Speaker 0: Welcome to the Geek News Central podcast, episode
Speaker 0: number eighteen fifty one. We're got a lead
Speaker 0: story today. It's gonna be NASA's Voyager spacecraft
Speaker 0: on a thirty thousand to fifty thousand Kelvin
Speaker 0: wall at the edge of our solar system.
Speaker 0: Thanks for tuning in, folks. We got a
Speaker 0: pretty sweet show lined up for you. Sorry
Speaker 0: for showing up so late in the week,
Speaker 0: but been having some audio and hardware problems
Speaker 0: all week long. We're gonna get more into
Speaker 0: that in a bit, but check this article
Speaker 0: out. Little bit of context going into it.
Speaker 0: The twin NASA probes, Voyager one and Voyager
Speaker 0: two, launched in nineteen seventy seven and have
Speaker 0: been exploring the outer reaches of our solar
Speaker 0: system, including what's known as the heliosphere, the
Speaker 0: bubble of space dominated by the sun's solar
Speaker 0: wind, and the boundary where it meets the
Speaker 0: interstellar medium. An article published by IFL Science
Speaker 0: reports that the spacecraft measured a region at
Speaker 0: the solar system's edge with apparent temperatures of
Speaker 0: thirty thousand to fifty thousand kelvins, described as
Speaker 0: a wall of fire. However, this description is
Speaker 0: somewhat informal and may reflect specific plasma measurements
Speaker 0: rather than a literal wall or solid surface.
Speaker 0: This is a pretty cool idea, coming from,
Speaker 0: IFL Science today. Thank you, James Felton, for
Speaker 0: writing this article. And I I got a
Speaker 0: couple key quotes from the article that we
Speaker 0: can, talk about, but while not a hard
Speaker 0: edge or a wall as it has sometimes
Speaker 0: been called, here both spacecraft measured temperatures of
Speaker 0: thirty thousand to fifty thousand Kelvin, which is
Speaker 0: around fifty four thousand to ninety thousand degrees
Speaker 0: Fahrenheit. And this kinda helps us understand the
Speaker 0: the nuance and then it it's not a
Speaker 0: solid wall we're really talking about. So it's
Speaker 0: not a rigid barrier, but a region of
Speaker 0: extreme conditions encountered at the periphery of the
Speaker 0: heliosphere. Sorry. I'm gonna mess with the audience
Speaker 0: a little bit. I'm getting a little bit
Speaker 0: of weirdness coming in from here, this thingy.
Speaker 0: But hopefully it's not too awful and we
Speaker 0: can kinda clear that out later on. But
Speaker 0: if we're curious, well, let's see. This kinda
Speaker 0: highlights how these long running missions are kinda
Speaker 0: affecting us now and research still going on.
Speaker 0: I mean, nineteen seventy seven is a long
Speaker 0: time to be, out there in space. So
Speaker 0: glad to see these machines still running and
Speaker 0: working hard for us all these years later.
Speaker 0: That's a great investment. Right? And, like, I
Speaker 0: guess, like, apparently, while you won't exactly feel
Speaker 0: this wall, like, when you go there, you
Speaker 0: can it kinda gives you a good idea
Speaker 0: of, like, this protective bubble that's around our
Speaker 0: solar system and how it shields us. And
Speaker 0: exploring it helps us understand, like, the environment
Speaker 0: and our planet. That's that's, like, part of
Speaker 0: that system. So So it's kind of interesting
Speaker 0: to see. And on here, there's a NASA
Speaker 0: video. So we'll link the the article if
Speaker 0: you guys wanna check this out. But there
Speaker 0: is a video by NASA on here, that
Speaker 0: kinda shows, what what exactly they're talking about.
Speaker 0: But pretty sweet stuff from, IFL Science today.
Speaker 0: But let's take a step back. I wanna
Speaker 0: talk about this week for myself. It's been
Speaker 0: a pretty rough one for me, both in
Speaker 0: the hardware zone as well as, you know,
Speaker 0: my personal life. Had a couple midterms come
Speaker 0: and go, pretty tough, and glad to see
Speaker 0: some of the results coming back. Looking like
Speaker 0: the studying paid off, but always glad to
Speaker 0: see those positive results. You know, it's really
Speaker 0: a relief. I don't know how many of
Speaker 0: you are out there taking tests still, but
Speaker 0: Jesus. It's just so nerve wracking going into
Speaker 0: those situations and then looking at something and
Speaker 0: realizing, oh god, I do not know what
Speaker 0: this is and having to calm down and
Speaker 0: take a step back and really analyze the
Speaker 0: problem you're looking at. So it's been really
Speaker 0: fun. On another note, I've been so man,
Speaker 0: I had been recording the podcast on, my
Speaker 0: dad's Mac studio, and I finally got you
Speaker 0: know, starting to run into issues with his
Speaker 0: account on the on the machine. So I
Speaker 0: was like, hey, man. I'll just give it
Speaker 0: a little reset. I've already extracted all of
Speaker 0: his data from it. Great. Let's move on.
Speaker 0: So I was gonna give it a little
Speaker 0: reset and lo and behold, despite his legacy
Speaker 0: account being activated or whatever, that the the
Speaker 0: devices got an activation lock on it. I'm
Speaker 0: calling support, I'm calling support, they're they're telling
Speaker 0: me exactly what the article says. I'm like,
Speaker 0: great. Cool. The activation lock was supposed to
Speaker 0: fall off when the legacy account was invoked.
Speaker 0: But I guess there's one offs. It's always
Speaker 0: an edge case. I'm not sure why. It's
Speaker 0: this strict, but I did end up finding
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Speaker 0: agents. I got to one of their sites
Speaker 0: where I could request the activation lock be
Speaker 0: removed. So hoping to hear back from them
Speaker 0: in the next week or so and really
Speaker 0: get back on that device. Just been a
Speaker 0: little bit of a pain getting this all
Speaker 0: set up with, my personal device. Yeah. But
Speaker 0: on the offside, I did end up finding
Speaker 0: something called I think it's called auto edit,
Speaker 0: and we're gonna try to use that to
Speaker 0: cut out all the ahs and umms and
Speaker 0: likes out of this video today. So hopefully
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Speaker 0: transitions and just, you know, test out some
Speaker 0: fun software. It's open source, MIT license. So
Speaker 0: you're you're you're free to try it out
Speaker 0: if you if you wanna go check it
Speaker 0: out. Check it out. It's called auto auto
Speaker 0: edit, I believe. I'm blanking right now. I'm
Speaker 0: not sure why. Other than that, I just
Speaker 0: last few days, just really been feeling exhausted.
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Speaker 0: so hoping to pull back on one of
Speaker 0: the jobs and then put a little more
Speaker 0: focus towards Blueberry in school, I guess Raw
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Speaker 0: Let's talk about some articles. Some cool stuff
Speaker 0: going on this week. Now I did miss
Speaker 0: the launch date on this, but there's another
Speaker 0: one coming up. PBS celebrates twenty five years
Speaker 0: of ISS with Nova's Operation Space Station on
Speaker 0: November fifth. So this this is gonna be
Speaker 0: actually a two part thing. So let's give
Speaker 0: you some context before we go into it.
Speaker 0: Coming out, International Space Station has been continuously
Speaker 0: inhabited since November second two thousand, and this
Speaker 0: year marks its twenty five years of operation.
Speaker 0: And we have kinda been talking a lot
Speaker 0: about the twenty thirty, deorbit schedule, moving into
Speaker 0: the commercialization of space research. So I'm super
Speaker 0: interested to see how that goes. It's very
Speaker 0: obvious that, SpaceX has a massive lead right
Speaker 0: now. They've gotten majority of the contracts. So
Speaker 0: we'll see how that goes. But this, particular
Speaker 0: episode is produced by Nova for PBS in
Speaker 0: collaboration with GBH and French France televisions and
Speaker 0: uses archival footage, CGI recreations, and firsthand astronaut
Speaker 0: slash engineer accounts. The documentary is two parts,
Speaker 0: High Risk Build premiering November fifth, and Science
Speaker 0: and Survival premiering November twelfth. Now I haven't
Speaker 0: seen the first part, but I'm kinda stoked,
Speaker 0: so I'm gonna check this out, High Risk
Speaker 0: Build. And then, here in a few days,
Speaker 0: the the second part is gonna be coming
Speaker 0: out of, on November twelfth, science and survival.
Speaker 0: So if you guys check that first part
Speaker 0: out, you guys will be primed to watch
Speaker 0: the second. But it's gonna be spotlighting the
Speaker 0: wild, ambitious twenty five year journey of the
Speaker 0: ISS from its darling construction in orbit to
Speaker 0: the daily science and survival challenges of living
Speaker 0: beyond Earth. The series walks you inside the
Speaker 0: modules through spacewalks and into moment to moment
Speaker 0: decisions that that have kept humans orbiting our
Speaker 0: planet nonstop for a quarter century. It's a
Speaker 0: part celebration of engineering triumph and part human
Speaker 0: drama of life in microgravity. So pretty kinda
Speaker 0: pretty cool. I mean, we've I'm sure you
Speaker 0: guys know a lot about all the a
Speaker 0: lot a lot of the challenges that, astronauts
Speaker 0: face in space. I think I recently saw
Speaker 0: another article about some, astronauts being stranded. I
Speaker 0: hope that's not in here and I didn't
Speaker 0: just spoil something. But I did see that,
Speaker 0: some Chinese astronauts got are I think their
Speaker 0: stay is being extended because their, return pod
Speaker 0: was damaged. So, definitely gonna keep keep my
Speaker 0: eye out for more news on that. But
Speaker 0: back back to the the PBS episode, here's
Speaker 0: a couple key quotes that we got from
Speaker 0: the article. This is from space dot com,
Speaker 0: written by Jeff Spry. Thank you, Jeff Spry
Speaker 0: for the article. But over twenty five years
Speaker 0: of continual habitation, not a single life was
Speaker 0: lost aboard the ISS. It's a testament to
Speaker 0: the courage and dedication of every astronaut and
Speaker 0: engineer. And that, you know, this kinda really
Speaker 0: underscores the safety record of the station. I
Speaker 0: didn't realize that no one was ever lost
Speaker 0: on there, and this is an extreme environment.
Speaker 0: You you can see just, like, how tedious
Speaker 0: that might have been or how prepared those
Speaker 0: astronauts might have been or, you know, prepared
Speaker 0: to save themselves in every opportunity. So I
Speaker 0: think that's really impressive. Another key quote, every
Speaker 0: step of this ambitious project unfolded against the
Speaker 0: backdrop of a merciless vacuum, dangerous radiation, and
Speaker 0: extreme temperatures. And this kind of reminds us
Speaker 0: of the insane conditions that the ISS overcame
Speaker 0: just while, like, they were in space and
Speaker 0: being built out and how much human adaptation
Speaker 0: was required and, you know, the constant communication
Speaker 0: from ground to space. And even in those
Speaker 0: I'm sure there were moments where communication were
Speaker 0: lost too. So it's, you know, being able
Speaker 0: to overcome those moments of silence and really
Speaker 0: grow as a a team. I'm sure that
Speaker 0: a lot of teamwork was required. So I'm
Speaker 0: I'm now I really wanna watch this PBS
Speaker 0: episode. You know? So I definitely would check
Speaker 0: it out. So part one again is called
Speaker 0: high risk build, and then part two is
Speaker 0: gonna be called science of survival by PBS.
Speaker 0: So check those out. I think that's gonna
Speaker 0: be something really exciting to look forward to.
Speaker 0: Next article, China solves century old problem with
Speaker 0: new analog chip that is a thousand times
Speaker 0: faster than high end NVIDIA GPUs. Now I
Speaker 0: think this title's a little bit maybe, but,
Speaker 0: let me give you guys a little bit
Speaker 0: of context. Researchers from Peking University published a
Speaker 0: paper on October thirteenth twenty twenty five in
Speaker 0: journal Nature Electronics titled Precise and Scalable Analog
Speaker 0: Matrix Equation Solving Using Irresistive Random Access Memory
Speaker 0: Chips. So they developed an analog computing chip
Speaker 0: based on resistive random access memory, our RAM
Speaker 0: cells, and they reportedly achieved performance and energy
Speaker 0: efficiently, markedly superior to current digital GPU processors.
Speaker 0: And then one of the big things with
Speaker 0: analog computing, it's, it's kind of been limited
Speaker 0: by the precision and scalability issues just because
Speaker 0: I think it was not fast enough and
Speaker 0: needed, lots of power to do those computations.
Speaker 0: But this new work kinda claims to have
Speaker 0: matched the digital level precision. So they have
Speaker 0: twenty four bit fixed fixed point precision, which
Speaker 0: is comparable to thirty two bit floating. Thirty
Speaker 0: two bit floating point precision. That's that is
Speaker 0: a mouthful. While did while delivering extremely high
Speaker 0: throughput. So these, these chips which use our
Speaker 0: RAM arrays for a matrix inversion in large
Speaker 0: scale signal processing tasks was up to one
Speaker 0: thousand times the throughput and a hundred times
Speaker 0: the energy efficiency of top digital processors. While
Speaker 0: achieving comparable precision by moving key computations directly
Speaker 0: into memory, compute in memory, and leveraging analog
Speaker 0: physical operations rather than sequential digital logic. This
Speaker 0: innovation could pave a new route for AI
Speaker 0: training, wireless systems like six g, and other
Speaker 0: compute heavy workloads. Kind of interesting. I think
Speaker 0: this is kind of based around a, like
Speaker 0: a mathematics achievement or a mathematics, because it
Speaker 0: earlier it said, where was it? Using a
Speaker 0: scalable analog matrix equation solving using resistive random
Speaker 0: access memory chips. So definitely some linear algebra
Speaker 0: here going on with, the analog chips. And
Speaker 0: I'm I'm sure they've figured out a way
Speaker 0: to efficiently compute within the RM instead of
Speaker 0: having to pass that data back and forth,
Speaker 0: from memory to the GPU. So, early when
Speaker 0: I was reading this, I I thought it
Speaker 0: was akin to, something like caching or memorization,
Speaker 0: but reading more into it, it's not not
Speaker 0: quite the same thing. But something to look
Speaker 0: into. Definitely this article is really, really, cool.
Speaker 0: And it's definitely a cool breakthrough. For all
Speaker 0: you tech fans or professionals, this development suggests
Speaker 0: a major shift could be coming in computing
Speaker 0: architectures. Analog and hybrid compute in memory systems
Speaker 0: might compete seriously with traditional GPUs, especially for
Speaker 0: AI and signal processing workloads. And I'm sure
Speaker 0: this is gonna well, if if this, you
Speaker 0: know, spreads, and I'm sure it will because
Speaker 0: why wouldn't, why wouldn't you use a system
Speaker 0: that was if it if it was as
Speaker 0: impactful as it's suggesting, a thousand times, faster
Speaker 0: and a hundred times more efficient. No. It
Speaker 0: was a thousand times throughput. So let's just
Speaker 0: be clear. Thousand times of throughput and a
Speaker 0: hundred times the energy efficiency. So and I
Speaker 0: think it's just because you don't have to
Speaker 0: communicate with the GPU and instead you're computing
Speaker 0: it in memory. So then the extra step
Speaker 0: of passing them that information to the GPU
Speaker 0: to be calculated is being cut out of
Speaker 0: the the equation. So that's kinda cool. But
Speaker 0: I'm sure this is gonna result in more
Speaker 0: energy efficient battery life if they start using
Speaker 0: these types of CPUs or, you know, our
Speaker 0: RAM and phones in the future. So that
Speaker 0: could be kinda cool to to see coming
Speaker 0: up. Let's see what we got next. Oh,
Speaker 0: the oh, and just to be clear that,
Speaker 0: article just now is from Live Science, by
Speaker 0: Owen Hughes. Thank you, Owen, for the article.
Speaker 0: We got this new this next article by
Speaker 0: InfoQ. This one's written by Daniel Dominguez. We
Speaker 0: have anthropic expands cloud code to web and
Speaker 0: mobile platforms. You guys know I always talk
Speaker 0: about AI on the show. It's a big
Speaker 0: thing right now. Anthropic, the AI company behind
Speaker 0: the Claude family of large language models, has
Speaker 0: been actively expanding its tools for developers. The
Speaker 0: Cloud Code environment was previously available primarily via
Speaker 0: desktop or a API integrations. The recent update
Speaker 0: opens access to web and mobile browsers, allowing
Speaker 0: developers to use the coding assistant anywhere. What
Speaker 0: the heck? Cloud code supports multi file coding
Speaker 0: tasks, conversational context, inline explanations, air feedback, and
Speaker 0: now with the web version, parallel job execution.
Speaker 0: Wow. Enabling multiple tasks to run simultaneously in
Speaker 0: a browser environment. This move comes amid growing
Speaker 0: competition in AI powered coding assistance, like a
Speaker 0: GitHub Copilot and AWS Kiro and at a
Speaker 0: time where developer workflows are increasingly shifting towards
Speaker 0: browser based tooling and remote cloud setups. This
Speaker 0: is cool. I love to see, all these,
Speaker 0: big companies compete, but it's it's cool to
Speaker 0: see where we're going with all this. Everyone
Speaker 0: is trying to find new ways to automate
Speaker 0: our life. I recently, there was a conversation
Speaker 0: recently regarding SEO and stuff, and I found
Speaker 0: it interesting that the the SEO for or,
Speaker 0: like, if you guys search podcast AI, you
Speaker 0: know, in general or AI podcasting, there's just,
Speaker 0: like, all these platforms for automating, making, like,
Speaker 0: podcasting, like podcasts that are made by AI.
Speaker 0: Like, the AIs are the ones talking. And
Speaker 0: I'm maybe I just don't get it. But
Speaker 0: why why would you wanna do this? Why
Speaker 0: why would you wanna do that? Like, who
Speaker 0: is it just that they read the script
Speaker 0: that you write? I don't understand. I'm I'm
Speaker 0: I am I was baffled. Why do people
Speaker 0: wanna automate away the things that are enjoyable?
Speaker 0: This is not necessarily a quote, unquote job.
Speaker 0: You know, it's something that I'm I'm happy
Speaker 0: to be here for. I'm happy to I
Speaker 0: wanna be here. I wanna talk about these
Speaker 0: things, and I wanna share it with people
Speaker 0: because I find them interesting. But instead, it's
Speaker 0: like a new platform to generate revenue, which
Speaker 0: is sick if I'm being honest. But, hey,
Speaker 0: that's just an opinion. Anthropic has rolled out
Speaker 0: cloud code via web and mobile platforms, making
Speaker 0: it AI powered development environment accessible beyond traditional
Speaker 0: desktop setups. Now developers can write, edit, and
Speaker 0: execute code across files with conversational context and
Speaker 0: even run multiple jobs at once straight from
Speaker 0: a browser or mobile device. Anthropic has expanded
Speaker 0: the availability of cloud code, bringing it to
Speaker 0: the web and mobile platform. This is really
Speaker 0: cool. I think it's like we were just
Speaker 0: talking about Comet. I I think it's Comet
Speaker 0: browser, which is I don't even know how
Speaker 0: it's doing. Is that has anyone tried it?
Speaker 0: I still haven't. I haven't found a need.
Speaker 0: Automate what what do I have to automate
Speaker 0: in my life? Deleting spam emails? Jeez. I
Speaker 0: don't have five minutes, I guess. But it's
Speaker 0: this definitely seems like a little more lightweight
Speaker 0: version. Something that you can just have, like,
Speaker 0: a extension or a plug in. So it
Speaker 0: could be interesting. I wonder how heavy it'll
Speaker 0: make your your browser though. That's my concern.
Speaker 0: I want my my browser already makes my
Speaker 0: computer scream. It's got, like I've got maybe
Speaker 0: thirty thirty, forty tabs open right now. But
Speaker 0: you may ask why, and thank god for
Speaker 0: the memory saving systems that they have implemented
Speaker 0: in these tabs. So it's not as bad
Speaker 0: as you might think, but still, you know,
Speaker 0: I don't know if I could handle twenty
Speaker 0: tabs with AI doing stuff in each of
Speaker 0: them. I I might need more RAM, which
Speaker 0: I'm just not I I I'm just I
Speaker 0: just I don't know if now is the
Speaker 0: time for that, so we'll see. Who knows?
Speaker 0: I was thinking about a little computer upgrade,
Speaker 0: but I don't know if I I really
Speaker 0: wanna do that right now. It's a big
Speaker 0: investment. But early developer feedback on this tool
Speaker 0: suggests that expanded access makes Claude Code a
Speaker 0: practical alternative without needing local setup or plug
Speaker 0: in installations. This is a little ridiculous to
Speaker 0: me because if for anyone that's installed Claude
Speaker 0: code before, you know, it's just a copy
Speaker 0: and paste from a node package manager download.
Speaker 0: Like, if if you know the endpoint, you
Speaker 0: can just type it in. What what what
Speaker 0: setup? I guess now you don't have to
Speaker 0: even look that up. You can just press
Speaker 0: activate on your, browser extensions. So I don't
Speaker 0: know how it's being, distributed exactly. Let's see.
Speaker 0: Who knows? Mate, let me let let me
Speaker 0: look in the extensions plugins right now. We'll
Speaker 0: see if Claude codes in here. I don't
Speaker 0: see it yet. So, I'll have to look
Speaker 0: more into this. Maybe we'll hear more news
Speaker 0: on it and I'll I'll get back to
Speaker 0: you guys on this. I'll definitely look into
Speaker 0: it a little bit more on how to
Speaker 0: exactly get that set up. But it can't
Speaker 0: be that hard. Let Let me just follow
Speaker 0: this link, Claude code on the web. So
Speaker 0: getting started. Visit claud dot com slash code
Speaker 0: to connect your first repository and start delegating
Speaker 0: tests. Let's just follow the link. Who knows?
Speaker 0: Oh, it what what is this? I don't
Speaker 0: it's okay. So it wants me to connect
Speaker 0: to my GitHub. I don't think I wanna
Speaker 0: do that. So we're not gonna do this,
Speaker 0: right now. If oh, man. If they only
Speaker 0: let me do it with my Google account,
Speaker 0: I'd be okay with it. But I don't
Speaker 0: really want them to do it with my
Speaker 0: GitHub. It's because you so you I guess
Speaker 0: you you can, basically, you it does things
Speaker 0: through GitHub. What? I don't understand. I'll look
Speaker 0: more into this and expand on this in
Speaker 0: the future. I won't forget about this, guys.
Speaker 0: I promise. But let's move on. I don't
Speaker 0: think we wanna talk too much about Claude,
Speaker 0: except the next article by Tom's Guide from
Speaker 0: Alex Hughes is another Anthropic article. I use
Speaker 0: Anthropic's AI assistant Claude to save me hours
Speaker 0: of research, and these are my four go
Speaker 0: to prompts. Now, I can't remember if we
Speaker 0: already did this, but I'm just going to
Speaker 0: give you guys the prompts straight up. And
Speaker 0: honestly, I might just put together a prompt
Speaker 0: page on the site so that you guys
Speaker 0: can check these out. Cause I have quite
Speaker 0: the list. If you actually go to the
Speaker 0: claw documentation page, they have some good, like,
Speaker 0: from the developers themselves, the the the actual
Speaker 0: prompts that they suggest using to to reach
Speaker 0: certain goals. So a couple, that they that
Speaker 0: I have on my little power prompt list.
Speaker 0: Okay? So you can do something like leverage
Speaker 0: interleaved thinking, or you can, code you can
Speaker 0: reduce hallucinations, by saying specific things. Give grounded
Speaker 0: and hallucination free answers. Like, having making that
Speaker 0: suggestion so it does the background check. Or
Speaker 0: doing a markdown suppression. It does a markdown
Speaker 0: dump for all those all those texts, you
Speaker 0: know. But the ones that come with this,
Speaker 0: I think this specific article, we'll give you
Speaker 0: we'll give to you guys. And I have
Speaker 0: the four of them here at the bottom
Speaker 0: of my list from Tom's guide. The first
Speaker 0: one is finding qualified sources. I am writing
Speaker 0: a paper on insert subject using all of
Speaker 0: the tools at your disposable, including web searches,
Speaker 0: find sources that both support and refute this
Speaker 0: subject. They should be categorized into sources that
Speaker 0: have been peer reviewed and not peer reviewed
Speaker 0: and should only come from reputable sources. And
Speaker 0: this is a good way to get a
Speaker 0: sorted list of credible references to start your
Speaker 0: research. That's cool. You know, the one of
Speaker 0: the biggest challenges of even developing, an argument
Speaker 0: for a research topic is is literally finding
Speaker 0: the support for your the beliefs that you
Speaker 0: are putting out there. And they're not just
Speaker 0: beliefs, they're freaking facts based on this article,
Speaker 0: you know. So pretty cool. If you're doing
Speaker 0: a research paper, don't have the divide the
Speaker 0: AI write it for you, you write the
Speaker 0: paper helping let it help you get some
Speaker 0: qualified sources. How about, performing a deep dive
Speaker 0: deep dive on a topic? I need a
Speaker 0: comprehensive analysis of specific topic. Please search for
Speaker 0: the most current and authoritative sources and verify
Speaker 0: accuracy. Cover as many of the core areas
Speaker 0: of this subject as possible. And use you
Speaker 0: use this when you want a broad but
Speaker 0: detailed overview of a subject. The next one
Speaker 0: is a comparative analysis. Help me compare concept
Speaker 0: a and concept B across multiple dimensions, search
Speaker 0: for authoritative searches or sources on each create
Speaker 0: a structured comparison, highlighting similarities, differences, strengths, and
Speaker 0: weaknesses, and provide examples that illustrate the key
Speaker 0: distinctions. Include citations for all major claims. Great
Speaker 0: for when you need to understand how two
Speaker 0: ideas relate, differ, and interact. So this could
Speaker 0: go hand in hand with that, qualified sore
Speaker 0: sources call. I feel like they're doing a
Speaker 0: very specific type of research. Break down my
Speaker 0: argument, devil's advocate style. My argument is insert
Speaker 0: argument or point. I want you to be
Speaker 0: the devil's advocate and argue against this. We
Speaker 0: will then go back and forth making our
Speaker 0: argument for our respective side. Only use well
Speaker 0: informed and research backed points. This one helps
Speaker 0: test the strength of your reasoning and uncover
Speaker 0: weaknesses you might have missed. So kinda cool.
Speaker 0: Definitely helps strengthen any, sort of research paper
Speaker 0: you're doing. This kinda definitely seems, augmented towards,
Speaker 0: research papers, but definitely a cool thing to
Speaker 0: try out. The research that is suggested by
Speaker 0: Claude documentation is this actually. So I'm going
Speaker 0: to give you guys a key insight here,
Speaker 0: a key prompt, power prompt from Claude themselves
Speaker 0: or anthropic themselves. Search for this information in
Speaker 0: a structured way. As you gather data, develop
Speaker 0: several competing hypotheses. Track your confidence levels in
Speaker 0: your progress notes to improve calibration. Regularly self
Speaker 0: critique your approach and plan. Update a hypothesis
Speaker 0: tree or research notes file to persist information
Speaker 0: and provide transparency. Break down this complex research
Speaker 0: task systematically. So, yeah, that's a little bit
Speaker 0: of a mouthful, but you can kinda get
Speaker 0: the idea that, that's being built here. You
Speaker 0: can have the generative LLM create these lists
Speaker 0: that track confidence levels and help it calibrate
Speaker 0: itself to a, a better approach and plan.
Speaker 0: So pretty cool stuff. I will try to
Speaker 0: put together a little power prompt, page that
Speaker 0: I'll put in the header that you guys
Speaker 0: can check out where I'll include all of,
Speaker 0: the power prompts that that I found over
Speaker 0: time that really help with, any sort of
Speaker 0: research, document building, even suppressing hallucinations, you know?
Speaker 0: But definitely open to hearing some suggestions. I
Speaker 0: wanna hear what you guys are doing for
Speaker 0: a pruning, you know, if you guys are
Speaker 0: using the prunters. But these are interesting machines
Speaker 0: or or or systems that are impressive in
Speaker 0: their own right. But we do need to
Speaker 0: remember the last conversation we had about this
Speaker 0: that they are simply pattern generators. You can
Speaker 0: watch videos on how people find how people
Speaker 0: break these, you know, by just by talking
Speaker 0: to it or editing history in the document.
Speaker 0: So you need to be really careful on
Speaker 0: what you're divulging to these language models. Alright.
Speaker 0: I did have another anthropic article lined up.
Speaker 0: You can see where my, allegiance lies, but
Speaker 0: let's move on. Let's let's not talk about
Speaker 0: anthropic anymore. A paradigm shift in RAM is
Speaker 0: about to make computing unstoppable. This is, from
Speaker 0: Popular Mechanics by Darren Orf. But this looks
Speaker 0: kinda cool. So scientists at Hebrew University of
Speaker 0: Jerusalem have in reported a new mechanism by
Speaker 0: which laser light can directly control a magnetic
Speaker 0: state of materials. A discovery with major implications
Speaker 0: for magna magnetoresistive RAM. So more RAM talk
Speaker 0: today. This is MRAM and future data source
Speaker 0: technology. MRAM is a form of non volatile
Speaker 0: memory which retains data without power that uses
Speaker 0: magnetic tunnel junctions rather than charge based storage.
Speaker 0: It's already considered promising for high performance energy
Speaker 0: efficient memory. And the breakthrough the breakthrough involves
Speaker 0: using rapid oscillating light waves lasers to switch
Speaker 0: magnetic states rather than relying solely on electrical
Speaker 0: currents. And this could point towards dramatically faster,
Speaker 0: more efficient memory devices. So that was our
Speaker 0: little bit of context there. And then, let's
Speaker 0: get into like a little bit of a
Speaker 0: summary. Researchers have unveiled a laser based technique
Speaker 0: that can control magnetic bits opening the door
Speaker 0: to a new generation of MRAM devices that
Speaker 0: could be much faster, more efficient, or more
Speaker 0: energy efficient and potentially bridge towards quantum compatible
Speaker 0: memory. While the technology is still in early
Speaker 0: stages, the implications are broad. Magic computers where
Speaker 0: memory switching is done by light, reducing power
Speaker 0: consumption, increasing speed, and possibly paving the way
Speaker 0: for memory systems that work differently from today's
Speaker 0: DRAM, SRAM, or Flash. That is cool. I
Speaker 0: didn't even know that there was something called
Speaker 0: magnetic RAM or magneto hold on. There's a
Speaker 0: specific term for it. Magneto resistive ram. Cool.
Speaker 0: So the this particular discovery has a lot
Speaker 0: of, far reaching implications, particularly in the domain
Speaker 0: of, of data recording using light and nano
Speaker 0: magnets. So this is, this could be a
Speaker 0: little bit of a leap in how, memory
Speaker 0: is implemented or or how it works in
Speaker 0: our future systems. But I guess now we've
Speaker 0: already suggested a competitive edge in our RAM
Speaker 0: with the new analog computing technique. So it
Speaker 0: could be kind of interesting to see how
Speaker 0: that shapes up in the future. I mean,
Speaker 0: they may have their own purposes, so that
Speaker 0: might be the specific use case, scenario. But
Speaker 0: this hints at the potential realization of ultra
Speaker 0: fast and energy efficient optically controlled MRAM and
Speaker 0: a seismic shift in the information storage and
Speaker 0: processing across diverse sectors. So the use of
Speaker 0: optically controlled in seismic shift so maybe this
Speaker 0: might go beyond typical memory improvements. I don't
Speaker 0: know. It's it's seismic shift. That's that must
Speaker 0: be a big breakthrough. Maybe, maybe it's a
Speaker 0: little bit of an exaggeration, but who knows?
Speaker 0: It could potentially reshape architecture or system design
Speaker 0: based on this, development. And then here's one
Speaker 0: last key quote from the article. We've arrived
Speaker 0: at a very elementary equation describing this interaction.
Speaker 0: It lets us completely reconsider optical magnetic recording
Speaker 0: and navigate our way to a dense energy
Speaker 0: efficient, cost efficient optical magnetic storage device that
Speaker 0: doesn't even exist yet. So that's cool. Who
Speaker 0: knows? Tech may be on the verge of
Speaker 0: a paradigm shift, not even like, not just
Speaker 0: higher capacity or faster shifts, but fundamentally different
Speaker 0: mechanisms. You know? Maybe we've started to reach
Speaker 0: a break breakthrough in areas that we didn't
Speaker 0: really express or expect using light and magnetism
Speaker 0: is crazy. Lasers to control a chip. I
Speaker 0: I I don't know. I didn't really think
Speaker 0: that, you know, it's it's hard to think
Speaker 0: of it as just light. Right? We think
Speaker 0: of lasers like a like a beam almost.
Speaker 0: I guess it's a beam of light, but
Speaker 0: I don't know. I've never really thought that
Speaker 0: hard about it, I feel like. But I
Speaker 0: guess it's, this article kinda suggests that we
Speaker 0: could redefine memory speed, efficiency, and perhaps perhaps
Speaker 0: open up new architectures in memory computing or
Speaker 0: quantum adjacent memory. I don't think we'll see
Speaker 0: this in our everyday laptop yet just yet,
Speaker 0: but it's like a cool sign that future
Speaker 0: devices may become faster, more energy efficient, and
Speaker 0: even more always ready. Less wait time, less
Speaker 0: power wasted. But I think that's kind of
Speaker 0: expected. You, you would expect that things to
Speaker 0: be improving always or you'd hope, right? Or
Speaker 0: what else are we doing when we go
Speaker 0: to work every day? Can just slog away
Speaker 0: at the machine. But I got another article
Speaker 0: for you folks. AMD bundles four Steam games
Speaker 0: with only Lenovo Legion Go two. So this
Speaker 0: is a Costco special for those of you
Speaker 0: that are looking for a new gaming device,
Speaker 0: the Legion Go two is coming out with
Speaker 0: Starfield, Lies of P, Space Marine and Awakening.
Speaker 0: Interesting. Wow. Well, this device is going for
Speaker 0: ten ninety nine. Ten ninety nine and I
Speaker 0: mean one thousand big ones with ninety nine
Speaker 0: more on top. But Lenovo has launched the
Speaker 0: Legion Go two, a handheld gaming PC powered
Speaker 0: by AMD's z two series chip, the Ryzen
Speaker 0: z two, which were designed for high performance
Speaker 0: portable systems. The promotion is exclusive to Costco
Speaker 0: and bundles four Steam Games with the purchase
Speaker 0: of Legion Go two as part of the
Speaker 0: collaboration between AMD and Costco. The heck? I
Speaker 0: didn't know Costco and AMD had a partnership.
Speaker 0: That's interesting to find out. Maybe I'm just
Speaker 0: out of the loop. I need to get
Speaker 0: in the loop. I guess I'm not I
Speaker 0: don't I don't know. I'm not really looking
Speaker 0: at partnerships though. But keep this context in
Speaker 0: mind for the future, I guess. The games
Speaker 0: in the bundle per the listing including some
Speaker 0: high profile titles such such as Starfield, Lyza
Speaker 0: P, Unknown Nine, Awakening, and and Hammer Warhammer
Speaker 0: forty thousand Space Marines two. Now these games
Speaker 0: have been out for a while. So, honestly,
Speaker 0: it's a little bit disappointing to see it
Speaker 0: come out with that. But it comes out
Speaker 0: this so the campaign's already started and it
Speaker 0: runs while coupon codes last. It's offered at
Speaker 0: participating Costco warehouses and at costco dot com
Speaker 0: in the US and Canada. And you can
Speaker 0: attempt to redeem by May second twenty twenty
Speaker 0: six if you're looking for this device. Pretty
Speaker 0: cool to see. It's it's a literal gaming
Speaker 0: PC but a handheld device. So I guess
Speaker 0: that explains the big the big the big
Speaker 0: price point there. But, who knows? If you're
Speaker 0: looking for a device that you can just
Speaker 0: play games on which, you know, could be
Speaker 0: kinda interesting. Who knows? Gotta check that out.
Speaker 0: But if you yeah. So if you're in
Speaker 0: the market with portable PC gaming setup, this
Speaker 0: this bundle might be what's calling out your
Speaker 0: name, you know, to to pro it's supposed
Speaker 0: to be like it's supposed to be a
Speaker 0: Costco bargain. Let's move on. We got a
Speaker 0: couple more key ones and wow. Look at
Speaker 0: them freaking bend. Look at them bend. This
Speaker 0: one's from Forbes by Davey Winder. They have
Speaker 0: they have bent the knee to the the
Speaker 0: upset people. Microsoft confirms free Windows ten security
Speaker 0: updates and how to get them. I I'd
Speaker 0: love to use a lot of colorful language
Speaker 0: for this, you know. For those of you
Speaker 0: upgrading to win or that were forced to
Speaker 0: upgrade to Windows eleven, I hope you love
Speaker 0: it. I really do. And I hope your
Speaker 0: device can run it. We've had two devices
Speaker 0: on Windows eleven crash at work because of
Speaker 0: the bloatware that comes with it. So if
Speaker 0: you wanna remove some Microsoft bloatware, definitely look
Speaker 0: into Chris Titus', wind debloater. I love that
Speaker 0: tool. But, yeah, it's it's ridiculous. They they
Speaker 0: kinda played us there. But they kind of
Speaker 0: announced that they were not gonna do any
Speaker 0: more security support on Windows ten, as of
Speaker 0: October fourteenth. And now they have introduced a
Speaker 0: free option for Windows ten users to receive
Speaker 0: one additional year of extended security updates through
Speaker 0: October thirteen twenty twenty six. Oh, so you
Speaker 0: only got one one year. Okay. The free
Speaker 0: ESU comes with conditions. So if the free
Speaker 0: extended security updates, so you have to enable
Speaker 0: certain Windows backup or cloud sync features. What
Speaker 0: a bunch of whoo. They are they wow.
Speaker 0: Cool. I'm just we'll see if this the
Speaker 0: the my work laptop can run Windows eleven.
Speaker 0: Because it it she screams at me already.
Speaker 0: That's all I can say. And I have
Speaker 0: been avoiding the Windows eleven update, which I
Speaker 0: really need to get on. That might be
Speaker 0: a concern. But hey, if you are looking
Speaker 0: for continued Windows ten, support Oh, actually, I
Speaker 0: don't even think my laptop can update to
Speaker 0: Windows eleven. So I might have to ask
Speaker 0: them about that. I don't think it's a
Speaker 0: problem right now, but who knows? Microsoft obviously
Speaker 0: really wants people to stop using Windows ten
Speaker 0: though. It's called twenty twenty five the year
Speaker 0: of the Windows eleven PC refresh. Yeah. More
Speaker 0: like the, move to Linux refresh. I just
Speaker 0: read an article today about, people hosting a
Speaker 0: Linux install party where they help everyday people
Speaker 0: just get Linux installed in their devices. Pretty
Speaker 0: cool stuff. Oh, you know, I thought I
Speaker 0: had a couple more articles for you, but
Speaker 0: I think that's actually the end of the
Speaker 0: line. Thanks for hanging out with me this
Speaker 0: afternoon. Again, sorry for the late late, post
Speaker 0: into the week. I will try to get
Speaker 0: the newsletter out hopefully tomorrow. But things have
Speaker 0: just been a little bit rough rate lately,
Speaker 0: so hoping to keep, keep my head on
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Speaker 0: hope you guys have a phenomenal week. Until
Speaker 0: I talk to you guys next time, have