The living library
Start with a topic, explore a connection or search for a question. Each article helps you understand the idea, examine its evidence and see what remains unresolved.
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Terafab links logic, memory and packaging in one proposed manufacturing system. We examine the potential feedback advantages, the evidence that would establish progress, and the smaller research opportunities an independent team can investigate.
A computer in orbit still needs a complete operating system of energy, heat rejection, communications and recovery. The credible comparison is useful work delivered over a mission, with uncertainty visible.
NASA’s 2024 study modelled specific future solar-power architectures. Its findings help frame the questions that matter: delivered electricity, complete lifecycle costs, environmental effects and alternatives that provide the same service.
A Dyson swarm imagines many collectors around a star. Kardashev Type II describes stellar-scale energy use. Both help organise big questions, but neither proves a practical route, a development timetable or a desirable social outcome.
The Matrioshka brain imagines layers of computing around a star. Its enduring lesson is that information processing has physical limits; nesting alone does not establish superior efficiency, intelligence or feasibility.
A robot performing a task once is a beginning. A dependable manufacturing system must cope with variation, inspect its work and recover from interruptions. That creates a practical research direction for an independent team.
GalaxyLink’s first research direction asks how flexible computing work behaves under changing power constraints. It is a proposed route to learning, with customer demand and commercial advantage still to be established.
Our first synthetic comparison did not produce an optimisation win. It showed how restart effort and missed deadlines can undermine an apparently attractive scheduling rule.
Our starter model preserves completed work at slot boundaries but charges a restart delay after interruption. Understanding that assumption is essential to interpreting its results.
A compelling vision opens a conversation. This framework sets out the evidence I want GalaxyLink to build before claiming commercial or strategic value.
A useful library helps readers distinguish evidence, interpretation and ambition. This founder’s note explains the editorial standards we are designing into GalaxyLink.
Space exploration and responsibility towards Earth belong together in GalaxyLink’s founding purpose. This perspective proposes the questions that should test whether a technological ambition creates worthwhile human benefit.