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I was frustrated with existing APIs for searching flight prices, so I built this. It's a simple API to search for flights and get their prices. It can also return booking links. Ge…

I was doing some analysis of a solar-electric plane that can fly indefinitely: https://github.com/gusgordon/atmospheric_satellite Seems feasible, never went past the analysis phase…

This is awesome, nice work! In case it's useful, I made a Python package for calculating solar irradiance at altitude: https://github.com/gusgordon/airmass Takes into account lots …

Totally - right now it's using the USDA food nutrient database [1] which has all nutrients, so all the nutrients on the back-end are there. Calories is the most important thing to …

Hey everyone, I've been building this nutrition tracker and calorie counter recently, after being frustrated by existing products for ages. I built a similar app 8 years ago [1], b…

Stopping by to say this is super cool! I've been pretty obsessed with this idea for a while — here's an analysis I did a few years back: https://github.com/gusgordon/atmospheric_sa…

Given that there have been multiple mass extinction events in Earth’s history, it seems reasonable to spend a small fraction of GDP on colonizing another planet. How about somethin…

Yeah, that’s basically what I do, but I often find I need to play around with intermediary data within functions.

What’s your recommendation in terms of tooling for cases where it’s not just prototype -> production, but an iterative process? I love notebooks for prototyping, but I find it’s a …

Having used this, it's fine, but not that great compared to similar products. I understand some people do like it. That said, has anyone else noticed the quantity of reMarkable pos…

Good question. One requirement for the aircraft in this optimization is that they must have more energy in the battery than they did 24 hours prior. If the aircraft started at full…

Yes it's a lot easier at lower altitudes since you can get more lift, but you might run into some extra regulatory issues with that :)

For those curious about the physics of these aircraft, here's an analysis I did of the same concept. The goal is to determine the smallest aircraft configuration that can indefinit…