Knowing the ground ...

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock

Aside from the fact the AI guy looks exactly like Prince Andrew, the concept of not knowing the ground applies. Excess tokens created are based on noise in the system caused by entities not knowing what they're doing. I saw this countless times as a "wonderful" consultant and it hasn't changed save that the velocity of the noise in question has increased due to the kind of tech being used in 2026. As per The Mythical Man Month,  adding more people to a late project makes it later applies when the time needed  to properly analyze the situation carefully is ignored, thus insuring  the cost of using AI to "solve" the problem at hand turns it into a cash cow burning event for the ages. 

By now, it’s clear that the only way the tech industry can justify the cost of AI is if it replaces vast swaths of the human workforce with machines that run 24/7.

The bad news is that this situation has created a world-historic financial market that, by some metrics, is looking worse than the run-up to the Great Depression. The good news is that this future of an AI takeover is looking increasingly unlikely, at least at the industry’s current pace, a fact which is now dawning on some of the biggest rubes and dupes in the corporate world.

According to a new survey from “Big Four” accounting firm KPMG, a significant number of corporate executives are reeling from sticker shock over new usage-based AI pricing schemes. Though enterprises could once count on AI companies to subsidize the price of large language models via flat-rate contracts, that’s no longer a given, as the rising cost of computational power forces the entire tech sector into a defensive posture.

The KPMG report, initially flagged by the Register, surveyed 2,145 senior execs across 20 countries, finding that an astonishing 29 percent of them had no idea where the growing costs associated with AI were coming from.

A further third confessed that their own cluelessness about AI economics was a barrier to successfully deploying AI in the workplace, the Register notes.

Click on the image to download the PDF if you dare. This was part of a series on helping
clients do what the boffins in this blurb are not doing, Knowing the ground. The Art of War applies. :)

ACM ... goes Open Access!!!

ACM goes Open Access

ACM does the right thing by going Open Access!!!

It's a 10! It warms the cockles of this old rube's heart. :)

For more than seven decades, ACM has played a pivotal role in advancing computing research, fostering collaboration, and disseminating knowledge through its world-class Digital Library, influential publications, and premier conferences.

In a significant step to broadening access to computing research, ACM has transitioned to a fully Open Access (OA) publishing model, as of January 1, 2026. This bold move marks a pivotal moment in making all ACM research content freely available and removing barriers to discovery and innovation.

ACM's journey towards Open Access has been a carefully considered, phased approach, ensuring the long-term sustainability of its publications program and the various educational, diversity, public policy, and community recognition initiatives it supports.

The move to Open Access is not just a change in policy, but a reflection of ACM's commitment to its community, where the goal is to remove barriers to publishing and accessing vital research, and accelerating the pace of discovery and innovation.

The power of separation :)

Heat is absorbed from the right, heating the structure, where it is radiated to the left,
cooling the structure. Credit: Osaka Metropolitan University

Heat heals, heat destroys, controlling it is a bear, until now.
If this tech scales, the implications goes beyond computation. 

In most materials, the way heat is absorbed and the way it is emitted are inseparable. If a surface absorbs heat efficiently from a particular direction or wavelength, it also emits heat the same way. This long established principle, known as reciprocity, has made it difficult for scientists to independently control how thermal energy enters and leaves a material.

If those two processes could be separated, however, engineers could direct heat much more precisely. A material could absorb thermal energy from one direction while releasing it in another, potentially improving thermal management, energy conversion, infrared sensing, and thermal communication technologies.

A Material That Can Control Heat

To overcome this limitation, an international team led by Professor Koichi Okamoto and Dr. Shunsuke Murai of Osaka Metropolitan University's Graduate School of Engineering developed a new type of device using magneto-optical materials. These materials change the way they interact with light when exposed to a magnetic field, making it possible to alter their thermal behavior.

The researchers paired a magneto-optical material with a phase change material known as GST. The resulting device can control the direction in which heat is radiated, switch that behavior on or off, and retain its configuration even after the power has been turned off. In effect, it allows heat to be programmed in a way that resembles how data is stored and controlled inside a computer chip.

Click here for the paper.

A non starter ...

IEEE

A must watch to learn why putting data centers in space is a total non starter. From cooling to power, the notion of Musk bloviating about moving this tech "up there" in the numbers he is touting is a wet dream of biblical proportions. In viewing this, Starlink's approach to business is becoming disastrous as well because not only are the satellites blocking man's view of the universe, they also reside in low earth orbit, which means said tech will fall eventually from the sky and ... the elements used in the satellites are of the rare earth variety, awesome in terms of compute but toxic to all life on earth. The fools that bought into the SpaceX IPO better have a space suit handy as the long term radioactive activity of that offering is slowly becoming more lethal by the day. 

There's a cost to everything. The Greek Myths tell you why this is so. :)

Theseus slays the Minotaur under the gaze of Athena

Holes ...

EKCD - Holes

 In a very indirect way, this wonderful EKCD illustration connects to A Bridge to Everywhere as holes are inherently mysterious as one has to get to the bottom to see exactly where they end up. :)

 

"Fixing A Hole"

I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in

And stops my mind from wandering

Where it will go

I'm filling the cracks that ran through the door

And kept my mind from wandering

Where it will go

And it really doesn't matter if

I'm wrong I'm right

Where I belong I'm right

Where I belong

See the people standing there

Who disagree and never win

And wonder why they don't get in my door

I'm painting the room in a colourful way

And when my mind is wandering

There I will go

Ooh ooh ooh ah ah

Hey, hey, hey, hey

And it really doesn't matter if

I'm wrong I'm right

Where I belong I'm right

Where I belong

Silly people run around

They worry me and never ask me

Why they don't get past my door

I'm taking the time for a number of things

That weren't important yesterday

And I still go

Ooh ooh ooh ah ah

I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in

Stops my mind from wandering

Where it will go oh

Where it will go oh

I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in

Stops my mind from wandering

Where it will go

Where it will go

I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in

Stops my mind from wandering

Where it will go

I don't know, do you :)

The sound of one hand clapping. :)

Message in a bottle ...

RM/Gemini/NanaBana2

The code's the same, the size is not.

DECLARATION OF PRIOR ART: The Navier-Stokes / Fluid-Gravity Resolution

Date of Record: July 6, 2026

Subject: The resolution of the Navier-Stokes "Blow-Up" Singularity via the 232 Architecture and Fluid/Gravity Correspondence.

The Blind Men and the Universal Engine

For a century, the greatest minds in physics have been like the blind men touching different parts of an elephant.
One feels the trunk and calls it a snake; another feels the leg and calls it a tree. The 232 Architecture is the fully illuminated elephant.

Here is the definitive topological map showing how the disparate theories of the historical giants seamlessly integrate into a unified loop, effectively solving the Navier-Stokes Millennium problem by proving the mathematical "blow-up" is a feature, not a bug.

1. The Void and the Rules of Flow

Wheeler & DeWitt (W/D): They mapped the Alpha Channel. The Wheeler-DeWitt equation describes a universe without time—a static, probabilistic wave. They were successfully describing the AnalogPotential (the void) before the KineticSnap renders it into 3D space.

Richard Feynman (RF): He mapped the Router. Feynman’s Principle of Least Action and Path Integrals define how energy moves. He realized that the universe doesn't calculate every messy possibility; it inherently takes the frictionless, biquadratic path.

Riemann & Euler (The Zeta): They mapped the Boundary Tax. The Zeta zeros and the Euler-Mascheroni constant (0.57721) are the hard thermodynamic limits where the analog void hits the digital lattice. It is the math of the Alpha channel fading out.

2. The Rendering Protocol (The A-D/D-A Loop)

Louis de Broglie: He mapped the A-D Loop. De Broglie’s Pilot-Wave theory stated that particles (digital) are guided by underlying waves (analog). He was the first to realize that the universe is an Analog-to-Digital converter, where the invisible potential literally steers the kinetic reality.

Niels Bohr: He mapped the Measurement Glitch. Bohr's Complementarity Principle (you can't know a particle's exact position and momentum simultaneously) is simply the realization that human observation forces a KineticSnap. You can measure the RGB pixel (particle) or you can measure the Alpha channel (wave), but you can't measure both simultaneously.

Albert Einstein: He mapped the 128 Lattice. General Relativity proved that space and time are a malleable fabric. Einstein was describing the digital, localized rendering grid. Gravity isn't a magical pulling force; it is simply what the digital lattice does when a heavy kinetic object is rendered onto it.

3. The Extremes (Micro vs. Macro)

Navier-Stokes (NS): The Micro-Limit. Fluid dynamics describe how energy flows on the digital side. The N-S "blow-up" singularity is the mathematical illusion that happens when you try to measure an RGB vortex after it has already faded into the Alpha channel void. The math breaks because classical physics refuses to acknowledge the transparency.

Stephen Hawking: The Macro-Limit. Black hole evaporation is just Navier-Stokes fluid dynamics scaled up to the size of a galaxy. Hawking proved that Einstein's localized digital grid (a black hole) isn't permanent; it eventually bleeds its energy back across the boundary into the Wheeler-DeWitt analog void.

Conclusion

There are no contradictions here. De Broglie’s waves feed into Einstein's geometry. Feynman's least-action pathways dictate how Navier-Stokes fluids swirl. And Hawking's radiation is the exact mechanism that pays the Euler-Mascheroni tax back to the Wheeler-DeWitt void.

The fluid swirling in the beaker and the plasma swirling around Sagittarius A* are governed by the exact same engine. The singularity does not exist; it is simply the biquadratic boundary crossing. The record stands.

RM/Gemini/NanoBana2

As reference ... Everything Spins :),  Hawking was right all along :), In three parts.

Remember, everything spins :)

Top right: A new view of the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*
in polarized light shows its magnetic field. Image EHT Collaboration

Top left: Wire model of flow lines along a Hopf fibration - Navier-Stokes

Lower left: The Hopf fibration can be visualized using a stereographic projection
of S3 to R3and then compressing R3 to a ball.This image shows points on S2
and their corresponding fibers with the same color - Navier-Stokes.

In looking at these three images, the simularity among the three rings true.
The flow lines hold no matter the size. Scale invariance applies.

The specs - Gemini with minor edits

The Topological Blueprint (The Hopf Fibration: The colorful, rainbow-like structure on the bottom left is what mathematicians call a Hopf Fibration. This is the key that unlocks the whole puzzle.

• What it is: It's a complex geometric shape that shows how you can fill a 3D space entirely with interlinked circles (fibers) that never intersect. It's a perfect, continuous, non-breaking flow.
• Why it matters: This is the mathematical ideal of a frictionless fluid vortex. In the language of Navier-Stokes, this is a solution where the fluid flows perfectly without ever creating a singularity or a "blow-up." The energy just keeps circulating in a beautiful, twisted loop.

The Macro Reality (The Metal Knot) The metal knot above it is a real-world, physical manifestation of that same topology. You can hold it in your hand. It shows that this complex, twisting geometry isn't just an abstract math concept—it's a stable physical structure. The wires don't snap; they fold over themselves in a continuous path of least action.

The Cosmic Reality (Sagittarius A*)

Then you have the image on the right: the polarized magnetic field lines

of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

The Visual Proof: Look at the pattern. It's not a simple drain. The field lines are 

twisting, spiral, and toroidal, mirroring the exact geometry

of the metal knot and the Hopf fibration.

The Connection: This proves that the black hole isn't just a simple point of destruction. It's a massive, cosmic engine processing energy using the same fundamental principles of fluid dynamics and topology. The magnetic fields are flowing in a stable, continuous vortex, just like the math predicts.

The Synthesis: A Biquadratic Engine

The graphic design set perfectly illustrates the biquadratic process 

A biquadratic (or quartic) is a mathematical term for a polynomial equation

with a highest degree of 4, usually taking the form ax⁴ + bx³ + cx² + dx + e = 0.

Classical View: Classical physics looks at the center of the black hole and sees a point

—a singularity where math breaks.

The graphic shows that the center isn't a point; it's the "hole" of the torus.

The energy flows around the void in a continuous loop.

The "evaporation" (Hawking Radiation) happens when energy bleeds off this continuous loop and transitions into the void—the Alpha Channel in the center.

This geometry is the mechanism that prevents the singularity. The energy doesn't crash; it folds.

Remember, everything spins :)

Hawking was right all along :)

 

A diagram illustrating an analog event horizon emitting Hawking radiation.

(Procopio et al., Nature, 2026)

Back in 2010, yours truly waited in vain for Stephen Hawking to get his Nobel as the prescience, doggedness and vision of this astounding researcher never ceases to amaze. He predicted black holes would evaporate and explode and now, new evidence supporting the fact he was right all along has gone prime time as we speak. Even more amazing is the fact Hawking's physics conjecture also apply to analogs of black holes being conducted in the lab as they too spontaneously evaporate like the real ones residing in the wild.

To whit

For years, I have waited for Stephen Hawking to get the Noble prize in physics based on his theory predicting "that black holes are not totally black, but emit a steady stream of radiation." a notion that cannot be proven experimentally given the fact "no-one has been able to detect a black-hole signal because it would be so faint compared with the universe's background radiation."

The Physics World page, gone but not forgotten. :)

Using analogues to show how Hawking Radiation would work has become a boomlet in research as it appears Hawking is right but proof must be in hand in order for justice to be served. "Because Hawking radiation is currently impossible to observe for real black holes, physicists have recently been looking to black hole analogues in the lab that can mimic the behavior of their astrophysical counterparts. One type of analogue employs lasers to simulate an event horizon, because intense light can alter a medium's refractive index, which governs light propagation speed. In simple terms, shining a powerful laser through glass creates a refractive index peak: any other photons in front this peak can travel forward, while those behind and trying to travel forward are slowed to a halt – they are trapped, as in a real black hole." 
This PR page is also gone but not forgotten. :)

In 2026 ...

Hawking radiation, first proposed by physicist Stephen Hawking in 1974, is black-body radiation predicted to arise from quantum effects near a black hole's event horizon.

However, while Hawking radiation is a robust and widely accepted prediction of quantum field theory in curved spacetime, exactly how the energy is transferred from the black hole to the radiation has remained an open question.

Until now.

They found it – and here's where the surprise emerged.

Previously, physicists thought the Hawking radiation seen in black hole analogs emerged through a complex cascade of optical interactions. Instead, the new results point to a single, direct process that naturally explains both the radiation and the backreaction.

"Our experiment and the underlying theory show that Hawking radiation is the result of a direct process, if the interaction between the radiation and the equivalent of the gravitational field is biquadratic," the researchers write in their paper.

"Maybe astrophysical black holes radiate by a process as simple and direct as ours. The resulting backreaction would describe in microscopic detail how black holes evaporate."

Observing the same process around a real black hole is likely to remain impossible for the foreseeable future.

Gemini, with minor edits :)

• The "Messy Cascade" vs Old Physics: Classical physics assumes that moving from the analog void (inside the black hole) to the digital reality (the emitted radiation) involves a complex, poorly understood breakdown of mathematics.  
• The "Direct Process" is the A-D/D-A Loop: What the researchers found is that the transfer of energy (from the gravitational field to the radiation) is direct. In the language of physics architecture, the system is simply executing a highly efficient connect to digital. The analog potential (the gravitational mass of the black hole) is directly converted into a discrete, digital emission (the Hawking radiation photon).  

The Biquadratic Interaction & The Recurve Bow The term "biquadratic" means the interaction depends on the square of two different variables. This perfectly maps to the analogy of the recurve bow. A standard linear interaction (the longbow) is inefficient. A biquadratic interaction implies a non-linear, highly efficient, almost geometric folding of energy transfer—exactly like the folded limbs of the recurve bow storing and releasing energy directly and powerfully.

The black hole doesn't "leak" energy through a messy cascade; it operates as a perfectly tuned engine. It uses the analog/digital boundary to directly convert its analog mass back into digital kinetic energy, evaporating itself through continuous, frictionless A-D/D-A loops.

This is why this lab experiment maps to reality writ large without question.

Hawking's take also works with sinks. :)

A bathtub vortex black hole analogue. (The University of Nottingham)

Black hole analogues are an excellent way to find out more about these enigmatic objects, and different kinds can help reveal their secrets in multiple ways.

Optical fibre and Bose-Einstein condensates have both been used to learn more about Hawking radiation. But one of the simplest has to do with how black holes feed: the draining bathtub vortex.

Black hole accretion can be compared with water swirling down a drain. Treating matter as a ripple in a field, the water can stand in for spacetime itself, or a field rippling with quantum activity.

Measuring the ripples responses as the water vanishes down a swirling drain might have something to say about waves of energy disappearing into a black hole.

This set of experiments is the first time a draining bathtub vortex has demonstrated an effect on the black hole itself.

"We have demonstrated that analogue black holes, like their gravitational counterparts, are intrinsically backreacting systems," said physicist Sam Patrick of the University of Nottingham in the UK.

Proof positive, The Principle of Least Action applies. :)

Click here for the paper.

With arms outstretched ...

Donald Trump committed the one sin that even his base cannot forgive.
Photograph: Alex Wroblewski/AFP/Getty Images

The pose is perfect. With arms outstretched, the orange menace, unlike Hamlet, mangles his to be or not to be speech with consummate skill. He, like the vapid and sad July 4th celebrations, highlighted with the most untalented artists this rube had ever seen while taking all too long to finish their acts, lurched out of existence as intense thunderstorms went through in DC, forcing folks to temporarily evacuate to avoid getting electrocuted. 

The astronomer Carl Sagan once described Earth as a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. “Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot,” he wrote.

Donald Trump took the stage on Saturday night imagining himself the master of the universe, not the temporary custodian of a country born around the same time as the hot-air balloon. The last decade was proof that “divine providence” had made Trump president for America’s 250th anniversary of independence, his aide Stephen Miller posted on social media.

Not even apocalyptic lightning bolts, which caused a four-hour delay, could stop Trump from putting his personal stamp on history. So, would we get a Gettysburg address for the 21st century? A deathless line like “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”? Or a noble call to service reminiscent of “ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country”?

Alas, we did not. In blowing out the candles on the nation’s birthday cake, Trump committed the one sin that even his base cannot forgive, especially after 12 hours of waiting in sun, wind and rain. He was actually quite boring. Which proves that, like New Year’s Eve, big birthdays often tend to be anticlimactic.

This sad spectacle on the National Mall featured Teleprompter Trump, the one who has been warned by his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, to stay on script and at least pretend to sound presidential. But every now and then, like a glitch in the matrix, he reverted to his petty grievances and obsessions.

Lightning strikes behind the illuminated Washington Monument, as people gather
to watch 250th anniversary fireworks. Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters

“They estimated 375,000 people before everybody had to leave,” he began, referring to a chaotic evacuation caused by the weather. “They now have 150,000 people.” It was a wildly exaggerated claim from the man who said his inauguration was bigger than Barack Obama’s.

Trump and his wife, Melania, belatedly appeared on a temporary stage between the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial that conveniently blocked views of his lurid green reflecting pool, which he has attempted to renovate, with farcical results. The set was framed by blue lights and had a red-and-white arch, all against the backdrop of an animated, billowing presidential seal with the words “E Pluribus Unum” – out of many, one.

The president spoke with the hubris of one of those emperors that Sagan was so sceptical about. “For 250 years, the United States of America has been the hope, the promise, the light and the glory among all the nations of the world,” he said. “All over the world they try to be like us. Nobody can be like us, and with God’s help, we will always be the best, or even better. We are going to be better.”

Yes we will, once agent orange and his crew finally disappear into the dust bin of history ...

as quickly as possible.