This was no secret cavern full of dinosaurs lasting long past the demise of the rest of their kind. Rather, the paper explores how the energy associated with asteroid impacts generates hydrothermal environments which are ideal for the sustainment of life.
An Update on Fusion Challenges
The timing of the release is deliberately designed to build excitement and a surge in momentum for a project. It goes hand-in-hand with what is probably an unrealistic timeline.
Designing Experiments
Design of experiments lets us be far more efficient in our experimental approach, reducing the number of runs we need to do to acquire insights, while offering techniques for gaining more insights than we could from just running a bunch of trials.
Aurora Review
It disappointed all my expectations in a thoroughly pessimistic reinterpretation of core science fiction genre tropes adorned by mediocre prose and little in the way of creativity.
Science in Science Fiction
this post explores the importance of getting little details right, consideration of the audience in the inclusion of such details, and the role of science in, well, science fiction.
Self-Assembly and Repair for In-Situ Resource Utilization
This review will address the state of the art in self-assembly and self-repair technologies and understanding, with an emphasis on applicability to a durable space presence and space resource extraction and utilization.
Galileo’s Notes on Ptolemy
Copernicus and Galileo, who are credited (perhaps in slightly overstated fashion) with entirely recontextualizing our place in the universe, are thought of in this way, but the reality is that most seemingly revolutionary thinkers were less people who ran in a different direction from everyone else, and more people who saw the trail ahead more clearly and could take the next few steps for us.
Continuously Quantum Reality
In a recent essay from Quanta Magazine, “Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve,” Ball argues for a resolution to these seeming contradictions proposed by Zurek in a recent book called Decoherence and Quantum Darwinism.
Comment Opportunity – NASA Technology Shortfalls
NASA is working on updating the shortfalls list, and they’ve changed the format in a way that maintains the detail while eliminating some of the overlaps and providing a higher-level basis for the ranking of shortfalls against each other.
Linguistics, LLMs, and Empiricism’s Dangers
This word “understanding” is being used to examine a broader, more philosophical question of motivation, of trying to parse why the LLMs respond to queries in the ways they do, but today’s, and the foreseeable future’s worth of tomorrow’s, LLMs don’t have motivation in the human sense.
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