Emerson Smith

CEO & Founder @pushnami | Entrepreneur | 2020 Austin Fast 50 Winner | Likes Software, Big Data, EDM, Yoga & 🏋️‍♀️

[Emerson Smith @EmersonASmith]

Waymo in Austin ran a police stop and then sideswiped a car. I guess the LiDAR didn’t see that coming @elonmusk

[Emerson Smith @EmersonASmith]

@nahuelhilal @Tesla Needs to be unsupervised to make it work for most people. If you can do work, play games and sleep, taking a 18 hour road trip somewhere overnight is probably more enjoyable for a lot people than flying.

[Emerson Smith @EmersonASmith]

Awesome find. Already over 75k stars:⭐️

This CLAUDE.md is a set of behavioral guidelines that fixes how Claude codes.

No hidden assumptions. No overcomplication. No random edits.
Think before coding. Simplicity first. Surgical changes. Goal-driven execution.

Karpathy wisdom.

Get the file: https://t.co/vO8efOxwf5

[Emerson Smith @EmersonASmith]

Google → Anthropic: $40B.
The race isn't who builds the model. Its who ships first on top of it.
Most CEOs still haven't started.

https://t.co/YzSky7rYZ8

[Emerson Smith @EmersonASmith]

@SouthwestAir your internet is horrible. You are doing us no favors by offering free internet that doesn't work. Just upgrade to Starlink and charge me money so I can not lose two hours of productivity and focus on every flight. #starlink @elonmusk please help.....

[Emerson Smith @EmersonASmith]

@bloggersarvesh @grok
convert post above into word doc that I can paste into Claude

[Emerson Smith @EmersonASmith]

@elonmusk When can we have FSD….Unsupervised?!? Please? I don’t want to drive anymore, I just want to sit in back seat and vibe code while listening to a podcast while watching the news on silent. You can do it @elonmusk

[Emerson Smith @EmersonASmith]

@dunkhippo33 @telegram Do you use the api or just have a bot actually type it?

[Emerson Smith @EmersonASmith]

Hey @elonmusk my new Tesla is awesome but it appears your team left an entire box of these in the trunk. Let me know if you want them back and I can just drop them off to you or something.

[Matt Mackowiak @MattMackowiak]

EXTERNAL AUDIT UPDATE

A few audit petition meet ups remain. The schedule is below.

We have surpassed 15k (75% of minimum needed) signed petitions received on our effort to require REGULAR, EXTERNAL, PERFORMANCE audits of the ENTIRE City of Austin budget.

We’ve done this in just ten weeks. An unprecedented effort.

If you live in Austin and want to see our city budget become more efficient, with duplication, waste and fraud eliminated, WE NEED YOU TO SIGN THE PETITION ASAP!

https://t.co/JSXB9Iu6ho

@LoewyLawFirm @JenRobichaux @_TeddyBrosevelt @saveaustintx @data_atx @natemcguire @bbqbobcole

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

I’d cancel your AG1 subscription. They just completed a clinical trial and the results show no clinical benefit. 

This has been obvious for years.  AG1 has no real product substance and is fundamentally an influencer heist.  

Two simple alternatives (75% and 56% less $), outperform AG1 in randomized clinical trials.

Two simple mono-ingredient alternatives that outperform AG1:

1. Chicory inulin 12 g daily ($20/mo)
2. Resistant starch 30 g daily for 12 weeks ($35/mo)

AG1 is not worth $79/mo.

AG1 study results (4-weeks, N=30):
+ No significant changes in blood biomarkers compared to placebo (CBC, CMP, lipids).
+ No statistically significant improvement in digestive quality-of-life scores (p = 0.058).
+ No significant metabolic or inflammatory biomarker benefits of any kind within the scope of what was measured in the trial.
+ Only small shifts in microbiome taxa but clinically irrelevant at this stage.
+ The intervention did not increase microbiome diversity compared to placebo. Alpha diversity was unchanged, and the taxa changes seen were only from pre- to post-analysis within each group. Between-group differences were limited, and the placebo actually showed similar or even potentially larger shifts. This means the observed changes fall within normal placebo-driven variability, not a real treatment effect. No global microbiota shifts were detected.

Chicory inulin 12 g in constipation patients
+ 12 g of chicory inulin daily for 4 weeks (compared to maltodextrin placebo)
+ Global microbiota shifts: enrichment in butyrate-producing Bifidobacterium and Anaerostipes, and depletion of the pro-inflammatory Bilophila.
+The effect was seen by comparing intervention vs placebo in a cross-over setting, a very rigorous type of clinical analysis in which each person serves as their own control, eliminating a lot of individual random noise.
+ The trial also met its primary objective by improving constipation symptoms in the targeted patient group.

Resistant starch daily 30g for 12 weeks in older adults
+ Significant increase in Bifidobacterium in both middle-aged and elderly participants, with an increase in the beneficial microbiome byproduct butyrate, and reductions in Proteobacteria (including inflammatory Escherichia–Shigella) in the elderly.
+ Resistant starch also significantly reduced blood glucose, and produced greater reductions in blood insulin and insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) in the elderly group.

[Save Austin Now @SaveAustinNow]

Less than 2 weeks left to sign the petition and help make AUDITS of Austin's $6 billion budget the law.

[Save Austin Now @SaveAustinNow]

Less than 2 weeks left to sign the petition and help make AUDITS of Austin's $6 billion budget the law.

[Emerson Smith @EmersonASmith]

@elonmusk Can you make a Grokipedia app please?

[ATX data @data_atx]

Its not hard to find $30m in cuts ✂️✂️

1) don't build the highway caps ( $22m/yr in maintenance saved )
2) don't give $5m to Southwest Airlines
3) don't spend $1m on carbon credits
4) don't pay for photoshop ( $1.2m/yr)
5) cut 10% from council member budgets ($1m)

[Emerson Smith @EmersonASmith]

@ZacksJerryRig I can build it for you in 2 weeks for $10k using AI. If it’s not great, don’t pay. I dont need the money or the distraction, I just want to prove a point and use it as a case study.

[Emerson Smith @EmersonASmith]

@CAgovernor @CHP_HQ I

[Emerson Smith @EmersonASmith]

@DarrigoMelanie The fact that I can see your post randomly on my feed should tell you something…

[Emerson Smith @EmersonASmith]

@ohhanxiety I take 9 high quality suppliments every morning. Have not really gotten sick in over a year now.

[Emerson Smith @EmersonASmith]

@sciencegirl No kids…at all…ever….