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✞, Competitive Long Range Shooter (NRL Hunter/PRS) ‣ MechE → SWE ‣ Cofounder @sage_teacher ‣ Prev Dir Eng @synthesischool ‣ Built app/site

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After 4+ years at Synthesis, much of it leading engineering for Tutor, I've resigned.

It was a blessing working with such a talented team on a category leading product. I will always cherish my time at Synthesis.

Now it's time to forge a new path at @sage_teacher. AI teaching hasn't lived up to its promise...yet. We cracked it. If you want to follow along, hop on the waitlist at https://t.co/RI3g6SJvgo

[Joseph Norman @normonics]

Some news: I resigned as Head of Product for the Synthesis Tutor. Friday was my last day.

I am VERY excited for what's coming next. Follow along: @sage_teacher and https://t.co/Sp3kHZUOnR

To date, no one has built a system that can generate reliable, interactive, visceral educational experiences. Text, images, even video -- these are all passive media. To LEARN you must DO.

Sage is building that

My time at Synthesis was a blessing, and the best education I could imagine. Deep gratitude to @chrisman and @josh_dahn for giving me the opportunity to build a first-of-its-kind product with crack team 🙏. I will be cheering for Synthesis to continue breaking new ground.

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FSD is an amazing technology. More people need to experience it.

[Kathleen Anderson @RepubliKate]

My brother’s friend drives a Tesla. This is 3 videos of the same accident. The Tesla, on self drive, sees the approaching car coming from behind at excessive speed and moves out of the way. Driver of speeding car was killed. Amazing technology @elonmusk.

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Hornady is great! reached out to them for sponsorship for a custom demo rifle we built.

We get a lot of brand new competitors out to our NRL Hunter matches so XLR, Pure Precision, West Elk Precision (gunsmith) and others have donated to build a rifle to let people try out what a custom rifle is like.

Gonna get some cool content around it too

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@Francis_Liguori @rickbrennanjr @catholicdads_ not htat funny of a thing. the plain reading of the NT is clear that the authors meant brothers/sisters. Only way you'd arrive at anything different is to reason from the desired conclusion.

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@MattWalshBlog Same fear mongering that set us way back with nuclear power.

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@heinenbros Crazy tech! Should do a head to head race with those guys that do this for fun

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@MrLeadslinger Me too

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@scoutingdad2022 @ammolab1 lol no

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@ammolab1 You shoot any matches? Curious how you’d do. Show us all how it’s done.

https://t.co/CZJusRpawX

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This was the hardest stage at the @nrlhunter Grand Slam. The average team score was 5 points out of 16 possible. Somehow we pulled off a 10.

I started getting worried 2 minutes in when we still hadn’t found target 2. Thankfully around the 2m30s mark I spotted it just off the left from a two track heading away from us. Target 1 was at about 940 yards and Target 2 was at 760ish yards. So…pretty small targets in some gusty wind. A rough measurement from the Triggercam footage puts the first target at about 24” wide and 8” tall and the second target around 12” wide and 4” tall.

Clark shot a 0-2-1-2 and I got a 1-2-2-0. I’m really bummed that we didn’t capture Clark on this stage. We lost all his Triggercam footage from this stage through stage 12.

I must have dialed wrong on my very last shot while in a hurry. I don’t think the ROs would have counted it had gotten an impact anyway.

I’ll post a stage of us messing up soon. We’ve got a plenty of them from this match.

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@Starlink Heck yeah! Glad it'll have a built in battery

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@ScriptureAlone2 The Catholic critique of faith alone is usually a critique of antinomianism, not sola fide.

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@SoliDeoGloria_X And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified. Romans 8:30

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@theo Built an in-house replacement for Gather + loom/supercut on the side that works enough for us and can be customized easily to fit our workflows.

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I lost 4 of my college fraternity brothers to a plane crash in 2020 in clear weather. I wouldn’t stick my family in a single-engine plane.

You know it’s a real risk when life insurance applications ask if you fly one.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

You can legally load your whole family into a single-engine plane and fly them over the ocean with about 40 hours of flying lessons. That's roughly one work week.

Once you have the license, the FAA asks you to go up with an instructor once every two years. Airline pilots need 1,500 hours just to get hired, and they're back in a simulator getting tested every single year.

You can see what that does in the crash data. Personal flights, meaning weekend trips and family vacations, had 21.1 fatal accidents per million flight hours between 2012 and 2021. Student pilots on training flights, mostly in the same kind of small planes, had 2.3. So the people still learning to fly crash about 9 times less often than the people who already passed.

Compared to your car, personal flying in a small plane comes out about 27 times deadlier per hour. Worse than a motorcycle.

When investigators go through the wreckage, about 69% of the time they pin the crash on the pilot. Mechanical problems caused 7% of the deadly ones in 2021. Even an engine quitting, which is what everybody pictures, killed people in 6 of 57 cases that year.

The biggest killer is flying into bad weather, and it comes down to your inner ear.

There's fluid in there that sloshes around when you turn, and that's how your brain knows you're tilting. Hold a gentle turn for about 15 seconds and the fluid settles down, so your brain decides you're flying straight again. When you can see the horizon you catch it right away. Inside a cloud there's nothing to look at, so the plane keeps tipping, the nose drops, the speed climbs, and your body keeps telling you everything's fine.

Back in 1954, the University of Illinois put 20 pilots with zero instrument training into simulated clouds. Every one of them lost control of the plane. It took 178 seconds on average, a little under three minutes.

Pilots still end up in clouds they were never trained for, and more than 75% of those crashes kill someone. No weather accident in small planes is deadlier.

Small-plane people have joked about this since the 1950s. The Beechcraft Bonanza was one of the fastest single-engine planes you could buy, and so many wealthy doctors bought one and crashed it that people started calling it the "doctor killer." When people finally ran the numbers, the Bonanza crashed about as often as any other small plane. It just had a lot of rich owners with more money than flight time.

Look at the back of that cabin. One teenager's asleep under a plaid blanket and the other one's buried in a book. The biggest safety feature on that flight is the judgment of whoever's sitting up front.

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Sage can do things no other AI tutor or ed tech app can do.

[Joseph Norman @normonics]

What happens if you ask @sage_teacher how many "e"s in the word seventeen?

This is a preview of the on-demand content generation we are cooking up.

What you see Sage doing to answer a question is not pre-scripted or pre-designed. There is no existing routine for answering this type of question in the system.

We are getting closer to releasing this capability to primetime. Stay Tuned.

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We need to split Colorado into east and west CO. Tired of Denver dictating policy to half the state on the other side of the rockies.

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@ArtemisConsort same people think an exploding mic killed charlie and that the plane that just crashed was a missile

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@ArtemisConsort yep

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@Jason @NateSilver538 What? He didn't do enough with deportations/border...

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@TRHLofficial Apparently many conservatives are just as retarded as the left. They counter signaled then stayed home. To what end? Complain while letting it go off the rails even faster?

What’s your plan now? Complain more?