Simon J.K. Pedersen@simped

17h

Vishal Suri

@surispeakss

23h

Simon J.K. Pedersen@simped

Nov 9

Tat Thang

@tatthang

Nov 9

His actual 168-word statement just went live on Nvidia's official newsroom page (nvidianews․nvidia․com).

Zero PR spin. He admits the affair in the very second sentence:

"I owe my family and all of you an apology. I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our xcuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry."

Simon J.K. Pedersen@simped

Nov 6

Xiao Tan

@tvytlx

Nov 5

一个人用 Claude Opus 5.5 搓了个网页版战斗机模拟器，直接被 Three.js 官网挂在了首页最顶上。

两周 2.5 万人玩，每天还有 1000 人在线开飞机。

看完这个哥们的复盘，我觉得现在用 AI 做独立产品，真正的分水岭在于你把省下来的精力花在了哪。

很多人拿到强模型，图的是省事，恨不得三句话出个能跑的玩具就拿去发。

这哥们刚好反过来。

底层最吃工程量的硬活，他全甩给 AI 去啃。
为了还原手感，他先让 Opus 5.5 跑长程的物理仿真研究，观察真实战机的气动规律，再移植成浏览器能流畅跑的代码。
工程上直接开好几个 Agent 各自拉分支，联机排位、音效、抓 iPhone 闪退和加载卡顿同时跑，他自己在主干道上只干一件事：审代码合并。

那省下来的脑子，他拿去干嘛了？

全砸在了那些极其变态的体验细节上。
比如拿真实的座舱实拍录像去对齐 GoPro 鱼眼镜头的畸变，就为了让人一进去感觉像架了台真相机。
再比如专门去抠座舱盖的着色器，做出玻璃上的细微划痕迎着太阳反光、穿过云层时雨滴在玻璃上凝结滑落的效果。

说实话，看到这我真服了。

以前独立开发者一个人写完物理引擎和联机服务器，半条命都交代了，哪还有心思管玻璃上的划痕反不反光。
现在 AI 把 0 到 80 分的脏活累活包圆了，聪明人反而把 100% 的精力，全砸在了 90 到 99 分的审美和手感上。

这才是个人杠杆最狠的地方。

当然，这套打法能跑通有个前提：你自己得有兜底审分支的工程判断力，还得真见过好东西长什么样。如果脑子里连镜头畸变和光影质感的概念都没有，手底下挂十个 Opus 5.5，也只是在更高效地堆平庸代码。

刚去他网站（viperoneone.com）试飞了一把，看着阳光打在座舱玻璃划痕上的反光，我默默关掉了自己电脑里那个折腾了三天还在调登录框圆角的半成品项目。

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ℏεsam

@Hesamation

Nov 3

Binance

@binance

Nov 3

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Simon J.K. Pedersen@simped

Oct 15

fintex

@_yusufknl

Oct 15

demis hassabis mass-won the nobel prize in chemistry in 2024 for alphaFold. what nobody reported is what he said at a private dinner in london three weeks later.

"we are mass-building the most inefficient thinking machines in the history of engineering. and we are calling it ntist at UCL who was at that dinner spent the next 18 months turning that sentence into a 37-page quantitative proof. the paper was submitted to nature in august 2026. it was rejected. not because the science was wrong. because the implications were "too commercially sensitive to publish without further review."

the paper leaked on a closed neuroscience slack on october 1st.

Working Note: The Efficiency Gap
Biological vs Silicon Intelligence - A Thermodynamic Analysis
August 2026

here's what the paper proves -

the human brain runs at 20 watts. the same power as a dim lightbulb. it processes approximately 10^16 operations per second.

GPT-4 inference on an NVIDIA H100 cluster: 3,200,000 watts. it processes approximately 10^15 operations per second.

the brain is 10x faster on 160,000x less energy.

the efficiency ratio: brain = 5 × 10^14 ops/watt. H100 cluster = 3 × 10^8 ops/watt.

the brain is 1,600,000x more energy-efficient than the best AI hardware on earth.

now watch the historical curve [Fig. 1] -

2012 (AlexNet era): AI was 100,000,000x less efficient than the brain.
2017 (transformer era): 10,000,000x less efficient.
2023 (GPT-4 era): 1,600,000x less efficient.
2026 (current): 1,200,000x less efficient.

at the current rate of improvement - 22% efficiency gain per year - AI hardware will match the brain's efficiency in 2089. sixty-three years from now.

jensen huang's entire NVIDIA roadmap assumes exponential improvement. the paper proves the improvement is logarithmic. it's slowing down, not speeding up.

the reason is thermodynamic. the landauer limit.

rolf landauer proved in 1961 that erasing one bit of information requires a minimum energy of kT ln(2). at room temperature: 2.85 × 10^-21 joules.

silicon transistors currently operate at approximately 1,000x above the landauer limit. every hardware generation closes that gap by roughly 15%. but the closer you get to the limit, the harder each improvement becomes. this is why moore's law died.

the brain operates at 10x above the landauer limit.

not 1,000x. ten.

3.8 billion years of evolution optimized the brain to within one order of magnitude of the physical limit of computation. NVIDIA has had 31 years and is still three orders of magnitude away.

the paper asks one question in the conclusion:

"what architectural principle allows biological neural networks to operate within 10x of the thermodynamic floor while artificial networks remain at 1,000x?"

the answer: the brain doesn't separate memory and processing. every neuron is both storage and computation simultaneously. every synapse is both a wire and a processor.

every computer built since von neumann's 1945 architecture separates memory from compute. data moves back and forth on a bus. the bus is the bottleneck. the bus is where the energy goes.

NVIDIA's entire product line - every GPU, every tensor core, every NVLink - is an increasingly elaborate attempt to make the bus faster. not to eliminate it. faster.

the brain has no bus. it never needed one.

the paper's final line:

"the companies that build the first commercially viable non-von-neumann inference chip will make the GPU obsolete within 5 years. the physics demands it."

intel abandoned their neuromorphic chip program (loihi) in 2023. IBM shelved TrueNorth. the two companies closest to solving the problem quit.

the $3.4 trillion NVIDIA valuation is a bet that the bus can be made fast enough forever.

landauer proved it can't. 65 years ago.

save this

Simon J.K. Pedersen@simped

Oct 5

Alcator@AlcatorSK

Oct 5

Hi.

I am a wheelchair seller. Buy my wheelchair.

What's that?? You don't NEED a wheelchair??

No worries, this here is Boris. He will now break both your legs and for good measure, sever your lower spine so you become a paraplegic.

See?! I was right! You need my wheelchair!

Simon J.K. Pedersen@simped

Oct 3

Jarrod Watts

@jarrodwatts

Oct 2

Claude Code just shipped mods...

I made one that connects you to a multiplayer Doom server while Claude is busy.

Every other player in the match is a person waiting for their Claude to finish.

Simon J.K. Pedersen@simped

Sep 18

Superman

@thesupermannx

Sep 17

UCLA researchers built an image generation model that runs on “light” instead of GPUs.

And it matches a 1.07 billion parameter diffusion model.. and generates each image in less than 1 nanosecond with basically zero computing power.

It’s called “Optical Generative Model”
ctrons through billions of transistors, it uses the physics of light to draw pictures.

A digital encoder creates a noise pattern and imprints it onto a laser. The light then propagates physically through custom optical layers.

The light itself does the calculating.

There is no silicon bottleneck. It processes all-optically.

And it uses almost zero compute power during the actual generation.

It successfully created complex images, human faces, and Van Gogh-style art with the exact same quality as traditional AI.

But the energy cost wasn't just reduced. It was practically eliminated.

If this scales, the carbon footprint and computing limits of modern AI disappear overnight.

We’ve spent years trying to optimize code to make models faster and cheaper.

But the next massive leap in AI isn't going to be software.

Simon J.K. Pedersen@simped

Sep 16

Shane Parrish

@shaneparrish

Sep 15

Lazy work used to mean too little output.

Now, with AI, it often means too much and more work for everyone else.

@tobi call it "slop grenades."

A "Slop Grenade" is when you let AI produce the work and pass it on without adding any value (including checking it).

Someone else catch the mistakes, and clean up the mess.

You save time and look productive but someone else pays for it.

Simon J.K. Pedersen@simped

Aug 18

Wes Roth

@WesRoth

Aug 18

Google just won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines’ internal corporate data for $10 million and plans to use it to improve its products and train AI models.

This isn't passenger profiles or credit-card data.

Google is buying something potentially much more useful for records showing how a real company actually operated.

The dataset reportedly includes:

• ~100 million employee emails
• ~500 million Microsoft Teams messages and collaboration records
• ~30 million lines of software code, plus development metadata, models, and algorithms
• Spreadsheets, calendars, presentations, and project-management documents
• Revenue, pricing, marketing, and financial databases
• Aircraft operations data
• Employee productivity records
• Audit and fraud-related information
• HR and strategy materials

Google beat AI data company Mercor, which offered $7.5 million. The bankruptcy filing formally names Google as the successful bidder at $10M and Mercor as the alternate bidder at $7.5M

Simon J.K. Pedersen@simped

Aug 7

Aakash Gupta

@aakashgupta

Aug 6

An AI just read a stranger's mind through their skull, no surgery, no implants, and got roughly 45% of the meaning right on the first try. On a person it had never seen before.

That's the tech an OpenAI researcher just quit her job for. Two weeks ago she walked out of the hottest company on earth to join Conduit, a startup collecting brain recordings in a San Francisco basement.

Here's what happens in that basement. Paid volunteers put on four pound headsets covered in sensors and chat with an AI for two hours while it listens to their neurons fire. The signal is so faint the team shut off wall power to the entire building and runs on battery packs, because the hum from an ordinary outlet drowns out a human thought.

They've collected 10,000 hours of brains so far. The largest dataset of its kind ever assembled. And here's the part that should make your hands sweat. Whisper needed 680,000 hours of audio to master speech. The moment someone scales brain data the same way, the decoding stops being 45% right.

She says we're in the GPT-2 era of mind reading. GPT-2 was a joke in 2019. Five years later half the internet was written by its grandchildren.

Her timeline says developers wear thought-streaming headbands by 2027. By 2035, AI stops feeling like a tool and starts feeling like a limb.

Your inner monologue has been the one place nothing could touch for 300,000 years of human history. That run is ending in a basement in San Francisco, two hours at a time.

Aakash Gupta

@aakashgupta

Aug 6

Naomi Bashkansky

@NaomiBashkansky

Aug 5

Two weeks ago, I resigned from OpenAI to join Conduit as a founding researcher, where we're training models to non-invasively read the human mind.

I've written some thoughts about what telepathy could look like by 2035 and how to get there: