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Dan Von Kohorn

@danvk.com

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Institutional investor, software background - VC @ http://Broom.Ventures - Personal: http://danvk.com - Forest restoration project: http://OrangeWoods.US - Formerly JP Morgan, http://Chain.link, multiple startup founder & operator. AI/ML/NLP since 1996.

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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · Dec 1

For about 10 years, I have been buying cut forests in Massachusetts and working to plant and restore native trees. 🌲 They slowly grow into a canopy and mitigate the invasive species. Animals return. All together, I estimate we're sinking about 1000 tones of CO2 per year now.

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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 2d

Will Coinbase be the leader here? Or big banks? Brokerage firms?

Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 2d

How long until everyone can easily trade coins linked to other currencies, gold, and stocks?

Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 2d

Stablecoins are an amazing invention, enabling savings and transactions that work with software. This technology also drives more global demand for US dollars.

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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 3d

In software and AI, there is a lot of talk of "digital twins".

These are simulations that allow AIs to learn before acting in real life. Think of the software digital twin as an imagination. It's a world where AI can learn and consider lots of alternate possibilities.

Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 7d

Congratulations to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt for winning the Nobel prize in economics for their work on “innovation-driven economic growth.”

www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...

Nobel economics prize goes to 3 researchers for explaining innovation-driven economic growth

Mokyr is from Northwestern University, Aghion from the College de France and the London School of Economics, and Howitt from Brown University.

www.nbcnews.com

Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 9d

This is a very cool architecture. Kudos to the author: @alexiajm.bsky.social, Senior AI researcher at the Samsung SAIT AI Lab Montréal.

arxiv.org/abs/2510.04871

Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 9d

Wow! New tiny AI model small enough to run on just about any hardware, smart enough to solve sudoku and beat the SOTA models at ARC-AGI benchmarks.

github.com/SamsungSAILM...

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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 23d

🚨 Electric grid storage update 🚨

BYD unveils the world’s largest 14.5 MWh DC energy storage system. 51% improvement in energy density, 70% reduction in maintenance costs, $0.014 per kilowatt-hour total life cycle cost.

www.ess-news.com/2025/09/19/b...

BYD unveils world’s largest 14.5 MWh DC energy storage system - Energy Storage

China’s EV giant has unveiled the “HaoHan" - a single-unit DC battery block with record-breaking capacity, aiming to disrupt the next generation of the energy storage market. The company also introduc...

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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 26d

Energy independence means that they can't use that against us in wartime. We are resilient to siege tactics in energy markets.

Also, we avoid paying them for oil, which is good if oil money funds the aggressor's army.

Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · 27d

Energy independence is strength. 🦾

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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · Sep 18

Yep. So many wires. :)

Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · Sep 18

Imagine if you could simulate the entire U.S. labor market - all 151 million workers with their 32,000+ skills - and watch in real-time as AI agents reshape our economy. How would the ripple effects spread across industries? What new opportunities would emerge?

iceberg.mit.edu/blog.html

Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · Sep 14

There is not enough electricity production in the US. But the solution is not to shut down data centers; instead, charge progressive rates: cheap for households with small demand, and more if you consume a lot. Solve the problem with better incentives.

www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/gx03-char...

Charted: The Rising Share of U.S. Data Center Power Demand

As advanced AI adoption surges, U.S. data center demand is projected to reach nearly 12% of the nation’s power.

www.visualcapitalist.com

Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · Sep 12

I do wonder if the Fed will prioritize inflation or the economy. Both look wobbly. This is why stagflation is so hard to fight.

Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · Sep 4

Hmm. 😞

Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · Aug 28

We all believe in hallucinations, and none of us knows for certain which beliefs are wrong. We do our best to learn and approach the complete truth over our lifetimes. AI sometimes hallucinates, too, and it's hard to know when you can trust it.

Futurism @futurism.com · Aug 24

"We will not honor the Google AI specials."

Local Restaurant Exhausted as Google AI Keeps Telling Customers About Daily Specials That Don't Exist

A restaurant is begging its customers to please stop using notoriously unreliable Google AI to ask about its menu items.

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Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · Aug 27

Who should pay for all the damage done by PFAS?

Should it be the taxpayers or the chemical companies who lie about the health effects and poison us?

knsiradio.com/2025/08/26/s...

Sauk Rapids Seeks $6 Million in State Bonding After PFAS Contamination Shuts Down Two City Wells

(KNSI) - Sauk Rapids is once again asking lawmakers for over $6 million in state bonding money to pump more wa...

knsiradio.com

Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · Aug 27

Of all the AI coding assistants, Google's Firebase Studio is the weirdest.

It apologizes way too much, tells me that I should be frustrated, then becomes super overconfident and does a bad job of fixing bugs.

@firebase.com

Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · Aug 25

Maybe don't listen to the invader when it comes to the legitimacy of the invaded. Russia just lies all the time.

Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · Aug 25

Musk did the same thing to Groq. His disrespect for the law is causing damage to these other companies. It's a pattern.

cointelegraph.com/news/ethereu...

Ethereum gaming network Xai sues Musk’s xAI for trademark infringement

Ethereum gaming network Xai has sued Elon Musk’s xAI, alleging trademark infringement, consumer confusion, and reputational harm tied to his AI venture.

cointelegraph.com

Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · Aug 20

I like to see systems designed around empathy.

Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · Aug 9

What happens to the giant fabless chip design companies when AI can design ASICs for every application, and they are better than any human design? That's a lot of market cap.

www.zmescience.com/science/ai-d...

Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · Aug 5

This is cool. It seems to be a phenomenon that is true across different scales and domains, from biology to computer science. Math is awesome. ♾️

Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · Aug 5

Being able to control shielding for electromagnetic interference seems like a very valuable technology, and this seems to offer insights and a path that works.

Dan Von Kohorn @danvk.com · Aug 5

I don't disagree. Just about every nation needs to follow this advice, spend less and work more. Deficits vs growth are a problem just about everywhere.