About

I don't remember exactly when it started. I think I was nine or ten. My dad brought home a VHS tape of 2001: A Space Odyssey and I watched the entire thing in silence. Didn't understand half of it. Couldn't stop thinking about the other half.

That's still basically how I operate.

I'm a person who stays up past midnight reading about things that haven't happened yet. Self-driving cars learning to handle rain. Robots figuring out how to fold a towel. A semiconductor fab in Arizona that might shift the balance of global power. A rocket falling from the sky and getting caught by two metal arms.

When SpaceX caught the Starship booster for the first time, I cried. I'm not embarrassed about that. Something about watching a 23-story rocket fall from space and get caught by chopsticks made me feel like we might actually be okay. Like we're still capable of doing impossible things.

What this place is

This isn't a news site. It's not a tutorial blog. It's not a newsletter designed to convert you into anything.

It's more like a journal. I write about the things that keep me up at night. Sometimes that's a deep technical analysis of transformer architecture or TSMC's 2nm process. Sometimes it's ten lines and a question I can't answer.

I write about AI, but not just the chatbot kind. I'm drawn to the physical world of intelligence: robots that walk, cars that drive themselves, machines that see and touch and navigate. The embodied stuff. The stuff that has to work in rain and gravity and chaos.

I write about space because it makes me feel small in the best possible way.

I write about semiconductors because the fact that humans can etch patterns smaller than a virus onto silicon wafers is, frankly, insane. And nobody talks about it enough.

What I believe (probably)

I believe we're living through the most interesting time in human history, and most people are too busy to notice.

I believe AI will change everything, and I'm not sure if I mean that in a good way, a bad way, or a both way. Probably both.

I believe the physical future matters more than the digital one. Robots that can build houses. Cars that don't crash. Rockets that make us multi-planetary. These are the things that will actually reshape daily life.

I believe in wonder. In sitting on a roof at 2am looking at the sky and letting your mind go wherever it wants. In asking questions you're not qualified to answer. In being wrong publicly and learning from it.

I'm probably wrong about half of what I write here. That's fine. I'd rather wonder out loud than stay quiet.

The name

"astro36." Astro like the stars. 36 like... honestly, it just sounded right. Sometimes things don't need a reason.

The site

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If something here makes you think, or wonder, or want to send me a message telling me I'm completely wrong about transformer scaling laws, then this site is doing its job.