Aaron
@soychemist
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Chemist, inventor, software developer. - Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Joined January 2008
@DrPatSoonShiong Have you looked at what the Wildfire X-prize teams are developing? Maybe there should be a Nant fire control.
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@Weather_West Everyone in high risk areas should consider putting lawn sprinklers onto their roof.
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If you live in a high risk area, consider covering your attic vents with screen material so that embers can't get in. Buy lawn sprinklers and position them on each side of your house or on your roof.
Southern California is going to experience another damaging wind event with extreme fire danger. High-resolution models are forecasting wind gusts to reach up to 90 mph in the mountains, with humidity dropping as low as 5%. The combination of strong winds and low humidity means any fires that ignite will spread rapidly, posing a significant threat to life and property. The peak of the winds and the most dangerous fire weather conditions are expected Monday night into Tuesday. However, due to continued dry conditions and additional Santa Ana winds, Red Flag Warning conditions could persist until next Thursday. While this Santa Ana wind event is not anticipated to be as widespread or extreme as the previous event during the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire in LA County, trends will need to be closely monitored as we get into the range of more high resolution models. Southern California is experiencing an unprecedentedly dry start to the winter, with no end in sight.
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The city of Los Angeles and state of California should buy hundreds of these things, they could be used to cut fire lines very rapidly to slow or halt advancing wildfires. They could also be used to do the same preventatively.
An extremely efficient machine
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@shaunmmaguire LA should consider running a fire-resistant sprinkler along all of its residential-brush interfaces.
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@ericspiegelman LA should consider running a fire-resistant sprinkler along all of its residential-brush interfaces.
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RT @RickABright: Yet another child infected with #H5N1 without a clear source of the infection. Still awaiting virus sequence data Detaile…
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To prevent the next $250B in wildfire damage: - Install a massive sprinkler network where residential properties border highly flammable brush - Use tractors to cut back brush in the same areas every season - Equip homes in high risk areas with powerful rooftop sprinkler systems - Require sprinklers beneath high voltage power lines - Adopt the best technologies developed in the Wildfire @xprize
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This is a great idea. We will do this if a fire gets close to us. Some extra thoughts: route the hoses from the side of the house that is further from the fire, and wrap them in foil.
Army Bet saved his house from burning down by using CHEAP oscillating lawn sprinklers. Before evacuating the area, he left the sprinklers running on his roof, creating a protective barrier against the approaching flames. 👏👏👏
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It reminds me of when the CDC and FDA made it extremely difficult to bring new COVID diagnostic tests to market, and reprimanded the professor who detected the first cases of COVID in the US. Regulators rarely if ever stand in the way during emergencies, regardless of the emergency type.
Oregon officials confirmed reports that when their fire trucks rushed south to help with LA fires, California first required them to undergo safety inspections in Sacramento. They say this wasn't a big deal. But slowing first responder vehicles from a neighboring state in a life-and-death emergency sounds to me like regulatory overreach.
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I wonder if a few steps could save some of the homes that have not yet burned: 1. Run several garden hoses up to the roof, attach them to old school lawn sprinklers. 2. Cut down all trees and bushes near the home and drag all flammables including trash cans away from the home 3. Spritz particularly flammable things with home-brew fire retardant #encino #tarzana #shermanoaks #palisadesfire
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I developed a computer vision algorithm to read COVID rapid tests and it was used in a product with FDA emergency use authorization. All of the initial development was in @GoogleColab It was then translated to C++ in advance of extensive testing.
SW eng manager: No real work gets done in Jupyter notebooks. Alex Radford: I invented GPT and CLIP in Jupyter notebooks.
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A model trained on every peer-reviewed scientific paper every published.
what would you like openai to build/fix in 2025?
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RT @michaelmina_lab: Physicians/public take note: @Labcorp just rolled out access to #H5 #BirdFlu test This is extremely important & show…
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If I could only watch one tech news video per week, it would be the code report by @fireship_dev
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CDC Confirms First Severe Case of H5N1 Bird Flu in the United States. US terribly unprepared because regulators and policymakers crushed the companies that heroically responded to COVID.
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Thoughts about the FDA from the two absolutely heroic CEOs who brought the first home-use nucleic acid tests for COVID to market. cc: @balajis
@ayubk @soychemist @HelenBranswell @matthewherper FDA is constantly moving the goalposts, mindlessly nitpicky & impractical in its requirements, at-times technically incompetent, & has an opaque review process. @elonmusk @VivekGRamaswamy @DOGE please take a sledge hammer to this senseless bureaucracy.
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@adamfeuerstein @pharmalot The FDA harassed the head of the Seattle Flu Study at the beginning of the pandemic and slowed the time to market for a broad range of COVID diagnostic products.
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@ayubk @HelenBranswell @matthewherper @JWaldeisen Yeah, lol. FDA: We don't care that it's a massive emergency We're gonna need to see a century of shelf life data and all of your software needs to be written by a committee of 45 people who worked on the original Apollo program.
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