Data mining mining data @KoBold_Metals. @Stanford Ph.D. @MTzuang’s +1. immigrant (🇹🇼➡🇺🇸). Interested in intersection of machine learning & climate tech.

San Francisco Bay Area
Joined November 2010
A piece of LED bulb history: left, 800 lm bulb that used to cost $30 back in 2012. Right: 1600 lm bulb that costs around $3. A reduction of 20x in lm/$ in less than 10 years. Are people interested in the technology behind LED chips? Thinking about a LED tweet thread...
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Fighting climate change means scaling up lots of new technologies, but financing those first-of-a-kind (FOAK) projects is incredibly difficult. In this episode, @shaylekann talks to longtime #climatetech investor David Yeh. 🎧 Listen: link.chtbl.com/tLSa3TlS
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Pleasantly surprised to see CEO of my employer being interviewed at one of my favorite podcasts!
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We need "more than $10T worth of newly discovered Lithium, Copper, Cobalt and Nickel.” @kurtzhouse on how mining startup @KoBold_Metals is utilizing #AI to pinpoint key metals for clean energy. Plus, challenges “It requires many, many years and a huge amount of investment.”
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Major breakthrough in decarbonized cement announced today by Brimstone. Awesome stuff! businesswire.com/news/home/2…
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A story in four acts.
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KoBold Metals is excited to participate in @SFClimateWeek online climate career fair! RSVP to SF Climate Jobs Fair to learn more about KoBold Metals and the roles we’re hiring for. Come meet our team on April 19th at 10am PST! Register to attend here: lu.ma/qg2ca445
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This CAPTCHA from @PGE4Me has to be one of the most ridiculous CAPTCHA in existence... and the challenge contains 5 of them in a row!!!
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Silicon Valley Bank was an “integral” part of the climate-tech world, @GkraEnergy told me; it provided billions in financing to support solar, hydrogen, and energy storage projects heatmap.news/technology/deat…
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Can’t have platform spend if you don’t have a platform…
Replying to @QuinnyPig
Let me summon the ghost of Parler here as well: they were booted off of AWS for *not having an effective abuse management process.* Irrevocably break Twitter's content moderation, and the cloud providers will reduce your bill to $0 for you.
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On this 10-year anniversary of my layoff from my first industry job, I was finally able to share with you this deeply personal story, and what I learned from that experience: ikding.github.io/learnings-f… 1/
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All that is to say, being laid-off was part of the ups-and-downs of one's career, there's no stigma attached to it and it is nothing to be ashamed of, and it matters much more how you learn from this experience and bounce back! 19/
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