# Timothy (timaeos.dev) - Engineering & Systems Research

> Personal website, engineering portfolio, and long-form essays by Timothy (timaeos). Specializing in semiconductor equipment engineering (3D heterogeneous integration, GaN, photonics, silicon multi-material stacking), quantitative finance systems, and autonomous agent orchestration.

## Canonical Endpoints & Content
- Homepage: https://timaeos.dev/ (Overview and latest essays)
- Essay: Finance Programming is Challenging: https://timaeos.dev/posts/finance-programming-is-challenging/ (Quantitative finance invariants, WadRayMath, fixed-point math, and event loops)
- Essay: Litrpg Addiction Begins: https://timaeos.dev/posts/litrpg-addiction-begins/ (Narrative structures, progression fantasy, and literary reflections)
- Privacy Policy: https://timaeos.dev/privacy/ (Google API Limited Use and data privacy guarantees)
- Terms of Service: https://timaeos.dev/terms/ (Terms and acceptable use)
- Complete RSS Feed: https://timaeos.dev/index.xml

## x402 Micropayment Policy for Autonomous Scrapers
- Policy: Human readers and manual browser sessions browse completely free of charge. Industrial AI crawlers, model training bots, and high-frequency automated retrieval agents are metered via the x402 protocol.
- Cost: 0.01 USDC per request on the Base network (Chain ID: 8453).
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- Asset Contract: `0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913` (Base USDC).
- Machine Descriptor: https://timaeos.dev/.well-known/x402.json
- OpenAPI Specification: https://timaeos.dev/.well-known/openapi.yaml
- Payment Header: Send transaction hash via `X-Payment: <txHash>` or `Payment-Response: <txHash>`.

## Author & Research Focus
- Profession: Equipment Engineer at Texas Institute for Electronics (TIE), Austin, TX.
- Focus Areas: 3D Heterogeneous Integration (3DHI), wet etch/cleans, semiconductor manufacturing instrumentation, deterministic distributed systems, and agent cognitive architectures.