Tagged “technology”

I don't love the forced Q&A format it comes up with, the questions feel leading or forced. But overall well done 5m summaries of papers.

Industrial ethernet, stands for "Process Field Network"

amazingly complex pieces of machinary

things continue to get weird

falling costs increase use, offsetting efficiency gains. Related to the upcoming AI-generated summaries of AI-generated content.

Related TED talk: Climate solutions worth funding now

I didn't know about the transparent/maintainable requirement; had previously thought it was meant to be a thing to last independently.

one to print out and read in a cabin

interesting to watch if we can finally make recycling financially viable

we are still very ill-equipped to deal with knowing what not to trust

Underground aquaducts

I had thought there was some large technical/scaling challenge (there still are), but much of this reads like plain old stretching too thin.

retrofitting buildings to improve energy and thermal efficancy faster

In those days, my head was full of reggae. Even when I was trying to come up with a rock beat, I think it just naturally came out as something that would work in reggae as well.”

From the rare HN discussion filled with music recommendations!

Always interesting, and very clever. Talks about upcoming technology (real and expected), cultural and institutional changes, government as buyer to incentivise development, a bunch on companies and employees.

Mostly sensible looking predictions, interesting set of topcs: Enterprise software, phone form factor, SF / NYC tech rivalry apparently, Crypto as dissident tech, fall of grad school, biotech bubble, microplastics health fears, campaign growth hacking, and SV startup scam.

We crush and burn rock, and then re-constitute it at a time and place and in a form of our choosing.

? Like coffee or pancake mix, it's “instant stone—just add water!”

Isn't that basically magic?

Ambitious thing to estimate - I don't even try to predict a week ahead!

Some things to get excited about:

• mRNA tech
• geothermal power
• in-orbit manufacturing of things that cannot exist on Earth(!)

More greatness from Xerox PARC in the 90s - principles around keeping technology out of the way.

We need solutions that are less terrible for the environment, but 'living in harmony with nature' is basically a fallacy; seeking that is longing for an age that never existed.