Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman
mitadmissions.orgThe implication then that there are four quadrants: hard tech to easy tech, high tech to low tech.
Hard and high:
- cure cancer
- colonize Mars
- live forever
Hard and low:
- make better syringes
- make better pills
Easy and low:
- match people that have cars with people that want rides
- match people that have houses with people that want rooms
Easy and high:
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I'd say neuro tech for gaming/research/medical imagining is easy and high. Most of the market in the consumer space is trying to sell "calm" and shit (while people are spending a couple of hundreds on consoles + games vs vc funded hype machines repackaging headphones), researchers are building their own systems and using it for papers that at a cost of <$5k vs the $100k system I used last in a lab, but whose projects have caveats like "we didnt care about price so we paid $600-$800 for an fpga + peripherals when we could have spent $80, we paid $900 for 3 axis accelerometer and microprocessor when could have spent $50 but meh, our grant monies pay for this!", and the state of the art techniques for getting under 1mm in spacial and sub millisecond precision have been used in radar systems for about 80 years (and even lower spacial precision when you combine recent techniques like fast ica, with methods like jacobi-davidson, and shit tonnes of awesome libs like armadillo, superlu, openblas to parallelize the problem for real time implementation over many (~200) cheap microprocessors that can fit within 70mm x 10 mm x 70mm)… thats not to say theres not work to be done, but its deff not limited by the technology and costs…
I'm staying the hell away from the reality distortion field that is the %80-%90 of the industry right now lol
Self driving cars? Geohotz made one by himself... In his man-cave... With a box of scraps.
That says something about him, not about the tech!
Love the reference
Well, given that there is a causal link between the highness of the tech and its difficulty, I'm not sure you truly have "easy and high". Maybe you can find "medium-hard and high", but I think that "high" precludes the "easy".
Easy and high would be things that exist already somewhere in the world but not available to people who need them the most.
Things like providing education, internet access, clean water, sanitation and financial literacy to people in remote and developing countries.
What is this website? First it was the underwear post and now this. Is this the new Medium?
Looks like there's a pretty steady stream of them https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mitadmissions.org