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AI in manufacturing enthusiast. CAD/CAM techie and weekend woodworker. 🤖🪵

Liverpool
Joined May 2023
Everyone assumes AI-written code at scale means a giant pile of slop. Me too at times. Axiom just put out the best counterexample I've seen. They took the Stacks Project, the reference every algebraic geometer works from, built up by the math community over two decades, and turned the whole thing into Lean. Millions of lines, and every single one is checked by a computer. It either holds up or it doesn't compile. What gets me isn't even the size, it's the structure. Stacks is this massive web where every result leans on a bunch of others. Axiom compares it to the glass pyramid at the Louvre, all these individual pieces that only make sense once you see how they fit together. They kept all of that intact, just in a form a machine can check. They ran their agents like a software team to do it, with some owning the architecture, some the core definitions, some the individual proofs, and humans at the top. To be clear, the math is still human work. People wrote Stacks. What's new is that it's now a verified foundation AI agents can actually build new math on. Link is below ↩️
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Most think vibecoding at scale is slop. Here’s a counterexample. Today we release a 16M-line formalization of the entire Stacks Project, critical infra underlying modern math, with optimized code quality and its highly interconnected structure preserved. A mathematical city 🌆
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those of you who dont want to watch 19,000 shill videos 😂 can be assured I'm just finishing up a video about PPA. Make sure you're subbed. It's a good one. youtube.com/@lostintech3d?su…
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Replying to @PawelHuryn
so the big gain was mostly the model finishing its answers instead of looping. good catch. did accuracy on the problems it never got cut off on move at all?
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Opus and Sonnet are right now giving **lots** of usage in $20/$200 sub plans, but... at API costs (which enterprises pay), GPT models absolute own the pareto frontier. Both in terms of time taken and cost. The latest (Luna+Sol+Astra) combo is far more efficient than Claude 5.5 family.
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When slowing down makes you faster...(& smoother...) ADB (Autonomous Decentralized Bearing) is a patented technology developed by Sosuke Kawashima (Coo Space Co., Ltd.) By introducing a small indent into the outer race of a deep groove ball bearing, the balls become self distributing & non-contacting without the need of a cage. Translation: the balls don't bump into one another so no cage is required, which then means sliding friction is virtually eliminated, energy consumption is reduced by over 90%, and no lubrication is necessary. That precise indentation I mentioned slightly decelerates and then accelerates each ball back to full speed as it passes over it. A small gap is thus created between the balls due to this change in speed. Any incidental contact between the balls acts as a restorative force, effectively transferring momentum between them and ensuring uniform spacing naturally. Pretty cool stuff (and so very simple) in other words. This technology is currently touted as being applied in deep sea & competition skate/bike/wheelchair cases, but seems like a prime candidate for any super low friction, demanding environment, and/or long life applications. (All original video footage from Sosuke Kawashima on yt)
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A bit late to the party, but if you’ve been eyeing a Bambu Lab printer, their Black Friday deals definitely are worth a look. If you’d like to support the content, shopping through my affiliate link earns me a commission at no extra cost to you: modbotarmy.com/go/bambubf
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Every Linux server with TCP listeners can be exploited to root level remote code execution. Working proof of concept shown by Anthropic researchers. Wondering why 9.8 and 10.0 actually. Damn this one is bad.
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i tried reaching out to autodesk but couldn’t get anywhere. i would love to record an episode with them discussing this and where they think the future is going
holy hell. i had no idea autodesk could do this: if you use fusion they can force you to install arbitrary software of their choosing to snoop on your computer and you’re legally required to comply within 15 days this is insane
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Is that a ghost? No, it's "ghost imaging" incorporated into an X-ray approach! Scientists created a computational imaging method that reconstructs X-ray pictures from a tiny fraction of the photons normally required in #medical diagnostics: bit.ly/4BA6Z8T #Halloween😉
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i don’t think it’s the use of AI as the cause, but i had to switch away from spotify because it’s become unusably buggy over the last year
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I open-sourced 43 agent skills for shipping real products. No coding. Everything I learned from 190K installs and sign ups. Why was it needed? Popular AI engineering skill collections are for people who work with the code a lot. They skip discovery, go-to-market, and product analytics. I wanted to create something for people focused on the user and business value. A set of skills that helps you: → research the market and competitors → listen to the users, e.g., on Reddit → identify your value proposition and value curve → decide how to grow → learn from people using your product for real Then agents build, review each other's work, and ship. You approve the release. Inside, 6 packs from the first idea to paying users: → Product (8): discovering what to build → AI shipping (10): a reliable, secure AI-built app you can sign off on → App stack (14): sign-in, payments, email, analytics, and legal pages → Agent teams (4): other agents as partners, e.g., Codex → Agent harness (6): a reliable setup, with you in the loop → Work humanizer (1): work writing that doesn't read as AI You don't have to memorize them. Type /start-here and it explains where you are, what's done, and the next steps. Free repo (GitHub): github.com/phuryn/product-en… If it helps, star the repo so the next person finds it.
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Run AI workloads at the edge with significantly lower power consumption. Analog compute-in-memory (aCIM) technology is changing how AI inference is performed by processing data directly within memory, reducing the energy and data movement associated with conventional architectures. Our subsidiary Silicon Storage Technology (SST) developed memBrain SAGE IP using embedded SuperFlash® technology to enable energy-efficient AI processing in ASIC and SoC designs. Discover how AnalogAI is leveraging this technology to develop ultra-low-power edge AI processors designed for on-device inference and adaptation, with applications in robotics, autonomous vehicles, industrial automation and more. Read how analog AI and compute-in-memory are advancing energy-efficient edge intelligence: mchp.us/4stKAWB. @EEJournalTFM #EdgeAI #AnalogAI #ComputeInMemory #Semiconductors
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Replying to @offearth3d
Just another billionaire, high on his own supply. It’s like they were all sick when history class covered the French Revolution. 🤪
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It's legit - please update to 7.0 or newer. However, the vulnerability this patches requires people to already be on your network, so this is not a point of entry. Github will have source code on Monday.
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CHINESE CAR BRANDS... UK Index & Ownership | 2026-27 BYD — Privately controlled Denza Yangwang — Expected 2027 CHERY GROUP — Mixed public/private Chery Omoda Jaecoo Lepas iCaur — Expected 2027 Jetour — UK launch under consideration GEELY GROUP — Privately controlled Geely Volvo Polestar Lotus LEVC Zeekr — Expected 2026/27 Smart — Mercedes-Benz/Geely JV SAIC MOTOR — State-controlled MG Maxus GREAT WALL MOTOR (GWM) — Privately controlled Ora Haval Poer CHANGAN — State-owned Changan Deepal GAC GROUP — State-controlled Aion LEAPMOTOR — Privately controlled Leapmotor — Stellantis international JV XPENG — Privately controlled NIO — Privately controlled Nio — Possible 2027 Firefly — Possible 2027 DONGFENG — State-owned Voyah — UK launch uncertain FAW GROUP — State-owned Hongqi — UK launch uncertain CHERY / JLR — Joint venture Freelander — Possible late 2027 LI AUTO — Privately controlled Li Auto — UK launch unconfirmed XIAOMI — Privately controlled Xiaomi Auto — UK possibly 2028+ Ownership refers to ultimate corporate control, not manufacturing location. UK status: Late October 2026. Future arrivals are indicative, not guaranteed.
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Mazak has launched the new XB series of high-precision press brakes for the European market. Read more from SMI- sheetmetalindustries.com/maz…
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Advanced Engineering and UK Metals Expo returns to the NEC Birmingham next week. This year the show is three events in one: a single free badge also opens the co-located Lab Innovations and UK Metals Expo. Read more from SMI- sheetmetalindustries.com/adv…
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As promised, Staygreen is now open source: github.com/phuryn/staygreen You can host it yourself or get free uptime monitoring from San Francisco and Toronto, 50 monitors, checked every 3 min at staygreen.io It automatically detects common API health check endpoints + JSON fields inside HTML to suggest the monitors.
Paid app monitoring services were driving me crazy: > $30/mo for a custom status page domain? > $34/mo for webhooks alerts > $330/mo for white-label > Unable to monitor Stripe or Supabase So, I just launched free staygreen[.]io I built for myself. 100% free (lifetime): - Uptime, SSL, DNS, TCP and heartbeat monitors - Checks that read what your app returns - Stripe webhook and Supabase project checks - Email, Telegram, Slack, Discord and webhook alerts - A status page on your own domain - MCP server for your AI agents - 1 app, 50 monitors and 5 heartbeats - HTTP checks every 3 min from SF & Toronto - Commercial use Just give it your app URL, it will suggest all monitors, thumbnails, branding color, etc. Feedback: github.com/phuryn/staygreen 🙏 P.S. I'm open sourcing it after hitting 500 users or 1,000 GitHub stars
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add to the list of design skills for agents - /break-ui: feeds your UI worst-case data - /state-machine: every state of a component on one page - /review-animations: reviews motion, flags by default github.com/emilkowalski/skil… github.com/jakubkrehel/skill…
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