[mikewarot]

I want to build a bitgrid ASIC, I think it would be a good stepping stone to getting petaflops in the hands of the masses. Even if the chip itself is a bust, I think the concept of the chip itself could be a "solvent" in terms of thinking about how to get there. Unlike a Turing machine, this has no moving pointers, so it's much easier to think about.

I'm completely sold on the shockingly old idea of capability based security. I'd love to never have to run a virus scanner ever again.

I'm hopeful that bipolaron chain ultraconductors actually work, and it's possible to have room temperature conductors that are 10,000,000 times better than silver, grown from urethane. You could make some really good 3d printed motors if this works out.

CNC machining and 3d printing are amazing to me. New stuff all the time. I can't wait until we're able to sputter semiconductor onto an atomically flat surface, then build transistors one at a time on it in a home fab.

Software defined radio (SDR) is amazing stuff. I can't believe how much you can do with $100 of hardware and a bit of code.

I'm hopeful that Mike McCulloch's ideas about quantized inertia[1] turn out to be close enough to right to build some reactionless thrusters.

[1] https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/