Off-Orbit
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Memory by Round-Trip Time
When John Carmack recently mused about storing model weights not in DRAM but effectively “in flight” inside long fiber-optic loops, I felt the peculiar satisfaction of seeing a childhood thought experiment return wearing a proper engineer’s clothes. His version is, naturally, better. It has numbers, materials, bandwidth, realistic constraints, and the kind of sober physicality…
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Erich von Däniken (1935–2026): The Lovable Heretic Who Made Space Feel Close
Erich von Daniken: provocative author of Chariots of the Gods who popularized ancient-astronaut theories, sparking wonder and controversy.
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Noyron: Engineering Machines by Code, Not Guesswork
Noyron by Leap: a computational engineering model that encodes expert know-how to auto-generate manufacturable hardware designs fast.
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The One-Hertz Challenge: Where Slow is the New Fast, and Ticking is an Art Form
One-Hertz Challenge: madcap makers craft devices that act once per second — from hair-band clocks to a candle-flame oscillator.
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Glurge: The Emotional Pie You Didn’t Order
Spot online emotional bait: a field guide to glurge, sadfishing, virtue signaling & trauma porn—pause, check sources, don’t share blindly.
