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The Rocket Engine the Soviets Couldn't Build
On full flow staged combustion, and what it means to build the hardest thing because it is the right thing
Jun 3
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Arvind Ravichandran
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May 2026
What does the AI climb cost?
On abstraction, legibility, and the price of expecting too much from AI
May 23
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Arvind Ravichandran
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The Better Dutch Artist
A brief and impartial verdict on the matter of Vermeer vs. van Gogh
May 15
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Arvind Ravichandran
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My Second Brain Started Keeping a Diary
On memory architecture, accumulation, and the thing I didn't expect to feel
May 10
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Arvind Ravichandran
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The Fifteen-Cent Miracle
On the physics and supply-chain engineering of a disposable lighter
May 2
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Arvind Ravichandran
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April 2026
The Lentil War
On illness, fever-dreams, and pulling the nanoscopic enemies out by hand
Apr 16
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Arvind Ravichandran
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June 2025
Computing using light not transistors
If you send a beam of light through a bit of paint, you will get a mathematical transformation of the signal you sent in - for free!
Jun 8, 2025
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Arvind Ravichandran
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Does a Dog Catching a Frisbee Understand Physics? A Journey into Understanding
I was at the park over the weekend, watching a dog chase a Frisbee with incredible precision.
Jun 2, 2025
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Arvind Ravichandran
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May 2025
Richard Feynman
The Great Explainer’s Enduring Legacy
May 25, 2025
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Arvind Ravichandran
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Climbing the Exponential
And we are off..
May 17, 2025
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Arvind Ravichandran
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Coming soon
This is Climbing the Exponential.
May 17, 2025
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Arvind Ravichandran
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