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Soumith Chintala, who co-created the PyTorch ML framework at Meta and left the company this month, has joined Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-soumith-chinta…

A top Meta AI researcher has joined Mira Murati's hot new startup, Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab, led by Mira Murati, hires Meta AI veteran Soumith Chintala as it rapidly expands its team and prepares for major funding.

from my link log —
The missing datacenter OS.
http://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-missing-os.html
saved 2020-09-16 https://

Missing Link: Strenge Gesetze und Reichensteuer – Zäsur für das Silicon Valley?
Der California Effect, ähnlich dem europäischen Brüssel-Effekt, sorgt immer wieder für Kritik. Das hat das Silicon Valley verändert, und wird es weiterhin tun.

Physicist Yoichiro Nambu
(南部 陽一郎) was born #OTD in 1921.
He developed a theory of spontaneous symmetry breaking
to explain superconductivity,
paving the way for electroweak symmetry breaking via the Higgs mechanism in the Standard Model

"Climate anxiety: Misconceptions and advice"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://phys.org/…

Climate anxiety: Misconceptions and advice
Many people feel anxious about climate change and other trends in the world around us. However, there are constructive ways to cope with one's emotions. In step with the incorporation of the word "klimatångest" (climate anxiety) in the Swedish vocabulary, more and more researchers have become interested in the concept. One of them is Marlis Wullenkord, associate senior lecturer in environmental psychology at Lund University.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Muckemacher:
🎵 Schoko Riddim (Ausschnitt)
#NowPlaying #Muckemacher
https://muckemacher.bandcamp.com/track/schoko-riddim
https://open.spotify.com/track/2UwduVOB9B4Uou9LVER91h

Just finished reading “Future Boy”, Michael J. Fox’s book about the making of “Back to the Future” that came out in 1985. It’s delightful, a quick read. #recommend
Fun fact: the red Gibson ES-345 that Marty played for “Johnny B. Goode” on, went missing after production ended. It’s still missing. Fox guesses it could go for seven figures, if whoever has it wanted to sell. Also that model cam…

Sources: leaders at Thinking Machines Lab confronted Barret Zoph over an alleged relationship with another employee, who is no longer at the lab, in summer 2025 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/thinking-machines-lab-cofounder-off…

Thinking Machines Cofounder’s Office Relationship Preceded His Termination
Leaders at Mira Murati’s startup believe Barret Zoph engaged in an incident of “serious misconduct.” The details are now coming to light.

Orion will fly by the far side of the Moon
(the side that always faces away from Earth).
For ~6 hours, the crew will observe and photograph geologic features that humans haven’t seen in person since 1972.
This is the part I’m in Mission Control for! Squeeeee!
-- barbylon.bsky.social

NASA’s Artemis II Lunar Science Operations to Inform Future Missions
While the Artemis II crew will be the first humans to test NASA’s Orion spacecraft in space, they will also conduct science investigations that will inform future deep space missions, including a lunar science investigation as Orion flies about 4,000 to 6,000 miles from the Moon’s surface.

from my link log —
Optimization countermeasures: inline asm value barriers for constant-time cryptography.
https://mcyoung.xyz/2025/12/15/value-barriers/
saved 2025-12-16