Matthieu Richard

It’s always been about the questions

Le paradoxe de Fermi est naze à mon avis. Si on existe, c'est sûr que d'autres planètes portent aussi la vie. On n'est pas uniques, pas besoin de se casser la tête. Relativement peu d'espèces vivantes arrivent au stade de l'ingénierie de la communication radio. Même si certaines l'atteignent, les distances rendent la réception impossible à cause de 1/d^2 et accessoirement car leur soleil ajoute du bruit. Pour le voyage spatial c'est encore moins probable, et pour les planètes plus massives que la terre ça peut être impossible. Pour les quelques qui auraient réussi à se mettre en orbite, pas toutes pourraient avoir un carburant permettant le voyage interstellaire, ni l'ambition ou le besoin de le faire. Ni le besoin de le faire sur toute la galaxie. Vu le temps et l'énergie que ça prend, la propagation n'en est peut être qu'à des débuts. Après tout, on existe sous forme capable du vol spatial à 5 milliards d'années après la formation du 2 ème soleil ici car impossible de créer de la vie pendant le 1er soleil avant son explosion. Donc espèces vivantes, oui dans beaucoup de systèmes solaires. Des espèces communicantes qu'on pourrait recevoir ou encore pire, interstellaires? % infiniment faible.

Grok 4.5 : "A ~180 m spot at 400 Mkm is “fuck the inverse square” territory if you can put that spot on the receivers" 😆

Tow this home and stand it up as a monument!

5.6 Sol and Fable 5 will fight like crazy on scientific research work. Doing literature review now, Codex is catching so many errors of Claude.

I am really enjoying the speed of Grok 4.5. It's now my workhorse.

Anthropic have been really good at building huge latent resentment in their user base. I feel like they are going to pay for it dearly.

Fastest aura loss I’ve seen in a long time…

Congrats England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 !!!

You can always count on the English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 to give France 🇫🇷 a proper lesson 🤣

Cool pictures in the latest Starship video

I think AI has just hit a gigantic threshold, and Grok 4.5 is the PERFECT example as to why that is. One of the hardest parts of working with AI is iterating on a project or task that you're working on. As the models have gotten smarter (and more expensive), it's taking longer and longer to get an answer or action back. This creates a ton of stall time per query or action, which is actually quite bad for creativity and staying in a state of flow. You have SO many extended starts and stops. Which inevitably leads to your brain going somewhere else. And then when the AI comes back, you have to redirect your brain to that original task, spool your brain back up to what you were working on at that moment, and then adjust as needed. There's a ton of mental friction involved. This ESPECIALLY sucks when the AI takes a REALLY long time to get something back for you, but it's not quite what you were looking for or asked for. And what sucks EVEN MORE is that these "mistakes" are getting MORE expensive!!! So wait time is going up. AND it costs more per run. HOWEVER - even after using Grok 4.5 for about an hour - what's become obvious is that it's SO MUCH MORE ENJOYABLE AND BETTER to use a model that is FAST... and capable ENOUGH. Capable ENOUGH is the real unlock here. Imagine having Fable 5 performance but at the speed of Gemini 3.5 flash. Or Haiku. That's where we're inevitably going. I think Grok 4.5 (and models like it) have really solved for one of the biggest unlocks in AI - a model that will get you a GOOD ENOUGH answer VERY FAST, at which point iteration can happen VERY QUICKLY. This - counter intuitively - keeps the user in a state of flow and creativity for MUCH longer because you are constantly ENGAGED with your project... instead of letting the AI loose for a long time. And as long as humans are involved, I think 'not quite right' will be a FOREVER problem with AI - because AIs, by default, CANNOT have human taste. Because they are NOT human. But they can be UNBELIEVABLE tools. And unbelievable tools are the ones that are VERY GOOD and VERY FAST. I think that's the true unlock with Grok 4.5 and models like it. Difficult to describe until you experience it. I think this is a VERY big deal for @SpaceXAI and @elonmusk.

Same as with satellites. What is harder and takes longer than developing a satellite yourself. Getting it developed by the traditional OEMs.

I built an aircraft activity detector to early detect the Freedom 250 flybys over DC. Claude Opus was enough for this.

I wish it weren’t true but my story is even worse than yours. IAD-CDG flight. 7 hours on the plane. Initially blaming the weather but then the aircraft had several technical issues. Deplane, re-board, no information. 7 hours sitting in the plane at the gate with 2 young kids. Long line for vouchers, decide to leave. bags have been lost. Huge line at the bag counter. Had to wait until noon today to get them back. All in all, got stranded at the airport for 20 hours achieving nothing. No information, staff clueless and powerless. No flights before Tuesday. And we paid those economy tickets $2300 per pax. @united is an embarrassment to the US.

@united Where are the bags ?

Hi, Matthieu. Our apologies for the delayed response due to higher-than-normal contact volumes today. UA915 from IAD to CDG appears to have been canceled due to severe weather. If you still need assistance, please DM us your confirmation number and the email address on your reservation.

@united UA915 has been sitting at the gate for 6 hours. Nobody’s talking to us anymore. What is going on?

USAF Thunderbirds flying near a thunderstorm. So much coolness in this short clip. Notice the last plane trying to catch up with afterburner.

B1 Afterburner - can you spot it coming at you at the beginning of the video? Max volume recommended