Jake Chapman ๐บ๐ธ๐ โจ๐บ๐ธ
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Working at the nexus of national security & VC. Father to a superhero. Lets live forever and travel the stars โจ Partner @marque_vc & Adjunct @randcorporation
San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2015
1/ Here is how the abomination that is the AT-ST came about. Spoiler alert, it comes down to compromises & mission creep. "Initial Requirement: We need a small dropship deliverable armored sentry tower (ST) for forward operating bases with space for 4 sentries" An early sketch:
Now that Andor has given us a glimpse inside the Empireโs bureaucracy and military industrial complex, I want a โPentagon Warsโ style movie about the development of the AT-ST and the corners that were cut which resulted in it becoming easy prey for a bunch of Ewoks! #StarWars
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4) NVIDIA's revenue in 1997 (4 years post founding) was ~$30M Let's see if Extropic can beat it. I think they will.
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With head coach firings across college football, Caleb and Josh Downs discuss the huge payouts and how this affects the team in the latest episode of Downs 2 Business. Watch or listen to the latest episode, out now! Sponsored by @google
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3) I say let @beffjezos cook. He got hardware to market in 2 years. Now lets see what developers can do. NVIDIA founded in 1993... Chat GPT 3.0 (the major inflection for GPUs) materialized 27 years later in 2020
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2) People have been investing in quantum computing for decades (maybe $50B in 2024 alone) and there still are extremely limited use cases for QC and that is once someone finally has one that works Moreover, that hardware will only be accessible to institutions and nation
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1) I think its funny how many haters @extropic has whose criticism has morphed from "you're crazy" and "it will never work" to "ok but is there useful software written for it yet?" My brother in Christ, Extropic isn't even in the people's hands yet. Lets see what happens once
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I know some VCs and tech founders who say they support this movement Would love them to take this guy as intern
Those are the โinnocentโ Palestinians in Gaza on full display. ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝWe are the ones who launched this war, and we will be the ones to end it. Until the last drop of our blood, we keep offering, and sacrificing until all of us die, for the sake of Allah." https://t.co/rYMtrB8Q7B
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If I was an enemy of AMERICA If I was an enemy of NYC I would deter the best + brightest from inventing life saving cancer drugs and cutting-edge AI to help people. I would shut down Cornell Tech My wife + I spoke there yesterday people in the room were brilliant FUCK THIS
Zohran Mamdani vows to shut down Technionโs New York campus over IDF ties
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Mamdani isnโt even good at hiding who he is so long as someone has the eyes to see. Praying for NYC
Zohran Mamdani vows to shut down Technionโs New York campus over IDF ties
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Communism: equality at the cost of mediocrity. Capitalism: greatness at any cost. Iโm a fan of the American system, regulated capitalism: greatness at great personal cost. Be great
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Current GPU-based data center scaling is getting ludicrous. There exists a better way. We're charting an alternative path forward for scaling intelligence @Extropic_AI. See @WIRED article for coverage from @willknight
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Today will give you a tiny window into how I spent the last two years of my life
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If any of you are wondering where to stand on the US/Venezuela issue, remember that: When casting his vote last year, President Maduro shouted, "long live free Palestine." By contrast, US-backed opposition leader Maria Corina Machado stated: "Israel's struggle is our struggle."
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This kind of maximalist idiocy is why we are where we are. Israel gets along with all is Muslim/Arab neighbors who have decided they're not going to exterminate Israel... Israel has stomped its neighbors who persist in calling for its destruction. Your call for a "1 state"
It's not okay to still support a two-state solution in 2025. Israel has spent two years showing the world that it should not exist as a state. It needs to be disarmed, dismantled, and denazified. It was still excusable to naively believe a two-state solution was workable prior
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Iโm not saying itโs fuel contamination either. I agree the pilots and chiefs take fuel very seriously. That said, I have four important notes from friends in the oil industry: New forms of contamination (not water) have been developed that gunk up ship engines and are difficult
After hearing about the USN and the admin speculating about fuel contamination being a potential cause of the loss of two aircraft within 30 mins, I spoke with a few former squadron mates who served on carriers with deck division or support roles. Here's what they said to me โฌ๏ธ
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Tyranny of the stoopid and lazy. Apply this rule to everyone and the world collapses into a war of all against all. Communists talk about the enslavement of labor but at the end of the day they want to enslave the productive class. (Including labor)
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You back explosive growth ๐ I back explosives growth ๐งจ We are not the same
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My mom narrowly survived 9/11. Several of her friends and coworkers were tragically killed. I donโt normally share this level of detail on Twitter, but given whatโs Iโm seeing, I feel compelled to share her story (with her permission). My mom, a Jewish immigrant from the
Zohran through tears: โMy aunt stopped taking the subway after 9/11 because she did not feel safe in her hijab.โ Yes, she was the real victim of 9/11
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