machines, mites, and mathematical breakthroughs

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

I rode next to my father into every battle he fought.

1. OpenAI claims to have disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis
2. A Massachusetts robot builds circuit boards twice as fast as Shenzhen
3. Solar has now surpassed nuclear as a global power source
4. The ‘shadow population’ of remembered dead Americans is 3x the living population
5. arXiv caps submissions to 2 per month as AI floods scientific preprints
6. Orangutans chose locations associated with laughter over equally rewarding ones