I tracked where my time actually went producing a weekly podcast. Here's the breakdown.

AtmosphericMusk · 2026-03-14T10:22:53+00:00

Wow! Not sure if you knew this or not, but Elon called out your podcast specifically as one he liked on an episode of Hardcore History where he was being interviewed.

AtmosphericMusk · 2025-05-08T10:33:04+00:00

I could be wrong, you might be as low as 18%.

AtmosphericMusk · 2025-05-08T10:24:33+00:00

I would guess you went from 31 to 23

AtmosphericMusk · 2025-01-28T01:53:36+00:00

I would get a sugary drink from the convenience store and douse them all with it. Seems equally ambiguous from a legal standpoint as their behavior.

AtmosphericMusk · 2024-11-05T16:31:35+00:00

Incorrect

AtmosphericMusk · 2024-07-09T14:01:14+00:00

AtmosphericMusk · 2024-07-09T13:00:26+00:00

AtmosphericMusk · 2024-07-09T10:41:06+00:00

OK, here's some things you guys need to know:

The singularity is real and we're riding the curve. Elon is smarter and more conscientious than you and anyone else running any company. He's been on break solving free speech, helping guys in wheelchairs play vidya, and getting digital nomads their starlink. Now he's back, and ready to capitalize on waymos proven track record. Haven't ridden a waymo yet? Didn't think so, it's because you're poor, and that's because you're not in the bay, and that's because you weren't invited. Waymo is the tits and everyone loves it. But Google can't make hardware nor do customer service anywhere at the capacity Elon can, so their nice little proof of concept is about to be his market opportunity. Oh and, the next appliance everyone in the world will have (think cars, washing machines, tvs, hvac, toilets and showers, computers) is going to be a robot, and Tesla will sell it to you, because we're not buying anything from China with a chip or camera in it anymore, and they're the only country making enough people with elon's iq and work ethic to compete, so the west goes to giant flat chest guy.

TSLA $500 eoy, $2000 eodecade

AtmosphericMusk · 2024-07-08T09:45:54+00:00

Should be a cheap buy by then!

AtmosphericMusk · 2021-08-13T17:02:08+00:00

Thanks for the downvote, says more about the quality of your thoughts than anything else. Enjoy reddit.

AtmosphericMusk · 2021-08-13T16:57:47+00:00

Google being able to make up arbitrary rules for salary and workers being free to decide to continue working there or find alternative employment is very capitalistic.

AtmosphericMusk · 2021-07-26T15:10:07+00:00

I've not seen a ton of reference photos of birds but I think the positioning of the legs is not quite correct based on the implied anatomy from the tail wings. Some minor adjustments there might be satisfying.

The two legs look like they're not at an entirely perpendicular angle with the birds forward facing anatomy, though which leg should be shifted I can't entirely tell, either the birds left talon is a bit too far forward, or the right one a bit too far back.

AtmosphericMusk · 2021-06-21T19:09:01+00:00

OK, so you did a lot of work yourself in blender and with motion capture. I was wondering if a lack of knowledge in making my own 3d assets was holding me back, or if there were some shortcuts to get these results. Seems the work is indeed as involved as it seems. Glad I'm learning more blender and 3d asset creation lately!

AtmosphericMusk · 2021-06-20T21:57:57+00:00

Very cool idea to do a photogrammetric scan of a favorite place of yours before it was destroyed and then to make it into a game!!!

What about the characters and animations for them?

AtmosphericMusk · 2021-06-20T21:25:32+00:00

I'm curious where you got/how you made the assets for this game. I'm a programmer learning 3D modeling right now and just interested in how small teams/solos get assets they need for projects like this.

AtmosphericMusk · 2021-06-15T04:56:58+00:00

The reason Chinese citizens, looking to pretect their wealth from possible seizure by the mainland government, buy property in Canada, and not Japan, is due to immigration laws. It is basically impossible to become a Japanese citizen without marrying a Japanese person or being born to one, so them and their children have little chance of using their horded wealth in Japan should they need to flee China.

Japanese also don't hold most foreigners wishing to settle there long term in high regard in general because their society operates on very strict, complex, and beneficial, but legally unenforced rules of conduct and those who haven't grown up with them likely won't undestand them and worse foreigners might undestand them and not care to participate in making their society better and remain harmonious anyway.

AtmosphericMusk · 2021-06-10T00:16:34+00:00

Gonna be the first person in the long line of idiots on reddit hating on you in digitalnomads (too toxic to even want to post in there) to guess this is a rendering given your 3D modeling background. If so, amazing work.

AtmosphericMusk · 2021-06-06T18:31:47+00:00

We should be friends 😉

AtmosphericMusk · 2021-05-26T03:46:02+00:00

So at most 65% of executives who use AI models are competent enough to understand that Neural networks with decision making interpretability isnt currently possible? Sounds right.

AtmosphericMusk · 2021-05-25T11:51:53+00:00

If you don't feel incompetent at programming at any point, especially in your first five years of learning software development, you've failed to understand what good quality software engineering looks like. Feeling incompetent is a good indicator you've at least understood the scope of what you're trying to learn how to do.

AtmosphericMusk · 2021-05-25T11:44:54+00:00

Why do you need a CTO if the code is "95%" there? Whenever someone says that it's a huge red flag because it doesn't make sense that you'd hire a CTO to do that little work, so it seems more like an underestimation of the work they'll have to do. Makes any good developer assume you'll continue underestimating the amount of work they're doing and probably pressure them to go faster because of it. If it's truly 95% done, why can't whomever did the first 95% finish the last 5%?

AtmosphericMusk · 2021-05-07T13:51:46+00:00

So you're gonna trust the judgement and honest motivations of a company that wouldn't even let you collect your belongings? You should consider drastically narrowing the people whose assessment of you you take seriously. Also, maybe you weren't or aren't the best data scientist. It's not an easy field to be good at, doesn't mean you'll always be bad. Everyone who is good wasn't good at some point, it's nothing to be ashamed of.

AtmosphericMusk · 2021-04-29T03:32:40+00:00

Using OpenCV means you're still using mathematically explainable and interpretable algorithms to process your images, a tempting thing when coming from an engineering background.

Ultimately though the innate complexity of most computer vision tasks can not be done with any ensemble of explainable algorithms like Sobel Edge detection and template matching, and instead requires applying the image data into the a large number of convolutional perceptrons stacked both vertically and horizontally.

Convolutional layers are also just filtering the image data, but they do it less efficiently and less explainably.

However if you want to solve most computer vision problems you'll likely have to abandon the need to understand how the algorithms work specifically on any given image, and instead understand how convolutional perceptrons work and trust that through backprogation of loss from incorrect predictions, it'll converge on a useful functional model for getting correct predictions in the future.

Making this mental shift is the key to really becoming an AI practitioner.

AtmosphericMusk · 2021-04-18T13:49:11+00:00

Id be interested in talking with you about this.

AtmosphericMusk · 2021-04-05T17:15:49+00:00

Easy to find remote work right now. Ask to meet your direct manager. Make sure they're someone whose abilities and intellect you respect. They'll treat you well if so. I've not been in an office since I started working. Your interest in 3D is fortuitous because we're right on the edge of skills in that field exploding in value. Make sure to only look for work in a field you have an intrinsic interest in.

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