beau_g

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by beau_g 1mo ago
Tamagotchi but you feed it tokens
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by beau_g 1mo ago
The images are not AI generated, they are just renders from CAD composited into photos or pure renders. I have received a lot of reach out from all sorts of backgrounds which is cool, though I am a very long ways from being able to sell any
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by beau_g 1mo ago
Working on the chainsaw for my centaur form factor robot. Have one part to machine then just need to weld everything up and will be ready to try it out. It uses a motor and controller sourced from an E foil, and has 2DOF position control.
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by beau_g 2mo ago
Bean bag chair seats solve every problem.
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by beau_g 3mo ago
How about a centaur? - https://www.satyress.com/
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by beau_g 3mo ago
You saw someone try to drink a soda upside down and spill it? We are going to need more than a Flock cam to stop that heinous act, perhaps a Flock robot arm that could grab the criminals arm and turn it right side up, or just restrain them
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by beau_g 3mo ago
If you're talking human size bipeds, if they have the required peak torques and speeds on the leg actuators to work at all, they will have the physical ability to sprint. You can think of a Segway to visualize this more easily - the mo
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by beau_g 3mo ago
I read the beginning of the post and immediately tabbed back to start writing a rant about standing up a website being fine, but the real loss of web functionality was Flash, glad I kept reading. I'm quite good with CSS and doing trick
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by beau_g 3mo ago
Though we are not yet competitive in the Argentinian Polo clone wars, we are making significant progress - https://www.satyress.com/
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by beau_g 4mo ago
A comment on HN a few years ago in a thread about car washes brought this to light a little bit for me, the proliferation of subscription car washes everywhere in the US (self storage too) seems like it can't possibly make sense financ
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by beau_g 4mo ago
We have something close, but unfortunately not at the halloween decoration price point - https://www.satyress.com/
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by beau_g 4mo ago
I disagree and think the software model described works better when done well. I have seen this within a company, where both the hardware side and software side used the same titles (senior, staff, senior staff, principal). The hardware sid
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by beau_g 5mo ago
For a while I was missing the ability one uses all the time in stable diffusion prompts of using parentheses and floats to emphasize weight to different parts of the prompt. The more I thought about how it would work in an LLM though, the m
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by beau_g 6mo ago
It would be interesting to first create a taxonomy of juggalo face paint patterns a la aruco markers/April tags, then see if a sufficiently large crowd of juggalos could be used to calibrate cameras
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by beau_g 6mo ago
Consider 2 welding systems, a hungover human on a 3 legged ladder with a scratched up welding helmet doing an overhead TIG weld holding the filler rod a foot away from the weld pool, and a 6 DOF Kuka bot doing a weld in the same position on
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by beau_g 7mo ago
Many overactuated, purpose built robots (like surgical robots and pianos) exist, and have existed since the Unimate, and work great in certain situations. The problem with all of them is they are very expensive, often extremely large, and s
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by beau_g 8mo ago
There was a sharp rise in demand/value since 2020 on cars like the 355 and 550, and some bit rarer but still significant in number cars like the 360 Challenge Stradale and 430 Scuderia. Especially for the 355 and 550, which exist in si
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by beau_g 10mo ago
The ship example maybe wasn't the greatest, in the cases of the Ever Given and MV Aman, the crews were required to stay on the boats as custodians while dealing with these issues, in the latter case a single sailor was on the ship for
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by beau_g 1y ago
I was in the same boat as you and sounds like others in this thread, >1000 hours in Blender over the past few years, but learned Fusion360 to be able to get parts lasercut and machined so had to go to proper parametric CAD format. The si
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by beau_g 1y ago
AI = Again It's-saturday-time-for-another-12-hours-of-in-office-work
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by beau_g 1y ago
These $100mm+ hires are centering divs in flex boxes on the first try. They are simply not like you and me.
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by beau_g 1y ago
Making a high performance, expensive, rare car is a small part of the recipe. Most Ferrari owners own more than one Ferrari (65% according to Ferrari of North America study from a decade ago or so, not sure if there's an updated number
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by beau_g 1y ago
I've seen an interesting A-B test with this seeing the difference in clutch wear between the Ferrari F1 transmission in the 599 and 612 and the DuoSelect transmission which is essentially the same box in the Quattroporte. The shifting
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by beau_g 1y ago
To the parent posters point though, those manufacturers are holding outsized control over what can be retrofit to their machines, so to disrupt them, you have to make your own machines. Working on and owning heavy equipment myself, I of cou
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by beau_g 1y ago
I was thinking the same thing but the cost of an equipment operator isn't that significant compared to the expense of running and especially maintaining these machines, and if teleop incurs more maintenance cost or efficiency loss due
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by beau_g 1y ago
Every technological leap has it's Chuck Yeagers and Yuri Gagarins that will put it all on the line with early tech for humanity to take that next step - we have to accept the inevitable and hope that luck is on these brave soul's
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by beau_g 1y ago
The article opens with a statement saying the author isn't going to reword what others are writing, but the article reads as that and only that. That said, I do think it would be nice for people to note in pull requests which files hav
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by beau_g 1y ago
There's a lot of logistics cost for replacement parts, shipping, storage, a system to track them, etc. in distribution warehouses all over the world in small numbers. It's all work done manually by humans at every level. Studies t
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by beau_g 1y ago
Hopefully people are responsible/safety conscious when shooting down drones and use birdshot
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by beau_g 1y ago
All we really need for the robotics AI revolution is to deploy many tens of thousands of well built, cheap, reliable robots sold at a profit that customers get tons of utility out of, get petabytes of data back from them while complying wit

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