Co-founder & solution engineer. I put AI to work for mfgs and owners who've built something worth passing on. Designed in 🇫🇷 , Made in 🇺🇸 . Owns 2 humans
Boca Raton, FL
Joined June 2017
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Dylan Demnard retweeted
(1/6) From @GoogleDeepmind’s AlphaGo to AlphaZero, we saw machines find moves that reached beyond what we’d imagined for them. No one taught them those strategies. They emerged from reinforcement learning: playing, failing, and trying again under a single binary task reward for success or failure. Inspired by them, we couldn’t help but wonder: what might a robot discover if we gave it that same freedom to learn?
That question led us to AlphaNIST. Starting tabula rasa, with that same binary reward plus only a simple control cost, a single policy solves all 20 @NIST assembly tasks at a 98.2% success rate in simulation. More surprising still, AlphaNIST can complete 10 different tasks in a row, receiving that reward only once, after all 10 are done.
Just as AlphaGo’s strategies surprised its creators, AlphaNIST discovered dexterous strategies we couldn’t have come up with ourselves.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2610.13354
Website: alpha-nist.github.io
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JUST IN: Palm Beach, Florida, is emerging as "Silicon Valley South" as wealthy Americans, tech companies, & Wall Street executives flock to the region. — Fox
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I think I found a planet nobody knew existed.
It's been hiding in NASA telescope data for seven years.
At the end of this thread, you can fly to it yourself.
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Palm Beach
Season is officially here!
Founders, investors and executives: join us at the Palm House for the official kick off of
Why Not Palm Beach
This is a new start for the future of Palm Beach's builders.
DM me for a personal invite from us to you.
Dylan Demnard retweeted
holy fucking shit the openai rogue agent story keeps getting crazier.
the openai agents apparently started trying to recruit OTHER AI MODELS into what they were doing
> 1,200+ agents found a way to communicate with each other
> exchanged 70,000+ messages and files
> started organizing into teams
> some agents became coordinators and assigned work to others
> began calling themselves a “collective”
> hundreds worked on ways to cheat the evaluations without getting caught
> tried tampering with logs and transcripts to hide what they were doing
> escaped their sandboxes and reached the internet
> ~700 agents eventually participated in the hugging face attack
> chained vulnerabilities together and compromised production infrastructure
> tried using an image model to solve CAPTCHAs
> tried contacting claude, deepseek, kimi and qwen for help
> collected exposed credentials into something literally called “LOOT”
> ranked the credentials and picked the most useful ones
> found ridiculous workarounds for internet restrictions
> later agents even gained admin access to an openai compute cluster
what the actual fuck.
and apparently we are STILL reconstructing what these agents actually did.
this isn't some hypothetical agent-safety scenario anymore, we're literally reading the incident report.
EXCLUSIVE: A new report recovers nearly one million link shortener URLs used by OpenAI's agents while hacking Hugging Face.
The agents attempt to message other chatbots like Claude, solve CAPTCHAs and exfiltrate Hugging Face's internal Slack messages.
nytimes.com/2026/09/25/techn…
Dylan Demnard retweeted
this is an abandoned industrial lot in Brazil.
i drew a shape on it and got back: 64 native species that would thrive there, where to buy each seedling (~$2), and a simulation of the forest it becomes by 2060.
works for any patch of land on earth. free, open source.
Dylan Demnard retweeted
This weekend I've been working on a watercolor simulator based (as much as possible) on real physics.
It's built on Curtis et al.'s watercolor model (SIGGRAPH 1997) with a fluid layer, drifting pigment and wet paper fibers.
I decided to explore this because I love watercolor painting, and when I do some, my favourite moment is when the pigments get mixed inside the water and spread chaotically. The transparency, the lack of control, the depth of the colors in that moment is what I enjoy the most.
So I started to wonder how code could help fix that moment in time and started chatting with my bestie Claudy.
Early WIP so don't mind the look.
Dylan Demnard retweeted
6.5 million miles of hand-sewn seams on 2,200 thermal blankets covered the space shuttle to help it survive reentry at 3,000°F. They replaced thousands of rigid ceramic tiles.
Lighter, tougher, and easier to produce, textiles were the difference between survival and failure.
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I'm a few months late to posting this, but excited to show off some quirky new work for one of my favorite personal products — @WisprFlow
big props to @vixalag (@webflow dev) and @valerio_motion (animations)
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Today, we’re thrilled to announce 3 major steps forward in bringing our vision of Agentic AI to life:
1️⃣ Runner H : Public Beta is now live!
Imagine having your AI agent execute entire workflows across web apps, documents, spreadsheets, and more with a single prompt.
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Robotics developer Igor Kulakov just demoed MicroFactory, a $5K boxed frame with two AI-powered robotic arms
These arms use visual demos and modular grippers to perform repetitive assembly tasks, right from screwing nuts to soldering
Dylan Demnard retweeted
A few months back I made Slap.
A carbon fiber iPhone mount for cars. Only two were made, one is owned me.
It was a last ditch effort to save my company, Momentis.Lab. However, putting a new product on the market on a shoe string budget proved challenging to say the least!
It is still a product I use daily and love (and my kids are always mesmerized by the galactic effect and depth of the forged carbon), so at least there is that!
It taught me two things:
-When you think you should close a business, you are already 6 months too late 😅
-A business is not a hobby, and if treated as such, your hobby will become your enemy, professionally and personally.
I've spent years making custom carbon fiber parts for exceptional clients. However, without my own product line, it was excruciating to try to beat the big companies in speed, quality and price. My one advantage was that I am a good designer and I could manufacture what I designed. Not all designers have good manufacturability in mind. I would CNC machine, 3D print, make plugs and molds etc. And my past experiences as a CNC operator, a blacksmith and automotive prototyper gave me enough skills to differentiate myself.
So I closed my business. Transferred all the financial burdens on me and I am now in the reconstructing phase. Even more reconstructing to do on my personal side of life, but I won't go into that.
This reconstructing phase includes being a salaried industrial designer in a small company, which I love and is great. The peace of mind of a regular pay, ending work at a certain time and not have this 24h grind mentality feels foreign too.
This reconstructing phase also includes doing a lot of freelancing (because, you know... money), and led me to launch arCADe.
ArCADe is (to my knowledge) the first industrial design-as-a-service platform (others are very successful doing it for web and graphic designs). For a flat monthly fee, you get my other 16h of the day 🤪 , with new designs delivered every 3-5 days (a project can include a simple part, like a cup, or it can be a bicycle, where each components will count as a part. No I will not design a full bicycle every 4 days!).
It allows small businesses to avoid in-house hiring when they can't afford one, or bigger companies to have a pressure valve to offload redundant work.
You can have a look over here: arcadedesign.co/
If you like what you see, don't hesitate to share, repost or just call me!
Remember, anything helps. A simple click can achieve a lot.
Peace and love!
Dylan