Ben Weiss

Developer of Frax for iOS. Senior Software Engineer. Also freediver, pianist, techie, and environmentalist. #T1D dad.

[Ben Weiss @deepbluecea]

Prediction: Tesla FSD will not achieve L4 city-streets autonomy by 2029.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

AI will probably be smarter than any single human next year. By 2029, AI is probably smarter than all humans combined.

[Ben Weiss @deepbluecea]

@vipintukur Yep. My daughter is T1D, and had a sustained honeymoon with low insulin requirements. Then she caught Covid (at school), and bam, her residual pancreatic function dropped to zero. Hopefully this research will help point to a way to reverse the damage!

[Ben Weiss @deepbluecea]

@pickover If so, this avoids an “ultraviolet catastrophe” situation and makes the problem solvable. (A single calcium atom is approximately 10^-25 femurs.)

[Ben Weiss @deepbluecea]

@pickover Can we assume that the smaller piece contains at least one atom of bone?

[Ben Weiss @deepbluecea]

@jeremyjudkins_ Android on a Glutoid

[Ben Weiss @deepbluecea]

@Alexphysics13 Good rant. The crucial difference is that the high CO2 equivalent is only from UNBURNED RELEASED methane, which is minimal for Starship, barring a freak RUD in which it somehow doesn’t ignite. The CO2 footprint of structural material (steel) is amortized over many launches.

[Ben Weiss @deepbluecea]

@MrCraigRoche @tomcsheppard Ah, that makes more sense!

[Ben Weiss @deepbluecea]

@MrCraigRoche @tomcsheppard How is this not trivial? O is the center of the circle, C and E are on its perimeter, therefore trivially CO = OE.

[Ben Weiss @deepbluecea]

@EricTopol How do you reconcile this with the sharp spike in the Northeast? https://t.co/wwomIUDH3H

[Data Report @CovidDataReport]

The northeast US has now passed the summer Covid peak on wastewater scan. This is a very rapid rise that shows no signs of slowing.

[Ben Weiss @deepbluecea]

@RittOnTwitt75 @mr_jay_pea It probably makes the most sense for just Maine to be on AST. The rest of New England is politically/logistically trickier, for sure.

[Ben Weiss @deepbluecea]

@RittOnTwitt75 @mr_jay_pea If Maine or New England wants to move to Atlantic Standard Time, more power to them. (It’s the one region of the country where it arguably makes sense.) Everywhere else, permanent Standard Time in the current zones is much better.

[Ben Weiss @deepbluecea]

@EmoPhilips

[Ben Weiss @deepbluecea]

@thedooberhead Wow. Mine just gave me a forward collision warning for a car that was PARKED in a LOT separated by a GRASSY EMBANKMENT from the road I was driving on. Robotaxi this decade? Lol

[Ben Weiss @deepbluecea]

@piecexpiece3 Borg Cube?

[Ben Weiss @deepbluecea]

@Jim1289543 Seriously…

[Ben Weiss @deepbluecea]

@FerragamoWx This is amazing!! Curious, where’s Hurricane Sandy (2012)? Was it excluded because it was technically a “post-tropical cyclone” at landfall, even though it still had hurricane-force (Cat 1) sustained winds? How much would the map change if such storms/landfalls were included?

[Michael Ferragamo @FerragamoWx]

It's finally done. Over 3 days of hand-plotting 173 years' worth of data. The end result is unbelievable.

What an incredible dataset to look at.

[Ben Weiss @deepbluecea]

@farzyness Only if you can explain why the Trump admin paid Reuters over $435 million in government contracts.

[Ben Weiss @deepbluecea]

@SMC_35 @robbystarbuck It’s winter that makes it darker early. Standard time balances the sunlight between morning and evening. DST darkens mornings to make afternoons brighter. Bright mornings (at least, not pitch-dark mornings as DST would do) are far better for mental health and circadian rhythms.

[Ben Weiss @deepbluecea]

@SMC_35 @mr_jay_pea @robbystarbuck Correct. We should be on permanent Standard Time.

[Ben Weiss @deepbluecea]

@SMC_35 @robbystarbuck And I don’t want 8am darkness. It’s winter; you can’t have it both ways. Early light is infinitely better for mental health and circadian rhythms. That’s why every time “permanent DST” has been tried (US in the 70’s, Russia last decade), it’s been hated and immediately rescinded.