Gabriel Burt

My 10yo started making/speaking a language when he was 3 and recently wrote a dictionary spreadsheet. We pasted it into ChatGPT and then in voice-to-voice mode had it tell us stories in his language!

I'm back in the scramble in because baby girl is waking, she crawls her head onto my chest and hand under mine and zonks back out phase of fatherhood. Moments of bliss.

@JigarShahDC Except in Austin unfortunately. Austin Energy, the city utility, will pay you $25/yr for having a battery and letting them control it. And for solar they credit you 9.91c/kWh and charge you for every kWh used - at rates which exceed that at not-very-high usage.

Flying at 35,000 ft yesterday at 4:35pm ET this plane suddenly zoomed beneath us. Should have >= 2k ft clearance; seemed less. Anyone have fancy geometry or sleuthing skills to figure out the separation? JBU620 near 38.9594/-97.3377 per flightaware. I think it was a SWA flight

@DanielleFong I visited in 2008, it's incredible! I wrote this at the time about it twitter.com/gabaug/status/…

Roman cisterns, under Constantinople (Istanbul)

Today we are announcing a major breakthrough in the Vesuvius Challenge: we have read the first word from an unopened Herculaneum scroll. The word is "πορφυρας" which means "purple dye" or "cloths of purple." scrollprize.org/firstletters Congratulations to 21yo computer science student @LukeFarritor who is the first person to see this handwriting in nearly 2000 years. He has won the $40,000 First Letters prize for this world-historical achievement. We are also awarding a $10,000 First Ink prize to @CJHandmer who was the first person to see ink and multiple letters within an unopened scroll. His work was the basis of Luke's ML model. And @Youssef_M_Nader has won a $10,000 second-place First Letters prize for producing the clearest and most comprehensive images from inside a scroll yet. This has been the dream of many people since the scrolls were first discovered in the 1750s. It is also the result of 20 years of work from Dr. Brent Seales and his team at EduceLab, whose years of dedicated work have made this last mile possible. The $700,000 Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize is now in sight. Who will claim it?

This is a great summary of our business, including stories of how we take care of our members like family. It has been incredible and an honor to help take this from an idea to what it has become and is becoming. And this $1.23 billion investment will just accelerate things!

It's been a big week at Devoted Health; we have started enrolling members, and we just raised $300m led by a16z -- all with the aim of caring for people like family. devoted.com/newsroom/

my new company, Devoted Health, is hiring senior engineers in the Boston area - come join us! jobs.lever.co/devoted/9f37ee…

I went to [big store] recently and they *finally* have the labels on the boxes of couches saying whether they have flame retardants or not! twitter.com/gabaug/status/…

I've entered the "I love YOU"-back phase of fatherhood and it just keeps blowing my mind. The hugs are still amazing. twitter.com/gabaug/status/…

floating on a pond at midnight ten-thousand strobing fireflies light the gusty night

It's simple: "There is nothing in the BCRA [Senate bill] that makes health care better for _any_ American." democracyjournal.org/briefing-book/…

Today's my first day with the new company! 3-way tie for employee #1 :) In a few months we'll be moving to Boston. twitter.com/gabaug/status/…

I know everything seems red alert level right now, but the House is VOTING ON THURSDAY to end health care for 24 million of your neighbors.

I called (got a friendly staffer right away), encouraged @GovRauner to fight the AHCA b/c it'll kill thousands each year. Call 217-782-0244 twitter.com/paulsmith/stat…

@jyhsu that would be cool - relatedly, did you see this? youtu.be/9yC7-JsR2Fk

I'm no longer looking for a job; I'm preparing and excited to help start a company later this year. When/where/what a mix of TBD & stealth

thanks to so many amazing people who took time to give me advice and teach me about their work and companies in the last few months