Artemis II deputy lunar science lead, Jacob Richardson, left, and Artemis II lunar science team members, Kiarre Dumes, react to the astronauts' verbal observations of the Moon during their flyby on April 6, 2026. Along with other lunar science team members, Richardson and Dumes helped train the crew in geology both in the classroom and in the field. The science team also built the lunar targeting plan that, like an International Space Station spacewalk plan, provides strong, detailed observation guidance, plus flexibility for the crew to make decisions based on what they’re seeing and experiencing in real time. The science team had many moments of celebration during the lunar flyby as the astronauts took images of the Moon and provided verbal descriptions of what they were seeing. This type of information reveals the geologic history of an area and will be critical to collect when future Artemis astronauts explore the Moon's surface. Credits: NASA/Luna Posadas Nava

❤️ back at @jacobrichardson.bsky.social , Dumes, and everyone else in the Science Evaluation Room

@3dbeergoggles.bsky.social is mad at me.
One time I told him that his Fender Deluxe sounded like a Mesa/Boogie and he never forgave me.

You're right, AI told me I should probably walk instead.

In my junk drawer I have a calculator that is so efficient it can run off a shitty solar cell gathering light from my kitchen lamp. (and it doesn't take 3 seconds)

Is this a good use of LLM tech? No. But it's right now a public tool, being used for many things wildly outside its application space.

I just asked Claude Sonnet 4.6 for "6.5*0.7".
I got the right answer and it took ~3 seconds to complete.
During those 3 seconds, Anthropic's servers used a dozen some (exact model sizes aren't published) enterprise-level GPUs to calculate a ton of math, none of which was 6.5*0.7.

I remember being very excited for the Model 3 and looking forward to them leading the way to lower cost and more attainable EVs.
But then nope. The price increased and they switched to developing the Y.
Ultimately losing ground to EVs like the one I would eventually buy.

Yes, I did find one of these at Goodwill back in 2022.
Yes, it did come home with me.

I asked Dr. Sbaitso why it committed malpractice.

The opening scene of Cool Hand Luke, but it's those stupid flock cameras.

Why do I hear Clint Mansell?

This is so revealing, you have no idea.
Your social media posts are probably measurable in megabytes? The Opus model itself is on the scale of terabytes.
The captain of a ship can stop from a sprint in a few paces. The cargo ship cannot.

Go to their official website and look at the pages under the "Plan Your Visit" menu.

Try long-pressing on the VCR (or however it works on iPhone) to get it to expose for the dark part of the scene. Then if it's too bright, adjust the photo's exposure after.

SHE’S FINISHED! My 5-foot-long Enterprise D oil painting is complete after nearly 100 hours of work!

I remember being 13 years old or so and trying to draw her and it was so hard, and all I wanted was to be able to do something like this. Truly a dream come true. 🥰🖖

Eep

Also, as a fun thought experiment, look up what a BFLOAT16 is and what would result from a high energy particle tickling one.

I think the fixation on thermal management comes from the conflicting requirements of LLM compute and space hardware.
LLM compute is by nature power hungry, hot, and inefficient. Whereas the people who make space hardware bend over backwards to optimize every corner of software and hardware.

The ISS can support ~70kW of color TDP total. The GPUs needed for these data centers are reaching 1kW of TDP each. A small data center is already reaching 100s to 1000s of GPUs. The flagship sites are nearing half a million. That's a starlink constellation worth of ISSes.

Just getting V2X implemented, standardized, and easily installable would be really neat. (At least as easily as a normal grid-islanding inverter)

They even made it girthier.
I can't.

Ah jeez sorry, sounds ruff.

Mission and memorial patches for STS-107, Columbia.

Farther than we can see, there is comfort and hope.

I'll get you into fountain pens too, this is a threat.

Ow, hitting me right in the hobbies.

If you want to know where your electricity is coming from @gridstatus.io has a great page showing every national grid's "Fuel Mix"
California is currently 64% solar.

It's not even been half the runtime yet

One of the more important videos of 2026

This is a @techconnectify.bsky.social appreciation shout out.

Charles Joseph Minard's visualization of Napoleon's route and losses during his Russian campaign, 1812.

Huh

I honestly thought the thread was an elaborate analogy until the videos were posted.