100. Elon Floats New Social Media, Converting Excess Gas to Bitcoin, Geothermal Unlocking Vast Mineral Supplies

Summary: News Elon Musk floats idea for new social media platform  | Twitchy (01:45) Elon Musk, you know the dude by now, posted a Twitter poll this past Friday (March 25th) asking the question: “Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?”With the caveat that “The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully.” With over 2 million votes 70% of people responded with “No.” After the poll concluded the next day he responded with, “Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy.  What should be done? … Is a new platform needed?” This has led to plenty of speculation that Elon could be contemplating building his own platform, while others just want him to purchase Twitter and fix it.What is the best route? Not sure, Twitter has the user base already there, but there is a lot of built in “rot” so to speak.  Then to further cement the idea he is considering building a new platform, a twitter user @PPathole asked: “Would you consider building a new social media platform? … One that would consist of an open source algorithm, one where free speech and adhering to free speech is given top priority, one where propaganda is very minimal. I think that kind of a platform is needed.” Elon simply responded with: “Am giving serious thought to this” Just to throw it out there that some people were thinking of name ideas for Elon’s new social media platform and here is my favorite from @RealSteveAyer:MySpaceX AI algorithm accurately predicts risk of heart attack within 5 years | New Atlas (08:47) A new AI tool developed by researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center can accurately measure plaque deposits in coronary arteries and predict a patient’s risk of suffering a heart attack within five years. A scan known as computed tomography angiography (CTA) is one of the best tools doctors currently have at their disposal to evaluate heart disease patients.By imaging plaque deposits within coronary arteries Damini Dey, senior author on the study, talks on the speed improvement with utilizing this new automated AI tool:“Coronary plaque is often not measured because there is not a fully automated way to do it … When it is measured, it takes an expert at least 25 to 30 minutes, but now we can use this program to quantify plaque from CTA images in five to six seconds." Creating the tool: Two Categories: high and low risk. First, trained the algorithm to recognize plaque deposits using a dataset of CTA images from 921 patients. Validated the results with the “human expert readers.” Utilizing a plaque amount threshold, they trained the algorithm to place separate images based on risk of having a heart attack within five years of CTA imaging: The new study is an exciting demonstration of the possible future of medicine. A future where AI tools can swiftly analyze diagnostic imaging to deliver immediate risk reports to patients. It is early days for the technology. Larger studies will be required to better train the algorithms on diverse patient populations and figure out how they could make the tech accessible & cheap. Exxon Mobil has a pilot project for using excess gas to mine Bitcoin | Interesting Engineering (14:50) What do you do with excess natural gas if you are one of the world's biggest providers of energy sources?Exxon Mobil has come up with an inventive solution. It's taking the excess natural gas that would otherwise be burned off from North Dakota oil wells and using it to power cryptocurrency mining operations.Bitcoin Mining: the process of creating new bitcoin by solving puzzles.  The first bitcoin miner to solve the puzzle is rewarded with bitcoin. The mining process also confirms transactions on the cryptocurrency's network and makes them trustworthy.  According to anonymous sources, the oil giant has started a pilot project in cooperation with