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I solve hard problems with technology (yes, even AI). CPO at @HRsoft_Inc Founder @KuhelaAi Take pictures of stuff when I can.

Denver, CO
Joined March 2008
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Who loves a good sunset? Everyone. Who hates driving 90 minutes to see it, only to find out I sucked? Everyone, again. Everyone includes me, so I fixed it. Introducing Sky Sync. Check the sunrise, sunset, and night sky. For free. Really. (Disclaimer: There is a companion app for photographers, that is slightly more than free) Enjoy! skysync.kuhela.ai/worth-it
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I added offline mode to Sky Sync over the weekend and was quite pleased with myself...
Turns out that the Starlink software, built for managing the movement of vast amounts of data through space and to the ground, is also very well suited to training super intelligence
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Do you live in a medal placing or near a top 10 sunset tonight? skysync.kuhela.ai/worth-it/l… #sunset #wxtwitter
Tonight's #1 sunset in the US: Maui (Lahaina), 96/100. Worth 90m+ Drive · High-Canopy Burner. Broken high cloud over a clear western horizon, 48% cover: strong burn potential. Sunset 5:47p HT, golden hour from 5:16p HT. Don't skip the Backglow: the high deck on the eastern horizon (72° ENE) should burn warmly over the West Maui Mountains. On the sunset side, frame Lanai offshore as a silhouette. skysync.kuhela.ai/worth-it/m… #HIWx #wxtwitter #Maui
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For landscape photographers, sky conditions and fog play a big role in the decision to hop in the car and go shoot. So does wind. Introducing the new ground-level wind forecast. Find out if you can shoot those mountain wildflowers before you go.
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Browns is Browns.
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100 locations across the US with a live forecast for sunrise, sunset, and Milky Way - every day. Free. Check the leaderboard everyday to see if you should take your phone outside at sunset or sunrise! #wxtwitter skysync.kuhela.ai/worth-it/l…
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Huge new capability is now live in Sky Sync this morning! Fog detection and mapping. Find out when morning fog will be present so you can capture those ethereal foggy shots everyone loves. Cloud inversions and Radiant Fog are tracked individually. You can also use the new topographic map to see how intense the fog will be, how thick it will be at a certain elevation, and how high up you need to be in order to be above an inversion. Just click on the map on a ridge or valley, and find out instantly. Our high-fidelity weather data feeds and sophisticated fog algorithms allow for us to smoothly map the fog without jagged edges and pixelated-looking maps that make it hard to know where the fog starts and ends.
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Imagine grown adults thinking this is ok. Advertisers and listeners should run away as fast as they can.
I’m told at least seven advertisers have dropped @karaswisher @profgalloway @PivotPod @ProfGMarkets On with Kara Swisher and Raging Moderates, for their incessant calls for the execution of Elon Musk — and their joking about the assassination attempt on President Trump. I don’t believe in censorship, but advertisers need to decide if they support political violence and this kind of rhetoric It’s extremely dangerous and disgraceful I don’t know why a tech company would pay Scott and Karen $10m a year each to endorse violence. Why pay for Prof G’s private jet and $4,000 hotel suites that he brags about constantly?!? Disagree with Elon and Trump as much as you want — I certainly do — but endorsing political violence is unacceptable.
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Ken Sickles retweeted
We do not sponsor or support the “I’ve Had It” podcast. We unequivocally condemn violence in all forms. The comments made by the hosts do not reflect Chewy’s values or what we stand for as a company.
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Legacy code bases are increasingly becoming a disadvantage to incumbents. Many will look to re-platform or acquire AI native disruptors.
This sounds extreme and I wouldn’t have believed it even a year ago, but we’re starting to see plenty of examples of productivity gains that are an order of magnitude or two above output levels pre-AI. With the right harness, a deep understanding of your domain of what you want to build, likely a relatively new codebase (with some exceptions), a fluency of how to work with multiple agents at once, and a setup that makes it so you can test and deploy with limited friction, outputs on this level feel realistic in coding. What’s crazy is this gap doesn’t appear to be diminishing over time. You’d think that we’d see a convergence in the lines because of AI, but it turns out the more depth you had before -and willingness now to take a different approach- gives you crazy leverage. And that is only compounding as the models can take on larger work and harder problems. Right now this is most pronounced in software engineering for the obvious reasons. But there’s no reason we don’t start to see this in a number of other computer-use-sensitive domains like other scientific fields, AEC, finance, cyber, and more. Going to get quite wild.
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The hero we don't deserve...
If any elected leader opposes data centers or the reindustrialization of America, just say you support them in Chinese. Make every reply below their posts in Chinese. They will eventually go insane.
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Some new features rolled out in Sky Sync this morning. Including a more realistic view of what the quality of sunrise/sunset might be with floor, ceiling, and expected quality.
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Don't forget to get your free at a glance look at the next sunrise/sunset here: skysync.kuhela.ai/worth-it
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The thing no one wants to talk about around "affordability"
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I have no idea how it’s possible, but the new Siri AI is appreciably worse than the old Siri. Which was horrible btw. Get it together Apple.
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Ken Sickles retweeted
BREAKING: $3,000,000,000,000.00+ wiped from the U.S. stock market today — more than Russia's entire annual GDP.
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Ken Sickles retweeted
Boulder voted for a train in 2004. Boulder is full of billionaires. High IQ, educated, lots of business. You'd think they're be able to make it work. At least they'd have the money to get it done. Boulder has been taxed for a non-existent train starting in 2005. They were promised completion in 2014. It's now 12 years later, 2026, and they have nothing. It's been 21 years of waiting and paying taxes. Boulder has now payed over $300 million for a train that doesn't exist. The government is now promising the train sometime after 2040. At least one more decade of taxes while having nothing. Can you imagine voting for another train when you're still paying taxes for an epic failure? Colorado couldn't be more gullible!
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This is the single best product idea I've ever heard on this site.
Twitter needs a Gen X section where nobody gets their feelings hurt.
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I bet there are a lot bigger teams than that.
Somewhere in the world there’s probably an entire team of 6 devs, working full time on a project that’s just one Claude Code prompt
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