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Formerly founder of an ML company in Adelaide and Sydney. Exited 2021.

Did some decentralized databases work and private ML work.

Formally CTO at a startup working on AI for strategy/policy work.

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Sometimes Product Manager, sometimes Data Scientist, sometimes SWE, Sometimes other stuff.

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Show threadnl3d ago

Not sure about the comparison to the SR-71, but the more interesting comparison was with the US XB-70[1] which ended up cancelled but the MIG-25 was designed to intercept[2].

Ironically the XB-70 was also stainless steel - but it still was pretty exotic. It partly relied on compression-lift and highly corrosive fuel to cruise at Mach 3 (in 1961!).

Edit: Wikipedia diving after writing that led me to the Sukhoi T-4 which was the Russian response to the XB-70. Only a prototype, but this one was titanium and it is an amazing, drop-nose machine [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_XB-70_Valkyrie

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25#Backgr...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_T-4

North American XB-70 Valkyrie - Wikipedia