Danish Hussain
@astrodanish • 11,136 subscribers
Head of Surgery Mechanical Engineering @neuralink. Former aerospace engineer and firefighter. Interested in planes, brains, and flames.
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I just tried Tesla FSD for the first time and WOW it completely blew me away. Cybertruck drove me fully autonomously from south austin to dallas (>200 miles!), without me having to touch the steering wheel, gas, or brakes even once. I’ve never been more impressed by a new technology. It handled city and highway, construction zones, on/off ramps, stop lights, red lights, and lane changes at human or better levels. Every legacy auto maker is dead in the water. You simply cannot compete with this.
Danish Hussain977,090 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
Travis Pastrana, the greatest stuntman of our generation and the first person to EVER land a double backflip on a motorcycle, realized that the average viewer is so far below his riding skill level that they don’t even know what is and isn’t impressive in his domain. I have no idea how much more difficult a double backflip is compared to a single backflip, or how hard a single backflip is compared to any of Evil Knievel’s jumps. Pastrana realized that he would have to demonstrate his skillset in a domain the common viewer would be familiar with, so he added a segment to Nitro Circus where they started doing stunts on those girly little tricycles we all had when we were little kids. Seeing this video was what really blew me away. For the first time, I really got it. Public support of science & technogy has much the same problem as Freestyle Motocross did in the early 2000’s and we should use the same solutions they came up with. I’m relatively well educated, but I have no idea what a trigger chain is or how hard it is for the LHC to do 60 million collisions (that number means nothing to me- it might as well be 600 or 6 billion). But I can look at a robot solving a rubik’s cube and say “wow das fast”, the same way I can see a guy flipping a tricycle and say “wow he’s way cooler than i ever will be”. In the eyes of a stuntman, the double backflip on the dirtbike may be the better trick, but it’s too far out of the public’s understanding to grasp. Counterintuitively, it’s harder to build something that blows away the common man than it is to dazzle a specialist with specs. Only aerospace dweebs care if you make your airplane 16% more fuel efficient. But even a 10 year old can appreciate a plane going mach 5 or a rocket being caught with chopsticks. In the context of Neuralink, It doesn’t really matter what neat benchtop tests I’ve seen internally or how good our “bitrate” and other technical specs get, unless they translate to immensely useful devices for our users. The only thing that actually matters is providing a safe product that users genuinely love, and making it so amazing that every fourth grader is blown away by it. Only THEN can we be proud of the engineering feats. Travis Pastrana thanks for being an inspiration to me and millions of others, even though I may have broken a couple bones cuz of you…
Danish Hussain712,822 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce
Engineering is the same way. If you build a truly beautiful product, people will buy it. You can cut costs later, but you can’t “add” demand later. When I worked at Pratt & Whitney, we were just starting to roll out an engine that was better than the competitors, but many parts were only certified to be flown for ~1/5th of the life. But it got orders in, and it built demand, and we cut costs and increased fatigue life later. Those engines have flown over a billion miles now. I’ve personally been on about a dozen flights with them. They’ll be flying for 20+ years. If we were worried about making it cheaper than everyone else before we worried about making it more fuel efficient and quieter, nobody would hav ever bought the damn things! Stop thinking about the cost and build things you are proud of. I’d rather fail cuz my hardware wasn’t good enough than because some finance guy didn’t let me follow my soul. In the words of Rick Rubin “It’s all an offering to God.”
Danish Hussain350,823 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce
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