The rambling ponderings of Eric "Gub" Snyder. I'm incurably curious. I ponder things like AI, the environment, sustainability, stranded assets, environmental stewardship, waste, waste reduction, thriving simply, living simply, genealogy, history, calendars, personal productivity...
Google DeepMind launches Gemini‑3, a 1.2T‑parameter multimodal model capable of generating 8K video from a single sentence and running on‑device inference under 200 ms for real‑time AR.
AI needs “integrity,” not just intelligence, argues a new Forbes analysis, calling for ethical, moral, and social safeguards in AI systems.
AI in oil & gas is now a $500B opportunity, with companies like ADNOC and Equinor already reporting hundreds of millions in AI-driven value.
1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds Saint Petersburg, opening Russia’s “window to Europe” and reshaping its geopolitical orientation for centuries.
1905 – At the Battle of Tsushima, Japan decisively defeats Russia’s Baltic Fleet, marking the first modern victory of an Asian power over a European empire and altering global power balances.
OpenAI model disproves an 80‑year‑old math conjecture OpenAI’s internal reasoning model produced a counterexample to Paul ErdÅ‘s’s 1946 unit distance problem, overturning a long‑standing assumption in combinatorial geometry. Why it matters: This is one of the strongest real‑world demonstrations of AI‑assisted mathematical discovery.
1521 – Reformation milestone: The Edict of Worms formally bans Martin Luther’s writings and declares him a heretic, helping set the stage for centuries of religious and political upheaval across Europe.
1908 – Oil reshapes the Middle East: The first major commercial oil strike in the region is made at Masjed Soleyman in Persia (now Iran), a discovery that transforms global energy markets and regional geopolitics.
