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by beambot 6y ago
maxlamb captured my sentiment exactly... tech is not synonymous with "internet connectivity". Modern vehicles (ICE or EV) are vastly more sophisticated than "putting together metal on an assembly line" -- they're mo
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by beambot 6y ago
One company builds a ride hailing app while the other builds one of the premier, high-performance EVs in the world with significant levels of driver assistance, over the air updates, and world-class onboard perception that industry incumben
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by beambot 6y ago
We haven't shared one publicly, though I have plenty in private slide decks. Feel free to reach out (email in profile). A few highlights: * We are exclusively indoors at this time. * We're the only indoor provider that can manag
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by beambot 6y ago
I'm the founder of Cobalt Robotics [1]. We develop "security" robots for commercial spaces -- though ours are wheeled, have a screen for 2-way video chats, etc. Turns out that security is a euphemism for "observation &a
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by beambot 6y ago
Aluminum Hydride doesn't require a pressure vessel at all -- hydrogen is released at low pressure through heating -- which dramatically reduces the weight of the system.
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by beambot 6y ago
You would've said the very same about solar, wind, & grid-scale battery storage even 5-10 years ago. The commitment to scale is what made the "old" technology economically feasible. Incremental advances also played a rol
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by beambot 6y ago
Store it in solid-state form via Aluminum Hydride (Alane). Better stability & even less weight. Some fundamental scaling issues yet to be solved, but very much within reach.
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by beambot 6y ago
Academic administrators judge performance based on publication counts, journal impact factors, citations/h-index, and fundraising. Working on tooling doesn't fit in those buckets, so it's broadly-speaking "useless"
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by beambot 6y ago
This is a solved problem in actuarial & insurance circles...
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by beambot 6y ago
Some recent research results indicate that the human body is already mildly bioluminescent: https://www.livescience.com/7799-strange-humans-glow-visible...
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by beambot 6y ago
Do you predominantly walk, bike, or drive to your sub-2mi supermarket?
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by beambot 6y ago
Followed immediately by the solution: Hire McKinsey analysts to help you deliver insights -- which may or may not get implemented or deliver the results, but it won't matter because everyone has moved on to the next "project"
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by beambot 6y ago
I agree with your assessment: it's easier to find subjects with peripheral nerve issues. It gets progressively harder to find subjects as you move up the chain, as the risks compound quickly: peripheral > central > brain. As you
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by beambot 6y ago
There are a half-dozen groups (companies & in academia) that are building neutral stim & recording platforms with thousands of channels & high bandwidth comms so that we can at least capture, analyse, & transmit signals to s
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by beambot 6y ago
You want the robot that cleans your toilet to make you a sandwich? Huh.
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by beambot 6y ago
Indeed! We're within reach of telescopes on the backside of the moon, or ultra-long baseline radio telescopes in high Earth Orbit. This is the dawn of a new era of space research. The transition may be unpleasant, but the future is
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by beambot 6y ago
At the level of dollars being discussed, there's a strategic benefit to engaging in negotiations just to force the counter-party to raise their bid or force concessions. For example, it's suspected that Google famously did this ag
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by beambot 6y ago
To be fair, a PhD in biology likely makes the individual more savvy when it comes to certain classes of investments (e.g. BioTech startups) than most full-time investors... so the criticism cuts both ways. Case in point: Theranos.
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by beambot 6y ago
Where do you draw the line between gambling & investment...? Example: Median returns across venture capital are net-negative, even if expected value is net-positive: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/the-m
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by beambot 6y ago
Organisms are so much more complex than their genome, in ways we're only now starting to understand: > Human cells make up only 43% of the body's total cell count. The rest are microscopic colonists. https://www.bbc.
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by beambot 6y ago
Most merchants bump their prices to account for the fees, without any discounts for paying in cash. This means that the ~25% of US households that are unbanked or underbanked are paying a 2-3% "tax" without any benefit -- further
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by beambot 6y ago
Granting new options causes tax headaches: If strike price << fair market value, you get taxed immediately on the illiquid gains.
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by beambot 6y ago
I bought two of the limited-edition hardback books -- one for myself, and one to gift a friend. I'm very happy that Derek informed me that the proceeds are being donated to charity. Heck, I probably would've purchased more as gi
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by beambot 6y ago
To be fair, the timeline was predicated on spending levels that were never met. In fact, funding levels never made it above the "fusion never" threshold: https://i.imgur.com/3vYLQmm.png Interestingly, the project
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by beambot 6y ago
Sounds like a lot of hellish outcomes to me: Planned obsolescence, selling my data, privacy invasion. Did I miss any?
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by beambot 6y ago
Think of it more like browser fingerprinting & bits of entropy instead of a one-shot classification. E.g. cross-reference with other data to get near-100% accuracy:" digital fingerprints being emitted from your phone, tracking mov
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by beambot 6y ago
So it's a forward contract...?
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by beambot 6y ago
You call it vendor lock-in, I call it avoiding dealships, eliminating shady warrantee programs, and eliminating the hassle of finding reputable 3rd party servicers
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by beambot 6y ago
34% efficiency on their first tests? That would be a huge deal. Microturbines have similar benefits (few moving parts, long lifetime, etc), but they only realize 30% efficiency on the high end.
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by beambot 6y ago
Article about Prometheus in Science: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/former-playwright-ai...

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