On Saturday morning I met some cracked student engineers on the sidewalk and offered them a place to crash in NYC. 24 hrs later, we won the biggest robot arm hackathon ever. Meet Raju: an autonomous chess-playing robot (ELO >2500) inspired by GM Gukesh Dommaraju, who earned his title at age 12. Like Gukesh, Raju is poised for greatness at a young age, having just learned to move pieces yesterday. @snbafana @marco_schonert @AlexBoniske @TalhaKhan_TK_

This is outing myself as a certified Fan Girl™️, but in college I remember religiously listening to @Melt_Dem's sweet sweet voice on her now deprecated podcast "What Grinds My Gears" and thinking "this is the kind of woman I want to be." Every day I pinch myself that I get to call her a friend. God is Good.