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Nathan Owens

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Nathan Owens

@VirtuallyNathan

Principal Eng, Starlink Network & xAI Training @ SpaceXAI. Software, systems, data, networking. Bike rides, hikes, nutrition/longevity, tech, etc.

Redmond, WA (Palo Alto rn)

Joined May 2010

Nathan Owens
@VirtuallyNathan
Jul 14
After coming across RaptorQ from one of @doodlestein's crazy projects, I was inspired to build a TCP performance enhancing proxy (PEP) using it, consider it a proof-of-concept. I also contributed a bunch of perf improvements the RaptorQ Rust package. github.com/virtuallynatha… (I
John Carmack
@ID_AA_Carmack
Jul 13
Whoa — fountain codes are really interesting!
Nathan Owens
@VirtuallyNathan
Jun 15
Great people to work with - learned a ton over the last 3 years! (And amusingly, Friday marked my 3rd year at SpaceXAI)
Michael Nicolls
@michaelnicollsx
Jun 15
Was cool to be able to celebrate the @SpaceX IPO with a few folks from the amazing @Starlink team. Ultimately SpaceX is about building cool shit with your friends, now that’s something that will keep you going …
Nathan Owens
@VirtuallyNathan
Jun 1
Robotaxi vs Waymo - Riding between Meno Park and Palo Alto for a couple months, no traffic: Robotaxi: $13.17, 5.8mi, 10-13 minutes Waymo: $15.06-19.34, ~5.3mi, 19-20 minutes Waymo: robotic, jabs the brakes, steering wheel jerks around. Safe, but uncomfortable at times. Has
Nathan Owens
@VirtuallyNathan
Feb 24
“Country of geniuses in a datacenter” > sounds good, could probably cure cancer or something “Household of geniuses in my Mac Studio” > probably just yells at me for loading the dishwasher wrong
Andrej Karpathy
@karpathy
Feb 24
Replying to @korbencopy
haha actually - huge success over the weekend, i just wanted to write it up a bit but didn't get enough time to finish that. many people's reaction was why would you need so much compute (mac mini) but i found it's not enough compute, even after adding my DGX spark to the home
Nathan Owens
@VirtuallyNathan
Dec 11, 2025
Test post!