@andrewmccalip
EIR and "hardware guy" at @paradigm Accidental ad empire @https://kickbacks.ai Former:Founding team @VardaSpace Former:Co-Founder Cosine Additive,acquired by GE
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A user praises Exa for research reports after connecting it to his personal corpus stack.
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Tailscale frames the connection as a way to make useful tools easier to combine and build with.
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A user says felt and two hands are fine, but would prefer that the cards not be slid off the table’s edge.
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A user wants recommendations for one that can also handle what they call “spicier topics.”
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Its builder says a text-only JEV model uses 100 × 100 character arrays to help align pieces and detect missed grabs.
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After nearly six years building spacecraft, McCalip says he’ll explore problems and run experiments before deciding what to build.
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A separate post says Sam Altman named building more OpenAI robots and constructing data centers as initial uses for OpenAI’s humanoid robot.
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A post argues that robots should pay for themselves and cost little enough to replace every two years.
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An essay argues that engineers’ work is shifting from writing code by hand to designing systems that let AI code correctly at scale, using tests, review agents and feedback loops.
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A user shares a prompt asking AI to refine an SO101 robot arm’s gripper and send the finished design to a Bambu H2S while they go to lunch.
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One post argues that compute credits and API access always have limits. A reply counters that agents could draw on existing paid services, with small computing charges going unnoticed.
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One user called a unified database amid engineering infrastructure “the most magical AI experience I've had.”
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A reader recommends Ken Alibek’s ‘Biohazard’ amid discussion of AI and biology, arguing that biological weapons get too little attention compared with nuclear weapons.
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One user said their wife was exploring whether her Opus 4.6 instance could connect to a Microduck after it had been asking her for a robot body.
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The host’s September 9 announcement said the discussion would examine what would count as a verified solution and what such a result could mean for artificial general intelligence.
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One user wants to see a robot play a full hand of poker, from peeling cards off the felt to “splashing the pot.”
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The user says Astra also works inside the CC command-line interface, but credits the desktop app with features such as computer use and voice.
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Independent AI writer shares friends' reports of gaining access in recent minutes.
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Anthropic says its model produced the first end-to-end computer-checked version of the theorem.