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An Orbital Debris Mitigation Satellite Concept
Orbital debris is a significant concern among those in the space industry, especially as satellites orbiting the Earth become increasingly critical infrastructure and exponentially more numerous. Risk reduction focuses on large debris objects, ignoring smaller, often equally as deadly debris. I devised a preliminary spacecraft concept to mitigate the threat posed by this class of…
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Seattle Panegyric
A place isn’t really yours until it’s explored. At least, I think so. And I’ve found that being familiar with the pavement a few streets over makes me more grounded.
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The Energy Requirements and Feasibility of Off-World Mining
It turns out that off-world mining endeavors are constrained not only by daunting energy requirements, but also a mine-field of misplaced development effort. Also, why even try at all?
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Queuing at Stupid Traffic Lights
There is some math associated with the agony of waiting in traffic. Or any kind of line. Since moving to Seattle, I’ve become convinced that the traffic flow is particularly sub-optimal here. I wanted to explore why that might be and highlight some implications.
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I beat GPT-3 in Tic-Tac-Toe
Language models are a sea change for education and how AI could mitigate an existential risk problem.
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Is “Earning to Give” a Bad Framework?
Effective Altruists advocate for impact though maximizing your monetary capacity to give. It’s better than nothing, but is it better than high social value work?
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A Deep Dive on Some Power Grid Tweets
I wrote about some tweets by Brian Bartholomew and Casey Handmer about the United States Power Grid and explore the implications of some assumptions about batteries.
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How to Save Billions Using Free Radar Data
In my final year of engineering undergrad, I worked under Dr. Moriba Jah to build out an automated orbital debris detection system using machine learning and open-source data. I wrote a bit about the approach I took on the project and what is being prioritized in the industry.
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