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Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.

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  Every digital service should present a single unified interface rather than multiple separate entry points.

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  It seems fine to keep coding in a separate area, obviously, but in general, we should have one box per service!

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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.

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  Compute platforms are converging toward one unified, globally distributed system limited only by physics.

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  The future is one global and unified compute platform, with only known physics as the limiting factor

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Senior space editor at Ars Technica; wrote Liftoff and Reentry on SpaceX, and reports on launch and rocket programmes.

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  SpaceX is retiring the rocket that made cheap launch possible in order to fly its own satellites on a bigger one.

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  The company that is almost exclusively responsible for the dramatic increase in launch availability in the 2020s has signaled that it intends to wind down Falcon 9 operations as quickly as possible in favor of the larger Starship rocket.

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AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).

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  In coding agents, untrusted repositories should be treated as hostile by default because they can steer the agent into risky actions via approved tools.

  coding agents

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  untrusted repos should be treated as hostile by default because they can steer the agent toward reading files, running commands, or sending data through approved tools.

  Using Local Coding Agentsmagazine.sebastianraschka.com

Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  Starship will bring the price of low Earth orbit down to roughly a hundred dollars a kilogram.

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  Starship promises a near future with launch costs to LEO of perhaps $100/kg.

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  Earth-launched hardware can support about a hundred gigawatts in orbit; past that, the satellites have to be built off Earth.

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  Starship can lift orbital power generation to about 100 GW with perhaps 10,000 launches per year, or about one per hour.

  Space AI: I guess we’re doing Moon factories nowcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com

Indonesian fullstack engineer, speaker and instructor; writes about JavaScript, SvelteKit and Linux tooling at kalwabed.com.

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  Starship

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  Starship: gives me a new, cooler looking terminal experience.

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American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.

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  Starship Troopers

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  Hey! There’s a novel called Starship Troopers! It’s pretty good! Coincidentally and unrelated, there’s a movie called Starship Troopers! It’s also pretty good! Not the same, but pretty good.

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Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.

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  Physics will be unified again as it has been before; the obstacle is that relativity and quantum mechanics already explain almost everything we can measure.

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  But I have faith that we've been doing this for centuries and we've made progress before. There's no reason why we should stop.

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Founder and CEO of Epic Games, creator of the Unreal Engine and of Fortnite.

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  AI writes code well only where a million repositories have already written it; getting it to do something genuinely new remains notoriously hard.

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  AI is really great at spewing out code that does something that a million GitHub repositories already do because it's learned the underlying pattern. It's notoriously hard to get to do something new that hasn't been done before, especially when it's a complex task.

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  Now that Starship flies, we should build the largest space telescope physics allows.

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  With the recent SpaceX Starship orbital flight tests, it is time to commit to building the largest physically possible space telescope.

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Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.

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  iTerm2

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  iTerm2 with Oh my Zsh and Starship

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Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.

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  The singularity of a black hole is not a place at its centre but a moment in your future: falling in, you run out of time rather than out of room.

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  Remember space and time are parts of one unified space-time, the location of the singularity in the black hole is not the middle of space, but our future. It is a moment of time. It is like a big crunch.

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Cryptographer; teaches cryptography at Johns Hopkins and writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering.

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  Default cloud backup has quietly put a copy of nearly everyone’s private papers in a few data centres, and that is a surveillance weapon.

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  It terrifies me, because these data repositories are not only a risk to individual user privacy, they’re effectively a surveillance super-weapon.

  Why encrypted backup is so importantblog.cryptographyengineering.com

Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.

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  Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach

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  This is what I wish I learned from in my freshman year of college. The part of it about linear algebra is one of the best linear algebra resources out there, and remainder shows you how those tools apply to non-linear mathematics.

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