Mitchell Drake

Owner/Lead Designer of MADgical Productions

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Californians could soon see some relief from their sky-high electric bills.

The reason? Data centers.

Thanks to data centers, PG&E has been able to offer rate cuts for the fourth time in two years.

Let's keep building!

[Mitchell Drake @MDrake0715]

Grok Bot is honestly amazing!

[Mitchell Drake @MDrake0715]

RT @Tesla_Optimus: Rest in peace, Peter Cullen – voice of Optimus Prime, Optimus’ namesake

‘Till all are one

❤️

[lauren @poteto]

The Grok @Bot team has been cooking! Our Android app is almost ready. Pre-register for the release on the Google Play Store!

https://t.co/wdVjSNhWmx

[Atari @atari]

The ultimate Godzilla arena fighter is back.

Avoid those incoming buildings and catch the demo stomping onto Steam October 15th.💥
https://t.co/6T4o6zKP1C

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship has now been loaded onto a semi-submersible ship to begin the several month journey back to Starbase. Congratulations to the entire SpaceX Recovery team for battling through challenging conditions to give our engineers access to a wealth of data to continue rapidly developing Starship

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

SpaceX engineers spent several days inspecting Ship 40 in the waters off Christmas Island. They collected heatshield samples and gained vital insight into how the vehicle handled reentry with improvements now planned on future vehicles

[Mitchell Drake @MDrake0715]

Since Grok Bot is now on the Pro tier for $20/month I'm gonna subscribe. What should I use it for to improve my daily life?

[Mitchell Drake @MDrake0715]

@wholemars Honestly, there is no excuse for the waymo. With so many sensors and stuff it should have stopped or at least slowed down. Very disappointing especially since its an Ojai.

[Tesla Robotaxi @robotaxi]

Robotaxi now runs 6am to 10pm, 7 days/week

Unsupervised fleet is a lot bigger

Also, upgraded intelligence in vehicle distribution & routing means you wait less

[Grok Bot @bot]

All SuperGrok and Cursor Pro subscribers now have access to Grok Bot.

We're also resetting weekly usage limits for all users.

Enjoy!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starbase Louisiana will ultimately have over a dozen launch towers, enabling more than 30 Starship flights per day and making it the biggest launch site on Earth!

SpaceX makes sci-fi real.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starbase, Louisiana will be built to support thousands of Starship flights a year with missions launching to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond

[Tesla Megapack @Tesla_Megapack]

Megapack is designed for fast and simple deployment

Watch how our products go from factory through installation to get connected to the grid

[Tesla Charging @TeslaCharging]

New winners announced on our https://t.co/hbo2KIMyKF map and a new Supercharger voting round is now open.

Vote for your favorite location → https://t.co/6w8jVPeMjJ

[Tesla Semi @tesla_semi]

Inauguration of new Semi factory in Nevada next month

[Mitchell Drake @MDrake0715]

@DavidMoss definitely should be at the cybercab event! @Tesla

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Mona, a member of the Federation of the Blind, gave amazing testimony yesterday about @Tesla’s Cybercab after sitting in it this week:

"To have something like the Cybercab would be very beneficial to us as the blind community; It’s got Braille in there. Nobody else has Braille. This would be so beneficial. The app is wonderful. There’s space to put the wheelchair. They can just push themselves right in. A lot of times, the Uber and Lyft if they see you with a dog or cane, they drive right past you. With Cybercab, it doesn't know that you're blind. It doesn't know that you're in a wheelchair. It just knows that you need a ride, so I completely love the car. Just sitting in it, how comfortable it is, just knowing something is accessible - it’s the most amazing thing out there."

(via the Nevada Transportation Authority's general session meeting yesterday)

[Mike Baier @Mike__Baier]

The Scissor Test.

Within the first few weeks of me joining TBC, Steve gave me the direction that he wanted to be able to walk around a Prufrock with a pair of scissors, be able to cut any wire, and the machine should still be able to mine.
Obviously this was a hypothetical exercise, but the goal was real.

What followed was a deep system-wide failure mode effects analysis and a complete redesign of the machine’s electrical system to be able to pass the scissor test. There are still a few single points of failure where the complexity or cost tradeoff doesn’t make sense to design out, but for the most part Prufrock now passes the scissor test.

Being robust to a single failure is obviously important, but equally as important is observability of those failures. Without observability, a failure can lay latent in the system without anyone noticing for years and then when the backup fails the system will still go down.

For this reason we make sure to instrument each redundant connection so when any failure happens we instantly know, get a notification, and can schedule a repair for the next maintenance day - all while Prufrock keeps mining. That’s what lets these machines keep mining continuously with zero people in the tunnel.

We’re hiring electrical engineers. Come help us keep pushing this further. Link to apply in the comments below 👇