DARPA
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9 statements about DARPA, every show
Every DARPA employee has their exit date on their badge
“So everyone at DARPA walks around with their exit date on their badge.”
Michael: DARPA employees are term-limited and carry exit dates on badges
“They're, and they're term limited. So everyone at DARPA walks around with their exit date on their badge.”
DeWahl: Antares is not using DARPA because micro-reactors lack fundamental technical novelty
“We are not working with DARPA mostly because it's actually not as technically risky as you might even think, like even. ... Like we actually, in a funny way, like it's not even really a tech problem. ... You know, I mean, it's hard to build these things, but i…”
Landesberg: Fire service lacks the DARPA-style federal tech infrastructure of defense
“Every town had its own fire department. And the legacy of that means that there's a ton of independent fire departments who sort of grew up and built their technology roadmaps independently. And you contrast that to what's happened in national defense, where y…”
Clark: DARPA, DOD, and NASA will want Atomos IP in 5-10 years
“So all of the IP that we're developing, all of the license agreements we're securing, technology that DARPA, the DOD, and NASA will want in the next five to 10 years.”
Lowery: Traditional defense primes invest minimal internal R&D outside DOD programs
“Everything they do is tethered to, kind of, direction from the DOD, and so they do very little, like, internal commercial innovation. There isn't a lot of internal research and development dollars spent on pure innovation that isn't tethered to a DARPA or some…”
Jeff Bezos' maternal grandfather ran Sandia National Labs and co-founded DARPA
“He actually not only worked at Sandia, he was the head of Sandia. Oh, wow. He ran the U.S. Nuclear weapons program. And before that, he was one of the original members of DARPA.”
Marr: Silicon neuromorphic chips operate far more efficiently than GPUs
“If you build neurons out of silicon that work much more like the brain, you can operate much more efficiently than like what you can on a GPU.”
Deepfakes are overhyped and will not become a major political threat
“I think, you know, there's a lot of hype about deep fake right now. I don't know how, how real it's actually going to be. And, you know, we're already seeing, you know, a lot of the research agencies like DARPA and things like that work on being able to detect…”