@bcourter

Managing Director at Gradient Control Laboratories. Building the most efficient representation for CAD geometry. Mostly helping hardware startups.

 Boston
blakecourter.com/
Joined December 2008
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AI seems to like converting degrees to radians to degrees to... Eradicating degrees.
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Nobody asked, but if I could weigh in, I would use "turns" aka "revolutions", "cycles", or "periods". Progressive mathematicians have already invented tau = 2 * pi, which conveniently solves the problem. Python and Rust both support it, so how bad can it be?
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AI tends to use tau when making synthesizers and cases where you don't want periodic angle, like when driving stepper motors. For geometry AI still seems to prefer radians.
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Found myself exclaiming words I haven't said or heard since about 2012: "Code freeze!"
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Obligatory #OmegaAI on Argon post:
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First home OmegaAI part via @sendcutsend
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Hey everyone, PTC just acquired an enormous dataset.
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It’s Brains season. Not the Halloween delicacy, but the accelerator. Have a big idea that benefits the public? Consider philanthropic funding. This program will introduce to the major players and help you reframe your pitch. spec.tech/brains

Speculative Technologies

Speculative Technologies is a nonprofit resarch organization unlocking new materials and manufacturing technologies

spec.tech
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Blake Courter retweeted
Connor Kapoor
@connorkapoorOct 2
We built the first GPU-accelerated metal casting solver. FastCast by Digital Metal does fill, solidification, porosity & distortion on a single NVIDIA GPU, 91× faster than an industry-leading $15k/yr solver with the same level of accuracy. Verified against real world results
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Need some of these Claude session to PR tonight or it will be a mess tomorrow... Computer is getting hot from testing....
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Some will be going on overnight explorations.
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While Luke at GCL and @connorkapoor have made real parts with #OmegaAI, I'm a bit late to the game. My daughter sketched up this pattern for a floor register. We realized the space it's going is not quite square. Prompted Omega, refined the design, and sent to @sendcutsend ...
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Demo’ing this with our new notebook api monday at ntop, rsvp here: partiful.com/e/EYm3nB8M2MyNt…
Dabs🩸
@DabsMaloneSep 29
When MCP with actual design tools for nTop, @brad_rothenberg Implicit geometry is already basically math pretending to be CAD. Feels like this should be THE design environment for an AI agent. Give it the blocks. Let it cook.
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Yes, this is exactly what it's like. And more fun than ever these days since we achieved magic boulder movers.
Danielle Fong 🔆
@DanielleFongSep 27
there's no substitute for a massive quantity of intentional human effort. Keep it sustainably interesting for as long as possible. Have fun
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Photo from a friend. >>> Let's make the left model in this image. Opus 5.5 and Astra (lighter maple): #OmegaAI
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Endgame for cosmetic threads.
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Which woods can you recognize? Loosely based on mokumeproject.github.io/, with additional "research" for aging, heartwood / sapwood ratios and color, staining, etc. Next is spalting and worm holes...
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Aromatic cedar.
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Blake Courter retweeted
em m0shouris
@emm0shSep 25
hill i’m willing to die on: parametric modeling is a scam. it doesn’t really work. it is slow. it is not a skill issue
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Next rev of OmegaAI is getting shaders.
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I should have posted: Gradient Control Laboratories is getting into world models....
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