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Archimedes Goes to College

by Frazier Thomas

In the late 2000s a group of small colleges set out to become carbon neutral by burning local wood. Every one of them needed a way to move it. Thomas & Muller and the campus biomass movement, from Middlebury to a century-old coal bin in Missouri.

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Engineering · Industry

Archimedes Goes to College

by Frazier Thomas

Thomas & Muller and the campus biomass movement. Wet, stringy wood chips that bridge and freeze, and the conveyors that have to move them anyway.

AI · Digital Humanism

AI and the Moral Guardian

by Frazier Thomas

Artificial intelligence can perform more of the intellectual grunt work, but it cannot decide what is worth doing.

AI · Infrastructure

The Cathedral and the Data Center

by Frazier Thomas

AI is often imagined as weightless intelligence in the cloud. In reality it is becoming one of the heaviest things we build.

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In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.
Sun Tzu