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TRANSITION FLIGHT | Midnight has completed transition flight at a speed of 100+ MPH – taking off vertically, accelerating until it transitions from thrust-borne to wing-borne flight, cruising on the wing and then landing again vertically. Here are the key highlights from this milestone:
✈️ At ~6,500 lbs, Midnight is believed to be one of the large... See more
How Libya Built Brand-New Rivers Across the Sahara
youtu.beGeology + Engineering come together allow a a desert to sprout
Where does Saudi Arabia get its water?
By default, anthropic hides these "inner thought" aka text chunks. This is the reason why sometimes you see the anthropic flower loading in the middle of a response. Claude is basically deliberating at arbitrary points of a response for a better output - imo one of the most underrated unhobblings.
LLMs are better with an internal monologue
Not sure if anything changed my approach to work and engineering in the past five years more than this passage from @Lethain, written in the context of staff engineering but much more broadly applicable.
Albert Einstein said, "It's not that I'm so smart; it's just that I stay with problems longer."
It's a good reminder that the most successful people in any field play the long game.
The first, and most obvious thing, is that they are visual. If I was going to move a piece on a map then I could point to where it was and where it needed to go. Navigation was visual but that was normal. Except, I realised it wasn’t. When people stopped me in their cars to find their way to the nearest petrol station — this was 2004 and GPS was st... See more
Simon Wardley • Highlights From medium.com
According to Keltner’s book, seeking “brief moments of awe is as good for your mind and body as anything you might do.”
Henry Wismayer • Finding Awe Amid Everyday Splendor
"Science also progresses by improved instrumentation and better recordkeeping. Star charts enabled celestial navigation. Gregor Mendel's careful counting of pea plants led to modern genetics. Johann Balmer's documentation of the exact spacing of hydrogen's emission spectra led to quantum mechanics. Things we believed to be beyond human kind—the sta
... See more"There are two ways to make the world more mesmerizing: to seek out new and increasingly intense experiences, or to loosen the filters that make ordinary experience “ordinary”. You can go skydiving, or you can meditate for long enough that walking feels like skydiving. Either way, I think what we’re seeking is an escape back into what we used to be... See more