Domain adventures
The thinfilmmfg.com and tocarbonzero.com domains are changing DNS providers. If something seems broken, either call or message me here.
Now those are serious heat sinks. Google’s Tensor Processing Units, used in neural network applications.
Microfluidics from LEGO bricks
Many MIT students played with LEGO when they were kids. So being able to use them for actual research projects as adults is a dream come true.
Black to move. Should be easy, but my brain doesn’t want to parse it for some reason.
1… Qc3 2. Qd1 Qe3+
Source: Susan Polgar and Paul Truong, Chess Tactics for Champions, p.16.
Diagram by Apronus.
Iron as a source of efficient Shockley-Read-Hall recombination in GaN
Technical, but very relevant to smart lighting and other LED applications. Even very low levels of iron in GaN can degrade efficiency.
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics - Press Release
”For theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.”
Very difficult and mathematical work, but very fundamental to understanding things like the superconducting phase transition and magnetism in thin layers.
What Would Happen If We Just Gave People Money?
Thorough overview of past and present experiments with a guaranteed basic income.
On the Road to Recap: | Above the Crowd | By Bill Gurley
Long, but worth reading the whole thing. As in previous startup bubbles, failure to get your burn rate under control will doom your company, no matter how rich you are on paper.
