Floating Coordinates by Soumya Gupta

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On Complexity and Entropy
This post was inspired by reading Scott Aaronson’s blog post The First Law of Complexodynamics, which I discovered on this list of 30 readings…
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2025 is the year of Consumer AI
For the last ~4 months, since the beginning of Q4 2024, it has felt as if one is spoilt for choice among AI developer tools.
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The Age of Excellence is upon us
It feels like the world is profoundly changing.
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'Rare minerals' - 1856 vs 2025
There’s much talk right now about a U.S.
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New technologies the US govt wants to fund
Autonomous Robots, Advanced Manufacturing, Microelectronics, Synthetic Biology and more
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Carbonomics - the Economics of reaching Net Zero
That is the title of a recent research publication by the CFA Institute & Goldman Sachs International, published in November 2024.
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Understanding Direct Air Capture
How DAC works, Sorbents, Current and projected costs, Challenges in scaling, Acid-base concentration swing for DAC
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Questions of the Week
Text instructions for AI vision models; Plant's use of urea; Naturally occurring purines; Lab-grown cocoa; Cryoprotectants; Speed of biochemical…
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What is India doing to address Climate change?
building electrified public transit, nuclear, hydro, transmission; green hydrogen capacity; decarbonizing steel
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#4: The mind as an LLM
"There is no limit on how much we can improve what we start with. There is no limit on better."- Kevin Kelly
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#3: Building habits the Franklin way
A lot is written about forming habits, but Benjamin Franklin derived his not from what ‘should be done’ but who he wanted to be.
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#2: Making Products that Previously did not Exist
How the first synthetic cell and best rockets were made
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#1: "I'll bet you tried a lot of things that didn't work!"
That’s what Frederick Sanger, a biochemist and 2-time winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, said to Harry Noller, a fellow biochemist and director of…
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I'm looking for a technical co-founder
I'm technical too!
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Floating Coordinates by Soumya Gupta
Floating Coordinates by Soumya Gupta
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