Category: Blog
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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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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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How Do Climate Models Work?
Climate models are often the subject of some intense controversy, so I popped the hood on them.
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Oh, What Massive Monuments We Make
We haven’t truly harnessed the power of the free-market to create trailblazing monuments of the modern era analogous to the decade or century-long construction projects undertaken by those that came before us. Why?
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