Andrew Côté
engineering physicist, resident @AGIHouseSF, scout @a16z, cofounder @TheAISalonSF, deep-tech, energy, physics, sci-fi https://t.co/OcscJ1NyRV
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It's hard to overstate how important this result is - a neural network trained on physical simulation data accurately predicted an emergent phenomenon completely out of distributio...
The entirety of modern robotics is hopelessly outclassed by the elegant dexterity and mechanical efficiency of an insect. Nature has sprinkled the world with walking engineering m...
In the Guanxi Cultural Revolution, official records show between 100,000 - 150,000 people were killed, by methods like live burial, drowning, boiling alive, and disemboweling. Lo...
It would be mistaken to say companies like Pratt and Whitney have not innovated on jet engine design in the last 70+ years of making them. For example, 13 years ago they added th...
How to Get to Orbit Cheaper than SpaceX's Starship Ian Brooke has developed a new kind of jet engine that can act as the first stage of a rocket. I get brunch with him every Sun...
The oceans contain enough fusion fuel to power our current civilization for 65 billion years. If we assume compounding growth of 2%, how long will it last? Fusion: 1060 years So...
In 2 days there are have been 4 studies that help explain LK-99's potential superconducting abilities. These simulations converge on key properties that suggest a new class of SC...
I've worked with superconductors for the better part of a decade now in different contexts, from STM condensed matter labs, to particle accelerators, and now fusion. Time for a de...
Superconducting magnet engineer chiming in. This result could be very big news, and overnight revolutionize all of electronics and energy. It might not. Here's a mental model fo...
A technology quietly maturing over the last 10 years that few people talk about. But it's at the bottleneck of current limitations on GPU performance and compute. A 🧵 on how Sil...
Every company builds products using the same limited set of available foundational technologies. Every few decades Physics produces a fundamentally new 'thing' that changes what'...