Anthony Duca

Tech enthusiast/inventor, avid hiker, & aware that nature is far more impressive than any tech ever invented. Hiking is a journey that fills your soul.

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

I too visited SpaceX even earlier, in 2009, I was building a company that sold 3D visualization software and they had some licenses. It was so early, that I didn’t know if they were going to make it. I also worked with Tesla around the same time, and had the same opinion. What an idiot I was 🤣

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

I was also building a dot com startup in SD the same time. SD being a small startup community, I remember when this happened, I never quite understood why or what happened. It was a crazy time, it did feel like everyone was raising money, so many stories in that itself, as do many idiotic things got funded.

Good for you on not letting them move to push for a cram down!! Smart move!

[Anurag Sharma @anurshar16]

Insurance companies price warehouse risk from a report that’s already months old.

Substance prices it from data captured this week — 64 data points, every facility, by a robot that never misses a pass.

https://t.co/jVcpZ1UIMa

#WarehouseRisk #CommercialInsurance #Insurtech

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@PTrubey @pmarca Not only their left, but the right one as well, and maybe part of their liver! 🤣🤣🤣

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@gfodor It’s ridiculous!!!

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@PeterDiamandis Life is about people and relationships, it’s that simple. That is the meaning of it all. College is one of the best times in life to meet people and build relationships. Both my sons met their future wives at college, my daughter met her future husband as well. What’s that worth?

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@mcuban @PeterDiamandis Life is about people and relationships, it’s that simple. That is the meaning of it all. College is one of the best times in life to meet people and build relationships. Both my sons met their future wives at college, my daughter met her future husband as well. What’s that worth?

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@big_duca It’s coming back. It’s been worse!

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@Scobleizer @elonmusk @Tesla Former friend being the key words!!!

[Phil Trubey @PTrubey]

Woah! Elon actually gave breaking news in his JP Morgan interview today with Jamie Dimon.

Optimus robots will be connected to Starlink! He made it clear that “AI robots” have huge connectivity bandwidth requirements and thus Starlink will have to up its game to support them. This implies that Optimus may have hybrid AI models, both on robot models and off robot cloud models.

He expects Starlink to orbit 100,000 satellites, 10x more than today, and future satellites will be half the distance from the earth than the current constellation, reducing latency accordingly. Currently Starlink sats orbit around 550 km, so new satellites would be around 300 km. This would support much lower latency (maybe down to 12 ms or so) as well as support Direct To Cell much better for worldwide cellular satellite communications.

The new V3 satellites will be 10-20 times more capable than the V2 satellites. They use three proprietary “beyond” state of the art chips that SpaceX designed. Jamie mentioned that this constellation might supplant or at least supplement ocean fiber optic cables. Each Starship should be able to launch 50 of these much larger satellites at a time.

Don’t sleep on SpaceX’s lunar ambitions. Elon likened SpaceX to Union Pacific and the hotels it built as they were building the railway across the country. Elon said vacation hotels on the moon were a distinct possibility. Jamie joked that he never thought he’d see Elon enter the hospitality business.

And continuing the transport analogies, Elon pointed out that Starship’s propellant (natural gas/oxygen) is cheaper than jet fuel. He said that in theory you should be able to transport cargo into space at a lower cost than trans oceanic airplane flights.

Btw, SpaceX develops and manufactures its own space lasers for inter-satellite communications (more vertical manufacturing).

Other news. SpaceX has been self funded since 2015 or so, never raising any money in the past ten years. The various rounds since then were liquidity rounds for employees.

Elon said that data centers in space should be much easier to do than Starlink satellites. The space data centers are initially intended to allow others to put their own chips and software into them making them a co-location data center model, which is pretty wild. Kinda like extending the anthropic Colossus rental deal, but in space.

In the future they will make their own space specific data center chips and run their own AI software.

Terafab is to address the next limiting factor in chip manufacturing. For instance there are ZERO memory fabs in the US right now. Classic Elon, address supply chain before it becomes an issue just like he did for EV batteries and lithium refining.

SpaceX is not only is supplying the US military with the Starshield product based on Starlink, but Elon stated they do other classified work.

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@Scobleizer @shaneswrld_ It’s not quite that easy, we all wish it was 🤣. but yeah high concentration of the right people.

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@levie I totally afree with us. Having used many of the AI coding systems. At some point you have to get into the code and change something. You have to know how things work to be productive.

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@PTrubey And I make my own yogurt using half and half.

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@PTrubey Totally. We have been brain washed/marketed lies on fat free food for too long! Fat is important to have in your diet. Fat helps keep you satiated, helps vitamin absorption, supports hormone production, help improve blood sugar stability.

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@Chilearmy123 Epic trade! Stay long on it. Just the first inning.

[Stijn Spanhove @stspanho]

🏃‍♂️ I've gamified my own run so I can race my own ghost with the Meta Ray-Ban Display.

I built a web app for the glasses, loaded a previous GPX from Strava, and dropped game mechanics on top.

Pick up coins when you keep pace, sprint zones reward extra points if you push, and a mini leaderboard on the lens shows how you're tracking against your past self in real time.

Best part: it actually works. Seeing your ghost 20 m ahead is a way stronger nudge than any number on a watch. 😅

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@stspanho As a very active Strava runner, this is very cool. Guess I’m gonna need to get myself a pair of Meta Ray-Ban’s.

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@gfodor Interesting take! Is it a problem that you have 25K lines of code that you’ll never understand? Or does it just mean we are now forever beholden to the frontier models and they just get stronger, make more money amd basically hold all the cards? I think the latter is true

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@PTrubey @QuanquanGu 🤣🤣🤣

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

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