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most people ask "how do I get invited to things," and not enough ask themselves "what events can I host."
hosting events is one of the best ways to make friends and get invited to things, bonus points that it teaches you to be a more pleasant and helpful guest!
Not sure if true but I think it’s always important to consider that other side
Here's why I don't quite buy the Jensen Huang scandal .And no, I don't exonerate him from anything 👇🏻
1. The now viral clip online happened in a popular restaurant in Taipei, Taiwan where Madison Huang, Jensen's daughter, Lori Huang, wife and Spencer Huang, son, were all present. Madison took that picture. So imagine if you're cheating on your wife, would you really put your mistress, you kids, your wife, your vendors , your customers, along with the Taiwanese media all together in the lobby of a restaurant?
Also check out Madison Huang 's gesture. She shows absolutely no discomfort or whatsoever around Alice Huang. She snaps a picture of Alice and her dad with enthusiasm as if she wants to make sure she has the receipt of them two being together. Does that sound normal? Does that sit right with you? It certainly sounds strange to me. 🤷🏻
2. Alice Huang is not some 25 year old hot Ukrainian model. She's 48, 49, married . She posted pictures of herself and Jensen Huang all over her WeChat moment. Why would you be flaunting your connection is Jesen Huang if you're spying for the Chinese State Security apparatus. Shouldn't you be as clandestine as possible? Now, I do not deny that she Could be a Chinese intelligence asset. But we need to trace the money. Who placed those $4.8 billion chip orders? It's not her. It's Alibaba. The Chinese State owned entities have a minority stake in Alibaba. So really, the H200s and Blackwells are going straight into Alibaba's data centers.
3. What does this all mean? It could mean that Huang and his entire family knew about the deal with Mega Speed and Alice Huang. It could mean that Jensen Huang knowingly evaded sanctions, which is an indictable offense, like Meng Wanzhou of Huawei. When pressed by evidence of shell companies and order destination, he had no choice to admit his possibly non existent extramarital affair, just to doge a legal bullet. Don't forget. Canada held Meng Wanzhou for 3 long years under house arrest. 🧐
4. Remember the Chinese election interference in Canada? Turns out it was a few dudes in CSIS getting super pissed off at Trudeau, and then leaked some stuff to the media. Most haven't been proven in court. Two Chinese Canadian politicians resigned. They sued @globalnews, @globeandmail in court and settled with one of the reporters. This to me , by all accounts, publicly available, sounds like a US intelligence hit job on Trump, perhaps rightly so. Trump didn't take swift actions and reign in those chip exports.
4. Lastly, Jensen Huang has always been a big proponent of Open Source AI. Some tech bro billionaires in the valley want him gone, badly.
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I love engineering and historical architecture because it’s such creative problem solving
hiring people to dance stomp on barley plants is pretty creative, given local building material constraints
On paper, the planes leaving this airport in Nepal can't take off. The runway is too short for air this thin. They do it anyway every morning, because the whole runway tilts downhill toward a 2,000-foot cliff and gravity gives them a free push.
This is Lukla, where most Everest trips start. The runway is 527 meters long, about a third of a mile, and it sits at 9,334 feet.
Up there the air is about a quarter thinner than at sea level. A wing has to move roughly 15% faster to make the same lift, so the plane needs about a third more energy before it can fly. And the engines are breathing that same thin air.
De Havilland's own spec sheet says a Twin Otter, the plane in this video, needs 454 meters to take off and clear a 50-foot obstacle. That's at sea level. Put the same loaded plane on flat ground at Lukla's altitude and it wants a lot more runway than Lukla has.
The hill makes up the difference. An 11.7% grade means gravity shoves the plane forward with about 11.6% of its own weight the whole way down. On a fully loaded Twin Otter, that's around 1,450 pounds of push you won't find anywhere on the spec sheet.
For context, airport runways are normally kept to a 1 or 2% slope. Lukla's is about twice the steepest grade the US allows on an interstate.
Landings run it backwards. Planes touch down at the low end and roll uphill, so the hill does the braking.
Then there's the cliff. That 50-foot number on the spec sheet exists because at a normal airport you have to climb over trees or buildings past the end of the runway. At Lukla the ground just falls away about 2,000 feet into the river gorge below, and there's nothing to clear. Watch the end of the runway in this one.
Back in 1964, a decade after he summited Everest, Edmund Hillary was building schools in the area when some Lukla farmers came to his team with a sloped patch of scrub and potato field to sell. They swore the wind always blew the right way for planes. Hillary later wrote that he had no clue how farmers who'd never seen an airfield could know that, but they turned out to be right.
More than 100 Sherpas cleared it by hand with khukuris and mattocks. Boulders too big to move got buried in pits. Hillary still didn't think the dirt was firm enough to land on, so he bought a pile of chang, the local barley beer, and paid 50 Sherpas to link arms and stomp-dance back and forth across the field. They kept it up for two days, and by the end the ground was packed hard and smooth.
The first plane that landed there needed full power just to taxi up to the top.
They didn't pave it until 2001. The place people call the world's scariest airport started as a hillside flattened by a two-day Sherpa dance party, and the tilt nobody bothered to fix is still doing the heavy lifting on every flight out.
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last sunday we brought together some of our fave creatives across film, writing & creative tech to share their process & tips for creating online
hosted with @designengclub @chiquwch @pauline_makes, supported by @osmo_studio & @trajectorylabs <3
Taste as a moat: upgrade your own personal appearance by knowing what metallics look good on you!
My face is pretty red so silvers help to even my skin tone, but I can still hold light gold and rose golds if I want to bring out a warmer, glowier complexion
Improving your appearance starts with information
Color analysis identifies which colors, neutrals, and metals complement ur skin tone & enhance your facial features. It’s widely available in Korea, but less common in SF
We hosted a @layersbio exclusive pop up this weekend - everyone got to learn which metal (gold or silver) best suits them and take home hand picked jewelry and gifts 🖤
this is the first of many unique events we’ll be hosting for our alpha program. You can join our waitlist in the link below :)
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Also saw a Chinese laser that shoots mosquitos in air
Norway now has more than 2,000 underwater AI laser robots shooting lice off its salmon
they're made by a company called Stingray, and they already guard more than 50 million salmon and trout 24/7
the reason is sea lice, tiny parasites that latch onto salmon and feed on them
as few as 11 can kill a small fish, and one pen can hold 150,000 salmon
the usual fix is pumping the fish out and blasting them with warm water or water jets to knock the lice off
but the handling is so rough that Norway's fish health report ranks it the top cause of death in full-grown farmed salmon
so instead, Stingray puts a robot inside the pen that hunts lice one at a time, all day:
> two cameras watch every salmon that swims past
> AI checks two frames to make sure it's really a louse
> then a green laser fires from up to 2 meters away
> the salmon's scales reflect the beam, so the fish swims off fine and the louse is dead
we now live in a world where AI lasers do pest control on your dinner lmao
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trisha pan retweeted
Norway now has more than 2,000 underwater AI laser robots shooting lice off its salmon
they're made by a company called Stingray, and they already guard more than 50 million salmon and trout 24/7
the reason is sea lice, tiny parasites that latch onto salmon and feed on them
as few as 11 can kill a small fish, and one pen can hold 150,000 salmon
the usual fix is pumping the fish out and blasting them with warm water or water jets to knock the lice off
but the handling is so rough that Norway's fish health report ranks it the top cause of death in full-grown farmed salmon
so instead, Stingray puts a robot inside the pen that hunts lice one at a time, all day:
> two cameras watch every salmon that swims past
> AI checks two frames to make sure it's really a louse
> then a green laser fires from up to 2 meters away
> the salmon's scales reflect the beam, so the fish swims off fine and the louse is dead
we now live in a world where AI lasers do pest control on your dinner lmao
trisha pan retweeted
An Air France jet leaving LAX just after midnight Saturday turned the wrong way and ended up less than a mile from an American Airlines plane. When the controller asked the pilots why they turned, they said "give me a minute."
Just before that turn, those same pilots had read back the instruction they were about to break, word for word.
To understand why that's so unsettling, you have to know how LAX gets planes off the ground.
LAX has two pairs of runways, one north of the terminals and one south. Jets take off from both sides right after each other, sometimes at the exact same moment. The FAA allows that because each plane gets a published route, and the two routes have to fan apart by at least 15 degrees right after takeoff. For that first minute, the routes are what keep the planes apart. Both crews just have to fly them.
Air France 28 took off from the north side headed for Tahiti, on a route called SUMMR2 that goes out over the Pacific. American 1660 left about a minute later from the south side, headed to Dallas.
Departure control told Air France to "climb via SID," which is pilot shorthand for fly the published route. The crew said it right back. "Climbing via SID." You can see it in the captions of the video.
Then the A350 banked left, toward the American jet's path.
The controller spotted it on radar and jumped in. Air France got "fly heading 270 immediately." American got a traffic alert, a plane at 12 o'clock less than a mile away, and an order to stay at 2,000 feet, so the crew stopped climbing. Flight tracking from Wingbits shows the two jets got as close as 0.76 nautical miles, with about 300 feet of altitude between them at one point. The normal minimum is 3 miles or 1,000 feet. At takeoff speeds, 0.76 miles goes by in something like 14 seconds.
Once the planes were apart, the controller started asking questions, and it gets uncomfortable to listen to. Why did you turn to a heading? "Standby." What departure were you told to fly? "Give me a minute." It took more than a minute of back and forth before the crew confirmed it was SUMMR2, the same route they'd already read back. The controller told them it was a possible pilot deviation and gave them a phone number to call. As of Sunday, neither Air France nor the FAA has said why the plane turned.
Every instruction in aviation gets repeated back like that so the controller can be sure the pilot heard it right. On Saturday that check worked perfectly, and it still didn't stop the turn. What stopped it was one person at SoCal Departure, at 12:16 in the morning, watching a radar screen closely enough to notice a line bend the wrong way.
Back in March at LaGuardia, the last line of defense was also a controller. That controller was juggling a separate emergency, cleared a fire truck onto a runway with an Air Canada jet landing on it, and both pilots died.
The last thing on Saturday's tape is the LAX controller apologizing to the American crew for a turn they had nothing to do with. Their answer was "Great job, thank you."
This is a leetcode problem where you calculate how much time it takes to flood fill all the crates
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This is so cool how having a different set() of notes creates different cultural music.
Makes me so curious about the evolution of instruments and music.
Were the predominant Japanese instruments limited in which notes sounded good?
Could each culture play the full scale?
How cultures sound on a violin.
It's fascinating how different intervals can instantly evoke a whole culture.
Julia Kim plays 5 scales 🎻
Egyptian, Celtic, Chinese, Japanese, Sundanese.
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Going to @mathurahravi’s design x storytelling event and getting to hear @willyhopps @covacut @majamediaco @pauline_makes and more present on their creative process inspired me to create more! (Specifically written and video content)
Got my complimentary metallic colors figured out, excited to level up my sense of style with @layersbio!!
Congrats to @trajectorylabs on the launch! Such a fun event — loved the Smokey whiskeys and the perfume making bar, was a great activity to chat up people over!
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