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Max Olson

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Product @Mashgin. Seed & public market investing. Software/design for fun and profit. Book publisher. Blog: https://t.co/dgci8MUJ2w / Buffett book: https://t.co/fQ2DtO3a3F

Palo Alto, CA Katılım Mart 2009
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Max Olson
Max Olson@maxolson·
SpaceX has been succeeding in public for 15+ years. Now they're the most valuable private company on Earth & the competition isn't close. Is any of this repeatable? Why hasn't the model been copied? Wrote an essay on why + what anyone building hard things can learn:
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Tom@tombombadeel·
Imagine asking a human from any time in history prior to the 20th century if they wanted 3 almonds, to travel 20 miles, or to ask an oracle any question no matter how complex
Ethan Mollick@emollick

If this is true, using the best public estimates we have of LLM resource use, solving this Erdos problem took 0.6–6.3 kWh of electricity and about 3–31 liters of water. So that is less than three almonds worth of water and the electricity equivalent of 2-20 miles of EV driving.

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Rahul Sidhu
Rahul Sidhu@rahul·
Last year, the city of Austin turned off their Flock cameras as the result of a targeted misinformation campaign. This weekend, for nearly 24 hours, three suspects drove around Austin in stolen vehicles, undetected, conducting a shooting spree at 12 separate locations. They shot multiple people, houses, apartment buildings, businesses, and fire stations. They committed multiple robberies and car thefts during the spree. Despite a full manhunt involving 200 officers, with helicopter and K9 support, they weren't able to locate the suspects, and the spree continued. Luckily, the suspects drove into the Flock-supported city of Manor, TX. Manor is a small city with ~20k residents, and a fraction of Austin's budget. What they do have is modern technology and the ability not to fall victim to misinformation campaigns. After the suspects drove into Manor to continue their shooting spree, Manor PD located them almost immediately. The residents of Manor stayed safe. This is a tale of two cities. I love Austin. I have plenty of friends who live there. I myself almost moved there years ago. I'm glad that the shooting spree is over, but I just wish it never happened.
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Patrick Finley
Patrick Finley@PatrickFinley_·
We just partnered with the Musk Foundation to give out $175k in grants to advance the frontier of collegiate rocketry. This is in addition to the $390k we’re already giving out to collegiate teams building propulsive self-landing rockets. When we first started, people laughed and told us what we were attempting would be impossible. 2 years later, several student teams have achieved both TVC and throttled hotfire with liquid engines, and they are making fast progress on their hoppers. We’re already seeing hover attempts at a collegiate level! These kids are doing this on 0.001% of a typical rocket budget, dedicating 80 hour weeks without any pay to build some of the most capable rockets outside of industry. The reason why so many people fall in love with space and rocketry is because it is proof that humanity is capable of the impossible. We want to continue to advance that mission. Back to work.
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Max Olson@maxolson·
Awesome, although way way too much $$$ is going to drug design, not nearly enough in actual lab experimentation and scaling 1. design groundbreaking drugs/therapies 2. ??? 3. save lives!
Max Jaderberg@maxjaderberg

Huge news today at Isomorphic Labs! We have secured $2.1 Billion investment to advance the most important mission that AI can unlock: to change the way we can improve human health and create new medicines for patients around the world. This funding milestone was built on the strength of our AI drug design engine (IsoDDE), which has already proven its worth (aside from smashing benchmarks) by designing breakthrough new molecules and creating new scientific breakthroughs across our drug discovery programs. Our IsoDDE is giving us a repeatable way to design new medicines for a wide range of diseases, building a future of medicine that we couldn’t unlock until now. A massive thank you to our incredible team across London, Boston and Lausanne, whose relentless work made this possible, and to our partners who share our ultimate vision. Now we have so much more to build together!

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Max Olson@maxolson·
What a single person can do now with AI: @starwarschroniclesanimations" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@starwarschron… what could Disney do if they actually embraced the technology in the right way?
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Ashlee Vance
Ashlee Vance@ashleevance·
May we present to you 5,000 words on Casey Handmer and Terraform Industries reported over several months. If you would like to read about a team trying to make fuel from water, air and sunlight while working inside of a castle, we have what you need right here corememory.com/p/the-magical-…
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Max Olson@maxolson·
I noticed the "Only the Paranoid Survive" bit in the latest Starship episode. In early SpaceX years, @elonmusk signed off with this Andy Grove'ism in a letter he wrote in January 2007. Seem like it's paid off.
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Max Olson@maxolson·
@pronounced_kyle I fully expected my 2yo daughter to get bored after 5 minutes but she was captivated the whole time
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Jon Edwards
Jon Edwards@edwards345·
Yes I do! We built it mostly out of spare Falcon parts and off the shelf components (“scrappy not crappy” was our motto). The propellant tank was an old qual tank that had been lying around in a field, open and exposed to the elements (and the crickets) for a couple of years. I did not expect it to survive proof testing, but it did and ultimately survived the entire test campaign. In fact, Grasshopper is still standing proud at our test site in McGregor, TX.
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Max Olson@maxolson·
People just need more exposure to the benefits. Just like Americans need more exposure to the Chinese EV market, where the cars are 10-20 years ahead of anything in the US, Tesla included.
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Max Olson@maxolson·
NYC has many transport options so it will take longer for them to notice any difference. For other cities banning AVs, when citizens travel to other places that have them it will feel like they live in an Amish village. All new tech has pros/cons. When Amish see others using smartphones or Youtube, its easier to see downsides that justify their prohibition. But for AVs, there is no obvious downside for the user. Only for cab drivers.
Sar Haribhakti@sarthakgh

Congrats to NYC Mayor on yet another push to harm the majority in the interest of protecting a minority interest group Waymo rollout in NYC has been stopped

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Derek Thompson
Derek Thompson@DKThomp·
If life is strictly about the narrow elimination of biomarker distress, we really should stop having children. Not cut back. Eliminate procreation. The science is clear. > raising babies increases cortisol > disrupts REM sleep > shrinks hippocampal volume > elevates resting heart rate > raises inflammatory markers
Bryan Johnson@bryan_johnson

Friends, stop drinking alcohol. Not cut back. Eliminate. > alcohol increases cortisol > disrupts REM sleep > accelerates epigenetic aging > shrinks hippocampal volume > elevates resting heart rate > raises inflammatory markers > impairs glucose metabolism for 16 hrs One drink does that.

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Steve Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson@FutureJurvetson·
@zanehengsperger And so I went to Cernan and astronauts from all of the Apollo missions and got their signatures of tribute to SpaceX. It was a birthday gift to Elon and hangs the entryway at SpaceX HQ. Armstrong made 60 Minutes publish a retraction too. Details: steve.blog/2012/07/11/the…
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