codekansas

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by codekansas 12d ago
Humans learn differently from LLMs. LLMs already contain most of the information they need to be able to do PCB layout from reading the entire internet, but they need this kind of fast feedback loop to learn how to extract and use that info
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by codekansas 29d ago
A somewhat unpopular opinion, but personally I don't mind being kind of absent in my kids' lives relative to others' expectations. I think there's been some expectation creep around parental involvement for high-achievin
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by codekansas 2mo ago
It's basically trying to replicate OpenRouter, which works pretty well and has a lot of nice features to abstract away any single provider, such as failover, metering, autoswitching, etc. It's actually a really smart infrastructur
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by codekansas 2mo ago
Fable-level, yea, but can it run gstack?
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by codekansas 3mo ago
I've been thinking for a while that some part of the ebullience towards AI among the American decision-maker class is that it is a good way to stick our heads in the sand and pretend like super-intelligent AI will make up for not being
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by codekansas 3mo ago
But they're bootstrapped and using their own money, not defrauding investors
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The Sand Mandala (2023)(ben.bolte.cc)
1 points by codekansas 10mo ago|0 comments
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Neuron Models(ben.bolte.cc)
2 points by codekansas 10mo ago|0 comments
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by codekansas 1y ago
I suspect that these kinds of things will happen with or without my involvement. Assuming that they do, I would rather that a good open source option exists
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by codekansas 1y ago
Oh I see. Yes, we're currently exploring a few different five finger hand options - we will choose whichever option provides the best value. I actually quite like the Inspire hands and we might be able to get a volume discount
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by codekansas 1y ago
Really appreciate it :)
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by codekansas 1y ago
I think we will just focus on making really great, low-cost hardware and a nice SDK, and let other people experiment with different approaches on the intelligence layer.
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by codekansas 1y ago
Well, I believe the competition up until now has mostly been on hardware, but moving forward it will mostly be in software. I don't think we will be outcompeted by Unitree on software. And I hope to capitalize on our engagement with th
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by codekansas 1y ago
We try to sell it for a fair price while still making money. Actually I think there will be comparably priced humanoids coming out from other companies soon
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by codekansas 1y ago
I really do think that building through the open source community is the best way to compete with the big players, even without having a lot of capital. Of course, it doesn't mean we can't execute well, but I do think it's a
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by codekansas 1y ago
I think it's a very hard problem, but I would like to align our company's incentives towards solving it
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by codekansas 1y ago
Yeah, the basic robot is just a robot, albeit with open-source software and hardware For compute - we're exploring a few boards right now, but the base model will be something from Amlogic and the higher end model will be something fro
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by codekansas 1y ago
My overall plan is basic joystick control -> VLA with RL -> self-supervised embodied representation -> end-to-end RL -> end-to-end control. I suspect there will be some very good multi modal models coming out in the next few yea
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by codekansas 1y ago
This is really interesting to read about. To be honest, I know very little about this space, but it's something a few people have approached me about tackling. I do think that this is a great application of a general purpose robot. I&#
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by codekansas 1y ago
We're exploring some options - maybe a rental option in the future. Would like to make it accessible to everyone
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by codekansas 1y ago
I have a pretty bad mental model of how most VCs think, but I think good VCs will fund smart people who demonstrate extreme conviction, regardless of how they initially size the market. The opportunity cost for me doing K-Scale is making qu
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by codekansas 1y ago
Thanks! We're all pretty cross-stack - there are some hardware people and some software people, but the product is quite integrated. Personally, my time has been mostly focused on the RL stack recently, and after there are more robots
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by codekansas 1y ago
Which link? I can fix
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by codekansas 1y ago
Yes, we are aware of this customer segment. I don't think they have thoroughly considered the implications of what high torque actuators can do to the human body
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by codekansas 1y ago
Yeah I think humanoids are a pretty fraught area. There's definitely been some backlash but overall I have really appreciated the responses we've got from people. Like, I just want people to care about what we're doing - if p
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by codekansas 1y ago
This is a much better answer than mine
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by codekansas 1y ago
Yeah of course. That's kind of the whole point - I don't think you can really trust a humanoid robot in your house around your family if it is not clear what it's running. Basically, for myself, I would not want to buy a clos
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by codekansas 1y ago
Yeah, this is exactly the kind of use case we intend to support. Basically, we want our robot to be the best mass-produced robot for this kind of experimentation.
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by codekansas 1y ago
Yep I definitely agree. Our team is pretty small and bandwidth limited I basically think our goal is to solve all the boring stuff and make it work reliably, so that other can people can try out the cool ML stuff more easily
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by codekansas 1y ago
Eh. I think we got a bit nerd-sniped on some things and we ended up trying to build most of our stack ourselves. The control loop is just a pretty simple Rust loop for running ML models. ROS is kind of annoying to work with and the control

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