nick (hypersonic missile enjoyer)

high speed flow measurements

[Ryan Co @ryanp_co]

John Schulman (co-founder of Thinking Machines and OpenAI) wrote that goal-driven research beats idea-driven research.

I realized it's also really good life advice.

Don't chase what other people are doing. Figure out what life you want, and then figure out how to get there.

[nick (hypersonic missile enjoyer) @hypersonicholas]

@AdamHoltererer 🙏🙏🙏 I desperately need GPT-6 Sol

[nick (hypersonic missile enjoyer) @hypersonicholas]

@HunterALanier address

[nick (hypersonic missile enjoyer) @hypersonicholas]

@HunterALanier post results

[nick (hypersonic missile enjoyer) @hypersonicholas]

@aliteracy bait

[nick (hypersonic missile enjoyer) @hypersonicholas]

@pronounced_kyle DM'd you!

[nick (hypersonic missile enjoyer) @hypersonicholas]

@eigenron Need to compare speed of Neon and Astra as well

[nick (hypersonic missile enjoyer) @hypersonicholas]

@yet_so_far Isn't an intuition just a guess that turned out to be correct?

[Casey Handmer @CJHandmer]

Who is running the most comprehensive effort to scrub SciHub and post facto evaluate *all* scientific research for accuracy and validity?

[nick (hypersonic missile enjoyer) @hypersonicholas]

@MatthewBerman @bot Hello!

[Pintle @pintleinjector]

Against all odds SpaceX continues to find more hot humid remote places to make its employees work

[aether @bluewdrift]

Your death will come on an ordinary day, in the middle of unfinished plans and the world will continue without you.

So live a little.

[ol’ stocky ⛳️ @oldstocky]

A third coffee so I can yawn with a heart rate of 180 bpm

[nick (hypersonic missile enjoyer) @hypersonicholas]

@thsottiaux Every time I make a project in Work mode, I find myself telling ChatGPT to remember certain things and save them in a markdown file. Would be awesome to make this feel more automatic somehow?

[nick (hypersonic missile enjoyer) @hypersonicholas]

@thsottiaux I'd love the option to do a side chat in normal chat mode. Sometimes I want to do an ephemeral offshoot but have no need to keep it as a full branch.

[nick (hypersonic missile enjoyer) @hypersonicholas]

@oprydai What is this?

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

A SpaceX recruiter once described what happens when Elon Musk personally interviews a candidate. And it explains why SpaceX has the lowest acceptance rate of any company in aerospace, lower than NASA, lower than Boeing, lower than any defense contractor on earth.

She said the interview doesn't feel like an interview. There's no behavioral questions. No "tell me about a time when." No competency framework. Elon sits across from the candidate and starts asking technical questions at the boundary of the candidate's expertise. Then he pushes past the boundary.

He's not testing whether you know the answer. He's testing what happens when you don't. Does the candidate panic and make something up? Do they freeze? Or do they say "I don't know but here's how I would figure it out" and then reason through it in real time?

She said the candidates who get hired are almost never the ones with the most impressive resumes. They're the ones who reached the edge of their knowledge and kept thinking out loud instead of shutting down. The willingness to sit in not knowingn and work through it publicly is the signal Elon selects for.

She said he rejected a PhD from MIT and hired a self-taught engineer from a state school in the same week. The PhD froze at the edge of his knowledge. The self taught engineer said "I've never solved that specific problem but here's how I'd approach it" and then spent ten minutes reasoning through it while Elon listened.

SpaceX doesn't hire credentials. It hires problem solvers. And the only way to identify a real problem solver is to push them past what they know and watch what happens in the space between knowledge and uncertainty. That space is where rockets get built.

[Schwibz @schwibz]

coworker just tripped and smashed his coffee mug into the printer and said “that’s baseball”

[garvy @garvvee]

First they came for the mathematicians, and that sucked because I was mathematician and REALLY did not expect that ngl