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Jensen Huang was 17 when he won over his wife Lori in a class of 250 students and only three girls. He promised her heโd be a CEO by 30, built Nvidia into a company worth trillions, and stayed married to her for over 40 years. This week he wrote one sentence to his employees: I was unfaithful to my wife.
In the video below, he tells the exact line he used on her, and the promise he made so she would marry him.
He started college at 16.
He was the youngest kid at Oregon State, the only student who still looked like a child.
His electrical engineering class had 250 students and three girls.
One of them was Lori. She was 19.
He knew he couldnโt compete on looks or on age. So he figured her first impression of him had to be that he was smart.
He walked up to her and said: do you want to see my homework?
Then he made her a deal. If she did homework with him every Sunday, he promised she would get straight Aโs.
That gave him a date every single Sunday. He kept her doing homework all day, just so he could spend the whole day with her.
And to make sure she would eventually marry him, he made one more promise.
He was 20 years old. He told her that by the time he was 30, he would be a CEO.
He admits he had no idea what he was talking about.
They got married. In 1993, the year he turned 30, he co-founded Nvidia.
He kept that promise. Nvidia became one of the most valuable companies in history, and both of their children now work there.
For years he told this story on stages around the world as the sweetest part of his life.
This week he sent his whole company a letter instead.
I owe my family and all of you an apology. I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children.
The boy who won her with homework kept the promise about the company. He didnโt keep the one about her.
Which promise do you think matters more in the end?
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๐จ The Columbia County Sheriffโs Office has charged two 13 year olds following an incident at the countyโs fall fair.
โDeputies believe the teens intentionally grabbed onto one another while on a swing ride, despite prior warnings from staff not to do so. As the ride slowed, it became unstable, causing swings to slam together violently.
โA woman was injured and taken from the fairgrounds in an ambulance, while two children were treated for minor injuries.
#ColumbiaCounty #FairSafety #PublicSafety #CrimeNews #GeorgiaNews
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ๆฎบไผใจใใๆททๆฒใจใใใใฎไธ็ใซใ็ฅๆงใฏใใณใใไธใใฆใใใใใ ใใ็งใไธ็ใ็ฅๆงใซๆ่ฌใใใใใฎใใใใใณใใซใฏใใฎไธใ็
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A robot built by Caltech and funded by DARPA has assembled a truss section in orbit, which researchers describe as the first autonomous construction of a structure in space. Part of the ASTRA project, the robotic builder was meant to put together a 1.4-meter reflector antenna from composite tubes, aluminum joints, and reflective film. Two truss sections traveled up pre-assembled, and the robot built a third from individual components. Engineers on the ground could only contact it during a few 15-minute windows a day, checking photos and testing solutions on a duplicate model before sending commands. DARPAโs NOM4D program envisions shipping raw materials into orbit and building structures kilometers across, far larger than anything that could survive launch as a finished product. The demonstration was funded as part of that program.
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A robot has autonomously assembled a truss section in orbit, paving the way for large-scale space construction. bit.ly/4sOILUv
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๐จ: New Evidence shows that the Earth is trapped in a void 2 billion light-years in diameter.
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Did a Black Hole Escape Its Galaxy and Leave a 200,000-Light-Year Trail Behind? ๐
What could possibly send a supermassive black hole racing through space, leaving an extraordinary trail in its wake?
Using observations from NASAโs Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers identified a remarkable 200,000-light-year-long feature that may have been created by a runaway supermassive black hole.
One intriguing explanation suggests that the black hole compressed gas as it traveled, potentially triggering the birth of new stars.
The interpretation remains under scientific investigation, but the possibility is astonishing.
Could a black hole become a cosmic star-making machine?
#BlackHole #Hubble #Astronomy
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Philosophers of physics constantly make this mistake. Physical theories have two parts. First is a mathematical structure, which needs to be rigorous and self-consistent. Second is an interpretive structure that tells us how to map the mathematics to physical systems. This second piece need not be axiomatic, it need not gave a coherent ontology, it doesn't even really need to make sense, as long as it correctly describes the outcome of experiments. The Schrรถdinger Equation is an example of the former, the Born Rule is an example of the latter. Another example is the mathematical structure of spacetime vs the assignment of causal structure and the arrow of time. Is the block universe real? Who cares?
I tried bringing this up at the "Nature of Time" workshop at ASU last week, and had a bunch of philosophers get all condescending, as if physicists don't know how to do physics, and need philosophers to tell them how to do it. Except the philosophers are all stuck doing "foundations" of quantum mechanics like it's the 1940s, and doing quantum gravity with the Wheeler-deWitt equation like it's 1963. Completely unserious people.
Not a coincidence that physics being the most notoriously Kantian influenced of all the hard sciences particularly in the way quantum physics was developed by Heisenberg and Bohr is also unique among all the hard sciences in having incoherent theoretical foundations which are fundamentally and inexplicably incompatible with each other.
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We believed the Earth was a ball our whole lives, but its real shape is called a geoid
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This jellyfish is invisible! Well, kind of.
Being transparent in the deep sea can be a challenge: If youโve eaten any glowing animals recently, their bioluminescence can warn your next prey of your approach. Red internal coloration helps block that light from shining through.
โจHappy Birthday Carl Sagan! ๐ซ๐
โด๐โด๐โดNov 9, 1934โด๐โด๐โด๐ฐ
Happy Birthday, Carl.
You taught millions of us that being small is not the same as being unimportant. You taught us to be citizens of the cosmos, to be curious, to doubt loudly, and to be gentle with each other on this pale blue dot we call home.
We are still looking up. We are still asking. And in this cold, indifferent universe, your voice is one of the warmest things we return to, again and again. It reminds us to be kind, to hold on to our humanity, to keep the candle from guttering out in the dark, and to keep reaching until one day we stand among the stars.
Happy Birthday, and thank you for everything. ๐
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Intended mission was to last 5 years,
but Voyager 1 continues to push
all boundaries.
It still journeys seeking new horizons,
carrying a cargo of pictures & sounds
of Earth - samples of our civilization,
up to its launch date in 1977 ๐
โจ๐ at the height of disco ๐ซ๐ฐ
ONE WEEK TO GO!
BIS Evening Lecture: One Light-Day from Home: Celebrating Voyager 1 with Dr Garry Hunt OBE
Register: bis-space.com/shop/product/bโฆ
Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral on 5 September 1977, atop a Titan IIIE-Centaur rocket, on a mission originally designed to last just five years and survey two planets.ย
Dr Garry Hunt was there from the very start. He was the only UK-resident scientist selected by NASA for the Voyager mission, working alongside luminaries including Carl Sagan, Brad Smith, Ed Danielson and Larry Soderblom as one of the nine members of the Voyager Imaging Team responsible for the spacecraftโs cameras and the iconic images they returned.
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On November 18th at 3:16 am MST (1016 UTC) the Voyager 1 probe will reach one light-day out from Earth - 24 hours for light from our pale blue dot to reach it. And 24 hours for light and radio signals to reach us from the spacecraft. The first time this has ever happened.
Next week, for the first time in human history, a human-made object will reach a distance of one light-day from Earth.
We're inviting the world to celebrate Voyager 1's major milestone with us. science.nasa.gov/mission/voyโฆ
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17.11. prva slobodna Skupลกtina u Srbiji, Svetski dan studenata, ali i Prvi solarni dan Vojadลพera!
Pogled gore!
On Nov. 17, celebrate this once-in-human-history moment by creating a wave of golden light.
Shine bright for Voyager! Hereโs how to join in: go.nasa.gov/shinebright
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Falta muy poco para que la Voyager 1 vea la Tierra tal y como era un dรญa antes.
