Aeden
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Math/Philosophy enthusiast, Engineering practitioner | started https://t.co/9WgFGOnPAT
Los Angeles, CA
Joined April 2018
@xkcd The amount of work that went into making this an accurate drawing of what that would look like is impressive. Repetitive shapes that change at the end of each book.
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@OneFeIISwoop If birth rates fall, you have no babies. If you have no babies now, in 20 years you have no 20 year olds. Productivity comes from 20-65 year olds. You are in for a bad time when you have less 20-30 year olds than 65-75 year olds.
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Big moment, Rangeview just hit “order powder by the pallet scale,” just a few months after hitting “order solvent by the drum scale”.
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Late night in the Gundo.
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The fact that we don’t have an American Alibaba is a tragedy. I should be able to buy tee shirts and multimillion dollar industrial equipment on the same website without going to China.
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The net effect of the US military globally has been to establish and uphold free trade. For every one of the (many) victims, there are tens of people raised out of poverty. The last 70 years of global peace and prosperity are largely attributable to US military dominance.
I’m glad everyone’s having fun in El Segundo, excited about building tech, partying, and e/acc’ing. But personally, I’d have a hard time sleeping if I knew the results of my life’s work, was taking the life of others. This video from Iraq haunts me. She can’t even remember her
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Absolute pleasure having Jason by!.
America has fallen behind in manufacturing. Episode 8 of S³ features Rangeview who have developed a new way to put metal atoms together.
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Zane and the picogrid team might be the most no-nonsense executors I know.
Real warfare isn't like Call of Duty. There's no mini-map and you can't just throw a camera out in the desert. @Picogrid is changing that in Episode 34 of S³
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If your lights don’t flicker when you turn on equipment are you really a manufacturing company?.
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Too many people have been nerd sniped by “make <insert 3D printing technology> fast.”.
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Few realize just how back we are. Levels of backness hitherto unknown have just been reached.
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@PjCostanzo @luke_metro Lots of engineers would rather sit, prototype, test, repeat than party in Ibiza.
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I’d love to learn more about companies that brought a new manufacturing process to market (the first die casters, the first injection molders, first car companies to electrocoat, etc.). Anyone have book/documentary recommendations?.
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So true. 3D printing itself is just “standard manufacturing technology (extrusion, powder sintering) + computer control.” So many ways left to put atoms together. Energy production + manufacturing capability are the measures of civilization. Lots to build.
These "Factory of the Future" articles from consultants always miss all of the disruptive mfg. tech being built now. They think in IoT terms "computers will replace paper", but not "computers will change factories themselves".
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@vgr A contrarian take: It is better to blindly over-believe in causality because it mentally connects your expected outcomes to your actions. This means that it strengthens your incentive to do things that will benefit you. Ex: If I work hard I will succeed vs I might succeed.
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Nothing like leaving the office Friday night and all the equipment running unsupervised over the weekend.
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Looking for a roomate!. Ideally easygoing 20-something guy to live with in el Segundo, Playa del Ray, MB or similar starting in the next couple months. DM if you are interested.
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@landon20s Frankly I find this take kind of ridiculous. Yes, it’s true that VCs have stigmatized the NDA, and so it’s a bad idea to bring one, but it has as much to do with VCs wanting to back-channel and DD companies than any of these reasons.
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Aaron is a serious man working on a real problem. 🇺🇸.
Get in, we're exascaling the American industrial base. @atomic_inc closes $17M seed to reproduce human manufacturing skill via AI. The fundraising will continue until acceleration improves!.
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Isaiah is a killer. This is a total reframing of the energy problem. LFG.
Today I'm excited to unveil Valar Atomics!. Valar is my master plan to make energy 10x cheaper in 10 years by pulling oil and gas out of thin air with nuclear fission. This will untether energy from climate and politics, fuel American industry, and unlock a new era of growth
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A company with the motto “We specialize in locating Hard to Find, Obsolete, End of Life, and long Lead Time devices." just made my month.
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There is joy and meaning to committing yourself to a greater cause, and subjecting your desires to the needs of the cause.
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My personal thesis on being an parts/material supplier in the US:.1. Deliver on time. 2. Deliver what you said you would deliver. 3. Charge what you said you would charge. Seems basic, but these 3 things will put you head and shoulders over most, go ask any design engineer.
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Describe your aesthetic using only a car.
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This is extremely well said.
3D printing is not a technology, but a set of technologies sharing the thesis that technological complexity can replace organizational complexity in manufacturing. It has seen niche, but steady, progress. Read the new public @bismarckanlys Brief: 1/n
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@a_musingcat It’s a transient. Massive opportunity opened up in software 15-25 years ago, so demand for software engineers 10000x-ed. It takes a little while to spin up university programs and educate enough software engineers to meet demand, so in the mean time, people will pay a premium.
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Feel like I learned “patience is a virtue” when I was young, and every stage of my life I just learn again that patience is even more important than I realized.
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Banger.
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@8teAPi Feeling like we are starting to see the GPT flywheel begin to turn. The more the models are involved in training new models, the more the “self improving AI” thesis starts to sound realistic.
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@MikePFrank Not an expert, but a common requirement that pushes for many mirrors vs few is the difficulty of producing aspherical surfaces to optical accuracy. To focus light, the optimal shape is rarely spherical, but many spherical mirrors w canceling error can approach the ideal behavior.
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I swear I’m going to start bringing my wrenches to the gym. Loose bolts on all the equipment.
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@FnpMarieOH No engineers in the comment section clearly. Plenty of good systems look like this. Off the shelf hardware is proven and reliable, and simple solutions are always the best.
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Yea sex is cool but have you tried blowing your customers’ mind with your technology.
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@FilArons Spent 2 years of my life building 3D printed strain wave gearboxes. ~70% of the BOM cost (not price) of a robot arm is just in gearboxes. Cheap gearboxes are the solution to the expensive robot arm problem, rest of the arm is a couple of PCBs and some cheap castings/extrusions.
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@mnovendstern Navigable rivers, natural ports, fertile land, and geographic isolation from enemies. As well as robust demographics, and substantial immigration. Or at least so says @PeterZeihan.
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@NickPinkston @TechCrunch @QuietCapital The beta looks sweet. I’m pretty hyped to have an alternative to McMaster.
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@aphysicist @EdwardMehr @FilArons @cityofwarren @falondonohue @jacob_a_simon @dugsong @archetype1111 @crtinch @SchramIAm @BlueForgeUS @DebHolton Thanks for putting on a great event @aphysicist!.
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Is it hard for material scientists to get jobs in early stage startups? Number of applicants I’m getting for an insanely specialized position is blowing my mind.
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La Supremacy 💪.
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Anyone have a good toxic waste service setup in South Bay? Our ops coordinator is going through hell trying to get one setup.
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Varda’s long term plan?? @andrewmccalip.
Considering that muffin tops are the best part, it occurs to me that in zero gravity on the ISS, you could bake spherical muffins that are “all top” by just floating a ball of dough in the oven with no pan.
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PEX tubing is undefeated. Fittings never leak, it happens to be compatible with most industrial solvents, and I just bought enough to plumb an entire kitchen for $44.
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@waitbutwhy My father worked on the sound for Oppenheimer. Nolan had a policy that no dialog could be re-recorded in studio. So all the audio is shot on scene. Trade off for film purity is that there’s a lot of background noise in most of the audio clips.
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Boy math.
Flying used to be much less safe, in part because of pilot negligence. Consider Aeroflot flight 6502, where the pilots made a bet that they could close the curtains over the cockpit and land the plane blind. 63 people died.
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The jump from GPT3 to GPT4 clearly crossed a line for me from incredibly cool to actually useful. It’s amazing as a “textbook of everything.” Need to check some esoteric convention in continuum mech or find the derivation of some law? it’s by far the fastest path to an answer.
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@ID_AA_Carmack Overall performance envelope with differential steering would be pretty dismal, my guess to the point of posing a safety risk, since your ability to turn under braking would be practically 0. Low speed manuvering would likely be possible, but high G maneuvers are really limited.
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@FilArons Mostly cost of manufacturing. Lots of strain wave gears are EDMed, and the ones that aren’t are usually 10+ CNC hours IIRC. Markup is big as well, given harmonic drive’s long term monopoly. This might come down now that their core IP has expired (2018) but has yet to.
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ChatGPT coming up at a casting conference in Cleveland. It’s so over.
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@nickcammarata Don’t think of it in the abstract. It’s inevitable you will live in a country, with a govt, and pay tax. For a govt, the US is effective. It maintains the military apparatus that allowed 70 years of global free trade, and regulates the US economy, which is the source of all $.
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@koko_xu_ Very solid analysis. I also think, usually, tech is much higher dimensional than, say "cost, speed, customizability," and you will see an erosion of that "core tech" advantage when you start to consider individual parts or jobs, and quirks of the process start to really matter.
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@simonsarris That’s insane to me. My parents entire life advice boiled down to: don’t lie, do things you love, and “who you marry is the most important choice of your life.”.
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All fintech is just “make number A go down by x and then make corresponding number B go up by exactly x”.
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This is terrifying. Not all decisions should be left up to people. Especially when they are young.
Canada's assisted suicide law will soon help "mature minors" who choose to die, even over their parents' objections. Read the astounding story.
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Designing experiments is such an exercise in "I think therefore I am." . "Start by assuming you know nothing and you have an infinite capacity to be biased. -> Now extract as much information as you can.".
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@TaraViswanathan +1 to this. Both decks & memos have a place but on pure info density nothing can communicate like a well written memo. Was extremely helpful for our raise to have a memo that accompanied the deck. Amazing for forcing deep thought on the fundamentals of your business as well.
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The authorities don’t want you to know, but you can just become the guy you wanted to be as a kid.
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@micah_erfan The single major effect of US foreign policy in the last 70 years has been to enforce free trade and globalism, which have been overwhelmingly positive for the majority of the world, from Asia to South America to Europe. Specific actions were bad but net has been very positive.
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@J__Cub @eightsleep @pillowcube @ouraring @PureEncaps @_SportsResearch @jarrowformulas @MantaSleep @coyuchi My sleep stack: me, my bed, closed eyes.
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