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g15n:

> Software engineer building knowledge systems at PlantingSpace

> Side: market making in the long-tail of web3

> Techno-optimist solving hard problems in space, bio, energy, defense tech

> long thoughts: Forging Loops on Substack

> short thoughts: gordon_koehn on X

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> latest writings

RESEARCHDEV
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From cluster-based workflows to browser-based exploration. 17 months building national-scale genomic infrastructure at ETH Zurich.

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TECH
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Finding the Edges of Prediction Markets

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Will prediction markets go broader? Markets for everything? a16z's predictions for 2026 got me curious. Pulled spread and volume data across Polymarket, Kalshi, and crypto exchanges. Short answer: we're already testing the limits.

ECONTECH
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The Economics of Escaping Earth

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SpaceX's Starship could plummet launch costs beyond imagination, igniting industries we can't yet envision. I mapped space ventures by Mass vs. Launch Cost—one plot to rule them all!

RESEARCH
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Speeding up Single Cell Tumor Mutation Tree Inference

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Deep Dive into Computational Statistic in Cancer Genomics

RESEARCH
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Connectivity Inference of Neuronal Networks

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Towards the Brain-Computer-Interface

RESEARCH
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Space Weather Simulations

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Successive Interacting Coronal Mass Ejections: How to Create a Perfect Solar Storm?

RESEARCH
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Solving the Time-Dependent-Schroedinger Equation

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Evolution of a particle in different potentials: free, step, square, harmonic

ENG
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Photos from Stratosphere

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Kickstarter Funded Weather-balloon photography from 38.5 km above sea level

DEV
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Android Casual Game: Linearity

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Development of a monetized mobile game in a team of 5