Andile

You can just learn things (even if it’s outside of your “field”)

@MetamateDaz Just do something undeniably impressive in that field and then you’ll be all set

Trying to change careers at 27 has taught me that people truly don’t have the patience to train you, or the grace to give you time while you try to learn a new skill or break into a new industry. it feels like I'm already considered too old to start fresh.

@rad_hardened Topanga state park!

@FlexAppeall where is this

Cannot comprehend how this hike is <1hr from LAX/El Segundo

@leahy30xy That must be such a cool bookshelf 😩😩

@FlexAppeall That’s a bummer it’s like a trophy. I think mine were 50/50 we had a lot of professor who were dead set on physical books. My book shelf is covered in 1950s machining books and other books things I can find.

Sometimes it is very refreshing not to be staring at a screen.( as I type this looking at a screen)

@CalumDouglas1 I’m getting into consulting work for designing compliant mechanism, MEMS, soft robotics, do you have any advice on how to grow your client base?

I should probably post this more often, but to any persons of interest, I do actually specialise in mechanical design of state of the art high performance engines. If you`re fed up with some hopeless boat-anchor you`re being charged a fortune for... Do call me up, its literally what I do, the lot, cranks, cam dynamics & profile design, bearing design, gear tribology and oil sustems, torsional vibrations, cylinder heads, water jackets, ports... Various people and firms up to and including Ferrari have asked me to look into various things for them... the fact I`m a historian was totally accidental,🤣and only happened because it turned out that WW2 books about engines not written by engine designers were a bit "meh".

@leahy30xy Collecting textbooks is so OP. I was in the online textbook era so I paid a lot and didn’t even get the hardcopy😭

@FlexAppeall I was in a book store and saw it and was like man I paid so much for this back in the day books store had it for $12.

@jwt0625 Thats sick, what did you study in grad school?

@FlexAppeall these was grad school + randomly having fun

when I look at my old simulations, a lot of them, most of them, can be easily vibe setup with agents, or even one shot by the agents. it makes me wonder how many of the ideas and devices that were results of branching off of originally intended directions and goals would I miss if I attempt them now with the agents? How many new ones would the agents be able to attempt and identify? Is inverse design just the most stupid and bruteforce version of auto research? i should get a workflow with MOOSE working so I could set the agents free in the world of multiphysics simulations.

@1a1n1d1y Thanks for the rec!

@FlexAppeall youtu.be/Xh8nhK7WS80?si… jim has been a massive influence in this stage of my life and i will forever appreciate him for his guidance and ability to reinvent what i thought can be done. incredible human, through and through

if you're not inspired to contribute to open source, just listen to jim keller talk for like 10 mins sometime

@parmita Parm plz don’t commit fraud tho😭

@afshawnl What’s the best beginners resource to get into it?

Playing around with Signed Distance Fields (SDF) and I'm honestly really hedging my bets this becomes the dominant geometry representation in the next decade. Open source is moving, 3rd party tooling will follow

It’s literally just a numbers game

@kathytzhou Someone add this to polymarket

i made a sunset predictor for NYC & SF and a live sky you can check anytime it uses real weather data to recreate the sky. gradients evolve, clouds drift, wind blows, stars appear if you're lucky. adding sunshine and rain soon ⛅️

@yacineMTB Theres SUPER good thermally resistant ceramic resins I believe. Blastable with blowtorch iirc

Does it have to be metal? Can you make it out of SLA printed resin? Questions I ask myself while waiting for training runs at 10:30pm Are there ceramic resins out there? Surely someone has figured out the chemistry

What's the smallest ramjet that you could make? Seems really 3dprintable

@oprydai I want to make a new field. I think I’ll locate it in Arkansas

this!!

Ik I sounds like @thedankoe but writing seems to actually have a massive benefit for organizing your thoughts and fixing your attention. We should be writing more

@peholderrieth @EErives40101 I reallllly reallllllyyy like how MIT has blackboards

We are also releasing self-contained lecture notes that explain flow matching and diffusion models from scratch. This goes from "zero" to the state-of-the-art in modern Generative AI. 📖 Read the notes here: arxiv.org/abs/2506.02070 Joint work with @EErives40101.