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What the "big beautiful bill" means for US energy

https://www.woodmac.com/blogs/energy-pulse/big-beautiful-bill-us-energy/
1•JumpCrisscross•1m ago•0 comments

Wren – a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language

https://github.com/wren-lang/wren
1•Bogdanp•1m ago•0 comments

Mcat: Terminal image, video, directory, and Markdown viewer

https://github.com/Skardyy/mcat
1•nateb2022•4m ago•0 comments

Personal aviation is about to get interesting

https://www.elidourado.com/p/personal-aviation
1•JumpCrisscross•5m ago•0 comments

Getting into Flow State with Agentic Coding

https://kau.sh/blog/agentic-coding-flow-state/
2•vortex_ape•6m ago•0 comments

InNative – Run WebAssembly Outside the Sandbox at 95% Native Speed

https://innative.dev/news/introducing-innative/
1•breve•7m ago•0 comments

Environment protection rules for rocket launches targeted by Trump cabinet

https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/environmental-protection-rules-for-rocket-launches-targeted-by-trump-administration.1508465/page-2
4•Bluestein•11m ago•0 comments

Intel ends support for its Linux distribution

https://news.itsfoss.com/clear-linux-os-discontinued/
3•giuliomagnifico•18m ago•1 comments

OpenBSD Meets the Solar Neighborhood

https://laser-coder.net/articles/openbsd-meets-the-solar-neighborhood/index.html
2•lasercoder•20m ago•1 comments

Low-cost Brain Computer Interface for everyone

https://ildarr2016.medium.com/friends-happy-to-share-amazing-news-aa299ffab925
1•GaredFagsss•23m ago•1 comments

I think everyone post college should join or start a startup

https://www.stefanavram.com/blog/why-startups
1•SlickStef11•24m ago•1 comments

Maybe Finance v0.6.0: Farewall Maybe

https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe/releases/tag/v0.6.0
2•2bluesc•26m ago•0 comments

Torqued Accelerator Using Radiation from the Sun (Tars) for Interstellar Payload

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17615
2•virgildotcodes•29m ago•0 comments

Site (Imginn) Lets You Browse Instagram Without an Account

https://lifehacker.com/tech/imginn-browse-instagram-pages-without-an-account
6•gnabgib•31m ago•0 comments

Paul Dirac and the religion of mathematical beauty (2011) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPwo1XsKKXg
4•magnifique•35m ago•0 comments

He Read (At Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/books/man-died-book-list-thousands.html
2•wslh•37m ago•1 comments

Study on the dynamics of an origami space plane during Earth atmospheric entry

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576525004047
2•rbanffy•38m ago•0 comments

DeadliQ – AI-powered deadline tracking for important dates buried in documents

https://www.deadliq.com/
2•raresAIQ•41m ago•1 comments

Daily steps and health outcomes in adults: Systematic review and Meta-analysis

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(25)00164-1/fulltext
1•bookofjoe•43m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What now occupies a web domain you used to own?

2•rpjt•44m ago•3 comments

Radio Hobbyists, Rejoice Good News for LoRa and Mesh

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/radio-hobbyists-rejoice-good-news-lora-mesh
3•weinzierl•52m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: I built an ML pipeline automation framework – how can I improve it?

1•burakcvlk•59m ago•0 comments

Relax-and-Recover – Linux Disaster Recovery

https://relax-and-recover.org/
1•haunter•1h ago•0 comments

Four score and seven beers ago – Why AI writing detectors don't work

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/why-ai-detectors-think-the-us-constitution-was-written-by-ai/
3•rmason•1h ago•2 comments

Metasurfaces could be the next quantum information processors

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-metasurfaces-quantum-processors.amp
2•rbanffy•1h ago•0 comments

Post Office and telecommunications museum: online collection (German language)

https://onlinesammlung.museumsstiftung.de/detailsuche/collection
1•slow_typist•1h ago•0 comments

Visualizing TCP

https://research.swtch.com/tcpviz
2•AminZamani•1h ago•0 comments

Around 6k porn sites start checking ages in UK

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24v4dl5r16o
5•s-mon•1h ago•2 comments

Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/health/coronary-artery-calcium-heart.html
2•brandonb•1h ago•3 comments

UK should consider political donations cryptocurrency ban, says minister

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/15/uk-should-consider-political-donations-cryptocurrency-ban-says-minister-pat-mcfadden
8•PaulHoule•1h ago•0 comments
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Computational Thermoepistemics?

https://medium.com/@justinalmeida_67732/computational-thermoepistemics-63d9df3d101e
4•boredthoughts•10h ago

Comments

jxntb73•10h ago
I put your AI written-in-Markdown article into AI and asked it to respond critically. TLDR; LLMs cannot do science.

The concept of "Computational Thermoepistemics" ambitiously seeks to unify computation, thermodynamics, and information theory into a single theoretical framework claiming to reveal fundamental energy limits of AI and intelligence. While its interdisciplinary ambition is commendable, the framework overreaches by treating computational processes too literally as thermodynamic microstates with physical quantities like pressure and chemical potential, which lack rigorous empirical grounding in current computing technologies. The core claims about logical depth and undecidability bounding thermodynamic efficiency conflate abstract computability theory with physical energy costs in a way that oversimplifies highly distinct domains. Moreover, practical quantum advantages are currently limited by error correction and decoherence costs rather than fundamental thermodynamic laws, so the paper’s distinctions are mostly theoretical, not yet substantiated by experimental evidence. Biological efficiency comparisons often ignore the vastly different operational scales and purposes between brains and silicon AI. Finally, while energy-aware algorithm-hardware co-design and reversible computing are promising research paths, the lofty promises that energy efficiency gains could approach biological levels or exploit deep thermodynamic parallels remain speculative. Overall, the framework presents an intriguing synthesis but lacks conclusive validation, so it should be seen as a stimulating hypothesis rather than an established theory reshaping AI energy paradigms.

boredthoughts•7h ago
Thanks, I appreciate that, and definitely agree about speculative and hypothetical nature of the ideas, and did not intend to portray otherwise. I should add that human caveat at the outset.