In November 2023, China issued a 9-page call to action for advancing humanoid robots, targeting major tech breakthroughs by 2025 and making humanoids a key economic driver by 2027. How much progress did Chinese companies make in 2024? Major highlights🧵

20% odds of happening this year imo

One of my biggest hot takes is that this is not as true as you think it is. Cfd can majorly slow you down because you are so focused on why your two different solvers aren't lining up. What your cfd Sim doesn't agree with the textbook reference. Etc

Replit CEO Amjad Masad on the “most gangster story in Silicon Valley” In September 2021, Replit founder Amjad Masad tweeted: “The most gangster story in Silicon Valley is Steve Jobs buying Pixar for $5m, investing $50m, operating at a loss for a decade — so much so he had to

Too many engineers want to run FEA analysis on an assembly when they just need to look up the shear strength of a bolt.

Fun fact. There were just 32 years between the maiden flight of the Spitfire and the Concorde's.

A'ight folks, it's no surprise, but China has now officially entered the supersonic race. Game on. Let's beat 'em. 🇺🇸

Manufacturing eats software. The USA // China was is still all to be played for. I know which side I'm on...

China has won batterys+EV's....but not Space, Aero, Defense, Scale Nuclear, Medical etc. The war is still all to play for

I told a friend the next-gen hardware industry would 1000x over the next decade. This does not even scratch the surface of 1. Space (starship reducing cost makes launch bigger) 2. Defence (China // Trump) 3. Robotics Etc

Big bet: Bezos is the new Blue Origin CEO by Q3.

Can we appreciate the absurdity of how these airplanes are built?

this is still my favorite meme of all time

I don't think people realize how insane it is that Stoke Space manged to make a Full-flow staged combustion cycle engine in less than 18 months with a team of less than 10 people, crazy speed and efficiency.

🇺🇸 Every time I come to the USA - it's pretty clear to me why the best people here win. Optimism + micro steps. In the game of life -> solving problems is overrated. Making progress, learning and getting new information is underrated.

The common vice in the UK is cynicism. The common vice in the US is bullshit. My favourite people to hang out with are ambitious Brits or down-to-earth, honest Americans. They've had to design themselves against the environment.

Don't underestimate China...

The era of hypersonics is here.

Prompt engineering is just outsourced customer success for OpenAI 😂