Andy Champagne

Super quick aurora guide for everyone trying to get a look. - Clouds are now your sworn enemy. They love to show up when cool stuff is in the sky. - Start by looking to the north -- activity will be most intense near the northern horizon. With large events the aurora ends up right overhead. - Darker locations are better, but just about anywhere works during a large aurora display. - Auroral displays are not static! They change minute to minute. You might look one minute and see nothing, 5 minutes later the sky is lit up. This means if you want to see aurora you have to setup outside and stay there, or at least check outside really regularly. - You'll be able to see aurora much better when your eyes are dark adapted. The best thing to do is to stay outside in the dark for 15-20 mins. If you don't want to stay outside, the next best thing is to minimize light in your house so that you're not shifting from a super bright environment when you do go outside. - Your phone is your friend. Recent smartphones have "night" photo modes that gather exposures over a few seconds. This is really great for taking aurora photos with minimal fuss! - Digital cameras (mirrorless & slr) are great with a wide angle lens. Example starting exposure 4 seconds, f2.8, ISO 1600, and adjust to taste from there. Use a tripod for stability and timed release to minimize vibration.

@dfranke Kickstarter link please

@esrtweet For the Prophecy to be fulfilled, there must come a keyboard which contains: control, shift, alt, meta, super, and hyper, all distinct and chordable, plus escape and compose for multi-key sequences.

Today I shall discourse on the tangled history of the Meta key. Long long ago, in the dark and backwards abysm of time, there was a keyboard of exceeding beauty and complexity called the Space Cadet keyboard. It was attached to a device called the Lisp Machine, around which many arcane legends have gathered. What bears on my tale is that on the Lisp Machine, a byte was nine bits rather than the now usual eight. Thus there was the potential for the Space Cadet keyboard to ship no fewer than 512 distinct characters. To add to this plurabundance, the Space Cadet did not stop with the Shift and Control keys that were usual on the serial terminals of the time; nay, it had also Meta, Super, and Hyper keys that twiddled in their various ways the high bits of the keystroke returned to the machine. This was the origin of the Meta key. Now we must speak of Emacs, most ancient and powerful of editors, tool of wizards. One of its earliest versions ran on the Lisp Machine, and the splendiferous Space Cadet keyboard greatly influenced its interface design. This is why on the versions that run even today you often see command sequences documented as beginning with "Meta". However, the serial terminals on which most instances of Emacs actually ran in those days were not blessed with a Meta key. So the Escape key was pressed into service; and for this reason some people still pronounce Esc as "Meta". Then, in the fullness of time, there arose a second great keyboard of legend - the Model M, which after 1987 became the keyboard shipped with IBM PCs and related machines. It was said of this mighty and weighty keyboard that you could not only type with it, but use it as a rather effective bludgeon in the event of a zombie or velociraptor attack. The key layout of the Model M was primarily based on the extremely popular DEC VT220 terminal from a few years earlier. But, miraculously, in addition to the expected Esc, the Model M added one detail that harked back to the earlier Space Cadet keyboard: an Alt key. The Alt key was intended to do the same thing that Meta had - set the 8th bit of the returned character. In this way "Meta" acquired a third meaning - the Alt key. This was less confusing than it might have become because in Emacs, an Esc prefix was treated identically to the Alt modifier. So it might be said that there were *two* Meta keys. Around 1995, PC keyboards grew another modifier key. This has variously been called the Windows or Command key - but in the Unix documentation, and among those of us who remember the ancient lore, it is called "Super". Alas, it seems unlikely that the Hyper key will ever return to this fallen world.

@dbelson Sorry to hear this David. Your work was strong!

I was one of the 1100 impacted by yesterday's layoff at @cloudflare. Thankful that I had the opportunity to work on @CloudflareRadar over the past 4+ years, evolving it into a trusted industry resource. Would love to continue working with #Internet data in my next role...

@0xSero Still looking for compute? Remote OK or looking only for local hardware?

Putting out a wish to the universe. I need more compute, if I can get more I will make sure every machine from a small phone to a bootstrapped RTX 3090 node can run frontier intelligence fast with minimal intelligence loss. I have hit page 2 of huggingface, released 3 model family compressions and got GLM-4.7 on a MacBook huggingface.co/0xsero My beast just isn’t enough and I already spent 2k usd on renting GPUs on top of credits provided by Prime intellect and Hotaisle. ——— If you believe in what I do help me get this to Nvidia, maybe they will bless me with the pewter to keep making local AI more accessible 🙏

@TheAhmadOsman @MichaelDell This seems like a natural home for one of these monster units!

@MichaelDell Hey Michael, would love to get my hand on one of these and review it for my followers and r/LocalLlama (I moderate it)

Jensen Huang is loving the new Dell Pro Max with GB300 at NVIDIA GTC.💙 They asked me to sign it, but I already did 😉

@Akamai I’ve had several folks tell me there is no actual video of me shown here 🤣

@TheAhmadOsman Great question! Solid answer!

I asked Jensen whether we will see more Nemotron models or if the recent releases were just to prove NVFP4 training works

@DavidJDPhotos Arm your cooler!

Time to go on the hunt again. It's Galaxy season!

Charlies River & Boston Skyline - March 10th, 2026 Ice is hanging tough in 60 & 70 degree temperatures

@ylecun Great news on the startup and all, but we need some details ASAP on the astrophotography rig used for the Veil shot. Please correct this oversight as you have a moment — want to ensure you folks get off on the right foot!

Unveiling our new startup Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs). We just completed our seed round: $1.03B / 890M€, one the largest seeds ever, probably the largest for a European company. We're hiring! [the background image is the Veil Nebula - a picture I took from my backyard, most appropriate for an unveiling] More details here: techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/yan…

@Nithya_Shrii Yeah I have no idea what is up with these people

I’ll never understand how people can stay at a job for 25-30 years like that’s wild! Half of their adult lives.

Ideal New England winter day today.

@CaseyBHead Great shot. 2019? After sunset it’s amazing.

This and never seeing an AI slop post again.

@TheIcelandGuy Saved for future use 😎

😂

@KYGo4Launch 🇺🇸

Why I'm confident in Vast's strategy to achieve continuous human presence in low-Earth orbit. vastspace.com/updates/vasts-…

Central Park last week. Inadvertently seemed to be there at the perfect time.

@gisellis Might be going again tonight (Weds)!

@andy_champagne I’m sad I completly missed this was happening!

Super quick aurora guide for everyone trying to get a look. - Clouds are now your sworn enemy. They love to show up when cool stuff is in the sky. - Start by looking to the north -- activity will be most intense near the northern horizon. With large events the aurora ends up right overhead. - Darker locations are better, but just about anywhere works during a large aurora display. - Auroral displays are not static! They change minute to minute. You might look one minute and see nothing, 5 minutes later the sky is lit up. This means if you want to see aurora you have to setup outside and stay there, or at least check outside really regularly. - You'll be able to see aurora much better when your eyes are dark adapted. The best thing to do is to stay outside in the dark for 15-20 mins. If you don't want to stay outside, the next best thing is to minimize light in your house so that you're not shifting from a super bright environment when you do go outside. - Your phone is your friend. Recent smartphones have "night" photo modes that gather exposures over a few seconds. This is really great for taking aurora photos with minimal fuss! - Digital cameras (mirrorless & slr) are great with a wide angle lens. Example starting exposure 4 seconds, f2.8, ISO 1600, and adjust to taste from there. Use a tripod for stability and timed release to minimize vibration.

@tuckerweather Good shot - 100% better than not getting a pic at all

I only captured it fading, but this is pretty realistic to how the aurora appeared to the naked eye from my vantage point outside Boston. It was there & gone within 5-10 mins!

@HeroffKevin43 Great shots!

@andy_champagne Just now in Woodbury, MN

@FloridaPA27 That sure looks like it. Looking north?

OMFG IS THIS IT!? FLORIDA!!!!!!