Not quite the whole robotics curriculum yet, but we're trying! Adding new courses as we can: robotics.umich.edu/academics… Thanks for sharing @IlirAliu_!

Do yourself a favor and block 15 mins to read this and many hours to act upon it. We are now way too dependent on LLMs and have outsourced our thinking there. Time to get back to thinking with a piece of paper. Long form writing pushes you think hard and think clearly. And remember, at the end of the day, the person you are fooling is yourself.

The perfect LLM has over 10.5 quadrillion params This number is based on actual research, but how? Almost a year ago a paper called "Pre-training under infinite compute" came out of Stanford's most famous LLM researchers [1/6]

A toothpaste company has quietly killed the entire market research industry and nobody is talking about it. Colgate published a paper showing you can predict real purchase intent at 90% accuracy by simply asking LLMs to roleplay customers. And this is beyond insane. If you ask an AI, "Rate this product from 1 to 5," it gives safe, middle-of-the-road garbage. So researchers invented a method called Semantic Similarity Rating (SSR). Instead of asking the AI for a number, they asked it to roleplay. They gave the LLM a demographic profile. They showed it a product concept. And they asked it to write down its raw, unfiltered thoughts. Then, they used a semantic model to translate those written thoughts into a numerical score. The results are staggering. Tested against 57 real corporate surveys and 9,300 actual human responses, the synthetic AI consumers matched real human buying behavior with 90% reliability. They perfectly mirrored how different age brackets and income levels react to price changes. And they provided detailed, qualitative feedback that was deeper and more critical than what actual humans wrote. This destroys the economics of traditional market research. You don't need to wait a month to see if a product will sell. You can simulate 1,000 hyper-targeted customer interviews overnight. You can A/B test pricing across every demographic instantly.

Hot take: They're not subsidized their margins are insane. They are just absolutely raping api customers. Anyone who has used deepseek or hosted anything and done the math on hardware/power costs knows this

The government should block dangerous AI! Coincidentally, my company sells very Safe AI Have you heard about our upcoming IPO

The emergence of the F-47 tells us one important thing; it has canards.📜 This means US has decidedly fallen into 2nd tier air power status. Crowning China as the only 1st tier air power. Why? Because the US can't design and engineer a supersonic tailless 6th gen fighter. So why is being tailless so important for a 6th gen fighter? Because the vertical tail, the horizontal stabilizers and canards are all small control surfaces that will resonate with low frequency early warning radars. Lighting up for UHF and VHF radars like Christmas decorations. 5th gen fighters like the F-22, F-35, J-35 and J-20, they either have horizontal stabilizers or canards, and all of them have vertical tail. This is fine for 5th gen fighters because they are not designed to evade early warning radars, only high frequency fire-control radars. 6th gen stealth on the other hand requires the aircraft to have broadband (multi-spectral) stealth, that is being stealthy against a much wider range of frequencies, from high frequency fire-control radars to low frequency early warning radars. Currently the only 6th gen fighters that are flying are the Chinese J-36 and J-50. And now possibly the US F-47. Advanced concept stage is the UK, Italy and Japan GCAP. Of these 4 designs, only the Chinese J-36 and J-50 are truly tailless designs. F-47 has canards and GCAP has vertical tails. Hence a 3 tiered 6th gen ranking. First tier J-36 and J-50. 2nd tier with compromised stealth; F-47 and the 3rd tier being the simplest GCAP. I am not exaggerating, the US has never built or flown a tailless supersonic aircraft, that is a fighter with no vertical and horizontal tail or canards, while China has at least 2.

Accidentally re-inventing “thinking” from first principles

🛩️ This is so cool: A Redditor living under SFO's takeoff path built a ceiling projection that maps every plane flying over their house in real time, using ADS-B, the open radio signal aircraft broadcast on 1090 MHz. Same feed as FlightRadar24, picked up with a cheap SDR dongle and beamed onto the ceiling.

The bottleneck for mass-producing humanoids is not just AI. It's the actuator and the supply base that sits underneath it. Study these companies for each of the components. - Japan dominates precision mechanical (reducers, bearings). - Germany and Switzerland own high-end motion. - China owns volume motors, reducers, and the upstream magnet supply. Who am I missing?

Do you guys remember Chumby? It was an early 2000s ARM-based "desktop mini browser" thing where you could use internet and apps but it wasn't really a computer A lot of the AI "different form-factor" stuff shown by Microsoft today reminds me of this. Anyway they went bankrupt

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Absolutely outrageous. Another progressive liberal that wants to lower the limits of the TFSA and RSPs for the young generation because the government can't control their spending habits. But of course they want to leave it the way it is until the boomers have retired. They want to destroy the youth with their greed and selfishness.