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The Most Unsettling Science and Science Fiction Ideas with Isaac Arthur

The Spookiest Ideas in the Universe with Isaac Arthur.

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Tencent’s futuristic new headquarters is twice the size of Apple’s

The office is no longer just a cubicle— but it’s also not a children’s playground.

Corporate giants often hold pride in their headquarters, its design, and its acclaim among contemporaries. Chinese tech giant Tencent is set to redefine this corporate landscape with plans for its new headquarters, Tencent Helix.

Envisioned by renowned German architect Ole Scheeren of the Büro Ole Scheeren Group, the ambitious project was unveiled on Thursday and promises to be a headquarters of the future, accommodating over 23,000 employees across an expansive 500,000 square meters – almost double the size of Apple’s California headquarters.

Digital renderings shared exclusively with CNN showcase a helix-inspired masterpiece with four towers spiraling out from a central space named the Vortex Incubator. Speaking to CNN, Scheeren emphasized that his swirling vortex geometry, will establish an ecosystem where everything comes together, where work merges into a very collaborative interactive environment.

OpenAI Is Now Unambiguously Profit-Driven, And That’s A Good Thing

The recent drama at OpenAI, where CEO Sam Altman was briefly dismissed by the board of directors only to be rapidly reinstated, has sparked discussion about the company prioritizing profits over its original nonprofit mission.

In fact, no company is purely profit-driven, nor should they be. While profits are paramount to survival in the competitive marketplace, they should always be pursued with a degree of social responsibility. What that means will of course vary from person to person and context to context. Still, profits act like a guardrail that prevents managers of organizations from over-indulging their passions. OpenAI’s strict reversal in recent weeks is a clear-cut example of this.

The embrace of capitalism and the pursuit of profits is not just a pragmatic choice to satisfy investors. It will make OpenAI better at achieving its mission of safe and responsible AI, by curtailing the worst excesses of those with power within the company. In a world where artificial intelligence may hold the key to our future, profit isn’t just good, it’s essential for ensuring progress stays on track and remains ethical.

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Researchers quantify the onset of turbulence in a pipe bent back on itself

How much stress do pipes undergo when a liquid flows through them, and how does it depend on the degree of curvature of the pipe?

Bends in pipes are especially crucial, for example in the aortic arch that connects to the left ventricle of the human heart. Piping systems in industrial plants often include bends of 90 degrees or more, can be helical, and can even have 180-degree bends. Fluid mechanists in Sweden have analyzed in such pipes with a 180-degree bend. Their research is published in the journal Physical Review Fluids.

Bends in pipes are different than their straight sections because, in the curved sections, there are outward centrifugal forces due to the inertia of the liquid inside. That force is balanced by a pressure gradient from the outer wall of the to the inner wall. Because the fluid velocities in an imaginary slice through the pipe will not be equal in the curved section—for example, the velocity near the outer wall of the pipe will be greater than near the inner wall—a secondary pattern, besides the motion through the pipe, is set up perpendicular to the main flow direction.

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