Hey, OP here. Parnian (in comments) is a friend of mine and the submitted piece requires some disucssion. I'm just happy it raised these questions. OFC these q

Hey, OP here. Parnian (in comments) is a friend of mine and the submitted piece requires some disucssion. I'm just happy it raised these questions. OFC these questions are good to answer, and if this succeeds it'll be cool. I'm not sure what the program will emerge as - still in flux. Most of what other comments bring up is [IIRC from talking about this] The website is intended as a fixed figment for the current goals of shannon labs seems like a nice thing to have to show investors 1. funding - 1 funded, website is tool - plan for 10 to alpha 1a. Only 100k? - funding spreads this way - about enough for a year in pure software - could be more but start and grow 2. motivation - More research is good! - Unsure about equity free :( - In a position to secure funding for a cool project 3. relationship to academia - I'm sure many of these will materialize with academic connections 3a. publishing req? - I'm not sure most people will write a paper and submit to a journal. I've seen a lot of beautiful JS that has been put together as a research artifact. I like this? - I'm pretty sure collab with academia is open Hope this helps