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IliaLitviak

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About IliaLitviak

Hospitality and food-tech expert open to training the robots of future how to handle food.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48427697

    One of the best ways to improve one’s understanding of a subject is to start teaching it. To Rick Rubin preferably.

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    Comment #48371746

    I am, yes. As I said, I am aware of my privilege and even though I might technically theoretically be a valid asylum case It would feel like abusing a system designed to help peopl…

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    Comment #48371303

    A more than valid question! It's the only way I could figure out how to economically convey "I am a Russian who decided to leave Russia to not be complicit and because my history o…

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    Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel

    Earlier I posted in a “Who wants to be hired?” thread, looking for a place where I could apply my experience in hospitality, food tech and automation. A couple hours later I receiv…

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    Comment #48367318

    Entrepreneur and consultant in all things food, beverages and tech - from teaching robots to cook to developing central kitchens around high levels of automation. Would love to mak…

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    Comment #44498489

    Recently vibe-coded a web-app that takes your listening history from Apple Music (sad to see Spotify API go) and recommends a variety of different media based on that. Was truly su…

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    Comment #41399075

    That’s what I was thinking of, yes. S3 was a huge source of inspiration for me. And Hill Helicopters with their updates and AMAs.

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    Comment #41378521

    We are obviously thinking about that. VTOL capability makes our aircraft a bit more safe - it can literally land anywhere but water. And there’s probably a way to make it float two…

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    Comment #41378507

    Not yet, we are a bit too early for that! But I sure hope that we’ll be able to start actually building soon, and then we’ll be very much doing that in public. It’s companies like …

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    Comment #41358054

    There is a black market of illegally printed “proper translations”. I had to buy a full HP anthology for my younger sister off some guy’s Corolla, paying in crypto. Same guy was se…

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    Comment #41350882

    The beautiful part is that our powertrains are completely separate. You fly up/down using rotor. You fly forward using turboprop. The only transition that occurs is change in pitch…

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    Comment #41347433

    We are far from public yet, but you DM me on LinkedIn, I’m always open for a chat! It’s a sweet spot. Large enough to be useful, small enough to have reasonable refuelling times.

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    Comment #41347417

    When thinking about take-off/landing you have to take into account the powertrain, fuel, noise, power-to-weight ratio e.t.c. With modern electric motors, batteries, BMS’ e.t.c. we …

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    Comment #41346689

    We are building a hybrid aircraft to connect cities with high speed door-to-door transportation, without train/airport infrastructure. It’s a powered 55-seater auto gyro - an elect…