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Brian Smith

@sirwart

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I asked ChatGPT how to run `goimports` on save in vim, and its solution immediately replaced my entire file contents with garbage. Tough but fair.

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My number one request for any LLM based chat system is the ability to disable autocomplete. It's always "correcting" my obscure word or acronym to the wrong thing, and if I do type something wrong the LLM has no problem understanding what I said.

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Spending a week in Tokyo made me wonder what metro areas had the highest GDP in the world. I was definitely surprised by the results.

Spending a week in Tokyo made me wonder what metro areas had the highest GDP in the world. I was definitely surprised by the results.
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I finally got VR teleoperation working well enough to make a cup of tea. The biggest things I need to improve are to make the arm more kinematically similar to mine and make it more rigid.

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If you're interested in low-cost humanoid robots, I'm organizing a meetup on Thurs Sept 26th @ 6:00 in SF, featuring live demos from K-Scale Labs, Lethic, Saba Khalilnaji, and more. Space is limited so message me if you want to join!

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Does anyone know how the small metal gears in RC motors/servos are manufactured? I think they’re too cheap to be machined but I haven’t found any definitive evidence about the technique used.

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Does anyone in the bay area have a spare set of Manus Quantum Metagloves i can borrow for the week (or even buy off you) In need of a pair fast

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Very exciting stuff in the DeepSeek-R1 paper. Letting models think and learn for themselves is a big milestone, especially solved in such an elegant way. It's also clear there's still lots of low hanging fruit left with this approach. Plenty of applications in robotics too

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The new Gemini Robotics model is a step change in terms of generality. Very cool to see them bake 2d and 3d reasoning into the base Gemini 2 model and then build on top of that with much more embodiment specific training