Aaron VanDevender🔬
@APVanDevender
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CEO @MethidAI, quantum physicist, skydiver, YIMBY🥑🔰, KM6PYC.
San Francisco, CA
Joined August 2013
@srlawton @kimmaicutler Still a zoning problem. Exclusionary zoning ➡️ supply shortage ➡️ price spike ➡️ property tax spike ➡️ Prop 13 backlash ➡️ THE ARISTOCRATS!
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Now that agents are becoming the primary desktop users, it will finally be the Year of Linux on the Desktop.
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The next reserve currency should be backed by energy. BTC is half-correct in that you can easily convert Joules to BTC, but you can't go the other way. It's like gold post-1971 after the Bretton Woods window closed.
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We used to think that humans were the weakest link in security due to social engineering attacks and replacing them with computers with fix that. Our helpful AI are even more credulous and obliging than humans and may actually increase the social engineering attack surface.
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Lava lamps were invented in 1963 and immediately popular, so the answer was hiding in plain sight.
We take randomness for granted. Early PRNGs were BAD. Thousands of scientific papers used to rely on RANDU, created by IBM in the 1960s. In 1D space, it looks ok! Map in 3D…you start to see the issues. Now, there *was* a better solution...but it would cost you.
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Coyote looking for children at Claire Lilienthal Elementary School.
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If Muni buses had all-wheel steering, it would dramatically improve their route maneuverability.
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Zipline was already poised to dominate DoorDash but this is the finishing move. DD's only counter will be to astroturf a movement to ban drones. 🛸
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You telling me that Anduril autonomous weapons have more live combat experience than anyone else? Very bullish.
Anduril’s autonomous weapons stumble in tests and combat, WSJ reports
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Why do you think they named it SkyNet?
Orbital Power for Compute Is Closer to Terrestrial Parity Than Most Expect ⚡🛰️📉 In Part 2 of our orbital compute series, we projected the $/W of powering compute in high Earth orbit (HEO). At ~$2,000/kg to HEO, orbital power & cooling costs ~18-26 $/W; about 2× the ~12 $/W
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One crucial feature of microwaves is that the done beep sequence stop immediately once the door is opened. Any microwave oven that persists its done beep sequence after the door is ajar must immediately go to the scrap heap.
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I was the president of the MIT Skydiving Club. It was very apparent that the admin wanted to kill it, but since it the club had been operating since 1957 without a single safety incident, they couldn't justify terminating it post hoc.
new innovations in Stanford attempting to kill student project groups: the administrators have decided they can ban groups from owning vehicles -- EVEN vehicles that they themselves built for the purposes of the project.
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This matches my observation that most people-even most Tesla owners who don't have HW4 FSD-have not updated to how good it is, because it was so janky for so long. And so even at $1.3T the current version autonomy is not priced in.
I took delivery of a beautiful new shiny HW4 Tesla Model X today, so I immediately took it out for an FSD test drive, a bit like I used to do almost daily for 5 years. Basically... I'm amazed - it drives really, really well, smooth, confident, noticeably better than what I'm used
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Wired Magazine becoming the Journal of FUD and run by Luddites is a big "die a hero or live long enough to become the villain" situation.
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The modal home buyer today is a boomer.
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It stung at the time, but the Maven dissidents did the US Military a huge favor. We're better off being serviced by AI-powered orgs that are mission focused on national defense than dependent on a side project of Google.
.@PalmerLuckey on Google protests over Maven ⚔️🔮 “Many, maybe most of the people who signed that letter were not American citizens. “My favorite example was an advertising manager… a Chinese national on a temporary visa in London. Why would I give a shit what this guy says?
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Roko's Basilisk's glaring intensifies!
Rude prompts to LLMs consistently lead to better results than polite ones 🤯 The authors found that very polite and polite tones reduced accuracy, while neutral, rude, and very rude tones improved it. Statistical tests confirmed that the differences were significant, not
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If we really want to electrify the city, we should have PG&E build out the distribution infrastructure to lower electricity rates from $0.50/kWh to $0.05/kWh. At that price, conversion is a no brainer as it's not worth the cost of plumbing for gas.
mayor lurie just made it impossible to renovate your home and keep your gas stove in san francisco
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True zooming way out, but biotech founders are not feeling this huge purported capital surplus at this moment.
The most common misconception about venture capital is that there’s a scarcity of capital, when in reality, there’s a shortage of ventures that are viable for the model. Venture investment isn’t zero sum – i.e. money that goes to SaaS isn’t taken from robotics. The zero sum
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I cannot wait for the Barque Revival.
You can tell a lot about a culture by how much effort they put into practical things, beyond their utility. This clock in New York’s Flatiron District was made it 1909. It doesn’t need to be nice. After all, it just tells the time. But somebody 116 years ago decided to make it a
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Although Intel got rich and famous on microprocessors, their first product was the 3101, at the time the fastest memory chip on the market. They need a mission, could be time to get back to their roots.
WTF did I just read. "OpenAI requiring 900K wpm of DRAM demand by 2029" Buy every WFE supplier and DRAM supplier under the sun Google will require a similar amount, and other hyperscalers + Chinese players will require nearly 2M WPM of DRAM If these forecasts hold, then DRAM
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