i moved to singapore on 12 january 2018, before entrepreneur first's third singapore cohort opened.
two people are why. łukasz orłowski, who i met at stony brook and worked with at scala, and who was joining the same cohort. and my friend martin sawtell, who had been through the second cohort himself, and before that spent a decade at lucasfilm doing visual effects, on the dynamics and rendering side. martin had done it himself before recommending it.
singapore was also where the machines were. i had been talking with people at nscc for a while by then, and moving there did not end that relationship so much as put it in the same time zone. one-north held a*star's institute of high performance computing and its computational resource centre too. research groups there gave letters of intent, and nscc's aspire 1 became a machine archanan modeled. six months later łukasz and i were pitching archanan.
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