Friday lightning talks are back at Bitspace, and #Bitaloo (@shourya742) is the because. They’d stopped for a while, and then he started them up again and somehow got the rest of us to plan our Fridays around them. Two weeks ago it was deterministic simulation testing. Last week was coherence and the orphan rules in Rust. He’s been deep in AI for quiet a while now, and basically everything he figures out ends up in front of us, which is one of the best deals any of us has ever gotten. We call them lightning talks, but each one #Bitaloo did, ran more than an hour, so it’s a bit less lightning and a bit more thunderous, and all Bitspace regulars have mutually agreed to call his talks "Thunder Talks" from now on. It’s been delightful and fun to see this happen. Someone gets curious about something, there’s a room full of people happy to listen, and a couple of hours later a bunch of us understand things we had no idea about the week before. Having a place where this can happen casually is a big part of why we’re here at Bitspace. The next AI Thunder Talk is tomorrow at 8pm. The start time is the only part we’re sure of, which is why dinner will be getting delivered to Bitspace!