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John Collins

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New alpha-voltaic cell hits 4.5% conversion efficiency. It's time for deep tech startups to look into this space nature.com/articles/s4324…

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Stick frames are too fragile for many locations. The insurance situation is getting out of control, especially in California. 12K a year for fire insurance In some parts of socal.

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Someone needs to develop a ubiquitous os-level constant brightness mode. Of of the few things switch operating systems for.

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From a practical standpoint this may be true, but there is always tremendous latent potential. Events like WW2 make this clear. The world generally runs at ~20% capacity.

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Being agnostic about tariffs really is like being agnostic about blackouts. Doing without trade really is like doing without electricity.

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My main reflection is not that Design Patterns is bad or whatever but rather acting as if there's all the time in the world to worry about this stuff. If I had better appreciated the scarcity of time and been more skeptical of the power of ideas I would have been less tripped up

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I think a lot of people underestimate the potential and feasibility of the teleoperated factory. It's a gruelling path but algorithmically might be mostly solved, next-human-action prediction and all that, build a deep model of action in a sensory context. Humanoid is the key

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Someone should make a TBM that works like this, grows by eversion with a sock on the end that is the drill bit, add a chute through the middle to suck material out. Hybrid wet/dry operation that primarily disaggregates using electrohydrolic fracturing.

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It's striking that no one has copied Tesla and developed/scaled pretty solar panels. The glass laminates PVs use is phenomenally good now in structural performance and longevity per dollar, yet we continue to cover our houses with a ugly hodgepodge of panels. Forget fiber cement,