All Things Engineering. Electrical, Mechanical, Software, Firmware, AI, Security and everything in between. Specialize in custom HW/FW/SW for motor control
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Everyone is talking about model distillation but "software distillation" will be just as profound.
Give an AI access to existing (likely commercial, closed source) software and tell it to clone the functionality.
Entirely autonomously, it will use the software, explore the features, build a dataset and then write you your own version that is a near identical clone.
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If you think any platform can prevent bots, you need to realize that a bot can use any device a human can.
Subscriptions will be the only option soon.
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Fun to consider if relativity could become a factor in space data center compute time
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Engineering Randomness retweeted
Jun 11
2022: AI can't do anything important
2023: AI can't do what I can do
2024: AI can only make me better at what I do
2025: AI only does the less important stuff
2026: AI does everything, but expensively
I'm so sick of the goal-post shifters. We're in a technology curve; shut up!
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We need some serious education in this country on power and physics. No wonder everyone fell for the "Green energy" disaster.
The AI satellite dissipates just barely more power than each of the 10,000 Starlink satellites currently in orbit....
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Why space servers FAIL
Execs want to put data centers in space, but there's a massive physics problem: vacuums have no convection cooling. Discover why cooling servers in space relies purely on infrared radiation!
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GitHub will be the next tool one of the AI companies will disrupt.
MS was ahead of the curve buying GitHub, but they have completely squandered their lead.
So much opportunity, but so little innovation.
GitHub went from 1 billion commits a year to 1.4 billion commits a month. AI did that. And GitHub is breaking because of it.
GitHub COO Kyle Daigle just went public and admitted it openly. The platform that hosts 100 million developers has logged hundreds of incidents in the past 12 months. Outages hitting search, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines. Public apologies. All of it.
AI agents alone are generating 17 million pull requests every single month. GitHub planned for 100% growth. The actual number blew past that before they could even react.
Here is what they are doing to survive it:
→ Rebuilding how GitHub Actions dispatches jobs entirely from scratch
→ Moving performance sensitive code out of their Ruby monolith into Go
→ Migrating fully off their own data centres onto Azure
→ Isolating critical services so one broken system cannot take everything else down
→ Bringing in Microsoft engineers who have scaled systems at this level before
The goal is to get GitHub to handle 30 times its current load.
Not 30 percent. 30 times.
GitHub launched Copilot in 2021 and created the AI coding era. That same wave is now threatening to break their own platform.
The company that started the fire is now racing to stop it from burning everything down.
Full story here:
thenewstack.io/github-wants-…
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This is completely unacceptable. Safetyism cannot be allowed to become the norm.
This is regulatory capture and monopolistic behavior using the cover story of "safety'
Jun 9
mythos will be bad ON PURPOSE on ai "frontier llm research" tasks, this is very very sad for the research community
also the fact that this is un purpose not visible to the user is crazy
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If you are waiting for someone to teach you how to do something in the age of AI, you are already behind.
This will be the era where self-taught, proven results overwhelmingly beat any credential.
Be curious, teach yourself or you will be left behind!
The problem with this, and why I think people are frustrated:
Nobody has taught folks how to do this
It feels both evidently the future and also somehow gatekept
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Apps have always been a way to add functionality to a device without Apple/Google having to do it.
Hard to imagine Apps surviving much longer, AI will be the end of the App era.
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I actually heard of Twitter the first time while using StumbleUpon. Crazy different times 🤣
Jun 3
I used to love a web tool called StumbleUpon. Added a button to your browser that would take you to random blogs and websites. Found so much fascinating stuff that way, and it was the antithesis of today’s winner-take-most centralised web.
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WHY IS THIS WRITTEN LIKE IT IS SQL FOR HUMANS
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MICROSOFT SAID IT ADDED MORE DATA CENTER CAPACITY IN THE LAST 18 MONTHS THAN IN AZURE'S FIRST DECADE, PREVIEWED ITS COBALT 200 CHIP, EXPANDED WINDOWS AI APIS TO MORE PCS, AND HIGHLIGHTED DEEP AI COLLABORATION WITH NVIDIA, QUALCOMM, MEDIATEK, AND ITS OWN IN-HOUSE CHIP DEVELOPMENT.
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Finally. It is amazing it has taken this long for a company to hide all the build/deployment complexity and allow people to just build tools.
This is what MS should have been doing instead of "recall"
Building apps has never been easier.
With Sites, Codex can turn your work, ideas, and plans into an interactive website or app your team can explore, use, and share with a URL.
Rolling out to Business and Enterprise plans, before expanding more broadly.
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Building apps has never been easier.
With Sites, Codex can turn your work, ideas, and plans into an interactive website or app your team can explore, use, and share with a URL.
Rolling out to Business and Enterprise plans, before expanding more broadly.
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Why don't refrigerators use pressure bladders to make the water dispenser have a higher flow rate?
They are limited by the 1/4" pipe, but a simple bladder tank could fill a cup much faster.
And no, the nozzle velocity would not be higher, the nozzle would be bigger.
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It's like driving with my dad in the car when I was 16
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What if you could hear what your car is thinking? 💭
This NVIDIA Alpamayo demo gives voice to the internal reasoning behind an autonomous drive — showing how the vehicle evaluates the road, plans its next move and adapts to city traffic while the driver enjoys the ride.
Watch the demo 👉 nvda.ws/4fjGdcb
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Engineering Randomness retweeted
May 31
All good engineers know you should NEVER EVER read published patents
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MS Killed Copilot the second they forced it onto computers. This is the THIRD product they have destroyed simply by forcing it (not that it is a good product).
You would think they would have learned from IE, Edge or Cortana not to do this
Forced rollout = failure
May 30
“Ex-Microsoft exec says the company blew it with Al, as it did with mobile”
"Not even 3% of paying Copilot users use it even when it's pre-deployed right in their faces”
The Microsoft 3% problem. See Word and Excel features.
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"Lest we be overconfident in Silicon Valley, let's remember a small group of activists shut down supersonic technology, and all nuclear energy in this country. It's a disaster."
@altcap explains why a data center moratorium would be "horrific" for America:
"All of our GDP growth is coming from the fact that we are building data centers and driving productivity improvements in the economy."
"A data center moratorium would thrust us straight into a recession and high unemployment."
"Secondly, it would cede the entire global game to China. Overnight, we would lose to China in the global AI race. Which is not just about AI, it's about economic security, jobs, and national security."
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Someone needs to publish 3D Gun CAD models on the BTC and ETH blockchains so all the NY banks and institutions will be instantly in violation of this new law.
Completely unacceptable overreach.
May 29
Just the dumbest fucking people imaginable.
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If you are in memory pivot to photonics
May 28
what's the 2026 version of this tweet?
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