Nomad entrepreneur cross-pollinating between industries and cultures, going a little too deep in each. AI for M&A @ColabraHQ. 遊蜂見蜜，停在花上；我本漂泊，見落日竟駐足；啜花香茗，漸近蜂心。
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a friend and I never travel without a board game. over the years, we changed so many rules that I ended up making one of our own.
linglong is a strategy duel inspired by chinese craftsmanship. build your workshops, compete for the court, outwit your rival.
It began with tea.
I have spent much of my life in the Chinese-speaking world: home in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Taiwan, seasons in mainland China and Singapore. Tea was always on the table. In time I followed it to the source, spending whole afternoons with farmers in the hills of Wuyishan. Then I went to see who made the cups.
A friend and I never travel without a board. Some games are played to win; ours is played to keep playing. Over the years we changed so many rules that we needed a game of our own. So I made one, for the pleasure of sitting across from someone you know well, and still being surprised by their next move.
Coming to Steam in February 2027. DM to be the first to playtest today!
backstamp.games/linglong/
a closer look at the crafts, the rules, and the story behind it - backstamp.games/linglong/
steam page live. wishlists mean a lot.
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So cool. The future of learning
Introducing Anatomy
Describe a machine in one line. Claude brings it to life.
- Interactive isometric wireframes you can rotate, inspect and explore
- WebGL shaders for fire, water, plasma and more
- Real 3D motion, with individual parts that rotate and move
Install it as an agent skill. Fully open source.
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If Michelangelo was around today, how would he design a contemporary typeface?
Introducing Michelangelus, a contemporary serif shaped by the artist’s manuscripts, gestures, and monumental artwork.
Read more: microsoft.design/articles/de…
It moves by shifting its own weight around inside! 🥎
MARBLE, from the General Robotics Lab at Duke University.
A sealed sphere that rolls across land, propels itself on water, and has no external moving parts at all.
Three mass sliders sit inside on mutually orthogonal axes. Moving them displaces the centre of mass away from the geometric centre of the shell, which creates a gravitational moment about the ground contact point, which rolls the ball.
Three axes means it can do that in any direction.
As the body rolls, the slider axes rotate with it, so the mapping from "go this way" to "put the sliders here" keeps changing. The controller has to be orientation-aware and re-solve continuously while the robot tumbles.
The shell then does four separate jobs: ground contact surface, buoyancy, mounting for the passive fins, and sealed housing for everything that actuates.
Rotating it rolls the robot on land and drives the fins on water. No reconfiguration between media.
🔗 Here's the project page: generalroboticslab.com/MARBL…
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"Programmers, he says, became a priesthood that everyone else had to go through to get anything out of a computer, and AI has ended that monopoly much as the Reformation ended the clergy’s." thoughteconomics.com/david-h…
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BREAKING: the UK government publishes official rules on how to use AI:
1. Ask first if you really need to use AI
2. Check if a spreadsheet can do the job before using AI
3. Choose the worst model possible so it uses less energy
4. Keep prompts short to reduce the environmental impact
5. In general, use AI only when necessary, as a climate-saving measure
With a mindset like this, we should accept the UK back into the European Union
Singularity achieved. The week Jev dropped is apparently “boring.”
So we’re already seeing testing for:
Sonnet 5.2
Opus 5.2
Fable 5.2
Gemini 4 Pro
And we have confirmation or hints of upcoming releases for:
Grok 4.7
GPT-6-Sol (Sam and Tibo teased a big release on Tuesday, so this could be it)
Kimi K3.1 (a vague post from Kimi seems to hint at 3.1)
This week was pretty boring. But next week is probably gonna insane.
You know you need a new dictionary when it takes years for yours to acknowledge meme coins.
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