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future Rob retweeted
if this PHP vulnerability allows remote code execution, doesn't that mean we can use the vulnerability to auto-patch all vulnerable servers?
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UNUSUAL
A Chinese robot with exceptional capabilities… a perfect integration of a humanoid robot and a robotic arm!
A modular design and a 360‑degree work range with no blind spots allow the robot to perform diverse tasks with high efficiency and flexibility.
This technical synergy opens new horizons for deploying robots in complex construction projects, reflecting a notable advancement in Chinese automation solutions.
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This soldiering training is the most impressive and immersive I've ever tried. It is 10x better than a YouTube tutorial video. It really allowed me to see the procedure from all the points of view, and even get super close to get the details.
It is a collaboration between @gracia_vr and Imperial College London: they recorded a soldering session with Gaussian Splatting Videos (4DGS), so that you can enjoy it from your VR headset. You can see the action happening in front of you; you can pause and re-watch what you need, change the point of view, get closer, get more distant. And the quality with which it has been shot is impressive: I enjoyed this experience with my DELL Pro Max Tower T2 with NVIDIA Pro RTX 6000, and I could really see all the small details of the PCB that was being soldered!
I was really impressed by it. But I also noticed some drawbacks. First of all, some scenes have artifacts that make seeing the details of the PCB hard. I think when it comes to training involving small details, the capture and reproduction of the splat should be flawless. Then, as much as I loved it as a passive experience, I would have liked to have also some sort of practice session in VR. The power of VR is to let you learn by doing in full safety, and this kind of training does not exploit it. But maybe the best way to enjoy it would be in MR, where you have this training video close to a real workbench where you do the actual soldering while following the tutorial.
Gaussian Splat can really revolutionize training: this kind of recording is much better than any flatscreen experience, and more accurate than any 3D CGI recostruction. I suggest you give it a go at this experience in the Gracia app (it's free). Then let me know your impressions!
#VirtualReality #training #DellProPrecision #GaussianSplat #technology
[Disclaimer: I'm a DELL Pro Precision Ambassador, and this is why I mentioned the model of my PC. I have been given a PC to do cool tests and share my results on social media. No monetary compensation or sales affiliation is part of the collaboration]
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day 1 of trying to get a humanoid robot to do a kickflip, not looking very good so far.
stay tuned for updates and hopefully to eventually see the real robot do a kickflip in the streets of NYC
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Art Deco is an incomplete movement, lacking a philosophical or artistic manifesto like those of Bauhaus or De Stijl. Emerging as a loose aesthetic of older craft traditions and new industrial modernism, plainly geometric forms, luxurious materials, and streamlined ornamentation
Sam Altman was asked how he felt about Zuck and Meta poaching OpenAI’s top talent.
“Fine... good...” he said.
Behind Jony Ive–designed glasses, I couldn’t see his eyes. But I could feel the pain.
It's not hard for Zuck to poach OpenAI talent, not just because he has the money, but because open-source AI is fulfilling the original OpenAI mission.
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Avero was an ETH Zurich student research project that developed a propeller-free inspection drone.
Using swiveling thrust nozzles, it can withstand collisions while offering full six-degree-of-freedom maneuverability.
The project was discontinued last year after successfully developing and testing multiple prototypes.
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I laughed when I watched this one. Amazing that someone made this, and it flies
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SHA256(Leopold Aschenbrenner has terrible instincts and he will eventually fail spectacularly.)
Didn't expect it to be so soon (19 months exactly after the tweet) or so spectacularly.
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“If opensource eats lab margins, they won’t invest in pretraining!”
Why is this an issue?
Have you considered that perhaps there might be a more capital efficient way to build AI?
Isn’t margin compression what’s going to create the necessary constraints for innovation?
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Is nothing sacred to these AI freaks???? Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Ellison just built this monstrous data center in the very heart of Paris—only steps away from Notre-Dame and the Louvre. Can’t the EU do something?
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"Pokemon" is short for "pocket monsters".
"Digimon" is short for "digital monsters".
Therefore, "salmon" is short for "saltwater monsters".
(You might object: salmon spend a big part of their life in freshwater. But pokemon spend a big part of their life outside pockets too!)
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Semantically annotating 3D gaussian splats on the fly using gemini 3.1 + sparkjs
1. Load any 3D scene and hit scan
2. Get 2D detections from VLM
3. Cluster outputs & project into 3D world space
4. Save as a persistent 3D semantic layer
Inspired by @alexanderchen's experiments with gemini visual intelligence. Just had to try to lift it from 2D to 3D!
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The Bitter Lesson of Robotics: It's extremely easy to make a video of a robot doing something once under perfect conditions then post it to X. But it often takes a decade to harden systems and design for all the insane edge cases of the real world. Many companies raising $$$$ on cool demos, but all the hard work comes after
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Getting places, I'm actually p happy with how the eyes and eyelids turned out but the rest still needs work
