Ram Ravichandran

@Gedmark This is huge! Congrats all!

Huge update from Astranis Mission Control: all four Block 2 satellites have successfully completed initial commissioning and are now headed to GEO using their on board ion thrusters. This is a huge deal. Here are some highlights from our first week and half on orbit: - Nominal deployment in our target orbit: 400km x 65,000km x 12.5 deg inclination (thank you SpaceX) - All pre-separation logic and separation autonomy worked perfectly, and all autonomous deployments (solar arrays, ion thruster gimbals, and secondary antenna reflectors) successfully completed - Checkouts of thermal management systems, power subsystems, software, and GNC - Reaction wheel, SADA, and monopropellant thruster commissioning - Monoprop detumble and transition to fine pointing control using reaction wheels and star trackers - Sun-pointing mode achieved for maximum power generation - High rate TTC downlink and download of onboard data - Subreflector boom deployment and verification via photodiode telemetry - Ion thruster gimbal commissioning, demonstrating successful gimbal deployment - Simultaneous command of all 5 Astranis satellites, using 9 different ground stations across 4 continents - 100% successful deployments: all solar arrays, booms, gimbals, reflectors, splashplates — 60x total hold down release mechanism deployments without issue - Test-fired and characterized all 8 monoprop thrusters on all 4 satellites (32x thrusters total) - Commissioned the Electric Propulsion (EP) system, including successfully test-firing each satellite's ion thruster - Conducted an initial payload checkout on all 4 vehicles— the Software-Defined Radios, RF front end electronics, high-power amplifiers (TWTAs), and LNAs have all been checked out and are performing nominally - Executed long-duration EP burns on all four vehicles, and have beginning orbit raises to GEO from our current GTO orbits In short: the satellites are working great and are on their way to GEO where they will start their missions for our customers. All of our hard work — designing, testing, manufacturing, and operating — is paying off. LET’S GO.

This is gonna be electrifying!!! Can't wait to test this out.

@chamath Perhaps "science" just says the field is newer?

Peter Thiel has a comment that I love: "Things that are real sciences don't need to put 'science' at the end of it." Its Physics. Not Physics Science. Its Chemistry. Not Chemistry Science. Its Biology. Not Biology Science. Its Electrical Engineering. Not Electrical Engineering Science With science, you will learn exactly the same things, no matter where you go to school. While this may seem like a bad thing, I think its a great thing. The laws of physics don't change just because you went to a state school vs Ivy League. Now, if you think about other "sciences" however, there is a lot of variance depending on where you go to school. Social Science? Political Science? Even Computer Science varies wildly from school to school. Some universities try to create a mystique that you will be taught something or by someone or meet someone that will change your life when pursuing these other "sciences". This may be true in some circumstances but the odds of success are probably much higher for the broader population if you can focus on indelible content (ie real science) that describes how the world works. And you can learn THAT, on a level playing field with everyone, anywhere.

Rust adoption is going to skyrocket thanks to ChatGPT + Codex - sample size of 1.

@jamescham At least if you are too early, all you have to do is wait.

Being too early is as painful as being too late. But God bless those hearty folks who were willing to take the plunge.

The burning question is why was the rubber chicken image in the Twitter backend in the first place. cc: @wm @gregpass twitter.com/TechCrunch/sta…

@jco My rule of thumb: if it took you longer to get to the salon than your time in the salon....

@paraga @jack Congrats @paraga !

Deep gratitude for @jack and our entire team, and so much excitement for the future. Here’s the note I sent to the company. Thank you all for your trust and support 💙

@mattknox ...and I just read @marius' tweet. This is why I don't tweet often anymore. :)

@mattknox Copilot looks amazing, though I think they should rename it to Pilot. My worry is that as programmers, we can't spot semantic mistakes in generated code. A true "copilot" would be watching the code I write, and call out potential logical mistakes I make.

Github copilot is FASCINATING. A bunch of the code suggestions are fairly poor (the LRU cache doesn't work and is very slow on insert), but the code is often surprisingly idiomatic. It is a bit alarming, though-it's harder to read code than write it, and bugs can be hard to see.

@Hertz The DM "support" I got from @Hertz was "Please continue to work with the local team." 😖. I keep forgetting companies still use Twitter as a social media tool and not as a 'customer support' tool.

@Hertz Is there an ETA here? Or is this an autoresponding bot?

@rsarver I don't want to start a bayesian vs frequentist war here, but honestly frequentist methods don't work. That coupled with observer effect, is not a recipe for success. Think Netflix recommendation vs. Nielsen rating.

I know we all distrusted polling after 2016, but they should all find a new job after tonight. I don't care what justification they use in the coming weeks. You're just bad at your chosen profession.

Super excited about this. We've been using Findem for over 6 months - one of the highest ROI tools we've bought at Narvar.

Today's the day! We're excited to announce the launch of Findem's People Intelligence platform. You can learn all about how we're helping HR and talent teams make more strategic, data-driven people decisions here: findem.ai/resources/intr… #HRTech #artificalintelligence #talent

@mattknox @katgleason @thesmart You are very kind. The promised BTC will be sent to your wallet ;).

@katgleason @ram @thesmart Ram is a monster hacker and about the best person I know at eating an arbitrary CS paper (eg. fingerprinting audio clips with FFT) and dumping a pile of C that implements the full system in ~2 days. Also a phenomenal human. <3

has anyone considered signing on employees like pro sports teams sign on star athletes? - set schedule - aggressive comp - set duration / commitment - options / benefits deals - both sides know it’s not forever - come in, do great work, make an impact & move on with a stake

@evan Ubuntu Desktop is very actually usable.

@SFStreetCrime @Walgreens @sfchronicle @SFGate @CleanUpWestSoma @JohnEvansKCBS @LondonBreed @SFPD This is because @SFPD has continued to not take serious crimes that only involve property damage. When my motorcycle was hit and run, and I had the miscreant recorded on video, they just said I had what I needed to file insurance, and won't take action.

.@Walgreens at Market and Van Ness finally closing after continued shoplifting has made business unsustainable. Final day is Aug 31. Looting still occurring as of today (8/17) @sfchronicle @SFGate @CleanUpWestSoma @JohnEvansKCBS @LondonBreed @SFPD

@chetanp @lhknightbbc Actually, `che12`

@lhknightbbc LOL 😂😂

I can already tell I'm going to be irritated next week when everyone learns how to pronounce "'X Æ A-12" and still struggle with "chetan"