I'm designing an affordable electron microscope for high schools and small businesses. While that doesn't sound like a chip startup, the long term goal is to create multipurpose tools that enable semiconductor fabrication with electron beam milling and chemical vapor deposition.
No, looks like a really cool company. Their hyperspectral imaging sensors will definitely enable a lot cool science. Limited to optical frequencies though so not as useful for the type of micro or nano scale imaging semiconductors require.
I had worked on their Hyperspectral imaging sensors providing surrounding support (Dev kit + SW stack). It is definitely cool and has a lot of applications especially for detection of adulteration in food etc.
Increasingly powerful GPU compute being released and constantly improving image recognition models out in the wild. I'd bet there's a nicely packaged, open source solution released in under 3 years.
I want to preface this with the fact that a few specific incidents left me disillusioned with the military and that I don’t think people really understand just how horrible war is. That being said I wouldn’t change the decisions I made. I truly believe the work that I did was a net positive and that my work contributed to saving the lives of both military members and civilians. Unfortunately not everything goes perfectly and I still struggle with those things mentally to this day. The things that do still haunt me aren’t the extremely hard to avoid tragedies, they were the events caused by poor leadership and people being placed in positions they didn’t deserve to be in. I think one thing most people don’t consider is that at the end of the day the military and government overall work and function very similarly to the businesses they work or have worked at. The big difference is that the incompetent manager doesn’t mess up part of a presentation, order, or whatever else you may be working on. It leads to innocent lives being lost to an avoidable situation and ends up being referred to as a tragedy.
It was simply something that I wanted to do. Not joining would not be true to myself.
A friend and I were having a discussion about the merits of the war. He was antiwar, and I was not opposed to it. During the discussion he asked me "Why don't you join up then?"
I didn't have an excuse. Either I need to change my political beliefs, I am a coward and a hypocrite, or I should join. I joined.
My political beliefs have since changed. I am much closer to a libertarian now than I was before. I still am not antiwar, sometimes violence is the answer.
I learned firsthand the meaning of "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times."
In general I'd say that most "higher functioning" Bitcoin users are fairly decent with C++, using CLI/TTY only wallets, and familiar with the cypherpunk movement, culture, and history. If you are not familiar with IRC it makes it sound like you just started using a computer the last couple years.
I like the related Marc Andreesen model, have strong opinions, weakly held. To get anywhere new requires some degree of (probably misplaced) confidence in what you're doing. The key is balancing that with the ability to apply new information to your model, possibly even doing a 180 on what you believed was true.
That tx/rx interface is the real problem. But if you enclose things with the right material, you can turn everything into a large varistor and even MOS-FETs will survive.
I'm designing an affordable electron microscope for high schools and small businesses. While that doesn't sound like a chip startup, the long term goal is to create multipurpose tools that enable semiconductor fabrication with electron beam milling and chemical vapor deposition.