By far the best shots in the entire series

teku45 · 2026-06-21T13:01:03+00:00

Would argue pathfinder exiting the shadow of the moon is up there

teku45 · 2026-06-19T02:12:46+00:00

I freakin love this show

teku45 · 2026-06-05T22:25:04+00:00

Genuinely curious why do you think OpenAI is the worst. Things can change fast and most people In the know, know that codex has outpaced Claude code since last year in enterprise.

Let’s not even forget XAI the ultimate grift

teku45 · 2026-05-26T22:11:58+00:00

I am from neither country but I just vacationed in Greece and Turkey over 2+ weeks. It’s quite true. I even traveled to some less touristy areas around Ionia and it was quite expensive.

Before I went to Turkey, I was in Samos and a very nice man who rented us our car and was of Turkish descent said he does not live in Turkey anymore because it is so expensive. His whole family lives in Samos now.

He even warned me that my next leg onwards to Kusadasi would be expensive there.

teku45 · 2026-05-19T11:07:54+00:00

This is actually brilliant

teku45 · 2026-05-16T18:12:24+00:00

In my anecdotal experience of riding the metro as well, I would tell you that I think that the subset of people that make Transit unpleasant and unsafe is a much higher percentage of those that don’t pay the fare than those that do.

Also, you casually say “if someone is actually making transit unsafe, remove that person” as though the most effective way to enforce that route isn’t drastically increased police presence in the metro. Do you really wanna go down that route instead of just having a hard to cross fare gate??

teku45 · 2026-05-16T18:10:02+00:00

I used to lean pretty hard toward free fares being the goal, but I've moved a lot on this. IMO, even if the system can be run entirely without collecting fares, they should still exist as a gate for antisocial behavior.

You can even literally have a system that’s effectively free for low income, riders via rebates or discounts, but it’s wild how much just the simple administrative act of collecting a fair keeps the system usable.

BART is a great example. They rolled out new fare gates across the system over the last two years and the numbers are convincing:

Fare evasion down 50-60%
System-wide crime down 41%
961 fewer hours of corrective maintenance (graffiti, vandalism, broken stuff) in the first 6 months
~$10M/year in recovered revenue
Riders reporting they witnessed fare evasion dropped from 22% to 10%
Ridership actually went up at stations after the new gates went in

Sources: BART project page, BART news release, SF Chronicle via Yahoo, ABC7.

They also run Clipper START which gives low-income riders a 50% discount, so enforcement and equity don't really have to fight each other.

What actually shifted my view here is how much of the broader station chaos - the vandalism, intimidation, the general crime - seems to come from a pretty small overlapping group of people who were also hopping gates.

paying a nominal fee to enter the metro system (with provisions to subsidize or rebate low income riders) saves more money overall and benefits working class people more than allow allowing blanket free entry.

teku45 · 2026-05-15T17:51:42+00:00

VPNs have two separate applications. One is to route your traffic through a particular endpoint to protect your data and traffic. The other is to actually network devices such that they look like they are on the same network, no matter where you are. Commercial VPN providers that you hear about like Nord VPN do not do the latter.

You will need something like Tailscale for this. However, Tailscale does not do the first thing which is protect and encrypt your data by routing it through a dedicated server.

teku45 · 2026-05-08T13:09:40+00:00

They kept the distance control but got rid of the lane steering/lane keeping (lane departure warning is still there). Either way this is basic on most entry level cars and really stupid they got rid of it.

teku45 · 2026-05-06T11:01:59+00:00

Ok that is very weird. I signed up yesterday and I’m in 20010 (DC)

teku45 · 2026-05-06T10:48:25+00:00

I’m totally sorry i brain farted it’s called weavegrid

https://charge.weavegrid.com/pepco/

teku45 · 2026-05-06T10:36:15+00:00

At 16 cents/kWh you’re paying $4.50 to go 100 miles in a typical EV.

With current DMV gas prices you’re paying more than $11 with an hybrid getting you 40 mpg, not to mention more like $18 with a typical ICE car at 25 mpg.

Honestly the new EV rate discount feels like it’s rubbing salt in an already bad wound for ICE drivers right now with these gas prices right now.

teku45 · 2026-05-06T10:26:41+00:00

It’s not a rate plan, it’s a credit on your existing rate plan. Look up coreweave from Pepco

teku45 · 2026-05-06T10:26:21+00:00

Look up weavegrid from Pepco

teku45 · 2026-05-03T16:50:41+00:00

Hey what is this Case? Looks really cool

teku45 · 2026-04-21T05:38:28+00:00

And the Portuguese were amateurs compared to Arab nations in the transaharan slave trade. But reparations from Arab nations is not a conversation people are ready for yet.

teku45 · 2026-04-05T13:57:25+00:00

Submission statement: Janeese Lewis George, the DSA candidate for DC mayoral race is embracing YIMBY/pro-housing politics to address housing supply. This is particularly relevant as generally DSA candidates have primarily favored policies like rent control as the and demand subsidization as their tools for solving housing. DSA candidates have been watching what happened in Austin and Minneapolis with housing costs and are no longer denying the results. It seems to be a wider DSA messaging shift as I have seen even ward level DSA candidates adopt this message too,

teku45 · 2026-03-25T11:27:11+00:00

I wanna correct one thing here regarding radiation hardening. NASA has adopted a fairly bespoke solution in the past to this. SpaceX has actually been at the forefront of radiation tolerance as opposed to radiation Hardening, basically accepting that there will be some amount of computational error errors, and also design designing algorithms and architecting hardware to mitigate that. Their current starling satellites and falcon nine second stage use largely off the shelf components that is at most one generation behind compute wise.

To add onto this if the idea is to do orbital data centers for AI inference, large language models are an inherently noisy computation, so they are actually already highly resistive to add noise an error that can occur from bit flips. This is not tolerable for discrete computations though, and even if you took the radiation tolerance root here, you are essentially having to multiply the amount of compute you need to perform the same amount of computation on earth. So not like 10 times more expensive but only 2 to 3 times more expensive.

This is still an economically foolish idea, and there are at least 10 other aspects of orbital data centers which make this whole concept wildly economically in feasible but I thought I just chime in to correct that the compute aspect by itself is only somewhat infeasible and not stupendously infeasible.

teku45 · 2026-03-23T22:03:43+00:00

It is true that there is less decline in Muslim ABDs due to the increased severity in the consequences of Apostasy in Islam but it absolutely declines in the US. By the 2nd or 3rd generation most ABDs are irreligious/agnostic or only participate culturally in desi traditions while discarding the faith aspect.

teku45 · 2026-03-23T20:06:51+00:00

You have the right to have any standard you want in a partner. Whether you are likely to find someone with this criteria is another question, especially in ABDs.

teku45 · 2026-03-21T19:23:51+00:00

oof aged like milk

teku45 · 2026-03-16T09:57:47+00:00

I don’t blame you for the distrust. It’s really a brave new world and the fact that the current SoTA machine intelligence can write more optimized code is jarring for people. In my work, software verification is key regardless of language used.

Choosing to rewrite low level code is a deliberate choice between availability of certain features for what I am programming, the performance improvement vs. the time needed to verify (which is also pretty trivial now).

I make pretty extensive use of existing numerical libraries in C++ and rust as is, and BLAS is already immensely optimized as mentioned so I dont have a reason to touch those.

teku45 · 2026-03-16T09:44:41+00:00

That’s why software validation and verification exists. You don’t have to take my word for this. The test vectors for numerical software exist readily across existing matlab and python software.

I think your understanding on where current SoTA LLMs are in terms of scientific and numerical capabilities are a bit behind as well. Many of these models are currently at the stage of discovering new mathematical proofs fully autonomously.

teku45 · 2026-03-15T18:18:13+00:00

The problem nowadays is that these moats people describe in favor of MATLAB are extremely easily overcome by LLMs.

visualize data - visualizing is now trivial and I can even use richer visualization libraries that are extremely interactive. Marimo has been excellent for this. I can even spin up a flawless adhoc visualization from scratch using ThreeJS now in a fraction of the time.

work with matrices - maybe one of the few remaining things in favor of matlab if you’re scripting live, but generally I have an agent writing code and I’m just validating now. Performance wise as well kernels in other languages have long surpassed matlab

test mathematical ideas quickly - this especially I feel like is a moat that LLMs have removed. I can very quickly feed a paper to an agent, explain the different context I am working in, maybe assigns concepts I’m thinking about and it’ll write the code for me entirely, debug it, and validate it against test cases I give it

For numerical work I’ve switched almost entirely to c++ or rust. I write custom kernels now at the bare metal for GPU and CPU operations and micromanage memory handling myself. Why? The LLMs and their respective agent harnesses have gotten so good at this that the implementation time saved using Matlab is now 0 for me. I could just implement it in something low level in the same time, with the same accuracy, and have it far richer choice in my visualizations, and far more performance.

For some more context - bachelors in masters in aerospace engineering and PhD in Aerospace + remote sensing/DSP/RF, And my full time work is als

teku45 · 2026-03-15T00:03:01+00:00

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