Max Hodak
@maxhodak_
better living through technology
we need a term like "gell-mann amnesia" for the phenomenon of "based on what I read online, I can conclude that this successful famous person I don't personally know must be stupid." none of them are stupid.
chat is anyone known to be working on training frontier models trained almost entirely just on mathematical self play? I think many people have an intuition this could produce a very smart and lightweight reasoning entity that doesn’t innately know much? has this been tried?
the team is already starting to test out some next-generation retinal implants with surgical collaborators; the gen 2 PRIMA devices will probably be much larger in area, in addition to having much denser, smaller electrodes linkedin.com/posts/mahimuqi…
cost plus contracting is like viscerally upsetting to me. i feel like I learn something profoundly disappointing about the world every time I see it in the wild.
I see things have evolved from mines on wheels to just 100% mines
A Ukrainian kamikaze ground robot. The anti-tank mines are used as tires, which will be detonated once it goes into a russian trench. An invention from the 3rd Assault Brigade.
Our new preprint describes a multimodal intracortical brain-computer interface that a man with ALS has used at home, independently, almost every day for >19 months. It decodes both speech and cursor control to enable him to communicate and use his computer. Here’s a quick tour👇
Metric is great but we obviously should have defined the meter as exactly (1 s)/300,000,000 * c. Missed opportunity
299,792,458 m/s is the speed of light in a vacuum. Nothing with mass can travel at or faster than the speed of light in a vacuum.
counterpoint: this is awesome if true. exactly what one hopes for from big expensive experiments! unlike engineers, scientists love having their expectations violated
Ahahahaha, the James Webb Space Telescope continues to deliver massive L’s for astrophysics. A new paper shows that the “Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation” can be explained entirely by the energy of recently discovered Early Mature Galaxies — massive galaxies that the JWST…
This story is crazy and alarming. It seems within humanity’s capability to eradicate this disease vector; I know Aedes aegypti has been challenging but I wonder if ticks would be easier theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
unfortunately HB 1056 doesn’t actually mean I can walk into Starbucks and shave off a few mg of gold and compel them to accept it Instead it’s basically a prepaid gold debit card. Seems kind of like btc with extra steps (and a central trusted depository) tbh
I signed a law authorizing Texans to use gold & silver as legal tender in day-to-day financial transactions. It fulfills the promise of Article 1, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution.
look, I totally support Building More Housing and am largely a Housing Theory of Everythingist… but you guys realize that if the average house is $1M+ then that means there’s a ton of people with that kind of money now, right? Billionaires aren’t buying these houses!
sure hope this isn’t projection
Dire wolf, woolly mammoth is just a cover, biological weapons are their real purpose.