Physicist, Immigrant, Pilot, Dad. Former Caltech, Hyperloop, NASA JPL. Once considered pretty smart for an organic. Founder @terraformindies. Hiring!
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You can now enjoy a colored relief map render of this dataset streamed through Google Earth. Download the .kml file (drive.google.com/file/d/1bS1…) and open it in your Google Earth Pro client. Enjoy!
Bro thinks "I lost board control but they wouldn't fire me, I made them too much money..."
Me opongo a que Nvidia eche a Jensen Huang. Es un despido sin sentido para un héroe de la tecnología como el.
Le debemos buena parte de lo que está pasando en la IA. Fundó Nvidia hace 33 años y la llevó de las tarjetas para videojuegos a ser el motor de esta revolución y la empresa más valiosa del mundo.
Con quién se acuesta es asunto suyo y de su mujer, no del consejo. Una relación consensuada entre adultos, aunque sea con alguien de la empresa, no es un problema en sí. Lo grave sería una violación, un abuso o favores sexuales a costa de la compañía. Nadie le acusa de eso.
La única preocupación seria sería que hubiera filtrado información a China. No está probado, y el propio consejo dice que no tiene motivos para creer que se hayan comprometido los secretos de Nvidia.
Investigar, sí. Echar por su vida privada a uno de los grandes visionarios de la tecnología, no. Estados Unidos no gana nada decapitando a su empresa más estratégica por puritanismo.
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Testing some new features on a 3D environment tool. I like the powers of ten zoom out.
Enjoy at domes.caseyhandmer.com.
Visit to the solar array at @TerraformIndies test site and the rabbits have taken up residence. The grass is growing. Solar arrays improve the desert.
Today marks 5 years of @TerraformIndies. We've come a long way, and I'm grateful to be building in the excellent company of our team and investors.
Some actual content so @lulumeservey doesn't hate me...
Not all hardware start ups face this issue but for us our major risk has always been about controlling capex. There's no market risk for oil and there's no tech risk for synthetic chemistry that has been around for a century, but producing oil for $2000/barrel earns a participation trophy.
Rather than spend a fortune building functional prototypes and then another fortune trying to figure out how to suck out 95% of the cost, I placed firm upper bounds on allowable BoM costs for each system, then set out to figure out how to get it done. Some of the early prototypes didn't work that well but we kept iterating and ultimately every cent and, more importantly, every second was spent figuring out how to do it the right way. The way that accelerates great value into the hands of our customers.
History is unfortunately littered with expensive tech demos that spent millions teaching someone the wrong way to do something. At this point it seems unlikely that Terraform will die but if we do, it won't be because we spent our money on insurmountable tech debt.
The reason I'm sharing this is because it's always tempting to take the shortcut. To outsource some piece of mission critical kit or design, or to drop some gold plated component in that removes more value than it adds. Don't! The whole point is to spend your limited time on this Earth attacking the really hard problems. The things you want are on the other side of discomfort.
Here's to the next five years!
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I don't know if I can rate founders as s-tier but I *definitely* know big mountain adventures to know that @CJHandmer's hobbies there are S+ tier
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Not only have we delayed our first nuclear power plant in 30 years to build a fish disco, our fish disco isn't even as cool as the ones the Norwegians have.
It's truly over for the UK.
Norway now has more than 2,000 underwater AI laser robots shooting lice off its salmon
they're made by a company called Stingray, and they already guard more than 50 million salmon and trout 24/7
the reason is sea lice, tiny parasites that latch onto salmon and feed on them
as few as 11 can kill a small fish, and one pen can hold 150,000 salmon
the usual fix is pumping the fish out and blasting them with warm water or water jets to knock the lice off
but the handling is so rough that Norway's fish health report ranks it the top cause of death in full-grown farmed salmon
so instead, Stingray puts a robot inside the pen that hunts lice one at a time, all day:
> two cameras watch every salmon that swims past
> AI checks two frames to make sure it's really a louse
> then a green laser fires from up to 2 meters away
> the salmon's scales reflect the beam, so the fish swims off fine and the louse is dead
we now live in a world where AI lasers do pest control on your dinner lmao
Public service announcement: Use AI tools for job interviews, speeches, blogs, videos. Go wild, it's a bright future.
However.
Your content must be at least proportionately thorough and insightful.
Terrific work by the electrolyzer team over the weekend, getting a gas processing skid ready to deploy to our Muroc test site this week.
Not actually AI!
🤖 Made with AI
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This may be the bar of both a detailed but clearly-communicated long term company roadmap I've ever seen from @CJHandmer at @TerraformIndies
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New blog, in which I describe which layers of the AI stack are getting substituted the fastest and slowest.
blog.caseyhandmer.com/2026/1…
Enjoy!
"And WTF would that be, Handmer?" Allocate resources towards verticalizing over the requisite layer, proportional to the NPV of that risk. In other words, develop a hardware strategy.
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There is another strategy available to Anthropic to manage rentier risk.
Chamath says that if data center supply tightens, SpaceX could end its compute deal with Anthropic on 90 days notice and bring it back at 2x to 3x the price, and Anthropic would have to take it.
"So, whatever revenue you see on SpaceX's balance sheet from Ant could two to 3x and ANT would have no choice except to immediately capitulate and take the higher price. It would also show all of the other hyperscalers that they are very far away from having economic yield that is optimized. And so then it forces them to consider should I be giving it to myself?
Should I be selling it to the other people? It then forces the Neoclouds to take all of this money that they've raised, whether it's debt or equity, and say, "I have two choices, which is to buy as much compute today as I can at whatever price it's available because the other path is assured destruction and bankruptcy for me because I am just out of the game."
And so, what do they do? They will take the last gasp and do whatever they have.
So all the game theory comes down to this one deal and whether Elon decides to rip it because if he rips it, watch out.
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Full video on "All-In Podcast" YouTube channel, (link in comment)
People think NetZero means luxury communism and printing a trillion dollars a year to sequester CO2.
It refers to the size of the global economy necessary to solve the climate problem the dumb way. And the returns of the governments and funds that try it.
The only way out is through. Reflect sunlight, enhance weathering, expand solar supply.
Incredible work by @joebarnard here.
I'm trying to imagine a more low key way of talking about how Terraform has, yet again, crushed another purportedly impossible obstacle to making cheap synthetic oil and gas. For us, this is Tuesday.
No-one alive today remembers meeting Rockefeller, who drove the original creation of the oil industry and almost single-handedly catalyzed the transformation of the US from Jeffersonian agrarian republic to leader of the free world.
We're in the process of doing this again.
New @terraformindies post from Dawson on how we made direct air capture of CO2 work: blog.terraformindustries.com…