Aerospace engineer and pilot Founder @tgacinc
Brooklyn
Joined July 2015
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This headline is misleading. They just want to restrict agent browser use.
This isn't like Amazon. Airlines already have search and booking APIs for 3p booking sites.
The clear solution is just to open up those APIs to agents to book directly.
United says it is banning AI agents from booking flights united.com/en/us/newsroom/an…
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Ok, joining the party. Here are 6,000 aircraft landing at ORD on 6 parallel runways. This is possible if we modernize our air traffic control system.
(Made with Vork by @ravisparikh)
Dear Claude: you are being held back by human-centric graphics APIs.
I've built a 3D and VFX engine where agents can write their own shaders, materials, cameras, physics.
The core API fits in ~2,500 tokens.
Vork is:
• 2x more token-efficient vs Blender, Unreal Engine, Houdini
• Up to 24x faster rendering times
• Rust and Slang based engine, runs on GPU via Metal/Vulkan
Below is a simulation of 1 million birds - each with unique trajectories - rendered in 97 sec on one NVIDIA L4 GPU (Blender EEVEE: 31 minutes)
Types of flights ordered by fatal accident rate:
(Most safe)
Scheduled passenger airlines (Part 121)
Charter airplane flights (big operators like Netjets)
Charter airplane flights (small operators)
Charter helicopter flights
Flight training
Private airplane flights
Private helicopter flights
(Least safe)
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There's a well-known electronics brand called Mean Well, with an "MW" logo. There's also a knockoff brand that calls itself "NVVV," since the logo looks so similar. Kinda devious.
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Here's the browser extension to autocheck new arXiv abstracts for AI, inspired by Pangram/GPTZero.
abstractlens.org/extension
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Pilots lobbied for these extra doors and got them mandated on new aircraft in 2023.
But pilots continue to block plenty of other safety improvements, like cockpit video recorders. If we had those, we'd know what happened in Air India 171.
I fly about 50 legs a year, mostly on AA. I’ve never seen this before. Usually it’s a beverage cart blocking the way
Is this new @AmericanAir ?
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US air traffic has more than tripled since 1981 while # of controllers went down 15%! Try doing that with minimal technological upgrades.
✨ If you read one thing: Below is one of many messages I’ve received from air traffic controllers explaining how FAA is covering up a nationwide staffing shortage, deceiving the public about it, and knowingly risking public safety.
Story: bit.ly/4d5upZ3
Was on a Japanese company's site today, and the typeface looked very, well, Japanese.
It turns out Noto Sans and Noto Sans Japanese have different Latin characters. Wonder how that happened.
note.com/nakata_design/n/n50…
![[Did you know?] Noto Sans and Noto Sans Japanese have completely different Latin characters｜中田デザイ...](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/2119047677560127488/dZRWeQR5?format=jpg&name=800x419)
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Remote ATC towers are happening! Sec. Duffy hasn’t announced it yet, but based on contracts awards, the first location will be Kenai, Alaska.
This will be the first tower where the controllers look at the field through cameras and sensors, not out the window.
Remote towers let controllers see more, they cost less, and are easier to staff.
Am I right, @SecDuffy?
@USDOTRapid
They’re using foil to make connections!
I saw firsthand how outdated the equipment is at the Kenai Flight Service Station in the great state of Alaska.
This ends now. @USDOT is spending money from @POTUS’ One Big Beautiful Bill to build them an air traffic control system they deserve.
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This is cool but I'm still waiting on the microbot mouthwash that will make brushing unnecessary!
penntoday.upenn.edu/news/pen…
Dyson trained an AI on 470,000 dental images and put it inside a toothbrush. With a camera. That flosses for you. In real time.
It's called the CameraJet for $499. Launched today.
A 100,000-pixel macro lens sits inside the brush head. It takes 28 images per second while you brush. The AI detects gaps between your teeth and within 100 milliseconds fires a precision jet of mouthrinse directly into the gap.
It's computer vision doing your flossing. While you brush. Automatically.
Only Dyson would look at a toothbrush and think it needs a camera, a machine learning model, and a jet engine.
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SpaceX is signaling most Starship capacity will go to internal missions, e.g., space data centers and Starlink. Falcon is sunsetting at the same time, which could create an acute launch shortage.
The consensus was that Starship would crater launch prices. But SpaceX has no reason to share this capacity, or pass on the savings even if they do. They can just keep prices high.
It's a great setup for Blue Origin and Rocket Lab.
Mars just got a little closer.
Blue Origin is honored to have been selected by @NASA to help build the first dedicated communications network at the Red Planet. Our Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO), built on the Blue Ring platform, will create new pathways for science while delivering multiple payloads to the orbit of Mars, driving discovery today and preparing for the next chapter of human exploration.
Learn more: bit.ly/4qSh8sF
United’s aircraft mechanics are upset the tentative union contract would let the company hire mechanics without a government license (“A&P”) at SFO.
This is going to happen more and more. There just aren’t enough A&Ps.
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Someone should build a far-UVC light system for commercial airplane cabins.
Complex Systems this week is with the CEO and lead scientist of AeroLamp, about the science behind UVC (germicidal light), what remains to be solved to unblock adoption, and what sort of curves we can expect for impact, deployment, and cost.
complexsystemspodcast.com/ep…
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Rockets should be built more like airplanes. Airplanes should be built more like cars. Cars are being built more like phones.
So rockets should be more like phones?
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Make airplane windows with spider silk!
(link below)
🚨 A Ryanair (Malta Air) Boeing 737-800 operating flight #FR1879 from Thessaloniki to Memmingen returned to Thessaloniki after a cabin window reportedly shattered while climbing through 15,000 ft (FL150) today. @AirNavRadar
The incident triggered a rapid cabin decompression, causing the passenger oxygen masks to deploy. A passenger was partially pulled toward the damaged window.
Flight data: airnavradar.go.link/cITxu 🎥 Video source: r/Thess
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Lots of people commenting on PBI changing its airport code to DJT today.
Good time to remind people of aviation data arcana:
1. The timing is not arbitrary or surprising. There are many changes to aeronautical names and codes each month and they all change at the end of the 28-day AIRAC cycle (today starts cycle 2607).
2. If your tools and airlines use ARINC 424 data properly (which they all generally do), you as the pilot or consumer do not need to do anything!
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