For some reason I went to go look at my high school yearbook — almost like I knew I’d end up @Starlink
Nathan Owens
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Principal Eng, Starlink Network & xAI Training @ SpaceXAI. Software, systems, data, networking. Bike rides, hikes, nutrition/longevity, tech, etc.
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The High Frontier is free to watch on YouTube! youtu.be/wPt7tO_ggXY
www.youtube.com The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O'Neill The High Frontier tells the untold story of Gerard K. O'Neill who i... Fun Friday night project: real-ish looking video rendering of an O’Neill cylinder🧵View quoted post on X
After coming across RaptorQ from one of @doodlestein's crazy projects, I was inspired to build a TCP performance enhancing proxy (PEP) using it, consider it a proof-of-concept. I also contributed a bunch of perf improvements the RaptorQ Rust package. github.com/virtuallynatha… (I built this a few months ago but failed to open source it)
github.com GitHub - virtuallynathan/raptorq-pep-v2: Resilient multi-flow TCP tunnel over UDP with RaptorQ FEC Resilient multi-flow TCP tunnel over UDP with RaptorQ FEC - virtuallynathan/raptorq-pep-v2 Whoa — fountain codes are really interesting!View quoted post on X
Great people to work with - learned a ton over the last 3 years! (And amusingly, Friday marked my 3rd year at SpaceXAI)
Was cool to be able to celebrate the @SpaceX IPO with a few folks from the amazing @Starlink team. Ultimately SpaceX is about building cool shit with your friends, now that’s something that will keep you going …View quoted post on X
Robotaxi vs Waymo - Riding between Meno Park and Palo Alto for a couple months, no traffic:
Robotaxi: $13.17, 5.8mi, 10-13 minutes
Waymo: $15.06-19.34, ~5.3mi, 19-20 minutes
Waymo: robotic, jabs the brakes, steering wheel jerks around. Safe, but uncomfortable at times. Has dodged some sketchy stuff.
Robotaxi: Drives near perfectly, and extremely comfortable. Gets a bit skittish on the highway on ramp traffic lights, and has braked hard to save a bird/squirrel a couple times.
Robotaxi: $13.17, 5.8mi, 10-13 minutes
Waymo: $15.06-19.34, ~5.3mi, 19-20 minutes
Waymo: robotic, jabs the brakes, steering wheel jerks around. Safe, but uncomfortable at times. Has dodged some sketchy stuff.
Robotaxi: Drives near perfectly, and extremely comfortable. Gets a bit skittish on the highway on ramp traffic lights, and has braked hard to save a bird/squirrel a couple times.