Pulled up Google Maps to search for a Red Bull purveyor, as is my custom. It managed to find a 7-11 about 36” from my left foot. The internet is miraculous.

Lack of internet in the subway is why NYC is going to lose out in the economic gains from AI.

Claude Code is Farmville for 40 year old former software engineers

People who get what they need thrive. People who get what they want deteriorate. The same is true for societies.

Okay folks, this qualifies as BREAKING NEWS! Harold “Sonny” White, the warp drive pioneer behind NASA’s EagleWorks Lab, just stepped out of stealth with Casimir Inc. to unveil MicroSPARC: the first battery free chip to harvest continuous electrical power straight from the quantum vacuum via the Casimir force. The 5 mm × 5 mm device uses millions of custom microscale Casimir cavities fabricated on a substrate. Inside each cavity, two fixed conductive walls create a region of negative vacuum pressure (the well known Casimir effect). Stationary micropillars anchored in the middle act as antennas. Electrons from the cavity walls then quantum tunnel to the pillars because the interior is a lower energy “quieter” zone — and the probability of tunneling back is orders of magnitude lower. This one way “quantum ratchet” flow generates a measurable DC current with no external power source or moving parts. Prototypes already fabricated at university nanofab facilities (Texas A&M AggieFab, MIT.nano) have been tested in RF-shielded, low noise chambers for weeks. The team reports outputs ranging from millivolts to volts at picoamp to microamp levels using precision electrometers and Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy. Target performance for the first commercial chip: ~1.5 V at 25 µA (≈40 µW continuous). Stacking and scaling could reach milliwatts or even watts per device. Initial applications are ultra low power: always on IoT sensors, wearables, and medical implants. Longer term roadmap includes trickle charging phones, powering small electronics, and eventually grid independent homes or EVs. Commercialization is targeted for 2028, starting at ~$100/W before dropping toward $10/W. White ties the work directly to his earlier theoretical paper on emergent quantization from a dynamic vacuum and sees it as a practical power source for the deep-space missions he’s long championed. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and independent scientists have so far declined public comment. But if the engineering scales as hoped, MicroSPARC would represent a genuine paradigm shift: continuous, maintenance free power drawn from the fabric of spacetime itself. A bold leap from warp-drive theory into real hardware. Progress (and vacuum-powered chips) marches on. Photo: MicroSPARC | Casimir Inc. Source: thedebrief.org/free-energy-f…

Founders are all using slop spam, trying to butter me up with glowing accolades about my illustrious career, mined from Common Corpus. Praising for things I had nothing to do with make an exceptionally bad first impression. Better to skip the faux flattery and get to the point.

The vibe coding singularity is when someone makes a plug-in for Obsidian to make it present databases like Notion.

Claude is refusing to install an obliterated Qwen model that I asked it to download. Another walled garden of corporate censorship, like Instagram not letting you post hyperlinks.

youtu.be/mZCoxUaZJ0Y?si=Rp4x… The only talk about cement that you didn’t know you needed to watch today. My buddy Admir Masic solved the biggest mystery in the biggest construction material of all time.

#Mythos is scaring the shit out of @AnthropicAI because it creates "unprecedented cybersecurity risks." Bullshit. The actual precedent is imaginary problems and no equivalent imagination for the solutions. For the entire history of #cybersecurity, the attackers had the advantage. They had unlimited time to find every bug, every exploit, every way to break your shit. Defenders? They're busy building products, shipping features, fixing the bugs customers actually complain about. They don't have time to think of all the deranged shit hackers are going to do to their code. Now everybody is losing their minds over AI-powered attacks. What they're missing is that defenders have the same AIs. Often better ones and way more compute. Even better, defenders have something attackers never will: they're on the inside. They have their source code. They have the byte code the machine is running. They have a God's eye view of every single bit. They can aim the same models — with more resources — at defense. This is still a war of escalation, but now the defender has the advantage. Security is about to get better. Not worse.

200 helium containers are stranded in the Persian Gulf right now. Each one holds 41,000 liters cooled to -269°C. The containers have no refrigeration. No compressor, no cooling loop. Insulation is all that stands between the cargo and ambient heat, and it buys 35 to 48 days. After that, the liquid boils, the pressure valve opens, and the helium vents to atmosphere. Re-liquefying it requires a specialized plant. Most ports do not have one. Qatar's North Field supplied 33% of the world's helium as a byproduct of cryogenic separation at its LNG plants. On March 2, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. Spot prices surged 70 to 100 percent. EUV lithography requires 99.9999% purity helium for wafer cooling and no current substitute exists. The fifth helium shortage since 2006 has just begun.

I wanted to like Perplexity Computer but even on the Max plan, I burned through my token budget in a few days. Claude has obliterated all other agent systems that I’ve tried.

We're going to need something like Obsidian for teams.

Hyperbole fails me when trying to describe the importance of computer chips to the world today. Everything made possible by computers relies on chips. Chips rely on transistors. Transistors rely on silicon. Silicon relies on Lithography.  Lithography the process of putting an image onto the surface of the silicon. Pretty much like the way a silkscreen puts  “Team Building Exercise 1999” on a T-shirt. Except that this image has to be the highest resolution, with the smallest microscopic features, of anything humans produce. “Moore’s Law” usually refers to increasing transistor density. Basically, how can we make transistors half as big as they were 18 months ago? Every time we figure that out, computers get twice as powerful. The state of the art uses Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) light to do the lithography. The machine that can do this cost $50 billion to develop. It has 500,000 parts. Only the Large Hadron Collider is more complicated. To buy one costs $250 million and you’ll be stuck on a waiting list that is $40 billion long. The machine comes from ASML in the Netherlands and they don’t have a single competitor, in the entire world.  That machine shoots a tiny ball of molten tin into a vacuum and blasts it with two lasers. This produces a flash of 13.5 nanometer ultraviolet light that gets aimed at the surface of a silicon wafer. You are looking at the pinnacle of human engineering achievement. Now you know how the chip for your iPhone is made. ASML advanced from 193nm to 13.5nm light to make this possible, but there’s a problem. The diffraction limit of 13.5 nanometer light was set by either God or Issac Newton and there’s nothing we can do about it. We can’t print features smaller than that and there’s no practical way to do lithography with a shorter wavelength. When people say that Moore’s Law is over, this is why. We can’t keep making smaller transistors. The semiconductor industry knows this, so they’ve tried to solve the problem by handing it over to the marketing department where the laws of physics don’t apply. You’ve seen them progress from 45nm to 30nm to 20nm over the last decade, then all of the sudden, 12nm, 7nm, 5nm & soon 3nm chips are coming. Well guess what, it is all just marketing bullshit. This measurement in chips used to be half the distance between the centers of two features. Once marketing took over, they started measuring half the distance between the edges of two features. Instant improvement! Then they started measuring other random stuff. Other kinds of improvements in chip design helped to gloss over the fact that we are no longer able to shrink the size of transistors by 50% every 18 months anymore. Today, there are extraordinary geopolitical machinations to control chip production. The U.S. has tariffs and export controls akin to those for fighter jets and ICBMs (both are largely made of chips anyway). Access to chip production is as critical to superpowers as oil.  Lace Lithography had been in stealth since we invested in them a few years ago. They’ve invented the technology that can go well beyond Extreme UV and put Moore’s Law back on track. By using helium atoms instead of light, they can make transistors 10x smaller than the physical limit of ultraviolet light can. ASML is worth ~$500 billion. Lace Lithography will be their successor. Today, they came out of stealth. reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…