Carl Lumma
@clumma
SRNL glass scientist Chandra Lamberth recently gave a live demonstration at a Scientific Glassblowing Conference. She showcased her expertise attaching various sized joints to a 150 Duran Flange without blowing by using heat and gravity to seal the joints.
There are 70 million boomers in the U.S. and there will be ~ 53 million in 2035. That's roughly 25% of the adult population now, and 20% then.
The 'crypto treasury' thing, which now seems to be a growing trend, is probably the worst trend I've seen on Wall St in my 30 years of investing.
When it was created in 1974, the NRC employed 1,970 people. There were 56 commercial reactors under construction. A recent Google search result says that the agency currently employs 4,211. There are 0 commercial and 3 research reactors under construction in the US.
A trade deficit is a deficit in goods and services only. In total, there can be no deficit. We have to give them something: bonds (borrowing), land, the gold off the statues...
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Criteria for AGI: * Realtime vision and speech * Learns continuously, including new modalities * Dissipates < 200 W
This is what I’ve been up to the last year! Building the largest remote observatory in the world (By quantity of scopes)
Surprising how the whole pharmaceutical industry pretends the rare diseases racket is legitimate.
Headed to what's long been the biggest fireworks show in Northern California, this year even 60% bigger! 🎇
Fission SPAC deals expected to close this year, each raising about a quarter-billion: * Terrestrial Energy HOND -> IMSR * Terra Innovatum GSRT -> NKLR