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Together, NASA's telescopes wear many hats – capturing different wavelengths of light and cosmic happenings.
This group image of the Sombrero Galaxy shows how! ⬇️
ALT M104 has a wide, flat, round brim, shown here as a hazy violet ring viewed nearly on its edge. At the center of the brim-like ring is a cluster of golden specks surrounding a warm white core.
how two things sometimes are true at the same time youtu.be/fLuHJ32pjnM?si=xACT…
Dario is right
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.
You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…
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The German startup Magnotherm is pioneering a new type of cooling technology: Instead of compressing a refrigerant gas, as usual, their fridges use metals that heat up in magnetic fields and cool when the field is removed. This can effectively be used to move the heat from one location (eg inside the fridge) to another (outside the fridge).
The idea itself is not new, it goes back to the 19th century, but Magnotherm is the first to make the step to commercial use. Earlier this year, they announced that the German supermarket chain REWE will deploy their new fridges in 10 stores. The company says their system uses 15% less electricity and avoids harmful chemicals. The technology can in principle also be used for air conditioning, but so far no one has developed a prototype.
Website: magnotherm.com/
More info: naturalrefrigerants.com/news…
Image: Magnotherm's magnetic coolant. Credit: Magnotherm.
On my 16th birthday, my dad gave me a red bandana.
He told me the story of a man named Welles Crowther who was on the 74th floor of the World Trade Center when the planes hit on 9/11.
When everyone else ran down, he ran up.
Welles found survivors on the 78th floor, put the most injured woman on his back, and led the rest down the stairs to safety. After they were safe, he ran back up some unknown number of times.
In the days after 9/11, survivors kept talking about "the man in the red bandana" who saved them. No one knew who he was.
As the NYT began to publish some of these stories, his family found them and knew immediately it was Welles.
When Welles was 6, his dad gave him a red bandana that he carried with him ever since. When he was 16, he became a volunteer firefighter. After his death, his dad found a partially-complete FDNY job application in his apartment.
Six months after 9/11, Welles's body was found at Ground Zero alongside dozens of FDNY firefighters at the makeshift command center they assembled in the lobby of the South Tower before it collapsed.
If you stop by the 9/11 memorial in NYC, you'll still find a red bandana at Welles' name.
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I’ve never been certain if Nathan Fielder is playing a lifelong bit or is just genuinely autistic. And this “documentary” confronts him with someone who makes him feel the same bewilderment (is he for real?!) that others feel when they talk to him: Elizabeth Holmes.
The formal inventiveness of this documentary had me vibrating. Like documentary inception. I’m giddy.
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I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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In 1908, Edvard Munch spent eight months in a psychiatric clinic in Copenhagen.
He couldn't sleep. He heard voices. He'd spent two decades painting anguish — the scream on the bridge, the sickroom, the death.
Three years later, he painted this — a sunrise so wide it barely fits inside its own frame.
He'd just left Dr. Jacobson's clinic when he entered the competition to decorate the University of Oslo's ceremonial hall. The commission: paint enlightenment itself, for a room built to mark a hundred years of the university.
He painted The Sun.
He chose a sunrise over the skerries near Kragerø, where he used to work outdoors.
Not symbolic light — actual light, on a canvas nearly eight meters wide.
"I saw the sun rise above the cliffs — I painted the sun," is all he ever said about it.
Look at it next to The Scream sometime. Same hand. Thirty years apart.
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In eastern medicine (also in shamanic practices) it is taught we can develop leaks of energy in many areas of our system : our bio energetic field, our sex organs and pelvis, even from our ears and eyes when we turn ourselves ‘out’ too externally. Too much external looking or hearing. Too much speaking etc. It’s important to picture yourselves sometimes just turning everything into your field, inwardly. Eyes, mouth, ears, listening, sight, bio energetic field, no cords outward, everything is re-gathered. Breathe it back in on your breaths. Just see it turning around and looking in. You are the center. You are the magnet. You are self contained, etc.
Breathe like that for a few minutes, then move all of the healing and healthy inward energy down just below the navel and turn that inward too. Store it here, this is a storage point.