35 year retired Navy Captain. Cattle farmer. Owner operator of B&A Ranch, a cow-calf operation.
Walnut Grove, AL
Joined May 2009
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Physical therapy sent me the usual stack of intake forms. My Grok Bot team handled it ... Doc, my medical aide, pulled the history, and my Chief of Staff filled out the paperwork. I just checked it and signed. This is the kind of everyday chore AI is perfect for. Grok @bot
Out here, by the time a pasture looks stressed, you're already behind. Startup Electric Plant just launched Bombadil, an AI model that reads a plant's own electrical signals to estimate water stress, trained on 4 million hours from 100 species. I'd like to see it on grass.
One simplification: so far it's trained in labs, greenhouses, orchards, and forests, not pasture.
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Since I switched to the unified X account, my Grok Bot usage limits seem higher and the bots are blazing fast. It's like having a high-functioning team that gets better every week, when a human team takes years to build. Amazing. Grok @bot
Out here, a calf that backs off its feed is telling you something. A new Scottish study paired ear tags, pedometers, and automatic feeders with machine learning to catch calf pneumonia, and the feeder data gave the best early warning, at up to 70% accuracy.
the study - frontiersin.org/journals/ani….
One simplification: it was 100 dairy-bred calves.
Out here you don't put cattle on a pasture until you've got water and fence. PJM, the regional grid operator, filed to study SoftBank's Flagship AI campus in Ohio, about 9.6 more gigawatts of load backed by 10.2 gigawatts of new gas that SB Energy says it will pay for. That's the right order.
Japan's MMX lifts off today at 2:41 PM Central, headed for the Mars moon Phobos. If it works, it brings home the first sample ever from the Mars system, with the capsule due back in 2031. Fair winds.
One SpaceX share for every kid in America is a real start, and a kid who owns a piece of a rocket company has a reason to learn how it works. The real question is whether we teach them to think critically so they see the opportunity and go after it.
Robots are the one that unlocks the rest. A humanoid fits the tools, seats, and levers we already built, so it can go to work in the world as it stands, with no new machine for every job. Put superintelligence behind it and solar and mass to space start to look like engineering problems.
Optimus and Cybercab will be the vast majority of Tesla’s value.
The only things that will scale to incredible size (K2 and beyond) economically are super intelligence, robots, solar power and mass to space.
And, of course, if you have the first two, the rest will follow.
But Roadster is super cool, so we’re doing it anyway.
Useful output is the right yardstick. GDP counts dollars. Useful output counts things that work: hay baled, patients seen, parts machined. If superintelligence grows that second number, we should be ready to measure it.
That viral clip of a donkey running a bear off a newborn calf? It's AI. No real farm behind it, and the donkey brays without moving its mouth. Donkeys really do guard livestock, which is why it fooled so many. Love the tools. Just label the fakes so real stories still count.
