@tobedetermined
Hi, thanks for dropping by. I am a Dutch transplant in Silicon Valley where I work at the NASA Ames Research Center as technologist for the Flight Opportunities program. We invest in commercial (sub)orbital flight testing of new space technologies.
While at NASA, I’ve had the opportunity to learn about brain-inspired computing by organizing a NASA Ames Director's Colloquium for Numenta Co-Founder Jeff Hawkins and by volunteering with VLAB to help organize a panel discussion on Deep Learning at Stanford in 2014.
Before coming to the US, I participated in a small community in Europe aiming to establish a working relationship between contemporary art and the European Space Agency (see e.g. Floating Points). My participation in this effort was inspired by an ESA-commissioned artwork we created as art collective 'Art Race in Space'.
My year 2000 MSc thesis in Aerospace Engineering at the Delft University of Technology comprised a self-proposed idea to allow people to virtually (internet)-travel to the Moon aboard a small European spacecraft called LunarSat (also see this paper@ICEUM4).
At present I am reading about incompleteness & computation (the foundational crisis in mathematics), and learning about related ideas like observer theory and the ruliad. This latest interest started from a 2020 MindScape podcast where Sean Carroll talks with Daniel Dennett about real patterns.
March 02024
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