Je me suis encore tapé une bonne petite insomnie cette nuit, donc je me suis levé pour bosser et je suis tombé tout à fait par hasard sur ce PDF qui présente la “Théorie de la stupidité” de Dietrich Bonhoeffer, complété par une analyse de Carlo Cipolla sur “les lois fondamentales de la stupidité humaine”.

Je ne connaissais pas ces 2 gars ni leurs écrits, mais franchement, tous les jours ou presque je vois l’ampleur de la catastrophe et ça fait grimper ma pression artérielle. Et comme je ne comprends pas bien ce phénomène et que je ne sais pas trop comment m’y prendre pour y faire face, ça a évidemment attiré mon attention et je voulais partager ça avec vous.

Quand George Hotz, alias geohot, décide de donner des conseils à une boîte de semiconducteurs, ça donne un README de 100 lignes sur GitHub qui commence par “If you want to get acquired / become scam IP licensing co…I can’t help you.” C’est “subtil” ^^. Le hacker qui a jailbreaké le premier iPhone et qui fait maintenant rouler des voitures autonomes avec comma.ai vient de publier ses “conseils” pour Tenstorrent.

Pour ceux qui ne suivent pas le marché des puces IA de près, Tenstorrent c’est LA boîte qui fait rêver en ce moment. Fondée par Jim Keller (oui, LE Jim Keller qui a conçu les architectures x86-64 chez AMD et les puces A4/A5 d’Apple), l’entreprise développe des processeurs spécialement conçus pour l’IA avec une approche “dataflow” plutôt que l’architecture SIMD classique des GPU.

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In sci-fi movies and TV shows, we’ve seen houses or structures built on other planets and on the moon. That’s probably still decades away from actually happening but it doesn’t mean that we can’t start dreaming about it. And those that are actually involved in space things are doing more than just dreaming, they’re actually testing things out to prepare for the possibility. And now we’re getting the first tiny steps into thinking how we can build homes for the astronauts on the moon.

Designer: European Space Agency

The scientists at the ESA have come up with space bricks, similar to the LEGO bricks that a lot of them (and a lot of us) love. The idea is to explore whether the materials found on the moon can actually be used to build houses and other structures. It makes sense to use what’s already there rather than bringing over building materials from earth. The surface there has layers of rocks and mineral fragments called lunar regolith. Unfortunately, we don’t have a lot of that material here on Earth to actually play around with.

What the scientists did is to grind up 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite (which was found in North Africa 20 years ago) and mix them with some polylactide and regolith stimulant. The mixture was then used to 3D print some bricks in the style of LEGO. Since this is from meteorite, it only comes in “stylish space grey” color. With these bricks, they can test creating some small-scale structures to play around with the possibility of eventually using regolith to build houses on the Moon.

Some of the ESA space bricks will be displayed at selected LEGO stores so kids (and maybe adults) can play around with it. They want to encourage kids to become interested in space and build their own LEGO Moon bases. Seeing bricks that have billions of years materials on it seems like a pretty interesting experience if there’s a LEGO store near you.

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