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Escape Velocity

M.L. Pedrosa / May 10, 2026

Ray Kurzweil’s books predict the Singularity by 2045 and longevity escape velocity by 2029. Here’s what the science actually says.

A glowing artificial neuron — branching dendrites radiating outward — with a semiconductor circuit grid visible beneath it like a substrate, amber and gold light against deep black. Spiking waveforms travel along the axon like electrical impulses

AI & Scientific Discovery

The Silicon Synapse

M.L. Pedrosa / May 10, 2026

Intel’s Loihi 3 packs 8 million artificial neurons on a 4nm chip. Neuromorphic computing is no longer a research curiosity — it’s approaching commercial scale.

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Medicine & Drug Discovery, AI & Scientific Discovery

Before the First Pill

M.L. Pedrosa / May 10, 2026

AI is building mathematical models of individual human bodies to simulate drug responses before a single patient is dosed. The FDA has noticed.

A single crystalline glass tumbles in slow motion off the edge of a glowing teal lattice of neural connections, suspended against a deep void. Beneath the glass, a faint shatter ripple of light.

AI & Scientific Discovery

The Glass Falls

M.L. Pedrosa / May 3, 2026

Today’s AI writes sonnets and finds 27-year-old bugs overnight. It still can’t picture a falling glass. Inside the four missing pieces of the LLM, May 2026.

A vast AI data center megacampus photographed from low orbit at night, its server buildings arranged in precise geometric grids, ablaze with cold electric-blue and cyan light. Power transmission lines radiate outward in every direction like veins across a dark landscape. Cooling towers exhale white vapor. In the sky above, a ring of orbital satellites trails luminous data-link beams back toward Earth. The curvature of the planet is just visible at the upper edge of the frame. The mood is monumental, urgent, and faintly ominous -- the feeling of a machine that has outgrown its planet. Cinematic scientific concept art, deep shadows, ultra-detailed, electric cyan and near-black palette, dramatic aerial perspective.

AI & Scientific Discovery

The Machine that Needs a Planet

M.L. Pedrosa / May 1, 2026

AI data centers now consume as much power as Japan. From ASML’s EUV monopoly to orbital satellites, here’s who controls the race to power artificial intelligence.

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AI & Scientific Discovery, Mathematics

AlphaTensor

M.L. Pedrosa / April 30, 2026

LISA PEDROSA ← All Articles Mathematics · Computer Science About Articles Contact 4 × 4 INPUT 4 × 4 INPUT

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Mathematics, AI & Scientific Discovery

The Cap Set Problem

M.L. Pedrosa / April 30, 2026

Lisa Pedrosa Mathematics · Combinatorics No Three in Line Copy Link LinkedIn CAP SET: n=8 SIZE: 512 FUNSEARCH 2023 PREV

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AI & Scientific Discovery, Mathematics

The Knot Theory

M.L. Pedrosa / April 30, 2026

Lisa Pedrosa Science · Technology · Future ←All Articles Mathematics · Topology Home Articles Speciest Mission Contact HYPERBOLIC VOLUME NATURAL

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AI & Scientific Discovery

The Fourth State

M.L. Pedrosa / April 29, 2026

An AI trained on dusty plasma revealed two laws of physics were wrong. Here’s what the machine found – and why it matters for chips, fusion, and the stars.

A dramatic cross-section of tectonic plates at a subduction zone — glowing amber fault lines where one plate slides beneath another, with abstract neural network nodes and connection lines overlaid on the rock strata. Above the surface, a towering tidal wave forming at the coastline, and in the upper right, a storm cell with lightning. Deep near-black background tinted amber-gold.

AI & Scientific Discovery, Climate Science

Hour Before The Wave

M.L. Pedrosa / April 17, 2026

Neural networks can now detect tectonic deformation hours before megathrust earthquakes. AI is also transforming flood forecasting — but what about disasters that have never happened before?