Polymath

So like, why is there this, you know, to get your thoughts, why is there this dictamy between like everybody who's in the system understands that, Yet there's this mass delusion, right, I want to call it, of what the valuation is.

So when I first started with my second end, Polymath, I tried doing a lot of stuff for a bunch of different people.

And I joined a company that I thought looked good based on the amount of money raised, what it seemed like they were working on.

So they must have a product market fit doing stuff in small business fintech with some microservices versions of the business.

But given the two, building a real business is the way to go.

But no matter how you fall into this, you need to be open sourcing stuff as you go if you want your work to matter in the next 50 years.

Yeah, if you want to know the revenue multiple that Polymath has in some of these companies, come talk to Stefan with $100 million.

Then we'll tell you the number.

That was in May 2013.

Then a few months later, Polymath 8.

Polymath is a sort of open online collaboration.

It was proposed by Terence Tao.

Wow.

A few months later, James Miner, he just came out of his PhD, he reduced it brutally down to 600.

And then there was a ping pong over the next few years between a group called Polymath 8 that again reduced the number further a year later to 246.

That is the number that stood for 12 years.

Hello and welcome to this week's episode of Automate It, our weekly never yet missed a week podcast where we talk about robots, fun things about them, and fun, important topics in them.

I, of course, am one of your hosts, Stefan Seltz-Oxmarker, CEO and co-founder of Polymath Robotics.

And sitting on the other side from me via Google Hangouts is someone wearing a blue shirt.

I assume that it's because he's just coming from Players of the Hidden Temple.

Yeah, yeah.

So we'll talk more about it when we get to that chunk of the episode.

But basically Polymath and a number of other groups are getting together into a combined open source consortium.

It's called the Open Source Safety Consortium.

There's not enough to warrant the number of guitars they have put out.

My instrumental prog band, Polymath, were playing a show in... a venue called Mother's Ruin in Bristol.

And this is a real rough and ready venue.

And it is absolutely heaving packed.