Rob Rowland
@RobWRowland
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San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2017
A recent reflection, based on conversations with economists and policy leaders, is that there are two superficially similar but importantly different perspectives one can hold with respect to US manufacturing: * Affinity for manufacturing and physical production is an
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My sleep scores during recent travel were in the 90s. Now back in SF I am consistently back down to 70s, 80s. I am increasingly convinced that this is due to traffic noise from a nearby road/intersection where I live - every ~10min, a car, truck, bus, or motorcycle with a very
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This morning, I was on the road with the Symphony engine team, shopping for scalable industrial capacity to build jet engine parts. "Getting that part will take 18 months best case," we were told. Why?? The answer was a stunning revelation about the non-obvious ways China has
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Just unboxed my @LimitlessAI pendant. Nice packaging. Fit and finish of the pendant looks good. Feels and looks premium. Battery reported as 2% SOC upon first power on. Not good for battery health. Is standby power draw going to be an issue?
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Imagine a future where robotics programming is as simple as setting hard limits on power and speed, configuring motor controllers and sensors (like vision systems), then letting a general-purpose AI take over. The robot starts like a newborn—awkward, flailing, learning its own
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I’m going to give always-on audio recording and transcription a try. My hope is to combine this audio data with other logging of my life to have perfect memory recall via LLM-based queries
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If you actually want to know what's happening militarily with the war in Ukraine, with minimal bias, check out the Austrian Armed Forces Youtube channel:
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@StrflowApp To date, I've been taking a lot of notes by sending myself messages on Slack, because it's fast and let's me chronologically record small snippets of information in a way that is accessible across all my devices.
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I've been looking for an app to take timestamped notes, with tag filtering for a long time. I think my wish has now been full filled by @StrflowApp . There are still some missing pieces, but it looks like the dev is on a great path.
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The Global Electric Aviation Charging System (GEACS) is a universal approach to fast-charging we’ve developed specifically for electric aircraft. It’s informed by more than 30,000 miles of full-scale eVTOL flight, including mission-representative profiles defined by our NASA and
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I just found this website https://t.co/hcmjvaYoCn It’s an attempt to catalog unknowns. Questions we don’t know the answer to. I’m sitting in a bar hitting “random article” and reading each one that comes up. Pretty fun.
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I don’t care for fame. In fact I’d prefer to be anonymous. But I do care if my various projects succeed. Most projects aren’t developed in a vacuum. The coordination and cooperation of external forces is important. Without a social media reach, how can you do this?
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I speak both of Canada's official languages. I agree that fluency in both should be a requirement for very senior roles, like Prime Minister, Governor General, and the Chief Electoral Office. But that's it. We don't need every judge, RCMP office, or every military officer to
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Construction has begun on the first vertiport in our planned Dubai air taxi network! Situated at Dubai International Airport (DXB), the vertiport is designed for exceptional passenger experience and high throughput to deliver convenient and seamless travel between key
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Worth noting that @jobyaviation's record-setting hydrogen eVTOL flight was not a one-off — here it is making a couple more 5-hour flights this week. https://t.co/bCXuKLxg1i
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What I've been developing over the last two years is finally out in the open: A new charging standard for electric vehicles that allows for charging multiple isolated batteries, external coolant exchange, and high speed data offload. All through one connector!
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Everyone now knows that Spheres are the future. But what kind of future do we want? New Vegas half-sphere👒 or original Sonic actual Sphere ? 🔵 It's time to pick sides on the future of entertainment🍿 A 🧵
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