But what we realized too late was that offshoring production would cut us out of the industry in the future. Andy Grove, the third CEO of Intel, knew this would be a huge problem locking us out “of tomorrow’s emerging industry.”

Thiel Fellowship may be the greatest startup accelerator ever

It’s official. We’ve raised $14m led by OpenAI Startup Fund to bring AI to Excel. Endex is the first AI agent to live inside Excel. For the past year, we've been working with financial firms. Today we’re releasing it to the world. Our capacity is limited; comment below for

Place gold next to hydrocarbons under a 40 GPa anvil, then zapping it with X-rays until it reaches 2200K, and watch the formation of gold hydride next to microscopic diamonds: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an… Superionic hydrogen even flowed through the gold lattice before separating.

Everything around you is downstream of an aversion to capex that financiers imposed on society via the state

Want to feel like an underachiever? Frank Whittle, the inventor of the jet engine who was initially met with ridicule for his ideas, became the father of the jet engine. He patented the jet engine in 1930... At the age of 22. It's time for a Flashback Thread…

Akshually Italy is an export-oriented, high-tech manufacturing economy that even by economists' standards is larger than the UK's despite a smaller population. Italy is a major machine tool exporter. Tesla got its giga-presses from a boutique Italian firm outside of Milan.

An orphaned otter released as an adult still recognises and reunites with its rescuer every time he sees him

we can fix this

I think we should build a giant linear skyscraper like Saudi Arabia’s line in the western part of sf to stop the fog from coming into the city

The future of quant trading strategies...

Over time, I realized in pretty much all cities in the world except SF, the rich want a stratified class system. The rich class interacts only with the rich, the employee class interacts only with the employee class, and the only class mingling there is is when the rich want to

“Taste is the only moat post-AGI” “Europe is doomed”

Famously unserious company Tesla

“casino culture” sports betting, shitcoins, meme stocks, vibe coding 100m in six hours, etc are all expressions of the same deep cultural rot. if youth don’t believe there’s legitimate ways to get rich through work, all of culture will become a rotten sports book for the soul

You’re telling me a banana built this republic?

Ignore what you read in the media - 3D printing companies are actually booming. At least 5 companies have grown from ~0 to >$200M in revenue in the last 10 years. You probably haven't heard about them because all but one are in China. Bambu Lab is now the largest company in 3D

Why don't we use large airships to transport giant wind turbine blades? Aiui wind turbines get more efficient as they get bigger, but we're at the size limit of what can be transported with trucks, but airships have no such limits. Eli Dourado

It’s time to get rid of frame rates. In weird corners of the internet, researchers and standards committees discuss frameless video containers. Sensor data as a continuous function, down-sampled to any frame rate you want. Here's what it'll look like in 10 years: