low-effort well-curated nonsense

Last night, Mom was putting the boys to bed. 6-year-old: Mumma, I remember my last life Mom: No, you don’t. 11-year-old: There is no such thing as a last life bro Mom: Maybe there is. 6-year-old: I remember it. And you know what? I passed away, and then in an hour I was born into another Indian family. Mom: So you were Indian even in your last life? 6-year-old: Yes. I was a South Indian. 😆 (Context: we are from western India; kids US-born)
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Duolingo is my new dopamine source
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devang adhyaru retweeted
Devang from @TheHumanoidHub visited us last week in our Mountain View office! Fun moment from our conversation: he guessed the thumb is the most important finger for grip strength. It's actually the pinky. Small detail, but it's the kind of thing that shapes how we design these hands to actually work like a human's. Full thing's linked below. Thanks for stopping by, @dev_and_ !
The Humanoid Hub
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Paid my respects to the second greatest Wall after Rahul Dravid.
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some rando
We already changed the design. This one didn’t actually work.
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Our 5-year-old has been learning about MLK in school lately. One morning he was chatting with his mom: "You know what, Mom… I had a dream last night that the color of your skin doesn't matter."
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5-yo realizing he can now reach the garage button: "Who bring'ed the button down?"
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Sorry, ChatGPT Plus, it’s been a fun ride. The voice mode is great, but SuperGrok is just as good, if not better, for most tasks, so it’s not worth it to paying for both anymore.
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devang adhyaru retweeted
.@JanLiphardt is a Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford and the founder of OpenMind. Jan is building an open, decentralized ecosystem for real-world robotics and AI. We took Iris (the robot) for a walk across the street from their office and had a chat about the vision behind OpenMind. 00:17 – Intro 01:00 – Vision for OpenMind 03:01 – Software offering 08:23 – Future tasks 10:42 – Modular approach 14:08 – Jan's Bioengineering background 16:28 – Developer Access
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devang adhyaru retweeted
Eric Jang weighs in on RL vs. supervised learning for humanoid robot manipulation tasks.
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devang adhyaru retweeted
Super honored to have @dev_and_’s (who runs the #1 authoritative breaking news on humanoid robotics ) do his public face reveal at our new office and have a chat with us about @1x_tech’s recent AI updates. Thanks for the great discussion Devang!
.@ericjang11 is spearheading AI at 1X. Eric believes 1X is on the path to becoming an AGI company — not just a robotics company. I sat down with him at 1X’s new Palo Alto office to discuss the key AI building blocks needed to bring humanoid robots into homes at scale. 00:00 Eric Jang joins Humanoid Hub 00:27 Move to Palo Alto 01:02 Why 1X targets the home 02:01 The AGI company 02:49 Redwood AI overview 04:01 Unified control, modular stack 06:07 Data labeling at scale 07:10 RL mobility update for NEO 10:03 GPU and onboard compute 11:09 World model explained 13:34 Trusting world models for evaluation 15:05 Synthetic data generation 16:30 A world model Turing Test 17:41 RL in manipulation 20:08 Lessons from early NEO deployments 21:00 Full autonomy 22:18 1X’s unique edge in AI 24:02 Eric asks Devang a question
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“Robots are real people. For real!” — our 5yo
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“Ice cream is not a dessert; it’s just a cold meal” - our 4yo
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devang adhyaru retweeted
Politics
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devang adhyaru retweeted
Battery recycling shatters the myth of electric-vehicle waste. The upfront emissions from making a battery are paid back after driving just 15,000 miles.
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