Netizen: Japan

Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 08, 2026

8: Japan

stop telling me single cell metabolomics is “definitely not epigenetics.”

epigenetics just means: everything that influences chromatin into expressing specific code, conserved as the cell divides. daughter cells inherit the same on/off switches. that’s it.

metabolomics is the…
— Parmita Mishra (@parmita) April 8, 2026

https://t.co/iRllGQ1PAE
— Parmita Mishra (@parmita) April 8, 2026

The headline says it all:

"White House Economists Say Stablecoin Rewards Won't Harm Banks" https://t.co/x36Y1lDKrv pic.twitter.com/rZ5iVlNvQi
— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) April 8, 2026

yes, @motion_so actually works.

We're not baiting you like all those other "I made this launch video in 3 prompts" engagement posts. https://t.co/ySOi9MBN3G
— Adish Jain ☕️ (@_adishj) April 8, 2026

This hands free umbrella uses a drone, and the idea is honestly so smart 🌧️pic.twitter.com/jyvCEZfvh9
— Tansu Yegen (@TansuYegen) April 8, 2026

NO!
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 9, 2026

Yosemite Valley is putting on a show right now.

As warmer temperatures melt snowpack at higher elevations, waterfalls and creeks are rushing with water.

Video by @YosemiteNPS pic.twitter.com/pUdZzXh4VB
— US Department of the Interior (@Interior) April 8, 2026

Elon Musk: “China is a manufacturing powerhouse next level. If you take refining of ore, I’d say roughly China does twice as much ore refining on average as the rest of the world combined

Like, we actually do rare earth ore mining in the U.S., send the rock… we put it on a… pic.twitter.com/zBLtfUX1Mc
— Elonogy (@ElonogyX) April 9, 2026

startup founding team in 2026:
your two co-founders are now Claude Code and ChatGPT
your head of growth is X and TikTok
your customer research is a whatsapp group
your startup lawyer is Stripe Atlas
lol
— andrew chen (@andrewchen) April 8, 2026

Steven Sinofsky on why Wall Street may be underestimating AI by 10x:

"They're off by at least an order of magnitude on how big the opportunity is… they will absolutely come out with new models because that's what happens with every new technology."

"This was the problem with… https://t.co/eQfE3bAjas pic.twitter.com/RqVn7XpIFr
— a16z (@a16z) April 8, 2026

The camel drinks both fresh and salt water. It can even drink water from the Dead Sea and nothing will happen to it.

This is because the camel's kidneys filter the water: they separate it from the salt and turn it into fresh water suitable for drinking.

The camel also eats… https://t.co/cCdWU72O8V
— Peter Agboola (@baba_Omoloro) April 8, 2026

Can we count the ones @elonmusk puts in space? https://t.co/3njxhYPWMk
— Dave Blundin (@DaveBlundin) April 8, 2026

Been waiting for this 🔥

Tested Skillboss's Seedance 2.0 integration in Claude Code today — one command, and the output is actually cinema-smooth.

The "one prompt → finished cut" thing isn't hype this time.

Works in OpenClaw and other tools too. Try it 👇 https://t.co/mpIj1WWyM0
— Xiaoyin Qu (@quxiaoyin) April 8, 2026

I joined DeepMind in 2017 and I remember in my first conversation with my manager, he described to me that he thought Demis's most brilliant move was NOT relocating to Silicon Valley.

Demis's decision meant that for a 5-7 year period, every senior AI researcher in Europe who… https://t.co/0ova0sAQRk
— ⿻ Andrew Trask (@iamtrask) April 8, 2026

Chinese carmaker BYD unveils a recharge as fast as filling up with gaspic.twitter.com/EoNNclxyEY
— Tansu Yegen (@TansuYegen) April 8, 2026

something I noticed during YC that both the top sellers (and the top job applicants) are doing:

the "oops, forgot to mention" follow-up

it’s a very simple way to break through the noise

1) they send an email with the main info

2) if they don’t get a response, they send a…
— Chris Pisarski (@chrispisarski) April 8, 2026

Anonymous

I was in line at the grocery store when the guy in front of me asked the cashier, “Do you guys hire?” She looked up. “Yeah, we’re always looking. Apply online.” He nodded. Paid for his ramen and left. Something about the way he asked made me follow him to the parking…
— Sheila of the Most High (@sheilatebra) April 8, 2026

National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year.
So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝 pic.twitter.com/FNPfNpZT3F
— Amazing Nature (@AmazingNature00) April 8, 2026

アメリカ人がびっくりするような日本の秘密を教えるわ。
日本のトイレはお尻を洗ってくれるし乾燥もしてくれる。
海外から日本に戻ってきて一番感動するのがトイレ。
日本に着いたらまずウンコするといいよ。
— 自衛隊医官だった人@ハイライトも見てってよ (@AiPinfu2003) April 8, 2026

Elon Musk just said the quiet part out loud about government and AI.

Musk: “AI is moving 10 times faster than government, maybe more.”

Not slightly ahead. Not a few years out in front.

Ten times faster. And pulling away.

Every regulatory body on earth runs on the same… pic.twitter.com/9PqsD5mn77
— Dustin (@r0ck3t23) April 7, 2026

I must have attended over 1,000 langars.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 8, 2026

what a weird flex
— pirate cockroach (@pyroach1) April 8, 2026

Have you attended any? Attend, then you will appreciate.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 8, 2026

You are guessing. So am I. Over 1,000.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 9, 2026

??
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 9, 2026

They go together. I have done both.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 9, 2026

Langar is a powerful concept. I have advocated scaling it. Nationally in India. Globally.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 9, 2026

God is on earth in human incarntion: https://t.co/IpDMJMdfaZ

The Jews, The Christians, the Hindus Have Been Waiting For The Same Person https://t.co/TdL88ZcTdo
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 8, 2026

Elon Musk just said the quiet part out loud about government and AI.

Musk: “AI is moving 10 times faster than government, maybe more.”

Not slightly ahead. Not a few years out in front.

Ten times faster. And pulling away.

Every regulatory body on earth runs on the same… pic.twitter.com/9PqsD5mn77
— Dustin (@r0ck3t23) April 7, 2026

Mientras dormías anoche, completamente inmóvil en tu cama, nuestra galaxia se desplazó millones de kilómetros a través del cosmos. Te despertaste en la misma habitación, en el mismo planeta, pero inimaginablemente lejos de donde estabas la noche anterior.

La Vía Láctea no se… pic.twitter.com/THpqc3WypK
— Julián Castellanos (@PoderMentalX) April 8, 2026

Elon Musk: “What do you do after a Terafab? Don’t think small. How do you get to a petawatt is the obvious next question.

You get there by having an electromagnetic mass driver on the Moon, with robots, with Optimus and lots of humans.
With that, you can create a petawatt of… pic.twitter.com/H6OBSFRfgS
— Elonogy (@ElonogyX) April 8, 2026

I stopped making excuses and started making changes. I have LOST 199 pounds. pic.twitter.com/et2WGZGFIv
— Kam (@PatsKam) April 8, 2026

Marc Andreessen: "Starlink just hit massive subscriber numbers, but most people don't realize this used to be the ultimate 'graveyard' business."

Back in the 90s, Bill Gates and Craig McCaw (the guy who basically built what is now AT&T Mobile) teamed up to launch Teledesic—a… pic.twitter.com/6YhjFglEBR
— Ian Miles Cheong (@ianmiles) April 8, 2026

Forget Mars, The Future Is Orbital AI https://t.co/rN0XnApaH5

More powerful than reusable rockets ..... the monetization.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 8, 2026

This is a victory for the United States that President Trump and our incredible military made happen.

From the very beginning of Operation Epic Fury, President Trump estimated this would be a 4-6 week operation.

Thanks to the unbelievable capabilities of our warriors, we have…
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) April 8, 2026

自動翻訳機能によって、韓国と日本が猛スピードで親密になってきている。
ありがとうイーロンマスク。
🇰🇷🤝🇯🇵
— kouji 🇯🇵 (@yoyonofukuoka) April 8, 2026

i moved out from my parents' place and started renting an apartment in the city. money is always tight, i eat pretty modestly. yesterday i ran into my dad at the grocery store by accident. my cart had just a few things, everything on a strict list, while he started grabbing all…
— IVY (@Iamivy05) April 8, 2026

This would be some Sopranos-level deal-making if we go into business with Iran and build a toll booth at the Strait if Hormuz https://t.co/dV2oFKeVov
— @jason (@Jason) April 8, 2026

Overseen in South Park, San Francisco. pic.twitter.com/P2DVst78C9
— Deedy (@deedydas) April 8, 2026

AGI = ~100T parameters (could be 120–150T).

Above that, we will likely reach true ASI levels.

Whether this is the case, we will know before 2030.
— Dr Singularity (@Dr_Singularity) April 8, 2026

Ancient India built the most sophisticated & rigorous inner science the world has ever produced. The Upanishads, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Tantra Shastra by Kashmir Shaivism, the Bhagavad Gita. These are not religious texts in the way the word religion is commonly understood.…
— Sadhavi Khosla (@sadhavi) April 8, 2026

JUST IN: Nearly half of the U.S. data centers planned for 2026 are reportedly expected to be delayed or canceled.
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) April 8, 2026

The Himalayas, Nepal 🇳🇵 pic.twitter.com/00xrqOSz8r
— Earth (@earthcurated) April 8, 2026

A 16-year-old Latina girl from Chicago mailed her application to MIT.

Her name was Sabrina González Pasterski....

On merit alone, she should have been impossible to ignore. At 14, she had built a working single-engine airplane in her family’s garage—documenting every step,… pic.twitter.com/P6rb0mk9wQ
— ArchaeoHistories (@histories_arch) April 8, 2026

It’s called the “overview effect,” a term coined by science author and philosopher Frank White in 1987. It refers to a shift in perspective that occurs when humans are given the chance to view Earth in the context of its cosmic backdrop — driving home how perfectly suited the… pic.twitter.com/Pw6p7pREnb
— CNN (@CNN) April 8, 2026

Jupiter. Mars. Venus. Saturn. Lined up above a dead tree on a dry lake bed in the middle of nowhere. No light pollution. Just me and four planets doing something they won't do again in my lifetime. Some moments you can't plan. You just have to be in the right empty place at the… pic.twitter.com/zzO7OecZBq
— steve (@vastdepth) April 7, 2026

NYC taxi medallions hit $1.3 million each in 2013. Then Uber launched and destroyed that artificial scarcity overnight. By 2018, medallions traded for $160,000 - an 88% collapse that represents the largest peacetime transfer of wealth from rent-seekers to consumers in modern…
— Handre (@Handre) April 8, 2026

Aaron Levie on how AI changes a job once every worker can command an infinite pool of engineers:

"Imagine you had X job in the economy and right next to that person was an infinite pool of engineers that could automate whatever that person wanted. And what would that job look… https://t.co/eQfE3bAjas pic.twitter.com/7EJEHvD91w
— a16z (@a16z) April 8, 2026

I think this is the most insane thing the CIA has ever made public. 😨

They have a secret AI tool called Ghost Murmur.

It detects your heartbeat from 40 miles away using AI.

Not your phone. Not a tracker. Not a radio signal.

Your heartbeat.

It uses sensors built from… pic.twitter.com/jtT7UnCKVW
— Vaibhav Sisinty (@VaibhavSisinty) April 8, 2026

Zuckerberg paid $14.3 billion for a 28-year-old who had never trained a frontier model. Nine months later, that bet just shipped.

The benchmark table tells you exactly what kind of lab Wang built. Muse Spark leads or ties Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4 on multimodal perception, health… https://t.co/R8HAy5TpeH
— Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) April 8, 2026

If you gave away $126 billion to subsidize free flights between LA and San Francisco at current demand levels, you could fund roughly 150 to 200 years of travel before the money runs out. https://t.co/8ro72lJIfc
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) April 8, 2026

everyone on this app sounds so rich and intellectual
— shine (@shinemeriz) April 8, 2026

Nothing quite like the blank pages of a fresh notebook!

Notebooks are now rolling out in the @Geminiapp. Organize conversations, notes, and other sources related to a single project (and easily go back and forth between @NotebookLM to go deeper). Rolling out today, starting with… pic.twitter.com/68e6SGeUi4
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) April 8, 2026

NotebookLM is quite the product. I use it more often than Google Search.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 8, 2026

sometimes you just have to rewatch that video from 10 years ago
— YouTube (@YouTube) April 8, 2026

😍😍😍
— NotebookLM (@NotebookLM) April 8, 2026

we sequence tumors. we biopsy tumors. we stain tumors. at no point in this process is the tumor alive. we are studying cancer the way archaeologists study civilizations. from the ruins
— Parmita Mishra (@parmita) April 8, 2026

buttefly collectors do the same thing at eye level
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 8, 2026

Bhagavan Kalki here to end the Kali Yuga. Modi is Hanuman here to assist Lord Kalki. My cousin Balen is Laxman, the newly elected PM of Nepal.
The long-awaited messiah of the Jews, Yahweh in human incarnation. The answer to the most famous Christian prayer, God come become king.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 8, 2026

"Gravity explains the movements of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion." - Isaac Newton pic.twitter.com/6LRvm9Ruo6
— Physics & Astronomy Zone (@zone_astronomy) April 8, 2026

Our solar system oscillates up and down on the Milky Way's galactic plane every 60–70 million years. It oscillates roughly 100 light-years above and below it.
— Julius M. (@AstroJulius89) April 8, 2026

Grok is the AI to use if you value truth https://t.co/OReyy0zhWG
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2026

a fundamental departure, feels like
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 9, 2026

Friday, January 23, 2026

23: Japan

Formula For Peace In Ukraine
Peace For Taiwan Is Possible
A Reorganized UN: Built From Ground Up
Rethinking Trade: A Blueprint for a Just Global Economy
Rethinking Trade: A Blueprint for a Just and Thriving Global Economy
The $500 Billion Pivot: How the India-US Alliance Can Reshape Global Trade
Trump’s Trade War
A 2T Cut
Are We Frozen in Time?: Tech Progress, Social Stagnation
The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption
AOC 2028: : The Future of American Progressivism

Never invade Russia in winter
Never attack India by Twitter
— Ryan Petersen (@typesfast) January 22, 2026

I'd like to do marketing for you in the US market.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) January 23, 2026

AI is the heart of our growing economy, but AI just can’t be growth at any cost—we need to safeguard kids & society, like we simply failed to do with social media. My take on @CNBC’s Squawk on the Street: https://t.co/Lcs3JIDp9G
— Marc Benioff (@Benioff) January 23, 2026

I know a guy in Ohio clearing $1.1M/year connecting plumbers to AI

he found the glitch:

plumbers hate everything except fixing pipes

they hate quoting, scheduling, invoicing, and the endless back-and-forth with customers

he built a system that automates the entire mess:

-…
— Hamza Baig (@hamza_automates) January 22, 2026

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

28: Google

Gen Z Kranti (novel)
The Banyan Revolt (novel)
Madhya York: The Merchant and the Mystic (novel)
Deported (novel)
Empty Country (novel)

Saturday, October 05, 2024

Thursday, July 09, 2015

I myself am still pretty big on Sahara though. Space might be 10 times more efficient, but it might be 20 times more expensive, at least now. But I will go to space for clean, why not? Space based solar power also has potential for colonizations of the moon and Mars and beyond. It would make large scale 3D printing possible. Ocean covered moons of planets like Jupiter could give water if energy is plentiful. Water and solar and you are that close to growing food.

Space-based solar power

a higher collection rate and a longer collection period due to the lack of a diffusing atmosphere and night time in space

Space-based solar power: the energy of the future?

In space there's no atmosphere, it's never cloudy, and in geosynchronous orbits it's never night: a perfect place for a solar power station to harvest uninterrupted power 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. ..... the concept is scientifically sound. ..... there was nothing wrong with the physics but the real question is the economics ...... With costs as high as $40,000 per kilogram for some space launches, the final price-tag for the first space-based solar power station could be as high as $20 billion. ........ the wars in the Middle East gave new impetus to the space-based solar power as scientific researchers with the military wrestled with the problems of delivering energy to troops in hostile areas. ........ Multiple, and potentially hidden, receivers could tap space-based solar power and relieve the military of the expensive and often dangerous task of supplying troops with generator diesel by either road or air ...... Two proven ways of getting the power to Earth exist in the form of either laser beams or microwaves. ...... laser transmitting satellites would have difficulty beaming power through clouds and rain. ...... The microwave option would have the advantage of uninterrupted transmission through rain, hail or any other atmospheric conditions and could provide gigawatts of power........ as early as 1964, scientists were able to power a helicopter using microwaves. Dr Jaffe said with a large receiving area the energy from the microwaves was so dissipated that it would present no danger to life. ......... as many as 100 launches into space would be required to construct the space stations with costs running into tens of billions. ...... space-based solar energy is like most novel ideas. "It's hard to tell if it's nuts until you've actually tried."

Space-Based Solar Power

Microwave transmitting satellites orbit Earth in geostationary orbit (GEO), about 35,000 km above Earth’s surface. Designs for microwave transmitting satellites are massive, with solar reflectors spanning up to 3 km and weighing over 80,000 metric tons. They would be capable of generating multiple gigawatts of power, enough to power a major U.S. city. ...... The long wavelength of the microwave requires a long antenna, and allows power to be beamed through the Earth’s atmosphere, rain or shine, at safe, low intensity levels hardly stronger than the midday sun. Birds and planes wouldn’t notice much of anything flying across their paths. ........ The estimated cost of launching, assembling and operating a microwave-equipped GEO satellite is in the tens of billions of dollars. It would likely require as many as 40 launches for all necessary materials to reach space. On Earth, the rectenna used for collecting the microwave beam would be anywhere between 3 and 10 km in diameter, a huge area of land, and a challenge to purchase and develop.

What If Giant Space-Based Solar Panels Could Beam Unlimited Power To The Earth?

This idea may sound like science fiction, and at one time it was. ...... Asimov's 1941 story envisions a world where the Earth is powered by a beam of light that draws its energy directly from the sun..... Take New York City, for example, which requires 20 gigawatts of power. ...... The sandwich modules would be about 10 feet long on a side and about 80,000 would be needed. The array of sandwich modules would be about the length of nine football fields, or more than 1/2 a mile long. This is about nine times bigger than the International Space Station...... Back on Earth, the energy-containing radio frequencies from the space-based solar panels would be received by a special antenna known as a "rectenna," which could be as big as six miles in diameter............ the same beam would be able to provide power to Seattle and redirected to provide power to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil...... they could build receivers at remote operating bases and locations where it is logistically difficult and incredible costly to deliver diesel fuel....... the incredible heat of the sun in space

China considering space-based solar power station

Some believe a space-based solar collector could be launched as early as 2020 ..... a satellite that weighs more than 10,000 lbs., dwarfing anything previously placed into orbit, including the International Space Station ...... others place the launch date further out, as far away 2050. ...... "China will build a space station in around 2020, which will open an opportunity to develop space solar power technology" ...... China should begin with an experimental space-based solar power station by 2030, and build a commercially viable space power station by 2050. ....... "An economically viable space power station would be really huge, with the total area of the solar panels reaching five to six square kilometers" ....... Six square kilometers is nearly twice the size of New York's Central Park. ....... The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has proposed its own solar collector to be launched within the next 25 years. ...... "When space solar energy becomes our main energy, people will no longer worry about smog or the greenhouse effect"

Space solar is a very real option, but it will not happen in time to tackle Climate Change. For that we need to rely on Earth Solar. Let's just use satellites for internet communication.

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

From 3 Gigawatts To 100

as the Indian government targets a massive expansion in the country’s solar output from some 3 gigawatts today to 100 gigawatts by 2022...... “India can become probably the largest country for solar energy” ..... “India has two times the sunshine of Japan. The cost of construction of the solar park is half of Japan. Twice the sunshine, half the cost, that means four times the efficiency” ..... India is one of the world’s largest carbon polluters; coal dominates the country’s energy mix

SoftBank in tie-up for $20 billion in Indian solar projects

SBG Cleantech will be a harbinger of solar and wind energy. Following the Indian Prime Minister's 100GW solar and 60GW wind target by 2022, the venture will invest in and develop renewable energy plants across India.