Sam Zakkour

All that work making Pleo batteries, pays off

Lec 23 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011 YouTube video by MIT OpenCourseWare

Found the exact moment youtu.be/zPPsdsAQBx4?...

Lec 2 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011 YouTube video by MIT OpenCourseWare

So I searched my memory and I think I first heard about this from a MIT open courseware psychology lecture I watched years ago. I could only find this reference youtu.be/syXplPKQb_o?..., as for the above quote it's what Gemini 2.0 thought

Descriptive Norms: What people actually do Showing lots of litter can inadvertently communicate that "this is what people do here" normalizing the behavior
Injunctive Norms: What people approve or disapprove of.These are the messages we want to convey–that littering is bad and people shouldn't do it

"there's considerable evidence around the idea that showing how bad the littering situation is can sometimes backfire and not effectively change people's behavior, and in some cases, even make it worse. This is a well-documented phenomenon in the field of social psychology and behavioral economics."

Wasn't there a old study based on littering ads? The ads that showed how yuck and bad the situation was, did nothing to stop people not giving a shit, but showing a clean crisp city hit different? Meh, may be my old brain playing tricks.

Finally used the spot welder to make these Pleo robot batteries, and after a few years fixed the old bose studio wireless headphones. Productive day

Finally got time to fix his arms. The modified bracket I made in fusion came out great for future repairs

Hahaha yeah the tracks are meant to keep those cogs in place but the design needs iteration

For me until these models can know what they don't know (metacognition), and then once a discovered new insight has occured fold that into the base model... Not just the context, we will be in AGI land. Still impressive how quickly these models are improving, agents unlocked?

Thought on O3, If we spend $300000 USD, which is understandable with the current tech and difficulty of the questions, does it now update the base model with this new insight? Or will we need to spend another $300k tomorrow when we ask the same question?

So, get ChatGPT to imagine up an ornament of your daughters choice, do some work in fusion360, then some painting in Bambu Labs, then print. then drop it right before the photo.. not as horny any more..

Got the bluetoothctl commands working at our last maker group meetup. He speaks

Modifying the inner bracket so I can repair him easier next time.

Dusting off the 3D printed Wall-E robot, he needs repair, arms keep breaking

Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens We introduce the Byte Latent Transformer (BLT), a new byte-level LLM architecture that, for the first time, matches tokenization-based LLM performance at scale with significant improvements in inferen...

Am I on the wrong thought path in thinking that Byte Latent Transformers are what these realtime multimodal models that power Gemini 2 are based on? arxiv.org/abs/2412.09871

Humanoid Robotics Technology on LinkedIn: Exbody2 | Advanced Expressive Humanoid Whole-Body Control Students at UC San Diego, University of California, Berkeley, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have developed Exbody 2, a framework enabling…

www.linkedin.com/posts/humano...

I want one

NVIDIA’s New AI: Training 10,000x Faster! YouTube video by Two Minute Papers

robots coming in hot! Is anyone working on this? I would love to hear from people who have added this to their DIY robots, but I have a feeling we still have a heap of work to do
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCll...

Omg flashbacks, what was it called again?

This elf needs to stick to the shelf

Someone asked for a shot of the glow in the dark Elsa #frozen

3D printing in white and getting the kids to paint is a nice way to keep them busy

Blown away with this print

lifehack if you are doing robotics r&d or are a student or whatever, you should probably be using rerun

I Built a 4 Axis 3D Printer Unlike Anything You’ve Seen YouTube video by Joshua Bird

Just when I thought I couldn't feel any dumber... Genius level engineers really put me in my place... youtu.be/VEgwnhLHy3g?...

#yarrbooty #2024 no Photoshop or filters

No filters

#yarrbooty #2024 no filters or Photoshop

No filters

#yarrbooty #2024 no filters or Photoshop

The quality of these prints and speed... Leaves my old printers to shame