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I have a couple of AI videos to post, but those are on hold given the news that Charlie Kirk was assassinated today.
I weep for America.
I weep for a couple of kids who will grow up without their father.
I weep for two school shootings that happened today.
I weep that I watched the close-up video of it all.
I weep for a young woman brutally murdered.
I weep for our discorse and those who cheer political assassinations of those they don't like.
Looking for tech news today just makes me weep.
See you tomorrow.
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Traveling to see things is fun.
Putting on your Apple Vision Pro and seeing them from your couch is a lot cheaper and easier. And puts a lot less carbon in the air.
Why I am so bullish on Spatial Computing, that NVIDIA calls the Holodeck internally.
Dovecotes served as sources for food, fertiliser and gunpowder production, primarily because pigeon dung was a key source of saltpeter (potassium nitrate), an essential ingredient in gunpowder.
This one is at #Avebury.
#NeRF
@LumaLabsAI
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Just learned my former partner Shel Israel passed away this morning.
He and I wrote a book, "Naked Conversations," that laid out how everyone, and particularly businesses, would someday use social media. That was in 2005.
Everyone argued with us. That was before this site started.
He bet on the future before it was popular to do so. Many of his peers thought he was nuts to do so, but I'll always be grateful for our many wonderful experiences talking around the world and writing two more books together.
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If you like this post, I'm highly likely to put you on a list.
Support small accounts in AI!
I've been collecting engineers and researchers in the AI world for years now into my lists.
Today starts a new day. Big accounts go on my "AI Influencer" list.
Which means all these only have small accounts (with fewer than 20,000 followers).
Most of the researcher/engineer types don't have time to do the kinds of things that will get a ton of followers. Most of these have fewer than 1,000 followers.
How many are here? 23,000.
I keep AI leaders and influencers on other lists.
Follow these and your feed will get a lot more intellectual depth than you'll see on the Influencer list.
Did this just for @alexfinn who says to support small accounts. I might have missed a whale or two, I'll catch them and move them to my new AI Influencer list, which already has 1,100 accounts on it.
This effort has made all my lists dramatically better, by the way.
Shhh, don't tell the influencers I muted all of them and, DAMN, my For You feed is way better today.
Five lists to follow in replies:
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The algorithm does not like @TrishaCode.
If you see this it means the algorithm thinks you are weird.
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New list: AI Influencers.
I built this yesterday because I realized that I had all these people mixed into another list (AI Orgs and Events) and they needed their own list so I could see what the influencers were talking about.
xitter.cf/i/lists/19535363366753…
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Read who former @camrufc fly half (now @BSERugby ) @BenPenfolds chooses as his Dream Team in @TheRugbyPaper
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A menagerie of glass curtains draped from trees of stone.
Gaudi's masterpiece is unlike any other cathedral, as was his technique to figure out the load bearing curves for the complex branching arches... long before computer design tools.
Gaudi used hanging weights and strings to design his structures, as seen in the last photo. After drawing out the ground plan of the crypt, he flipped it upside down and hung a string from each point where a column would stand and transmit the thrust of the structure into the foundations. Then he joined the hanging strings with cross strings to stimulate arches and vaults, attaching to each string a little cotton bag of bird shot, carefully weighted to mimic the compressive load on each column, arch and vault.
Naturally, none of the strings in these complicated cats' cradles hung vertically. All the loads in them were pure tension — the only way string, with little resistance to bending, will hang. It is like an application-specific analog computer to find the optimal curvature between a network of connection points, some midway along the curve of another.
Gaudi then photographed the string model from all angles and turned the photos upside down. Tension became compression. And the lines show how the arches were to be built, often with two stones the same.
No one in the history of architecture had gone about designing a building in this way.
And the sun-splashed sinews are gorgeous. The supports for the weight above come from the inner columns (no flying buttresses as with a Gothic cathedral). The stone of the walls are just enough to frame the glass. I suspect it could have been an open air cathedral, with no walls at all. It is so light and airy, unlike any other I have experienced.
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Just heard my former partner got seriously hurt in an accident.
Life is so unpredictable. If you can help, please do.
Friend Shel Isreal is in the hospital after a car failed to yield to a pedestrian. My understanding is he's not in good condition. His wife setup a GoFundMe, but he's also an author, so I'll link to where you can find his books as well.
My thoughts go toward him and the family. #getbetter
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We all will end up needing assistance toward the end of our lives. This is a HUGE reason why I'm so into spatial computing. Spent seven years in an old folks home with my mother in law who had a brain tumor and couldn't walk. A robot and a Vision Pro would have made her experience FAR more enjoyable. Good to see effort being put into this.
MIT’s new eldercare robot assists with sitting, standing, and even catches you if you fall. It’s a big step forward for aging in place with dignity and safety. news.mit.edu/2025/eldercare-…
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I do all the laundry in the house so this is highly interesting.
Now who can get one in my house?
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Powerpoint karaoke.
I'd like to see a lot more people comparing the AI Agentic engines and why you use each? @genspark_ai's founders asked me to try out a variety of things with its agentic platform and compare them to the others, especially ChatGPT. I'll include links to what I had both build below, but you'll see Genspark's report and slide deck are better than ChatGPT's. Now, ChatGPT does do some things better, for instance, when I asked both to watch my lists here on X only ChatGPT could do that. But on my tries I'm getting better results from Genspark.
Which gets me to the point. I'd love to see a lot more people comparing the various platforms for various things. Here I'm trying to reach new users so they can see the power of these platforms.
So, I'm starting with a topic I know deeply: Holodeck (wrote two books on spatial computing).
Thought I'd have more fun than that and take the deck that it built and do a talk from the deck it built. Prompt below too so you can try the same in your favorite platform.
Some other things, beyond reports and slide decks I'm having these create?
1. Automating some of my email. Like looking for newsletters and helping me unsubscribe from them? Easier in many cases than going to each and unsubscribe (even Gmail's built in feature often requires you to visit the site that sent them and find the place where you can unsubscribe.
2. Automate my calendars so I can just talk to it "can you add a meeting on Tuesday for me to talk to Joe about xxxx?"
3. Watch investments. Let me know if anything in the market has changed, particularly in one company (trying to hook up systems to listen to earnings calls, for instance, and let me know if the call was bullish or bearish for the stocks I'm investing in.
What else have you had success doing?
And enjoy this little talk about the Holodeck thanks to me and Genspark.
Now headed to @theXtakeover to hang out with robot fans.
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New @camrufc Head Coach Craig Newby means business…Look out for the full podcast later today as we move into pre season on Monday ahead of the 2025-26 @Champrugby season! 🔴🟡🏉🏉🔥
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I bet the parties at @CarnegieMellon are crazy.
Robots serving you drinks kind of crazy.
Last time I was there they had little robots playing soccer.
Bet they are doing a lot more than soccer now.
It has the best robot lab in the world.
Your robot moves fast… but objects slide off the tray? This system hears the sliding and learns how to stop it:
Researchers at CMU developed a new method that uses sound to model real-world friction in motion planning.
It enables time-optimized, high-speed transport without objects slipping.
🎧 A contact mic listens for sliding
🧠 The model learns dynamic friction
📦 The robot adjusts motion on the fly
💨 86% less object displacement vs. standard methods
Perfect for non-prehensile transport with fragile or awkward items.
Thank you for sharing, @YueminMao! 🙏
▶️ Website & demo:
fast-non-prehensile.github.i…
📄 Paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2506.09169
Built for UR5e, open for experimentation.
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If you want to see more AI content here are 28,000 in the industry and 6,500 companies: xitter.cf/scobleizer/lists
Follow and engage and you will see more.
Oh and send me new stuff built with AI.
That make my feed better too.
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Holodeck funds flowing.
We’ve signed a multi-year partnership including an investment from @Snap to build the next-gen AI map of the world. This map will power the likes of AR glasses and AI agents to understand and interact with the real world.
🎯 Precise AR with VPS
🌍 Developers expand the map
🤖 Real-world intelligence at scale
Together we’re combining tech, creativity & reach to shape spatial computing.
Read full blog: nianticspatial.com/blog/vps-…
#VPS #AR #AI #SpatialComputing
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I was resharing like a crazy man yesterday.
Grok doesn't like that.
I do it anyway. I know there are some of you who want to see what catches my eye here on X and don't mind the flood.
On Monday's with @alexfinn we tell content creators not to do that. Bad, Scoble, bad! :-)
