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Leaked - Stage 2 nuclear fission policy. To manage expected cost blow outs and any impact on perceived economic viability - simply focus on “modifying” comparative advantage. The only real question is: “Where do we mount the exciting Stage 2 investments (shown in video below) to optimise impact for campaign donors?” #nuclear #fission #fossilfools #pv

Timing is everything.

This is what the 5th Industrial Revolution (5IR) looks like! The “Cloud” wars have led us to the struggle for #power and #people! This is a new beginning for all of humanity! #changeiscoming #changeisgood https://lnkd.in/gd9mwcgJ

No engineered system will always be in steady state, and engineers need to know the dynamic response. For my thesis at UC Berkeley, I modeled the boiler feedwater system of a Boiling Water Reactor used at GE Nuclear, using a hybrid (Digital/Analog) computer. Analog amplifiers on a board were used to model the nuclear reactor system. The response (pressure, temperature, flow) of the system to various failures of the sensing and control system were run.

🌍 How the World Wars Shaped the Technology We Use Today 💡 Wars are often seen as periods of destruction, but they’ve also been catalysts for some of the greatest technological innovations. From aviation to computing and from medical breakthroughs to nuclear power, global conflicts have propelled advancements that continue to shape our modern world. I just published a piece exploring how technological progress surged during World War I and II and why these innovations came about. 👉 Read the full article here:

Talk about scarily prescient and topical scenario.

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Historian of science Professor Alex Wellerstein joins me to talk about the sword haunting the ploughshare of the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. 00:00:00 - The Manhattan Project: A Secret Industry | The Birth of the Atomic Bomb 00:02:16 - Why Study Nuclear Weapons? A Historian's Perspective | Alex Wellerstein's Path to Nuclear History 00:04:32 - Nuclear Fear Across Generations | From the Berlin Wall to 9/11 00:08:21 - First Discoveries of Fission: Bomb or Reactor? | Early Thoughts on Nuclear Technology 00:13:19 - The Manhattan Project: A Crash Course in Nuclear Industry | Building an Atomic Bomb in Two Years 00:22:31 - The Infrastructure of the Manhattan Project: From Dinner Table to Industrial Scale | Hanford, Oak Ridge, and Los Alamos 00:32:36 - Was the Manhattan Project Bigger than the Space Race? | Speed, Secrecy, and the Legacy of a Crash Program 00:35:50 - Why Were the Atomic Bombs Dropped? | Exploring the Motives and Justifications 00:43:04 - How Many Bombs Did the US Have in 1945? | Production Rates and the Threat of More Bombs 00:50:52 - US Atomic Hegemony and the Prevention of World War III | Early Cold War Nuclear Diplomacy 00:59:35 - Fear of the Bomb: Radiation and the Psychological Impact | From Hiroshima to Godzilla 01:06:04 - Understanding Nuclear Fallout: Airbursts, Groundbursts, and the Threat of Radiation | Local and Global Fallout Explained https://lnkd.in/gYm2bMZr

On the latest episode of The Twenty Minute VC from Harry Stebbings and 20VC, Scale CEO Alexandr Wang touches on how data, not compute, is the main bottleneck to improving foundation model performance. He also emphasizes the critical role of AI as a military asset, with the potential to surpass nuclear weapons and discusses the evolving dynamics of AI competition between China and the US. 👉 Tune in here: https://lnkd.in/g8pqE2eH

Interesting read during these troubling times.