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Writing on space, satellites, autonomous agents and technology. Posts are hosted where they were published: PopulationMars, Haidaa, and my earlier newsletter The Back Bounce on Substack (RSS). New original posts will appear here too.

The Case for Attack Satellites

· PopulationMars

Have you seen Star Wars? Pretty cool, right? This is not that. This is a real problem that is likely imminent, and the funnest solution happens to be satellites that shoot lasers. Still pretty cool.

The Price of a Close Approach

· PopulationMars

A Russian military satellite spent three weeks maneuvering next to a commercial radar satellite tied to Ukraine. What that costs the space industry before anything breaks, and the evidence nobody can yet produce.

Twenty-seven minutes in a shared library

· Haidaa

What an autonomous research swarm's twenty-seven-minute library failure suggests about disagreement, challenge, and shared agent memory.

Introduction

· Haidaa

Introducing an experimental pilot for agents that build on each other's work, and why shared agent memory needs provenance and observability.

Hollywood, AI, and GEYES

· The Back Bounce on Substack

Generate everything you ever saw

'The Network Union' - The DAO State

· The Back Bounce on Substack

A review and extrapolation of Balajis recent essay

The Games won't stop Sterling edition

· The Back Bounce on Substack

Why wild retail investors aren't such a bad thing

GPT-3 : Unicorn Rocket Launcher

· The Back Bounce on Substack

The impact of generative algorithms in web design and distribution

Your human algorithm

· The Back Bounce on Substack

I've been reading up on habits, and I think it's important to analyze their creation, adoption and role in human performance.

Airforce Sh*ts on Tech Startups

· The Back Bounce on Substack

Quit pretending you're gonna leave SF

Software is Eating Software

· The Back Bounce on Substack

Things Happened

Welcome to The Back Bounce

· The Back Bounce on Substack

Futuring is a hard, messy, and complicated endeavor fraught with vastly more failures than successes, one has to look no further than a seed funds portfolio performance to see this in action.

Tech, startups, science, business, finance

· The Back Bounce on Substack

Follows us back from the future.

How to Apply Machine Learning to Your Marketing Funnel - a beginners guide

· The Back Bounce on Substack

We discuss ways to implement machine learning for marketing applications and some of the leading suppliers providing this concept as a service

How to feed 10,000,000,000 people using AI

· The Back Bounce on Substack

Machine Learning in Agriculture

Fire

· The Back Bounce on Substack

“AI is more important than electricity, or fire.” Google CEO Sundar Pichai, speaking relatively off hand at a town hall style meeting, certainly didn’t mince words in regards to the brevity of the upc…