
Verkada Connectivity & Sensor Products | Prev 0 to 1 w/ @HashiCorp #Boundary & @Azure #AzureStack, @Clarifai, @CMU_ECE | (mostly) retired weekend warrior 🏔
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Joined May 2012
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Pete Pacent retweeted
Today, we’re proud to unveil Heaviside-1, @arenaphysica's second generation foundation model for electromagnetism.
Five months since announcing Heaviside-0, today’s launch marks a critical milestone towards building electromagnetic superintelligence, a foundational intelligence that understands EM across the spectrum and is capable of designing next gen electromagnetically-governed systems, from RF to semiconductors to photonics.
Why we’re so excited about Heaviside-1, and what today’s announcement represents:
> It’s big: Heaviside-1 is a GPT-2-size model, roughly 10x the size of Heaviside-0 and trained on 250k unique designs with >500B unique EM field samples
> It’s fast: It generates predictions with 5 orders of magnitude acceleration relative to commercial solvers, with under 1dB of accuracy
> Full-3D Encoding: Heaviside-1 natively encodes 3D structures, their material properties, and excitation patterns as input, a major step towards generalizability across design spaces
> Understands the underlying physics primitive: Heaviside-1 generates full-3D near-fields at arbitrary locations, not just downstream quantities like s-parameters
> Generalization: Most importantly, our bet on fields as the primitive for Heaviside-1 generalizes OOD, proving that it’s learning real EM physics. Heaviside-1 generalizes outside of distribution incredibly well and better than Heaviside-0, down to 0.53 dB s-parameter error from 0.99 dB on Heaviside-0.
Read more about Heaviside-1 and the work that went into it in this write-up by our research team, @m__frei, @chris_m_bryant, @nathanmirman, @HaoLiu69889370, Tommaso, Roberto, Ruichen, Noah, Boyuan, and @Trevs_Dev, and our RF team @hk2532_harish, @anrfic, @suyangcn and Zhaoji.
arenaphysica.com/publication…
Pete Pacent retweeted
Today, we're introducing @arenaphysica, the electromagnetic superintelligence company.
Our mission: accelerate the design, development, and deployment of the devices that will sense, communicate, compute, and actuate in the future of autonomy, with EMSI.
For years, we’ve been building a new type of company in the shadows with our partners and collaborators.
We're proud to share that we’ve deploying EMSI with @AMD in AI compute, @anduriltech in defense technology, and @SiversSemicond in satellite and 5G communications.
We've reached the Electromagnetic Inflection.
software-defined hardware == electromagnetically-governed device
Their behavior more attributable to Maxwell's equations than Newton's. A car's most expensive subsystem is its electronics. A datacenter's binding constraint is power delivery and SerDes interconnects. The F-35's avionics cost more than its engine.
Electromagnetic design is a physics problem, and at @ArenaPhysica, we're building the stack to solve it.
-> Atlas: an agentic platform deployed as the intelligence system of record for hardware workflows at companies building frontier devices, making probabilistic reasoning engines capable of deterministic engineering work.
-> The EM Foundation Model: the first physics foundation model for electromagnetism, learning the relationship between geometry and fields directly to drive the time and cost of verification toward zero.
-> The Electromagnetic IP Factory: vertical co-development of the most advanced electromagnetic IP in defense, automotive, compute, and communications alongside our most ambitious partners.
I’m proud to be building this alongside @PratapRanade , @_clairepan , @m__frei , @hk2532_harish , and the rest of our artist colony here at @arenaphysica.
Read our thesis: arenaphysica.com/thesis
And a big thank you to @packyM for telling our story and how electromagnetism (secretly) runs the world.
The future is electromagnetic.
One challenge is that there are ~ten people in the world who can deeply intuit electromagnetism. RF engineering is "black magic."
Arena Physica thinks machines can intuit EM better.
CEO Pratap Ranade & I on AI for EM:
notboring.co/p/electromagnet…
Pete Pacent retweeted
This week we're introducing Rally for Mac. It's a companion app which gives you extra presentation powers like cursor tracking + zoom when recording.
The first release focuses on screen + narration recording. It will expand over time to cover more ways of capturing product clips.
Pete Pacent retweeted
FORBES TECHNOLOGY
A Journey Up (And Down) The AI Stack via @forbes forbes.com/sites/adrianbridg…
Pete Pacent retweeted
In the race to harness the value of AI, most organizations are getting stuck moving AI from prototype to production. AI prototypes can be highly effective, and even cost efficient, but can create a “false finish line” that production-ready deployments are around the corner.
Based on our learnings as a pioneer of the full-stack AI platform and accelerating AI development for over a decade with the largest organizations and governments, we have compiled this new guide on “Orchestrating and Operationalizing AI” that addresses the top challenges in deploying AI at scale and outlines key pillars needed to adopt AI technologies, optimize value, and mitigate risk.
Read the announcement to learn more and to access the complete guide:
clarifai.com/press-release/c…
Pete Pacent retweeted
Big news - we’ve raised $3M from an incredible team of investors including @GradientVC, @spc, and @BessemerVP
Read more in our @axios exclusive below 👇
I cannot begin to express the gratitude I feel for my time with @HashiCorp or for the relationships built. The interesting work and great mentors + teammates made the past four years an incredible experience that I deeply appreciate.
Growing the @HashiCorp #Boundary product, team, and business with colleagues that became friends has been some of the most enjoyable work I’ve done. My conviction in the quality of all three is as strong as ever.
Pete Pacent retweeted
If you haven't been following the HashiCorp Solutions Engineering blog, explore our SE's Boundary proof-of-concept series. From SSH certificate injection at scale into #Boundary to multi-hop deployment, and now: Just-in-time role-based access to databases. hashi.co/3UPWXgN
Pete Pacent retweeted
Hello from #HashiConf in San Francisco. I'm here because basically every client I has uses Terraform, and I can't resist a good shitposting spree
I'm here with over a thousand engineers who have the free time to spend since they're not waiting for CloudFormation deploys.
I'm a closet optimist at heart 😂 was great to chat @QuinnyPig! Looking forward to next time.
New face in @Gartner_inc’s PAM MQ this year! Just getting started for @HashiCorp Boundary and Vault
HashiCorp has been recognized in the 2023 Gartner®️ Magic Quadrant™️ for Privileged Access Management. Here’s why we believe a modern approach to PAM is our niche: hashi.co/48cC5oa
Pete Pacent retweeted
Announcing HashiCorp Boundary Enterprise (GA). With Boundary, you can grant secure access to resources across clouds and data centers with ease. Learn more about Boundary Enterprise: hashi.co/3P7Izhb
The theme of today's @HashiCorp Boundary announcement is "Enable the Enterprise"
Today Boundary adds support for Session Recording, a new self-hosted Enterprise edition, LDAP auth (beta), and more with the 0.13 launch. Very proud of the team! #HashiDays
hashicorp.com/blog/boundary-…
LDAP auth methods allow SSO to Boundary from an LDAP IDP. Managed Groups for LDAP sync Boundary group memberships from LDAP group memberships. Both launch their Beta today in 0.13 developer.hashicorp.com/boun…
New to Boundary? It's an identity-based access management tool. Boundary is intended to simplify and secure enabling least-privileged access to cloud infrastructure. Learn more/get started here: developer.hashicorp.com/boun…


















