Aaron Slodov

proud to announce Atomic Industries has raised a $25M Series A led by MaC Venture Capital and DTX Ventures, with participation from the University of Michigan, S&A, Calm Ventures, Blackwing, Narya, and others, to build America's next generation industrial base.

@gak_pdx very precise!

@aphysicist And how is Seekins?

would you rather have a humanoid or these robots tending your machine shop?

@jaredvanryne @BernieSanders 😂

I think of this often

@paulg can always upgrade

13 yo was very dubious when I told him I got him a watch, but his eyes lit up when he saw what it was.

@Gaurab yes please!

@aphysicist Thank you Aaron! Would love a tour of yours

We spent $15,000 on billboards targeting one person: the guy controlling all the chemical spend at a saltwater disposal company in Texas. We mapped his commute and bought every billboard between his house and the oil field. When we finally called, he said "I see your billboards everywhere." That landed us our first oil field contract. At the time our entire operation was a $10,000 reactor built from PVC pipes from Home Depot, turning corn sugar into industrial chemicals. People keep trying to throw it away. It still works. That leaking reactor started a multibillion-dollar company. @ycombinator visited our plant in Houston. The original PVC reactor is still on the floor next to the Bioforge.

more factories

@elonmusk this is the plight of the gifted autist who creates. it's so hard to understand why everything has to be fake, until you realize that being real is actually hard, and the reason we wind up with so many phonies is that no one wants to actually put in the work so they grift

So many phonies, so few who are the real deal

more factories

@hardaway_cam @OmerCheeema 🤦

@aphysicist @OmerCheeema chinaselectcommittee.house.gov/media/investig…

I live in Eindhoven, ASML town. Heard this from folks inside... Over the years ASML promoted a lot of strong EUV people into architect roles, group leads, management tracks. Built up serious layers. Classic growth pain. Then McKinsey comes in , says cut the management layers to speed things up. So now those same high performers, real good EUV experts, who got promoted are the ones on the block. About 3400 roles targeted, mostly management. Half will be reassigned, rest gone. Big hit in Veldhoven/Eindhoven area (~1400), some in US. Unncertainty is high, unions talking, details probably land around April. At the same time, ASML is still planning massive growth. The new campus near the airport just got final green light from city council. Construction starts soon, phased build-out. Long term they talk ~20,000 new jobs in the region (first wave ~5k by 2028). And the layoff packages are subpar. Philips is also based in the same town. And they had layoffs due to serious financial issues last year. Their layoff packages were much better than what ASML is offering. What a way to kill tje company culture. Especially at a time when the company is printing money.

@chrizmillr such a great time watching this, really appreciated all the effort put into the world building. high amount of rewatchability.

IT IS TIME GO to the movies. PROJECT HAIL MARY is in cinemas tonight. This is a very special film & I’m really proud of it. It’s a rare thing these days for a studio to make a big original non-franchise movie, so take advantage & see it on the biggest screen you can!

If you are attending @APSphysics March meeting, come learn more about thermodynamic computing! Our work on taming non-equilibrium thermal electron fluctuations in silicon is now accepted in Physical Review Applied. Read more here: journals.aps.org/prapplied/abst…

@nickwhite1995 @the_transit_guy most people don't know that 60% of jobs today didn't exist in 1940 and people couldn't even conceive of what they would be

@the_transit_guy @aphysicist US Census in 1900, 40% of people reported they worked in Agriculture. Now, it’s less than 2%. Tractors/machinery/equipment wiped 38% of jobs. But unemployement isn’t at 38%. Roles now exist that didn’t exist prior - AI Developer, golf pro, Traffic Engineer Influencer etc.

i wonder if he realizes that a) this ultimately creates more jobs, b) we are a generation way from automating factories

made in cleveland

@the_transit_guy here's a great list: buildlist.xyz atomic: #careers" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">atomic.industries/#careers

@aphysicist So Amazon fulfillment workers should be advised to apply to which company/link? I know a lot of people who work at said facilities and I am sure they'd love to work for your company.

@the_transit_guy sure, look at my company

@aphysicist So just so I understand, the automation of 600k jobs will create more jobs based on a book, in which you cannot give me a real life example of what displaced worker would do?

@HusbandOfAyn @andrewmccalip yes indeed, he knows what's up

@andrewmccalip That's what I was looking for. I knew TPOT had something to do with this. And he followed @aphysicist