On Patent Art: Quality IS Risk Management
Sixteen embodiments of one design patent figure, built from the ground up, showing how drawing quality functions as risk management. Illustrated by hand in CorelDRAW, without AI tools.
The Heavy Lift: An Agentic Exposé On Aerospace Optics and Telemetry
Five estimated camera zones on Super Heavy, video as engineering telemetry, hot-staging against Falcon 9, ullage-gas attitude control against the Shuttle RCS, and the ITAR wall that keeps the rest out of reach.
The Heavy Lift Part 2A: The Speculative
Two commercial cameras, a Panasonic VariCam Pure and a Nikon Z 9, held against the launch environment by the numbers: optics, shutter, sensor physics, data rate, thermal load and vibration, with a straight verdict on whether either would survive.
The Heavy Lift Part 2B: The Historical
The documented record of NASA flight cameras, Hasselblad 500 EL/M to the Nikon D2Xs: what flew, why weight decided it, and what space qualification actually required, from outgassing limits to tethers.
The Heavy Lift Part 2C: Gimbals & Glass
Gimbals as mathematics, the other ways to hold a camera still, what radiation does to an image sensor, and the Space Shuttle windshield report: a case study in engineering discipline from NASA CR-112234.
VWAP: 3:1.
The volume-weighted average price was built as an execution benchmark and is shipped as a trend indicator. Above the trading session the label stops denoting one quantity and starts denoting three, with different memories, different responsiveness, and different error; nothing on the chart says which one you have.
25,000 USD to Day Trade?
FINRA retired the pattern day trader threshold in June 2026. For twenty years the argument about it was conducted as a dispute over fairness; nobody worked out what the barrier actually bought. Three independent methods say the same thing, and it is not what either side claimed.