Insights by Danielle Fong

Reposted from Twitter/x, which has awful agent observability…. thinking of some of my bag of tricks to use in my “Feynman Method”: where is the entropy being created — drive that towards zero. everywhere there is entropy being created, e.g., “energy” diff…

2022-Nov 2025 i often describe @lightcellenergy as building portable dyson spheres. harnessing the power of spectrally pure, chemically fueled, man made stars. and it’s remarkable that within just a few months of starting experiments, we started achieving…

Reposting this outside of X on the advice of Deepfates, X is a walled garden apparently.

TLDR; LightSail Energy, now LightStore, is effectively a defunct company that owns and licenses IP, which is far from the worthy and world changing company it could have and should have been.

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Hello everyone, missed you!

As 2013 was winding down, James Temple of Re/Code asked me about the most exciting science of the past year.

Some futurists and bioethicists, argue that, on a planet with finite resources, prudence dictates that immortality is not to be aspired to — that the resources used by a life lives by the old might only displace the possibility of a life lived by the youn…

Vannevar Bush, with the first modern analog computer “The National Research Foundation should <be> free from the obligation to place its contracts for research through advertising for bids.

Laura Schewel, someone who has been a personal inspiration to me, and who has been an amazing friend, has been named by MIT Technology Review as one of the world’s top 35 innovators under 35.

One of these days, I’ll try to write up the rules of thermodynamics so that people stop getting mislead.

This article first appeared in issue n.16 of Oxygen, sponsored by the Italian energy giant Enel The powerplants we are building now will define the biosphere of our planet for the next 5000 years.

Your revolution will not be stolen.

I’ve lived a lifetime this year.

One month ago, I was interviewed by Jane Affleck as a profile piece for my Alma Mater, Dalhousie University.

If there’s one thing I’ve been surprised by while trying to start startups, it’s the extent to which the business landscape is shaped by law.

I don’t understand the reasoning of so many ‘climate change skeptics.’

Where laughter becomes more hilarious than whatever half-forgotten thing preceded it.

I discovered today, to my amazement and horror, that the otherwise exceptionally advanced and useful Mathematica 7 has only a single level of undo in its notebooks.

you have saved me from an eternity of what if with one moment of yes — M.

Once upon a time in Northern Mexico, my mother was sick.

The clock stuck twelve.

I have here several charts of driving cycles.

Many believe that technology simply gets better over time: that every class of invention can improve endlessly into modernity.

Jenny Boriss and the Mozilla Labs team have helped spark a wildfire of discussion.

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Our company is going to have graph paper placemats.

analogies, once preserved as mere notes, find harmony as poetry organizations relationships communities as living entities as where no one cell holds the soul of a person no one person, incarnate may form all essence of a community nor live throughout its…

I base my action upon prediction.

During the back and forth of exchange with a technical recruiter, he finally asked me what I was looking for.

Recently, unusual features of the cosmic microwave background, a ‘snapshot’ of the early universe, have raised issues with our understanding of the Big Bang.

An article on one bright young man, Moshe, recently appeared on Hacker News.

Those who’ve spent time with me over the past few months know both how absorbed I’ve been in the catalysis of our startup, and how poor I am at concealing my admiration for YCombinator.

The name problem has been with our band of hackers for a while.

Terry Tao’s recent post on a classic logical puzzle has seeded a bloom of activity in the nerdsphere.

The following occurred to me on a run about two years ago: It’s not given much press, but the the Halting Problem is intimately related to Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem.

The central limit theorem states that if you have many small, independent, random variables, then their sum is distributed approximately as a bell curve.

One morning around the graduate college dining hall, there was a gathering of physicists, finance students, and economists.

Tonight it’s winter in Berkeley. 53 degrees and raining, and outdoors, warmed by a heat-lamp, sheltered by an awning.