M S O’Brien

Autonomy/AI R&D. Opinions my own

[M S O’Brien @AI_EngineerGuy]

@GreenPlusAnE @scottlincicome A retiree with $1M in their 401K still gets 40% of their income from social security. That total income? $60K a year (SS+401K). Not exactly luxury status. Be careful about the whole “millionaires don’t need social security” thing.

[M S O’Brien @AI_EngineerGuy]

@jaiyagill OMG they’re average height. What?

[Zach Shore @Zsshore]

Great to have @USCTO47 at our El Segundo facility. Fast planes require fast engineering and fast manufacturing. We were excited to show you some real hardware that to prove the point.

[Hermeus @hermeuscorp]

Thanks to Ethan Klein, U.S. Chief Technology Officer, for stopping by our new LA headquarters. @USCTO47

We gave him a look at our growing R&D operation in LA and the work underway to build fast planes even faster.

[Hermeus @hermeuscorp]

Thanks to our partners at @DIU_x for supporting a faster path to high-speed flight. Way more to come.

[Zach Shore @Zsshore]

This is what real public/private partnerships can unlock. @DIU_x is paving the way for new entrants to move fast and break things.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Blocked and reported.

[Tectonic @tectonicdefense]

Hypersonic aircraft startup @hermeuscorp scored a $159M contract modification from the @DIU_x to continue developing hypersonic airdraft and “demonstrate high-Mach flight and high-speed payload release,” bringing the OG contract's ceiling to $219M.

https://t.co/PNHZ8vH8EA

[Casey Handmer @CJHandmer]

I interview dozens/hundreds of new grads, nearly every day of the year. These are people with a well-formatted resume and a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from well-regarded US universities and a GPA above 3.6. The majority cannot engineer, cannot function independently, cannot answer basic technical questions. We have watered down standards and inflated grades to the point that a bright, enthusiastic student spending four years in school sends almost no signal at all.

What does? Hard evidence of actually building stuff. There is no substitute for actually doing the thing.

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

I’m sadly already thinking about what kind of impact that could have on Artemis 🥺 man I can’t believe this.

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

This completely takes Blue Origin out of the Artemis picture for the next 12 months, most likely. All of those Moon Base missions, man, it's bad.

[M S O’Brien @AI_EngineerGuy]

@Grimezsz @GaryMarcus LLMs *talk* in EXACTLY the same sense that printers *write*. Both produce text based on an algorithm distilled into digital instructions. The LLM understands its output no more than a printer understands the documents it prints.

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

All personnel are accounted for and safe. It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it. Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It’s worth it.

[M S O’Brien @AI_EngineerGuy]

@lymanstoneky Less than half of 60 year olds have a paid off mortgage

[Chris Elmendorf @CSElmendorf]

Not a joke.

[Aχιѕ @AxisAntiquities]

I was just reminded of Tony Gilroy’s advice to writers on Andor:

[Miles Doran @MilesDoran]

The FAA has determined the May 22 SpaceX Starship Flight 12 launch resulted in a mishap. FAA Statement:

[Alex Hollings @AlexHollings52]

It took just 364 days for @hermeuscorp to go from the first-ever flight of Quarterhorse Mk 1, to the first supersonic flight of Quarterhorse Mk 2.1… but there’s more to that accomplishment than speed.

Let’s talk about BUILDING aircraft.

[Hermeus @hermeuscorp]

Supersonic. Mach 1.21.

Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 is now the world’s first privately developed, unmanned supersonic jet and the fastest unmanned aircraft flying today.

This flight makes Hermeus the fastest company in aviation history to go from founding to supersonic flight - exactly 364 days after the maiden flight of our first aircraft.

Now, we fly faster.

A special thanks to @DIU_x, Director @OwenWest91, Maj. Gen. Joe "Solo" Kunkel, and Deputy Director Kyle Norman.

[M S O’Brien @AI_EngineerGuy]

@nytimes @nytopinion Wealth and income are different. If you make $100K and have $1M in your 401K, you probably pay about 10% of your income, but 1% of your “wealth”, in federal income come tax. Should we be shocked and offended at this middle class person “only paying 1%” of their wealth?