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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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

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