Frontier Development Lab

🚨 Big Announcement! 🚨   I’m thrilled to share that my upcoming book, SPACE ENVIRONMENTALISM, will be published by One Signal Publishers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. This is more than a book — it’s a signal cutting through the noise of apathy and indifference, calling for urgent change.   In SPACE ENVIRONMENTALISM, I pull back the curtain on the harsh truths about how space — once a realm of awe and wonder — has become a playground for profit-driven satellite systems, military infrastructure, and unbridled exploitation. The decisions shaping the future of humanity and our planet are being made by a select few, while the costs ripple across Earth and beyond.   But this book isn’t just a critique; it’s a call to action. With a perspective rooted in science, philosophy, spirituality, and social justice, I confront some big questions: - How do we become better stewards of the Earth and Space? - How do we reclaim our personal power and ensure equity and inclusivity in decisions that impact all of us? - And how do we protect the interconnected fabric of life before we achieve our self-extinction?   As a BIPOC voice in the celestial wilderness, I bring a unique lens to this urgent conversation. SPACE ENVIRONMENTALISM is deeply personal, provocative, and unflinching.   To everyone who’s asked me to write a memoir or share my journey — this is it. This is my dharma, my story, my mission, and my promise to empower humanity’s stewards to rewrite the script.   Brace yourselves. Nihil arcanum est (nothing hides). The wilderness is calling, and it’s time to respond.   Nicholas Ciani embraces me for who I am and what I'm here to do, unconstrained. That's special! Thanks to my literary agents: Jesseca Salky Eryn Kalavsky Thanks to my life partner Daniele Love 📸 (Photo credit: Mark Thiessen, National Geographic Society)

Today, MIT News featured our work on AI-generated imagery of future floods. We discuss the dangers of hallucinations in this risk-sensitive application and propose a new physics-informed model that circumvent them. https://lnkd.in/eb_DTXqz

Happy to share our recent publication "Machine learning discovery of cost-efficient dry cooler designs for concentrated solar power plants" in Nature Portfolio's Scientific Reports. Our simulator code generates cooling system designs for a concentrated solar power plant at any location on Earth and optimizes for the design with the lowest lifetime cost. Thanks to all my amazing co-authors: Hansley Narasiah, Andrea Scorsoglio, Ouail Kitouni, Shawn Hatcher, Dolores Garcia, Kelsi Katcher, Javad Khalesi, Matt Kusner and the Frontier Development Lab for the great community and mentorship!

🌟 Exciting Opportunity: Operations Assistant at Trillium Technologies 🌟 If you thrive in a collaborative environment, enjoy “spinning plates,” and are motivated by the chance to contribute to meaningful projects, we’d love to hear from you! At Trillium, we're committed to building a supportive, empowering workspace where everyone can bring their best work to life. Whether you’re managing schedules, coordinating travel, or helping our team solve complex problems, it all plays a vital role in our success. 📍 Location: London 📋 Responsibilities: From multi-calendar scheduling and program logistics to event coordination and budget management, this role is key to ensuring our operations run seamlessly. 📅 Apply by: 29 November 2024 If you have at least 3 years of administrative experience and thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments, we want to hear from you! 🌐 Discover more about us here: trillium.tech/careers 🔗 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eq7rY7kX 🤝 Be part of a team dedicated to making a positive impact on Humankind. #Hiring #OperationsAssistant #TrilliumTechnologies #SpaceExploration #AI #OperationalExcellence #teamwork #collaboration

There's a lot of discussion about whether Earth Observation will have a "ChatGPT" moment. My sense is that it's close. What is possible now, would have seemed magical 10 years ago. The opportunities to combine the full toolbox of AI and space-tech, from twinning, to surrogate modelling, autonomy, continual learning to help build a better future are now here. We have the tools to build a more resilient and secure future. However, there is some kind of translation gap; the excitement that drives millions to buy "LLMs for Dummies" has yet to happen in #AI4EO If you are interested in how academia, the private sector and government can help us close this translation gap, please join us on the 28th in Oxford. This initiative is supported by the European Space Agency - ESA and University of Oxford, Pierre-Philippe Mathieu 🚀, Anna Hirsch-Holland, Christopher Topping https://trillium.tech/css #AI4EO #COP

Futureproofing the UK 🛰 The imperative The United Kingdom faces the challenge of growing industrial capacity and keeping its citizens safe. This balance isn’t for the faint of heart and the solutions aren’t a quick fix. Any future strategy needs to be clear-eyed about the countervailing winds; retrenchment of globalisation, increasing climate-related geopolitical stress (from water, to refugees, supply-chain exposure) ageing infrastructure and population, climate-risk exposure (such as flooding, extreme heat and storms) and techno-sociological exposure which could manifest in as natural risks such as geomagnetic storms. 🌍 Redefining the UK's national trajectory Resilience, then, is not merely about being better prepared or bouncing back from crises; it’s about transformative recovery. 🚀 We believe space-tech and AI are key actors in this better future. Civil Resilience can act as a platform for public and private sector collaboration to develop new services and infrastructure that foster industrial and technological leadership in the way that insight is harnessed from (and via) space for the benefit of society. If these ideas ring-true to you, please join us in Oxford on the 28th of November https://trillium.tech/css This initiative is supported by the CSS (Civil Security from Space) initiative of the European Space Agency - ESA, University of Oxford, Pierre-Philippe Mathieu 🚀, Anna Hirsch-Holland, Christopher Topping. #AI4EO, #COP, #Climate #UK

🌟 Exciting Opportunity: Operations Assistant at Trillium Technologies 🌟 If you thrive in a collaborative environment, enjoy “spinning plates,” and are motivated by the chance to contribute to meaningful projects, we’d love to hear from you! At Trillium, we're committed to building a supportive, empowering workspace where everyone can bring their best work to life. Whether you’re managing schedules, coordinating travel, or helping our team solve complex problems, it all plays a vital role in our success. 📍 Location: London 📋 Responsibilities: From multi-calendar scheduling and program logistics to event coordination and budget management, this role is key to ensuring our operations run seamlessly. 📅 Apply by: 29 November 2024 If you have at least 3 years of administrative experience and thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments, we want to hear from you! 🌐 Discover more about us here: trillium.tech/careers 🔗 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eq7rY7kX 🤝 Be part of a team dedicated to making a positive impact on Humankind. #Hiring #OperationsAssistant #TrilliumTechnologies #SpaceExploration #AI #OperationalExcellence #teamwork #collaboration