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Pauline 🚀
@justpaulinelol · 30 août 2020
Can you show us some of your old homework! Pls 🥺🥺
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · 30 août 2020
It’s too embarrassing
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · 30 août 2020
Just learned that my physics prof from Penn is head of Fermilab & still has some of my old homework ☺️
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Rory Cellan-Jones
@ruskin147 · 30 août 2020
Before everyone gets too excited about the @elonmusk Neuralink demo here’s what Prof Andrew Jackson, Professor of Neural Interfaces, Newcastle University, says: “this is solid engineering but mediocre neuroscience”
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · 30 août 2020
It is unfortunately common for many in academia to overweight the value of ideas & underweight bringing them to fruition. For example, the idea of going to the moon is trivial, but going to the moon is hard.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · 30 août 2020
En réponse à @l_vaux
People are extremely unlikely to die of Covid/sars-cov2 alone. If you have multiple pre-existing health conditions & a weak immune system, then you have significant mortality risk from many diseases (not just Covid/sars-cov2) that would otherwise have minor effect.
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Pranay Pathole
@PPathole · 30 août 2020
Btw is Tesla is working on building the RNA factories with CureVac? What's the progress on that?
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Elon Musk@elonmusk· 2 juil. 2020@SamTalksTesla @tlowdon @daniellevitt22 Tesla, as a side project, is building RNA microfactories for CureVac & possibly others
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · 30 août 2020
That & Giga Berlin are why I’m headed to Germany this week. Conversations with Harvard epidemiology confirmed that a high-speed RNA printer has potential be helpful for vaccines & cures in many areas.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · 30 août 2020
Some of the tests we initially tried at Tesla were ~50% false positive, including some from major medical device companies. Too many testing methods were approved too quickly. Wouldn’t blame the FDA, though. Public was demanding fast test approval.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · 30 août 2020
Antibody half-life for cov2 is very short. In a study that SpaceX did working with Harvard epidemiology, it appears to be as low as 2 or 3 weeks. Nonetheless, reinfection rates are very low & symptoms are minor, perhaps due to memory T cells
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Pranay Pathole
@PPathole · 30 août 2020
The article mentions stripping the testing cycles to 35 would result in a 50% decrease in positives and dropping to 30 would decrease positives by 70%. WOW. This may be the most bombshell article I’ve seen since the start of the pandemic.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · 30 août 2020
Yeah
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“Mary”
@kulpability · 30 août 2020
In the time since you have reopened, how many of those employees who tested “positive” have been hospitalized or died?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · 30 août 2020
One person at Tesla (out of 60,000) was hospitalized in serious condition (he caught cov2 at home, not work), no deaths. I called his wife & Hayward hospital to make sure he was getting the right treatment, but which he was.
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Don Wolt
@tlowdon · 29 août 2020
Stunning new research finds C19 PCR tests are much too sensitive to be useful in assessing spread. "In 3 sets of testing data...compiled by officials in MA, NY & NV, up to 90% of people testing positive carried barely any virus." The implications are huge.
nytimes.com/2020/08/29/hea…
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · 30 août 2020
Some of the tests we initially tried at Tesla were ~50% false positive, including some from major medical device companies. Too many testing methods were approved too quickly. Wouldn’t blame the FDA, though. Public was demanding fast test approval.
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Whole Mars Catalog
@wholemars · 30 août 2020
does 2020.36 have the autopilot rewrite in shadow mode or did someone just make that up 🙂
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · 30 août 2020
Not yet
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Marcus House
@MarcusHouse · 29 août 2020
Thanks for the reply on that. Is there currently a Super Heavy thrust structure being built? I can only imagine the design that needs to go into making something that can support the huge thrust of 30+ Raptors.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · 30 août 2020
Yes. This is the hardest part of the booster design.
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James Stephenson
@ICannot_Enough · 30 août 2020
More detail in $TSLA quarterly investor letters would be very helpful to <clears throat> retail investor earnings forecasts.
How are Model 3 and Y selling (separately), by production site? How are buyers configuring upgrades by model? How are variable costs improving? Etc.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · 30 août 2020
People read too much into this level of detail. It’s not useful for predicting the future, nor can we ourselves accurately predict what issues we will encounter on a short-term, fine-grained level.
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James Stephenson
@ICannot_Enough · 29 août 2020
My @elonmusk tweet mug came in! 🤗
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · 30 août 2020
Critical feedback is always appreciated btw
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Mallory Tompsett
@biogirl09 · 29 août 2020
It was amazing, @JaneidyEve! I hope @elonmusk will finally give you a pass to watch hops and launches at @SpaceX Boca Chica!
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · 29 août 2020
We can’t have a blanket pass, but maybe for some events
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Neopork
@Neopork85 · 29 août 2020
Space Nerds! I am STOKED about this one. Here is my new @SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy prototype full stack render with extreme detail. 6 ft human for scale!
Check out @MarcusHouseGame 's new video today for more. Retweet if you like it!
@elonmusk @Erdayastronaut
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · 29 août 2020
Booster design has shifted to four legs with a wider stance (to avoid engine plume impingement in vacuum), rather than six
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · 29 août 2020
En réponse à @flcnhvy
Later versions of a larger device would have that potential
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Eva Fo𝕏 🦊 Claudius Nero's Legion
@EvaFox · 28 août 2020
“We’re rare, we’re first, or we’re fucked,” — @waitbutwhy
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · 29 août 2020
Yup
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Pranay Pathole
@PPathole · 29 août 2020
Which is your fav programming language? Python? 🐍
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · 29 août 2020
Actually C, although the syntax could be improved esthetically
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John Carmack
@ID_AA_Carmack · 29 août 2020
So an interesting question: What are the aspects of C++ that are real wins for that style over C? Range checked arrays would be good. What else?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · 29 août 2020
I like C, because it avoids class warfare
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Pranay Pathole
@PPathole · 29 août 2020
Elon, regarding the inductive charging of the neuralink device during sleep, would the charging be affected by our sleep position? In future will there be a pillow which would charge it while sleeping? 🔋🧠
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · 29 août 2020
A nightcap would probably work best
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