Rob Carter

Writing about lunar mass drivers - what do you want to know?

New PitchBook data has Austin 4th in Q1 startup funding with $4.9B. That is $1.5B ahead of LA, $500M behind Boston, & nearly 2x last year’s record-breaking Q1. Can we keep up the momentum all year? 🤠🚀🦾

"The Great Debate was not the end of a question but the beginning of a revolution in our understanding of the universe." - Edwin Hubble

People are not aware that in the near future massive warehouses of robotic science factories will be exploring every possible avenue of inquiry in biology, chemistry, material science We will accomplish a thousand years of science in the next ten

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Continual learning might be the single-biggest dividend AI could earn.

According to the Weak Law of Large Numbers (WLLN) or the Bernoulli's theorem, if you repeat an experiment many times, the average of your results will get closer and closer to the expected (theoretical) average. i.e., for a sequence of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables, the sample average converges in probability to the theoretical expected value as the number of trials increases

The Enemy of Civilization is people who see a prosperous high trust society and think you're a fool for not defrauding it.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea. — Richard Feynman

If you really wanna get inspired then don't just take it from me, check out these guys' math journeys as well: @melbaldove's journey from "not a math person" to deriving batchnorm and building robot dynamics from scratch - melbournebaldove.com/logs/math-acad… @sayidislearning's story about overcoming his math anxiety - x.com/sayidislearnin… One of the most memorable snippets from Sayid's story: "Around the 60 day mark my brain was like ... "we thought this was a temporary thing, but it doesn't seem like you're going to stop doing this any time soon, so we're going to have to do some rewiring to make sure you're not feeling repulsed, you're not feeling anxious." And then magically one day these feelings just completely went away. ... When I was starting out learning math I wasn't really sure if that feeling of waking up and not looking forward to starting my day with math was ever going to go away. But I'm pretty sure that if you stick with something long enough, then it will just become the new normal for you. Your brain, your body will eventually be forced to adjust."

Could today be the day of three...? Not only is Starbase gearing up for more testing of both Booster 19 and Ship 39, but LC-36 in Florida is very much alive as well - Blue Origin is preparing for a hot fire test of New Glenn before the vehicle's third ever launch, currently scheduled for NET this Friday morning. 📸 - @NASASpaceflight Live coverage of all events beginning soon: links below!

Oh, mathematician Alvaro Lozano-Robelo is sharing his excellent 'Number Theory and Geometry' as a free E-book! Go check it out, 行くぞ！！！

Rocket Lab wins contract for three more iQPS launches: Rocket Lab has won a contract from Japanese radar satellite company iQPS for three additional Electron launches. The post Rocket Lab wins contract for three more iQPS launches appeared first… dlvr.it/TS11C7 #neuco

Thing looks to be in a great shape given it was a massive ball of plasma just 2 days ago

Physicists find material with almost 3 times the thermal conductivity of copper that could improve heat management of electronics significantly “Our result breaks the historic ceiling for heat transport in metallic materials” scientificamerican.com/article/new-me…

Pay attention, America: We went to the Moon & came back. It's quite likely it's going to become routine. As we now have an 'orbital economy,' where incredible services are provided from orbit, making companies billions of dollars—we may soon have a 'Moon economy.' —>

@InquiryMars The system that launches to space (This looks amazing btw)

Did You Know Light Can Slam Into Metal And Make It Move? Electromagnetic radiation does not just carry energy, it also carries momentum. So, when light reflects from a metal surface it can deliver a real mechanical push. This scene shows that push twice: First as a focused wave nudging a suspended metal plate in open space, then inside a resonant cavity where the field builds up and the force becomes much harder to ignore. What looks impossible at first is already part of real physics and real technology. For real examples, look at NIST’s radiation-pressure measurements, NASA’s solar sail work, and optical tweezers in biophysics.

The most sci-fi & space fairing build out I’ve seen on Earth 🌎

The Black Hole in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar - The Gargantua was renowned for being one of the most scientifically accurate depictions of a black hole ever created for cinema. The production team collaborated with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Kip Thorne to ensure the visuals were grounded in Einstein's general relativity equations. The team developed a new renderer called DNGR (Double Negative Gravitational Renderer) to simulate how light from the accretion disc and background stars would warp around the black hole. The film accurately depicts how the gravity of the black hole is so strong it bends the light from the back of the disc over and under the event horizon, making it appear as a halo or "rainbow of fire". Some individual frames took up to 100 hours to render, with one second of footage requiring approximately 2,400 hours of processing. The results were so accurate that they led to the publication of three peer-reviewed scientific papers. When the first actual photograph of a black hole (M87*) was released by the Event Horizon Telescope in 2019, it strikingly resembled the predictions made by Interstellar