Donpaul Stephens @DonpaulStephens

Building AirMettle: Analytical Storage Platform: 100x faster extract/aggregate/re-scale/AI inference: JSON, CSV, Parquet, NetCDF4, w/ video & more underway. Houston, TX, USA, Earth, Sol Joined November 2021

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Donpaul Stephens @DonpaulStephens

3 months ago

“Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and…

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Robb Allen @ItsRobbAllen

4 months ago

Why is Calvin & Hobbes still one of the best comics that has ever existed? One reason is that regardless of how emotionally trying raising Calvin can be, there is every indicator that both Mom & Dad love Calvin very, very much. This one, in particular, is beautiful.

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Christof Spieler @christofspieler

4 months ago

In January 2004, Houston opened its first light rail line. At 40,000 weekday riders on 7.5 miles within 3 years of opening, Houston beat every other US light rail system except Boston and San Francisco (which has a 100 year head start) in riders per mile. Some lessons:

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James Lucas @JamesLucasIT

4 months ago

Italian photographer Valerio Minato just won NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

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Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria

5 months ago

America’s top universities should abandon their long misadventure into politics, retrain their gaze on their core strengths and rebuild their reputations as centers of research and learning. My take:

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Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh

6 months ago

Wow. Wow. Wow. Incredible powerful message (incredible speech writing)—to those who stumbled on the wrong path and may ruin their future for not knowing the past. The weight of history

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Donpaul Stephens @DonpaulStephens

7 months ago

Many of you know that I founded another “storage” startup called AirMettle a few years ago. We’ve been pretty quiet while building the platform, but things are picking up, so it’s time for me to share more. AirMettle’s Analytical Storage solution is the first storage service for…

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Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger

9 months ago

For years, the U.S. government has said the high-decibel sonar and boat traffic in pristine waters off the East Coast aren't causing whale deaths. But now, a new documentary proves they've been lying. It, and the science behind it, may be enough to prevent the whales' extinction.

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Judy Estrin @jlabsllc

9 months ago

The Case Against AI Everything, Everywhere, All at Once | Time time.com/6302761/ai-ris…

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Melissa Chen @MsMelChen

9 months ago

Political discourse right now: “BUT WHATABOUT TRUMP’S CRIMES?” “BUT WHATABOUT HUNTER BIDEN?“ While we ignore major problems that affect real people - the economy, the border, crime, etc. Once again we are stuck in the past, consumed by two candidates no one wants in 2024.

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Seth Mandel @SethAMandel

9 months ago

This is not just a good column, it is a *fantastic* column, a column of a quality reached a few times a year by a few writers. It will be criticized angrily because it shows empathy and elite introspection, which will prove it correct nytimes.com/2023/08/02/opi…

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Donpaul Stephens @DonpaulStephens

9 months ago

For every startup, booking the first $1m in revenue is always the hardest

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Donpaul Stephens @DonpaulStephens

10 months ago

if you have lots of NetCDF4 data, and would like interactive selection, aggregation and Re-scaling…. Please reach out, you will be interested in what we are doing with @NOAA weather forecasting and climate modeling is super important Just wait to see where this is going.

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Ramez Naam @ramez

12 months ago

People are extremely averse to the idea of cooling the planet by reflecting a tiny bit of sunlight through e.g., putting some sulfur aerosols into the stratosphere. But we are rapidly reducing sulfur aerosols right now, likely causing a surge of warming.

Leon Simons @LeonSimons8

a year ago

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Sam Altman @sama

12 months ago

US debt to GDP ratio over time. very scary chart; no plan to fix it or even much of an acknowledgement we need a plan. will get made worse as the rest of the world finds alternatives to the USD and rates stay non-zero. long-term brewing crisis.

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NRO @NatReconOfc

a year ago

Today is day 2️⃣ of @SpaceComExpo 2023! NRO is here at booth 1002. Stop by to learn how NRO is taking innovation to new heights with the Director's Innovation Initiative (DII). #AboveandBeyond #innovation #space

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr

a year ago

Please help me share this video announcing my run for President of the United States. #Kennedy24

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Piers Morgan @piersmorgan

a year ago

My Minister for anti-wokery manifesto is blowing up online. Read my 20-point guide to how to rid Britain of the dreaded woke virus. Judging by the staggering reaction, you may have to actually appoint me, Prime Minister @RishiSunak 👇👇 thesun.co.uk/news/22183567/…