ben ray

starting a cloud lab for assembling genes. first external contributor @pylabrobot, started team autom8 @retrobio_

[Ti Morse @ti_morse]

My second interview with @JimBelosic, Founder of @SendCutSend.

0:15 Beating China in manufacturing requires scale
1:10 Automation is not a magic bullet
2:12 Scaling profitably
4:31 Delivering a great customer experience
8:44 Why SCS raised $110M
11:20 Expectations are promises
15:33 Increasing speed and capacity
18:46 Focusing on customers
22:20 Frugality and generosity
25:06 Creating The Anything Factory
26:33 3pm is the new midnight
27:49 Figuring out the next bottleneck
30:37 Finding buildings with enough power
35:21 Lowering prices
37:36 Gambling to turn on factories faster
39:03 Aim for perfection and you’ll end up at excellence
40:04 Maintaining a maniacal sense of urgency through impatience
41:30 Seeding SCS DNA at new factories
43:08 Solving challenges
45:32 Finding great capital partners
48:40 Focus on customer pain
51:59 Learning from Home Depot
54:16 Bringing manufacturing back to America
55:11 Building capacity creates demand
57:01 Handling demand surges
58:21 Being default skeptical and sensing bullsh*t
1:00:27 Getting back to building

[PyLabRobot @pylabrobot]

the HighRes MicroSpin is now supported in PLR

our second centrifuge after the Agilent VSpin

great first PR @claudioreiter! also thanks @_benray and @koeng101!

[ben ray @_benray]

@ashleevance @DOUBLExA sick feature!

[Ashlee Vance @ashleevance]

The era of cyborgs is upon us.

In this episode (Substack tomorrow), we hang with Alex Smith who is controlling a robotic hand with his mind. This is the first step toward helping people who have lost limbs, but it's also clear that this technology could push us toward some weird futures. Elective amputations perhaps?

[K2 @iGEMer_K2]

@srikosuri @koeng101 Hey Sri! Nice to meet you here. I have emailed you about 18 years ago when i was working for BGI and i started to assemble genes using oligo pools synthesized with CustomArray. Now i am developing more interesting things using our own oligo microarray synthesizer

[ben ray @_benray]

@wasserstein_rao @joeben imagine the future we could have if @joeben didn't use ActiveX controls

[ben ray @_benray]

“The logical thing to do is to use conventional equipment in an unconventional way to get to scale, and then start modifying the equipment to increase the rate”

[Ti Morse @ti_morse]

I guess this is a good time to announce we are currently in the process of building a set for an interview with Elon.

Will be finished next month and should be legendary.

Elon - lmk if you're in

[Edwin Kite @edwinkite]

https://t.co/5bYkzt3PDI

[ben ray @_benray]

@c_m_ponce @pylabrobot @UniteLabs_ “hey rick wierenga, we 🫶 you” 🥺

[Erika Alden DeBenedictis @erika_alden_d]

We use @pylabrobot to program our laboratory automation in python.

What's shocking to me is remembering that many people *don't* do this. Most of the world's laboratory automation uses proprietary software you can't even version control. 🤯

Essay ⬇️

[signüll @signulll]

“laid back” is what high agency ppl look like from the outside when they’ve correctly identified which games are worth playing & simply declined the rest.

[Devon Stork @StorkDevon]

Automation software is not written in normal languages, and you lose a lot of features because of that! There's really no reason for it either, other than vendors being able to lock you in. So we use @pylabrobot.

[NASA @NASA]

HOME.

The Artemis II crew has arrived back on Earth, ending a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon. The trip took them farther into space than humans have ever gone before, and now they're safely home with us.

https://t.co/XmDQwNlCPR

[Rick Wierenga @rickwierenga]

how PLR helps Pioneer Labs automate science:

https://t.co/dLkWTwKbHi

[ben ray @_benray]

we take less-than-truckload logistics seriously

[Matt Buckley @MatttBuckley]

Artemis II, Dark Side of the Moon

[lada @ladanuzhna]

Its insane how good of a filter this is
Eliminates 99.9% of people

[Rick Wierenga @rickwierenga]

some of these are pretty good