconnects are the new airport slots. • Wall St copied the aircraft financing playbook: take-or-pay contract plus servers in a bankruptcy-remote SPV, 70-80% LTV. Part 1 of my blog post goes into a lot more detail: alexyangsong.com/blog/alumin…

A quick reminder of the beauty of circular financing.... I doubt there has ever been this level of dependence in the US market, as we're seeing among the AI companies today. Bloomberg does a great job with this chart.

字母圈是真的有「壁」的。 不是金钱，不是物质，也不是物理意义上的壁，而是认知。 圈内人之间，存在着一些不言而喻的共识。 比如，女性sub/m并不是可以随意践踏、玩弄的母狗；女性Dom/S也不是供男sub/m发情时喊妈妈、用来满足性幻想的工具；男性Dom/S不是既要爆金币、又要提供情绪价值的大冤种；男性sub/m更不是没有自尊、自轻自贱的废物。 大家各自有不同的XP，有不同的喜好和需求，但至少有一个最基本的共识： 我们默认，对方是和自己一样的人。 我们是同好，是一群恰好拥有某些非常规癖好的人。 很多女性sub，是认真读书、努力工作的小姑娘；很多男性Dom，也不过是每天为生活奔波的苦逼牛马；女性Dom看起来是气场强大的御姐，私底下可能也贪玩、爱撒娇；而那些愿意跪下、戴上项圈的男性sub，或许是履历金光闪闪、在自己的领域里独当一面的精英。 当然，也不必非得优秀、体面、事业有成，才配得到尊重。 一个人的XP，从来不足以定义他是怎样的人。 喜欢臣服，不意味着没有尊严；享受支配，不意味着有义务满足任何人的欲望。 情境中的权力不对等，也从来不等于人格上的不平等。 我们都有自己的生活，有工作，有学业，有朋友，有家人，有柴米油盐，也有各自的烦恼和快乐。 放下小皮鞭，摘下项圈，大家都是普通人。 是每天上班下班、上学放学，会在地铁里擦肩而过，会在便利店排队结账，会在街头偶然相遇的芸芸众生。

It’s kinda crazy to me that we melt sand down, clean it to 99.99999% purity, literal wizards have to draw it slowly into an ingot, we cut it, inscribe a hundred billion little on/off switches on it, and when you run electric current through it you can do basic arithmetic, which when you do enough of it can do any math on the planet, and which describes reality well enough that we can teach it the ontological meaning of words and their distance from each other on a high-dimensional space, and if you ask, it can tell you what word comes next and that apparently is powerful enough that if you do it a hundred billion times it’s the smartest thing to ever exist oh yeah and we use this primarily for email

Announcing 3 Critical vulns for hundreds of millions of IoT, Firewalls, OT, and Military devices including: Palo Alto Networks, Comcast, D-Link, HP, Canon, Honeywell, GE, Oracle, Siemens, Rockwell, Digi, Lockheed Martin, Boeing... The vulns are with GoAhead Web Server which is a backend library used by these devices. There's a patch available from GoAhead but that doesn't mean there's a patch available for the devices yet -- that's up to the manufacturer. - TLS traffic over DHE ciphers have a 1-byte secret, "04", meaning anyone can decrypt connections to these devices and steal login credentials and session tokens if the client negotiated with DHE ciphers like the latest TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256, which is extremely likely. - LibreSSL mTLS has been completely bypassed, meaning anyone can connect over mTLS. If you have one of these devices listening on the internet and are expecting mTLS to protect it from attackers, take it offline or patch asap. - OpenSSL Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) are not enforced, meaning if a user device is stolen or compromised, and you revoke that mTLS cert, nothing actually happens. There are a lot of other attacks this can be used for. These are critical because these types of devices run our world. Water systems, electricity, military, firewalls, critical infrastructure. foxio.io/blog/choose-your-ba…

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Habits I stole from ADHD people who are actually doing well. Not "cured." Just no longer at war with their own brain. None of these are "wake up at 5am." Promise. 1. They dont trust their memory. At all.