Jon Galpern

By far my biggest advice to anyone trying to adopt AI properly: 1. Pay a little bit of money to Anthropic 2. Download Claude Code 3. Open Claude Code 4. Press 'Shift-Tab' until it says 'plan mode on' 5. Open Voice Memo on your iPhone. Just talk about all the things you want to accomplish. When you think you are done, just keep talking. Make sure it is at least 10 minutes, hopefully longer 6. Send this Voice Memo to your computer 7. Download MacWhisper and use it to transcribe this voice memo. Trust me, you will want MacWhisper and will use it later a lot 8. Type into Claude Code: "I have never used you before but I talked about some things. I will paste those things in below. Please read the things and ask me any questions you need to in order to help me figure out how to use you to be awesome. Ask me lots of questions until I tell you I am done" 9. Then paste in the transcript 10. Then press enter Then just let Claude take the wheel, and them please send me a DM if this works. Also, if this just sounds crazy, just literally take this entire message and paste it into whatever AI you are using and say 'some weird person told me to paste this into you, I want to use it, but I don't know how. What should I do?' I am just trying to help you get started. Curiosity and persistence are the most important things.

Good restaurants are forgettable. Great ones leave an imprint on you. I wrote about Bar Cañete in Barcelona and what makes a restaurant unforgettable. jongalpern.substack.com/p/what-makes-a…

If you're a sports fan who hasn't watched any of the Sinner vs. Alcaraz rivalry, you're missing out on the absolute best tennis has to offer. Now's the time to get in.

Thank you, Coach Pop, for your brilliance on and off the court. We look forward to our next chapter together.

@anothercohen Great place. Another great one is Palm Pizza.

If you live in Austin stop whatever you’re doing and go to All Day Pizza in Tarrytown. On par with some of the best NYC pizza I’ve had

When Joe first spoke to me about joining Umbra almost four years ago. He waxed poetic about how I'd have the opportunity to tell truly meaningful stories with our data. This is one of those stories. I'd like nothing more than to support more of these stories. DMs open.

Venerunt, partiuntur, relinquentes (They came, they partied, they left)

I learned about Mike Maples’ framework for identifying “pattern breaking companies” on a recent podcast (I’ll link it at the end): Inflection > Insight > Idea > Movement Below is my analysis of why Umbra is a pattern breaking company 🧵

@MapMakinMeyers @umbraspace

@umbraspace What is the cost of one 🛰🤔!!?

🌎 ✨ OWN THE WORLD'S MOST CAPABLE SAR SATELLITE! 🚀 🚨 Now available for purchase: a complete satellite system or dedicated capacity tailored to your needs. Umbra satellites deliver the largest volume of high-resolution SAR imagery in concentrated areas of highest demand, capturing seven times more imagery and at higher resolution than any commercial competitor. Take control of your missions like never before. umbra.space/blog/umbra-off…

One of the reasons I’m an effective salesperson is because I’m extremely attractive and I wear cologne. People want to do business with hot people who smell good. Crazy part is, when I ask customers, they deny being attracted to me. So it’s all at the subconscious level.

@MasterActual @mouthofmorrison We're going right? @mtt_wllms moodycenteratx.com/event/creed/

@mouthofmorrison @JonGalps I believe it

Started singing songs in the Creed voice this week and so far “Hotel California” is the most fun one I’ve found. Gimme the song you most want to hear Creed cover.

@Ritwik_G whoa! @mouthofmorrison

@JonGalps Thank you! Of interest to Umbra, we explicitly benchmark on large SAR strip maps (25k x 29k pixels) and show a large performance gain in segmentation-related metrics at a quarter of the memory cost of leading vision models.

From your cell phone to your TV, images and videos are now captured in 4K resolution or better. Vision methods, however, opt to downsize or crop them, losing information. We introduce xT, our framework to model large images end-to-end on contemporary GPUs! ai-climate.berkeley.edu/xt-website/

@myles_cooks favorite austin ranchers?

Can confirm. Best way to source meat is from local ranchers. The quality is way above even the absolute best stuff I've found in grocery stores. If you can't find a source locally, look into getting bulk frozen meat shipped to you from a great rancher.

We've officially crossed over $4 million of free SAR data released into our open data program! umbra.space/blog/umbra-rel…

@mouthofmorrison The guy in the store said I'm the only one he's ever seen pull it off

Jobs had the black turtle neck. Huang has the leather jacket. I have…this.

@trbrtc @Princeton Let me know if @umbraspace can help!

The undergraduate students at @Princeton that are taking my journalism class need to do their own open-source investigation. Some have already really interesting ideas (most not conflict related), others are looking for inspiration. Any suggestions?

If you can’t recruit the most talented people, you will eventually lose to whoever can

SQM Salar de Atacama Lithium Mine | 1m, 4x-Multilook

Paris, France | 50cm, 10x-multilook Colorized Sub-Aperture (CSI) TIFF