Donpaul Stephens

Building AirMettle: Analytical Data Platform: 100x faster extract/aggregate/re-scale/AI inference: JSON, CSV, Parquet, NetCDF4, w/ video & more underway.

[Donpaul Stephens @DonpaulStephens]

My team and I are working on a new visual radar system designed to help airports detect things that today often slip through the cracks in the surrounding area; drones, birds, and other small objects that can cause delays or go-arounds. We started this project within the US Space Force’s SDA TAP Lab.

Our goal is simple: Make runway safety smarter, more reliable, and dramatically more affordable than traditional surveillance systems.

Before we go any further, I want to learn directly from the people who know this world best. If you work in airport operations, safety, airfield management, or anything similar, your perspective would be incredibly valuable. -- please reply and follow (so we can DM to coordinate a time to speak)

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@ThaisEscufon @leparisien They don’t deserve hanging
In a more rational time
They would have been flayed

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What ever happened to having a video tour of Fort Knox?

One would think they could at least stage gold to make it look good…

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@TulsiGabbard We should at least amend the laws so we know how much people get paid for royalties on their patents. Low level NIH people don’t set policy, so no need for them to be public, but people who impact policy certainly should be disclosed

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Planning and permitting is a scam
Use regulations significantly restrict economic growth in the 🇺🇸

I agree my comment is unrealistic given existing constraints… but the region would likely be better served with a larger airport with good transit connections - applies to the rest of the triangle too

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@sfrancisatx @YIMBYLAND If San Marcos was expanded
… to the scale of IAH / DFW … that seems about the midway point

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@SawyerMerritt @wholemars Should have light on in the blue cars
Would look like stars

Such an obvious lost opportunity

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@RepNancyMace No
We need to bring back public execution

Flaying may be cruel, but

Hanging was widely used at the time of the signing of the Constitution until not many decades ago.

Corporal punishment is the only kind of punishment they recognize - they either receive it, or we are fools

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@Rothmus In the old days, it was public
Served as a deterrent

It might not seem a fit with modern (suicidal empathy) tendencies, but this experiment with giving thugs ‘time out’ in jail (where they seem to harden) and having the worst punishment being more time in jail.. hasn’t worked

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@hamids @elonmusk I highly doubt he isn’t sufficiently high income to be required to make quarterly tax payments

You can delay filing… to get all the paperwork in order

Not paying

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@xai the ever so obvious "new logo"
s just replace the stylized "x" on xAI's logo with the SpaceX "x"... don't even need to tweak the right hand 'bar' much....

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@MattWalshBlog Flayed

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@kangminlee Trying to figure out how the perpetrators aren’t flayed. Public hanging is too kind for what these people deserve.

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@brian_armstrong The problem is because of all the crazy laws and requirements for being public

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@Polymarket That’s less than 1 Elon

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@Camp4 Elon invested an incredible amount
Not many people get a single percent when $50M+ has been invested

She’s amazing, but I find it hard to think she wasn’t treated fairly. She is justifiably one of the wealthiest people in the world from a job incredibly well done.

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@tardwife4life Getting your kids indoctrinated for free…
Might be the most expensive thing you ever bought

Kids should be required to get a minimal level of education

But vouchers to opt in for the local school or online Kahn Academy or other which helps the kid … is probably far better

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@TheLaurenChen Racism has been redefined
By the same people who no longer know what a woman in

People should study the classics
The classical definitions are important

The ‘new definitions’ … remove all meaning

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@gkamstra Diamonds are forever

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@YIMBYLAND And Houston…
😢