We have a new contender for the wildest robotics flex of the year Boston Dynamics just bolted roller wheels onto their humanoid Atlas robot so it can drift around warehouses and hit mid-air 360 spins their controls engineer literally stopped touching his gaming PC at home because driving the real robot like a video game was way more fun here's what's actually going on: > the wheels aren't a commercial product, they're a torture test designed to push Atlas's motors and actuators to their absolute limits > for the jump 360 spin, the team fed human motion-capture footage into their reinforcement learning pipeline and the robot nailed it on the very first try > for the side-to-side jump dashes, nobody hard-coded how the skates work. The AI policy figured out on its own how to roll on the wheels mid-slide > the team drove and tuned the whole thing in simulation first, and it transferred onto the physical robot almost seamlessly > next up, they're training the RL brain to invent recovery moves on the fly when a motor fails mid-motion most robotics startups are still trying to get humanoids to walk across a flat room without tipping over meanwhile Boston Dynamics put theirs on roller skates just to see if they could break the motors

Four distinct TPU systems in a single generation in one year! Instead of waiting years for a traditional semiconductor cycle, hardware engineers co-designing systems alongside Google Deepmind means we can keep innovating quickly for customers.

Rich people have a guy who watches their accounts all day and texts them "hey Taiwan news is getting weird and you're heavy on semis, want to hedge this?" Everyone else just gets a push notification after they're already down 8%. Two ex-Goldman and AQR quants built Volaren to basically be that guy over text. Connects to your actual brokerages and waits for your green light before touching anything.

What separates a “designer” from an actually designer. This is not even a high bar for quality. This would not even made it to a design crit, is lazy, sloppy and speaks heaps to what we need to tune our agents on. simple decency in design basics.

Old is gold ☠️🏆 But I'm old. Learned the old way and for many years used the old way. My wife taught the old and new school method. Here's the difference. > The old way was and is fast and efficient. > The new school method helps children have a deep understanding of what number placement really means and how it matters in solving operations. > Kids don't have to do those steps forever, but it is very valuable in the learning process. Stand in a 4th grade classroom and have students explain all these "new" multi step procedures and you'll see exactly what they comprehend and what they don't. It's a deeper understanding than just computing. It isn't the waste of time we might think it is. Sure that in the second the boxes are drawn you got the answers. But that’s not the point.

Old is gold ☠️🏆 But I'm old. Learned the old way and for many years used the old way. My wife taught the old and new school method. Here's the difference. > The old way was and is fast and efficient. > The new school method helps children have a deep understanding of what number placement really means and how it matters in solving operations. > Kids don't have to do those steps forever, but it is very valuable in the learning process. Stand in a 4th grade classroom and have students explain all these "new" multi step procedures and you'll see exactly what they comprehend and what they don't. It's a deeper understanding than just computing. It isn't the waste of time we might think it is. Sure that in the second the boxes are drawn you got the answers. But that’s not the point.

This 1-hour lecture is free, and will put you ahead of everyone else around you. Today 95% of people still use AI like a calculator. The 5% who treat it like infrastructure will run everything If you watch anything today, what’s Demi’s lecture👇

The $3.1B/month rate isn't guaranteed through 2029. Regardless, the compute play is paying off for SpaceX(AI)>(SI). While neoclouds might suffer, the big compute providers will absolutely dominate. With NVIDIA being amongst the big winners. Buy more, save more.

I'm so here for it, but the bubble only pops when they are giving away Mac Studios with 512gb. If you wondered where all the Mac Mini stock went, You can stop wondering now. SF AI companies are buying them up in bulk, re-packaging them and handing them out as merchandise.