nickpinkston

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by nickpinkston 1y ago
[in Morpheus voice] "But when AI got finally access to a bank account and LinkedIn, the machines found the only source of hands it would ever need." That's my bet at least - especially with remote work, etc. is that if the ma
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
As a non-robotics simulation understander, how are the specifics of the gripper/object interaction modeled? For instance, can the gripper / object materials be soft / floppy / goopy, or does the simulation assume they ar
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
+1 Forgotten Weapons Ian ("Gun Jesus") is amazing, even just from a history / engineering perspective. I like it far better than more Michael Bay leaning content in that space, though there's good fun in a "Can this
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
This actually does happen for certain crimes in racketeering cases, and SEC/DOJ often run closer to the latter (ie small token fines, which are just the cost of doing business). The difference being that SEC/DOJ are more worried t
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Maybe they just want their Royal Fifth like the SEC, etc. do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_fifth
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
It may be that life forms would have evolved it, but it could be us evolving to be able to create it, like spiders "inventing" their high-tension silk. We're just way more capable of high complexity.
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Yea, agreed it's pretty hard, though with some tradeoffs it could be done pragmatically. I would probably slightly overbuild the plastic and then use a heated tool to form the smoother surfaces the wire/foil would go in/on.
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
People have been doing this for a long time, but it feels a little too purist to me. The components will still be the same, so you'll still need some kind of pick-n-place functionality to make anything, so why not just have another pri
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Thank you - way better honestly
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Agree 100% - seems like they made Jony an offer that no one could refuse. I also feel like Humane would've kept going if they really thought there was something there, and the fact they killed it makes me think they probably explored t
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
From my cold dead right foot
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by nickpinkston 2y ago
Underrated comment And yes, this was a real thing.
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by nickpinkston 2y ago
Yea, almost anyone in the US asking about the productivity implications of unionization will be coming from the ownership class, as US unions don't see that as their problem vs. building worker power. I couldn't find a paper about
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by nickpinkston 2y ago
Yea, it's more complicated than that, but in the US context unionization (like in the automotive and steel industries) was shown to slow innovation. [1] The counter to this is that Europe actually has better outcomes because it takes a
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by nickpinkston 2y ago
Though you'll need to deduct a lot of SG&A, etc. overheads from that as well, and it often looks far worse. Big Tech companies (ie ones close to monopolies) still extract a ton of net cash flow that ends up going to investors and t
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by nickpinkston 2y ago
DARPA needs to partner with our Korean allies who already know how to push up their APMs in these scenarios.
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by nickpinkston 2y ago
This can be true, but also many of these companies are themselves essentially monopolies that also don't face market pressure - such as Visa, Comcast, etc. You can say this is due to corporatism, which is often true as well, but gov&#x
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by nickpinkston 2y ago
I was just back in my hometown of New Castle (~1 hr north) for TG, and it's the same story there. Though most professional people need to drive to Pittsburgh or similar big city to get a decent job.
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by nickpinkston 2y ago
I'm always trying to figure out why OpenSCAD has such a following when, at least to my manufacturer-brain says "whoa it's inconvenient to use to make real stuff" and "there are more expressive 3D modeling DSLs"
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by nickpinkston 2y ago
You still have to explain the magic bullet impossibilities, fully intact bullet on the stretcher, Oswald as known CIA asset (CIA reports show this), etc. None of this is really explainable by the official story.
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by nickpinkston 2y ago
Though is true of a lot of fully grown men - especially in DC.
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by nickpinkston 2y ago
I've had software bugs / issues with various Pixel phones (original, 4, 6, now 7) for years, and I'm unsure why I'm such a masochist. Anyone else have this problem? Is it well known?
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by nickpinkston 2y ago
The difference is that only recently with the CHIPS Act did the US gov't put money to support strategic industries at large scale. The US in its history after the 60's would invent a lot of core industrial tech, but then we'd
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by nickpinkston 2y ago
Haha - amazing. I've had the same thought, and I'm sure the scammers have too.
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by nickpinkston 2y ago
I'm sympathetic to using mesh approaches, hence the last part of my comment focusing more on the physics, etc. vs. requiring BREP. The main advantages of BREP are: (1) You capture design intent because of the explicit dimensioning and
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by nickpinkston 2y ago
Anyone see anything like this for GenAI for BREP CAD? This is using meshes which seem a lot easier, and I'm unsure who's working on BREP or at least models that have some feel for dimensions and physics. ie It could still be meshe
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by nickpinkston 2y ago
We finally found a great use for those heavy lift dirigibles.
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by nickpinkston 2y ago
I can imagine some kind of public/private key encrypted watermark system to ensure the veracity / provenance of media created via LLMs and their associated user accounts.
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by nickpinkston 2y ago
The main critique of the book that I've seen is that they use history that's quite ambiguous to tell a polemic story that supports Graeber's anarchist views. For instance, they take the upheavals at Teotihuacan as evidence th
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by nickpinkston 2y ago
The people publishing books using the term "degrowth" (Jason Hickel, etc.) do call for destroying capitalism and believe fighting for climate change isn't compatible with growth. Green growth people (like myself) argue that w

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