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Running an nvidia card at full load, would cost me ~100 euro of electricty each month (europe). Of course one wouldn't have usage caps.

Where the internet was a subscription 15 euro subscription to encyclopaedic knowledge, an genAI subscription is renting a researcher/programmer for 100 euro.

as a medication alternative there's saffron, which also helps (not as good)

I don't know, good question. They had my passport data and name - but not my contact data.

Thank you, I just went to a tibetan-buddhist retreat so I saw it as meditation-in-action

The 2024 screenshots I had forgotten about involved A) an X by Denys Davidov - a youtuber commenting on the Ukranian-Russian war - where commented on IS suicide bombers B) an infographic on the Israel-Iran war with a map with explosions C) another one i have forgotten about I can understand that if a machine detects something questionable and my phone has these things, that that could be reason to search and question me thoroughly given a general high alert.

I could go to the consulate in my country to ask if I could go to the US in the future.

This happened to me last month in Halifax Canada, I wanted to board a transfer flight to Amsterdam, going through Boston. I was stopped as I had salts with me from a buddhist relic I couldn't exactly identify. The machine said it contained a primary explosive (silver azide). I was ordered to give my access code to my iphone and 3 suspicious screenshots were found I made 2 years ago about the Iran/Israel war. I said I'm interested in geo-politics and watched the news. I was barred from the US for life - it was said that it could have been much worse. When I wanted to go to the main airport hall a number of canadian police officers arrested me and drove me handcuffed to a cell. I was asked if I wanted a lawyer and they arranged a phone call. The lawyer said I would spend to nights in a cell and then she would come to prepare my case and was strongly advised not to talk to people before that. I was released from my cell 7 hours later that evening after a thorough and friendly conversation with the canadian special police. I can understand that security don't want to take any chances with people carrying supposed explosive powders on an airport, so the system was doing it's protective job. That day there was a threat alert I heard later. A week later I heard from the person who gave me the relic (I was on retreat) that the border guard contacted them and said it was a false positive (what I suspected at the time, but I didn't dare argue against the machine results).

This I read yesterday on LinkedIn, so a whole lot is already possible.

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Markus J. Buehler McAfee Professor of Engineering at MIT; Co-Founder & CTO at Unreasonable Labs; AI-Driven Scientific Discovery

Astra is an incredible world builder and explorer, and can invent its own scientific instruments - crossing a game-changing threshold: it turned a few images of a biological microstructure into a full-blown metamaterials lab, then used its own creation to discover a design with ~2.1x the reference work-to-failure/peak-strength ratio. Metamaterials are some of the most complex materials we can engineer. Their properties come from deep architectural complexity - struts, cells, disorder, and hierarchy arranged across multiple length scales determine how the material deforms, absorbs energy, and fails. Designing them means searching a geometric space far too large for "intuition" alone. In this experiment we handed an AI agent that entire problem end-to-end, from image, to simulating the physics, to fabrication-ready geometry.

We started with an image of hierarchical, biological architecture; Astra then built a complete 3D metamaterial studio: editable geometries, multiple levels of hierarchy, disorder, gradients, a complete physics simulator featuring linear and nonlinear material responses, deformation and fracture experiments (with replay), and STL export for 3D printing.

Then we asked the agent to use the app it created to search for a high work-to-failure/peak-strength ratio. Among the candidates, the leading design reached approximately 2.1x the reference ratio.

The movie follows the structures through deformation and fracture, connects their designs to the property map, and shows the finalist assembled geometrically into a connected multi-scale material.