M Jaunius Kapkan 🇺🇦

Electric Vehicle, Sustainable Energy & Space Exploration Enthusiast, Software & Product Engineer. #python #space #io.

[roon @tszzl]

companies like Facebook record every imaginable interaction their users have with the platform. they log each of your clicks and taps. they keep track of how long your gaze lingered on a post, whether you were on the same WiFi as that woman who might be your friend, which instagram reel you watched three times.

for a single user this is quaint, but these practices are done on a planetary scale across all technology giants. they create petabytes of data per day and keep it for as long as the European regulators will let them. then they can have machine intelligence instrument it into useful knowledge for their cybernetic control systems that build newsfeeds, serve ads, decide how much compute to spend on you, which SKUs should be in which warehouses right before you want them. the Hive metastore bills run into the billions

hospitals throw most of their data and telemetry out after each case, every single day. they record videos of vascular surgeries, endoscopies, discovering interesting physiologies. sometimes they're not recorded at all and most of them the time they delete them as soon as they’re done

it's even worse for physiologic waveforms (ECG, EEG, arterial lines) which are essentially never recorded anywhere at all. milisecond scale views of patient's brains, vasculatures, hearts are generated and instantly destroyed. all of these time series of course predict people's hearts stopping, brains exploding, etc ahead of time. surgeons teleoperate robots, none of the micro-movements are recorded, policies never learned, never correlated into which outcomes were successful or not

this would be unthinkable to most software people whose instinct is to record everything everywhere never mind the cloud costs, because we are sure there will be some use for it later and some model to be trained later. i don't have a prescription here per se my point is just that our civilization routinely hoards and treasures some of the silliest data in the world "i pressed like on the john pork reel" & destroys much of all the most important data it generates and limits what machines can learn

[Terje Helland @terjehelland]

🇬🇪A country once seen as the democratic bright spot of the post-Soviet space is now undergoing the fastest authoritarian regression in modern European history.
🧵Here’s a thread to keep you updated on what’s happening - and why it matters.
1/23

[Tomi 🇺🇦🇫🇮🇪🇺 @TallbarFIN]

Europeans!

Be proud of your country.

Be proud of your history and heritage.

Be proud of your continent as a birthplace of western civilization.

Everything we have today begun in Europe, the "old world".

Make Europe great again but not in a way USA wants.

It's OUR home.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

MAGA is making the claim that if you watch the entire 50 minute video, Zelensky is the antagonist.

This isn't true. At all. I was with Zelensky before this meeting and it's important to know his mindset heading in.

1/ A short 🧵on how the entire ambush went down.

[M Jaunius Kapkan 🇺🇦 @mjkapkan]

@goybs @svpino You can run SLMs on phones already. And with fine tuned instructions they can do some tasks pretty well. You can try some of them out with PockePal app.

[Andrius Kubilius @KubiliusA]

Finally! It happened! 🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪🇪🇺🇵🇱

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia will permanently disconnect from Russia’s power grid tomorrow.

Russia can no longer use energy as a tool of blackmail.

This is a victory for freedom and European unity.

[Ryan McBeth @RyanMcbeth]

What is the Cost of deporting 11 Million Illegal Immigrants?

[M Jaunius Kapkan 🇺🇦 @mjkapkan]

Mars, here we come! 🥳🚀
It's incredible what great minds can accomplish when working together on a single goal! 👏
Congratulations to the whole SpaceX team on going beyond the past boundaries and establishing new spaceflight standards! 🎉

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship made a controlled reentry, successfully making it through the phases of peak heating and max aerodynamic pressure and demonstrating the ability to control the vehicle using its flaps while descending through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds

[M Jaunius Kapkan 🇺🇦 @mjkapkan]

@Gf4Tesla @elonmusk Ha ha, looks like they got stuck with original idea after all. https://t.co/ZOGMRvYtMT

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@mjkapkan @evafox @Tesla Probably a good one to design & engineer in Germany

[NASA @NASA]

After a journey of nearly 3.9 billion miles, the #OSIRISREx asteroid sample return capsule is back on Earth. Teams perform the initial safety assessment—the first persons to come into contact with this hardware since it was on the other side of the solar system.

[M Jaunius Kapkan 🇺🇦 @mjkapkan]

@historyinmemes Moa birds

[M Jaunius Kapkan 🇺🇦 @mjkapkan]

@CliveFlint @glynhudson @OpenVehicles It actually does charge the battery. If the vehicle is not used, it does it once a day. Not a very smart method, but it works most of the time.

[M Jaunius Kapkan 🇺🇦 @mjkapkan]

@kara____3 @Geliudievomotin

[ACEA @ACEA_auto]

Lithuania 🇱🇹 has the oldest 🧓 passenger #car fleet 🚘, but what about the other EU countries?

👇 Infographic: average age of the 🇪🇺 motor vehicle #fleet.

[M Jaunius Kapkan 🇺🇦 @mjkapkan]

@aamericanmary Nefainas įvykis, bet ne paspirtukus uždrausti reikia. Tas pats gali įvykti ir dvirtaininkui važiuojant. Reikia tinkamai sutvarkyti įstatymus, kad visi eismo dalyviai vienodai laikytųsi taisyklių, o jei ne, būtų atitinkamai nubausti.

[M Jaunius Kapkan 🇺🇦 @mjkapkan]

@waitbutwhy Stop. Enjoy. Moments.

[M Jaunius Kapkan 🇺🇦 @mjkapkan]

Awesome interview. Recommend to watch to anyone working with computers (pun intended). GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fri... https://t.co/dz85OTzPqS via @YouTube

[M Jaunius Kapkan 🇺🇦 @mjkapkan]

@Geliudievomotin

[M Jaunius Kapkan 🇺🇦 @mjkapkan]

@Laur_Ly