emelie

biz dev @stoke_space 🚀 @havocai_usv 🛥️ design engineering @brownuniversity

[emelie @em6lie]

Skipped class and got a factory tour! Thx @zanehengsperger for the inspiration, so much insight from people on the floor that a uni class won’t give you

[emelie @em6lie]

i love working at a real space company and not being a twitter larper anymore #characterdevelopment

[emelie @em6lie]

@bitkrushermusic Agree

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Wally Funk.

Wally was a pioneer in every sense of the word. In her 20s, she was the first female civilian flight instructor at a U.S. military base. She became the youngest of the Mercury 13, outperforming nearly every test put in front of her, and ultimately, the only one of the thirteen to have ever reached space.

On NS-16, sixty years later, Wally made history as the oldest astronaut at the time and remains the oldest woman to ever fly to space. It was a moment six decades in the making. We were humbled to be part of her journey.

Her story will continue to inspire generations of future explorers.

Fly Wally, Fly. 🚀

[Josh Kale @JoshKale]

This New Glenn rocket explosion released 20% of the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb and that wasn't even the bad part:

→ The pad: LC-36 is the only pad on Earth that launches New Glenn and now it's gone. Over $1B to build. SpaceX needed 7 months to rebuild after a similar hit.

→ The deadline: Amazon needs 1,618 satellites up by July 30 to keep its FCC license. It has ~300. The rocket that was supposed to help fix that just blew up twice in a row

SpaceX made us believe that landing rockets on barges was a normal expectation. Turns out rocket science is hard after all. Wishing the team a speedy recovery 🚀

[emelie @em6lie]

Sound sculpture

[emelie @em6lie]

I’m met with confusion at my Ivy League school when i say i want to work at a hardware startup and not big tech or consulting. When I say what my company works on, I don’t want to show them a mobile UI or a slide deck with recommendations. I want to show them this:

[emelie @em6lie]

Convert entities in solidworks ❤️

[emelie @em6lie]

@vc despite what grok's protest that is indeed grok https://t.co/XtI3G7Fiuj

[emelie @em6lie]

@_nwyin Very cool

[emelie @em6lie]

@bytheophana Well said

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

> be Alexandra Elbakyan
> be born in Kazakhstan in 1988
> start coding at 12
> hack your internet provider at 14
> hack MIT Press at 16 to download neuroscience books you can't afford
> get a CS degree from Satbayev University
> intern in neuroscience at Georgia Tech
> speak at Harvard on brain-computer interfaces
> notice researchers can't read the papers they need
> notice academic publishers charging $30 a paper
> notice peer reviewers worked for free
> notice editors worked for free
> notice universities funded the research with billions of dollars of public money
> build Sci-Hub in 2011
> upload nearly every paywalled research paper ever published
> give it away for free
> get sued by Elsevier
> get hit with a $15 million judgment
> don't give a flying f*ck
> keep Sci-Hub up
> get domain after domain seized
> register a new one
> keep Sci-Hub up
> get investigated by the US Department of Justice
> don't give a flying f*ck
> get accused of working for Russian intelligence
> don't give a flying f*ck
> have the FBI subpoena your iCloud
> get named one of Nature's ten people who mattered in science
> get a parasitoid wasp named after you
> get a deep-sea snail named after you
> get the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award for Access to Scientific Knowledge
> become a legend

[emelie @em6lie]

Excited to be servicing this emerging industry with @stoke_space 🚀

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Electronics in Space
@PhilipJohnston

Reusable rockets are about to dramatically increase humanity's capacity to put things in space, and that means an enormous new market for compute built to operate there.

We want to see inference chips optimized for mass, thermal, and radiation tolerance, built for a world where space is no longer out of reach.

[emily yu @emily_yu]

after spending some time in shenzhen (and acquiring more useless gadgets than i should), here are the real gaps between shenzhen and the US:

- streamlined comms between product, design, and manufacturing. they're in the same room, often the same building
- customer response time measured in minutes, not days
- collaborative mindset. every party along the supply chain has their up- and downstream partners on speed dial. pride in collective success.
- proximity and concentration. within a 1 mile radius you can assemble an entire product
- systems vs. nodes. integration over competition. "how do we win together" before "how do we cut out the competitor"

the benchmark is iterating hardware at the speed of software. i wrote more about my visit here:
https://t.co/yOOfluIUJr

[emelie @em6lie]

@CrystalEBentley Hey!! I’ve been aiming to try out something similar this summer with the hardtech startups in Seattle, would love to help out!

[emelie @em6lie]

@Mr_Voorakkara Holllly shit what a hoodie

[emelie @em6lie]

@alexkshieh @AntifraudCo crazy bro

[Thaaat Colin @ThaaatColin]

Of course that’s your contention.

You’re a first-year policy fellow fresh out of some Ivy League econ program or a brand-new think-tank analyst at Brookings or AEI or wherever they stamp out these kids these days. You just got finished reading some globalization gospel, Thomas Friedman probably, The World Is Flat, or one of those IMF white papers on global value chains, and so you believe, deep in your bones, that reindustrialization is a dangerous nostalgia trip. “Comparative advantage,” “post-industrial society,” “let the market allocate resources efficiently.” You don’t know shit about industry.

That’ll last until next month when you get assigned David Autor and David Dorn on the China Shock, and suddenly you’re hedging, talking about how maybe we lost five million manufacturing jobs but “the gains to consumers from cheap imports more than offset it.” Then you’ll hit the conference circuit and you’ll be regurgitating Robert Reich or Daniel Bell, going on about the “knowledge economy,” how software eats the world and the future is all coders and app designers and financiers while the dirty work of actually making things gets shipped to whoever has the lowest wages and the weakest environmental laws. By next year you’ll be in here parroting how “the Fourth Industrial Revolution” means we don’t need factories anymore, just robots and data centers, and that trying to bring steel mills or semiconductor fabs back is “protectionist populism” that’ll just raise prices for everyone.

You’ll have charts. You’ll have models. You’ll have your little PowerPoint on Ricardian trade theory and how America should stick to what it’s “best at”—designing iPhones while Foxconn builds them, inventing the chips while TSMC fabs them, dreaming up the next AI breakthrough while some kid in Shenzhen assembles the hardware. You’ll quote Schumpeter on creative destruction like it’s a feature, not the thing that gutted the Rust Belt and left entire counties with opioid death rates higher than combat zones. And you’ll never, not once, have smelled the inside of a foundry at 2 a.m. when the ladle tips or watched a town council meeting where the last factory just announced it’s moving to Vietnam because labor is twenty cents cheaper.

Let me tell you what you missed while you were busy cycling through the syllabus.

You missed the fact that comparative advantage isn’t some eternal law handed down from Mount Olympus… it’s a snapshot in time, and it assumes full employment, perfect labor mobility, no national-security externalities, and that every country plays by the same rules. China didn’t “have a comparative advantage” in solar panels or EVs or rare-earth processing; they created it with subsidies, forced tech transfer, currency manipulation, and state-owned enterprises that flooded the market until every American competitor was bankrupt. That’s not free trade; that’s mercantilism wearing a smiley-face mask. You missed Ha-Joon Chang’s point that every rich country (Britain in the 19th century, the U.S. under Hamilton and the American System, South Korea under Park Chung-hee, even today’s Germany) used industrial policy and protection when it suited them. The invisible hand was wearing brass knuckles the whole time.

[emelie @em6lie]

@davidliuxyz Great background noise to study to

[emelie @em6lie]

@billythalheimer @ThaaatColin For real, loved seeing your guys’ seaglider at BlueTIDE in Newport last August!! Was definitely the star of the show