Metamuse

46 // Industrial research with Peter van Hardenberg

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Ink & Switch is a research lab inspired by Bells Labs and Xerox PARC. Peter is lab director, and he joins Adam and Mark to discuss DARPA-hard problems; the Ink & Switch academic-meets-web essay format; and how an independent research lab can fund itself through a spinout flywheel. Plus: Mendel and his peas, Thoreau and his ants, and the Arrakis attitude of the knife.

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Show notes
  • Peter van Hardenberg @pvh
  • Ink & Switch
  • hydroponic gardening
  • computer vision
  • knight’s movement in chess
  • efficient frontier
  • Peritext
  • Dynamicland
  • Seinfeld calendar
  • Zettelkasten
  • rich text
  • Metamuse episode with Geoffrey Litt
  • Metamuse episode with Linus Lee
  • “Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife […] It’s complete because it’s ended here.”
  • DARPA
  • Richard Hamming
  • National Science Foundation
  • prime number theorum
  • Ben Reinhardt on innovation orgs
  • Bell Labs list of inventions
  • flywheel
  • Gregor Mendel’s experiments with pea plants
  • “It’s not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?”
  • DARPA autonomous vehicles contest and prize
  • DARPA hard
  • Gordon Brander
  • pre-infusion
  • Yjs
  • the Hollywood model
  • Martin Kleppmann
  • Code for America
  • no plan survives first contact with the enemy
  • “pencils down”
  • peer review
  • citation
    • ...more
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