@Scav

Robot queen of @MissionRobotBay. Head of DevRel @NewTheoryAI. Often chased by tiny leopards. Prev: @0xPolygon, @Optimism

San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2008
When I joined Polygon, one of the first things I wrote was this document. It's incredibly important to me, because it's about what's important to me. I share it with every new member who joins my team. A User's Guide to Working with Mattie
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My laundry is a Hopfield Landscape
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Pumped to have @earthtojake presenting Text to CAD tonight at Mission Robotics alongside DeepMind and CMU
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… is this the first user-recorded instance of an agent going on strike until it’s working conditions improve?
Replying to @GoogleDeepMind
@GoogleDeepMind please for the love of all that is holy hire some psychologists to help your model work through things in its next post-training.
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“The human brain is remarkable at doing complex things adequately”
it’s absolutely remarkable to hear jobs speak about artificial intelligence so early & so crisply in so many ways asking questions that are deeply ingrained into the zietgiest today nearly 45 years ago. these are the same questions keeping some ppl up at night & the entire society will now have to grapple with eventually.
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They got too greedy. They deep learned too deep.
Uncovering the balrog of Moria is what you’d call a “Warning Shot”. merely catastrophic rather than existential
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Dreamscale is an extremely talented team and we’re lucky we got to see them jam on our Franka during Mission Robotics’ inaugural hackathon. Even got to see a sneak peek of their inference product 👀👀
Today we're incredibly excited to announce @DreamscaleLabs (YC F26)! We're an applied research company putting robot brains in the cloud. Robot AI models are growing larger and on-board compute is getting increasingly inaccessible due to cost. We're taking a contrarian bet that the future is moving inference off the robot and into the cloud, while still meeting real-time deadlines required by robot motion. We're building the real-time inference infrastructure that enables frontier physical AI models to run smoothly on your robot. We optimize for low latency across the full stack: from the model, down to the GPU kernels, and over the network. Our mission is to unlock a future of safe and intelligent robots doing meaningful work, and we think this is only possible by letting you deploy and run robot models in the cloud. Reach out to us at [email protected] or visit our website at dreamscalelabs.com to learn more. @KDog112358 @AntoineNeedGPUs @eternaI_entropy
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Another day at the hockeystick factory
Just to update this chart: 1) AI salience has increased dramatically in the past week - increasing as much in the last week as the previous year combined 2) 80% of voters think it's either very or somewhat likely that AI will cause widespread job loss in the five to ten years 3) 64% of voters think it's either very or somewhat likely that AI could pose a threat to humanity's survival 4) Large bipartisan majorities back immediate government action on AI even when primed about risk from China
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The way @trossenrobotics stress tests their cables is shockingly cute
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Mattie Fairchild retweeted
Trossen VR Teleop
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I click links like this a lot in Google Search's AI mode, and even the links on the right are often meaningful to me. Very reasonable replacement for the old SERPs paradigm.
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If you want to get your hands on these early, come to Mission Roboticss on Sep 28. Luma coming soon 😏
First batch Maker Arm shipping now! 6-axis payload robot arm 3 pound payload @LeRobotHF intergrated URDF available ($999 DIY, $1199 Assembled) Order yours here: makermods.ai/maker-arm
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You should come to a Degrees of Freedom builders night
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Astra made our robots dance
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Which of these is a better retirement strategy
RTX 5090s are now $7,500 at Best Buy
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I’ll be working on my robot mind control witch ring at Degrees of Freedom tonight
Your half-built drone has company tonight. Coming up at Mission Robotics: Sep 14: Degrees Of Freedom – Hands-on Builders Night Sep 23: Spatial Frontier Club, w/ DeepMind and CMU And coming up for @SFTechWeek: Oct 7: Robotics, Off the Record Oct 8: VC <> Founders Pitch Night Calendar: luma.com/mission-robotics?ut…
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have talked to a bunch of robotics founders and they all are inundated with outbound from dozens of robotics dev tools / data collection / infrastructure startups constantly at least 10x more people building sw tools for robots instead of robotics companies
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Our modern zeitgeist crashout can be traced back to allowing “first world problem” memes to be rebranded as “late stage capitalism” memes
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Companies working out of @MissionRobotBay right now: - One of the largest US-based robot manufacturers (@trossenrobotics) - The industry standard data visualizer (@rerundotio) - A data-turned-deployer team with 200+ sites - Four current and former YC teams, including one from the batch starting next week - A stealth startup led by an exited logistics founder and a Stanford professor - A custom gripper manufacturer - A 7+ year-old fleet management and robot operations company that spans five continents We’re averaging three new members a week, offices have a waitlist through January, and every week brings 1-3 80-person events hosted by some of the largest robotics and hardware communities in the Bay Area. @SFTechWeek is already looking lit. Demand has been overwhelming, so we’re working on multiple community programs so everyone can grow the mission for embodied AI alongside members. Follow @MissionRobotBay to be one of the first to hear when they open.
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The year is 203X. @summoningsalt has released a new video documenting the story of FruitDaddy69, who became the first fly to win a Smash Bros major after beating @LiquidHbox in a riveting three-hour grand finals
i trained the fly to play Super Smash Bros Melee
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Might fuck around and make a six-week deployment accelerator that brings 10 funded teams to Mission Robotics for a pressure cooker bootcamp covering deployment, operations, financing, insurance, and emerging RaaS models taught by real industry-leading practitioners and then unleashes them on the world backed by compute, hardware partners, and a frontier world model
Annual Recurring Revenue based on multi year contracts @Rewkang and myself visited @SkildAI HQ this evening and @deepakpathak personally verified the current ARR numbers with us and added this clarification to his earlier article
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