Could Time be an Illusion
We find ourselves on the edge of a vortex! We are space travelers without space suits hovering on the fringes of a black hole, most of us hoping that we won’t be pulled in. For the most part, we are not scientists after all. Even the scientists among us are holding...
Jetson Orin NANO
In the world of high-tech computing, breakthroughs do not come from scaling up. They come from scaling down. Everybody is always talking about game changers. The $249 Jetson Orin "supercomputer" by NVIDIA will be one. It is powerful, cheap, and small enough to be...
Teleportation and Quantum Computers
Nobody would mistake me for a scientist, but I do read enough to have a working knowledge of Emerging Technologies. For instance, I recently read an article that sensationalized some findings published in the journal Nature. The title was “Brit scientists make huge...
Deep Search
The person featured in the video below talks about Deep Research which is said to be capable of PHD level research, He claims that AGI (Artificial General Research) is imminent or already here by giving AI a learning environment mixed with internet research tools and...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission
Let’s have the bad news first! The cost of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx and OSIRIS-APEX missions is slightly north of a billion dollars. You may ask why we have spent that money, and I will attempt to answer that question farther down the page. But first, allow me to applaud...
News from the Eighth Grade Classroom
A lot of the information below comes from EarthSky.org. What follows is from my extremely limited and non-scientific perspective. Today’s eighth grader is learning things about which I am only vaguely aware. Here’s what I know: The ancient Greeks had various ideas on...
OpenAI and Sam Altman
From an NPR Business report: The importance of all news related to OpenAI cannot be overstated. Huge decisions that will seriously impact our lives are being made behind closed doors. On a world tour this year, he was mobbed by a crowd of adoring fans at an event in...
The Godfather of AI, Geoffrey Hinton
The Godfather of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, was interviewed on 60 Minutes last night. He revealed that his original area of study was the human brain. He started by developing a digital model of the Neural Networks that humans use to process information. The fact that AI...
A Visitor from Outer Space
Pictured is a carboniferous asteroid named Bennu. Eons ago, during the chaotic early stages of the cosmos, our Earth was bombarded by space rocks like Bennu and space debris. Knowledgeable scientists agree that life on Earth was made possible by those early impacts...