Before co-founding @kepler_ai_hq, @VinooGanesh led Spark at Palantir and built Project Frontline — a pioneering program for Forward Deployed Engineers. He takes us through the best practices of FDEs.

An AI model just rediscovered Kepler's law from latent space, with zero knowledge of orbital mechanics. And the same core architecture spans molecular dynamics, cell prediction, and even generating cancer treatment hypotheses. Title: JEPA-Anything: Learning Predictive Models across Different Worlds URL: In one sentence: it decomposes a target's representation into K orthogonal subspaces, each with its own dedicated predictor — "Orthogonal Predictive Factorization" (OPF) — and applies this single mechanism across radically different domains, from vision and biology to clinical data, control, and molecular dynamics. 🔭 Highlight 1: Rediscovering a physical law from latent space Trained only on orbital motion data, its latent frequency modes recovered Kepler's law f=(2π)⁻¹a⁻³/². The fitted slope was -1.4991 against a theoretical -1.5, with R²=0.9999999. 🧬 Highlight 2: Generating and validating a cancer treatment hypothesis Factor analysis on liver cancer data proposed combining IL-18 and CD73 blockade, which then showed the strongest tumor cell killing in actual patient-derived organoids. ⚛️ Highlight 3: Consistently strong across molecular dynamics and cell prediction It achieved the lowest error across 100-step molecular simulations of water, quartz, paracetamol, and benzene, and also beat prior methods on single-cell perturbation prediction. It's striking that one core architecture spans such wildly different scientific domains this well. #WorldModels# #AIforScience#

On this day in 1618, Johannes Kepler confirmed his Third Law of Planetary Motion: The square of a planet’s orbital period (T²) is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit (a³). The modern Newtonian derivation: > Equating gravitational force to centripetal force > Substituting orbital velocity v = 2πr/T > Resulting in T² / r³ = 4π² / (GM) The log-log graph confirms the relationship holds for planets in our Solar System. A foundational law that bridged empirical observation with gravitational physics.

World of Warcraft: Forever is dropping support for some older NVIDIA GPUs. The GTX 760, GTX 770, and GTX 780 are no longer supported because the game’s updated graphics require a feature these older Kepler GPUs lack. Ironically, the HD 7850 is still below official minimum specs but passes Blizzard’s basic hardware compatibility cutoff.

EssilorLuxottica, one of the best-rated blue chips in Europe, received a rare sell rating from broker Kepler Cheuvreux amid a stock-market rout that has seen the shares of the Ray-Ban maker lose 55% since November

Historical founders of modern science who were theists These framed their science as reading "God's book of nature,". Isaac Newton — devout but heterodox (anti-Trinitarian); wrote more on theology than physics. Johannes Kepler — saw planetary laws as discovering the Creator's geometry. Galileo — held that scripture and nature can't truly conflict. Robert Boyle — father of modern chemistry; funded lectures defending Christianity. Michael Faraday & James Clerk Maxwell — both serious Christians (Faraday a Sandemanian). Gregor Mendel — Augustinian friar, founder of genetics. Georges Lemaître — Catholic priest who proposed the Big Bang. Blaise Pascal — mathematician; the Pensées and the famous "wager."

Maryna Viazovska (Ukraine/Switzerland) She solved the sphere-packing problem in 8 dimensions. What’s the densest way to pack identical spheres? In 8D, the E₈ lattice is optimal. Her proof used modular forms with Fourier analysis. (Kepler’s 3D version took 400 years!)