Brian Helfrich

I'm writing a sci-fi spy-fi thriller: The Lumin Intercept An agent has gone dark, leaving a package in the wind and a cryptic reference to an entity known as Lumin. Join two operatives as they struggle to uncover a shocking and otherworldly plot. More at brianhelfrichbooks.com

@mooreth42 Beefy.

New version of the 32-tooth gear coming with additional support struts and twice as thick to limit out of plane wobble.

@DanaGricken I'm the kind of reader that likes to see words I don't know/understand, then look them up and think about how they color the story. I'd prefer 'laneway' if that's how you talk.

Doing edits today! As a Canadian, there are always some communication barriers when I work with American publishers/editors. For example, in Canada, we also call a driveway a “laneway”. My American editor had no idea what I was saying. Always fun to see the little differences!

@mooreth42 I feel like time should be a factor in the scoring, ie, faster assembly is more better.

Need a chance to go down in Engineering History with ultimate glory and accolades? Look at The Autonomous Self-Replicating Machine Challenge github.com/mooreth/Autono…

@mooreth42 False positive in Conf 1. Classic case of cross-reactivity with vampire rays mimicking photon behavior. Photodetector bias. 🙂

@sofrepofficial That "combat roll" looked like he was spinning the wheel of where will I be shot? Lower back? Foot? Ass?

Check out this Chinese military training video. Why are they practicing trench warfare?

@jflWrites Atomic valence orbitals 👍

I created a language for my Sci-Fi book, ENDED: Hellfire. 🤓🥸🤨🫣🅰️🅱️🅾️✍️⌨️💻🖥️ #Nerd #Language #books #scifi

@shortcutdotnews Yeah, I thought X was your delivery platform, but it's email - see you there :-)

@MojaveCrow thanks for following Brian

@BagOfNeurons That's the book that did it for me 25 years ago, then the glacial pace of actual progress drove me back out... @somewhereville's post showing an actual, reproducible, mechanically controlled hydrogen abstraction using a tooltip gives me hope again though.

Just got Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age". Lets see if I can fall in love with molecular nanotech even more this weekend.

@mooreth42 Let me know. I can sit on this couch and suggest work and experiments to do all day long. 😀

@MojaveCrow Thanks. It should be tested out, but I'm stretched thin, need a team.

New version of the 32-tooth gear with added support is replacing the old one in the part library.

@mooreth42 Ahh, there is that. I guess the question is how round is round enough. Either way, it's cool.

@MojaveCrow I'm not sure how to make that round as I would want it.

@mooreth42 I don't think we're there yet with the current AI anyways, at least not for design, maybe for testing. I was thinking more basic like reinforcement learning for part optimization, etc. Either way, it's very cool. Modular architecture/platform is going to accelerate development.

@MojaveCrow I have not used AI, but I've wondered if I have a large enough part library to train a model on to be able to design stuff. If a SME ever asks to collaborate, I'd jump at it.

We will be able to design atomically precise nanorobotic systems with Diamondback in a quick and practical manner.

@QuoteJung Horrifying.

Describe this in 1 word

@mooreth42 Very cool. Is there a force that keeps the two couplers from rotating and un-hooking?

Carbon nanotube version of the locking coupler, A version should be possible that allows another tube to pass through the center.

@mooreth42 Maybe something like calculate the total force on the wall due to atmosphere (P_atm × Area), then divide that force across several springs pushing on the wall... you do have springs don't you?

Solid model bricks on the left get turned into atomistic bricks on the right. I wonder how long a box made of bricks like this would maintain a vacuum. Any suggestions on how to simulate that?

@mooreth42 You counted molecules. There's 51 atoms in that pic. (Which is exactly what I would have guessed, btw. 😉)

I want to design some pumps. Yesterday if you asked me how many atoms are in 1,000 nm^3 of air at sea level, I would have guessed a thousand, but it's only like 25.

@jflWrites I was trying to come up with a sentence having to do with spiders that could have come before that one and made it make sense, but yeah, looks like a "fix it later" line for sure.

While editing my WIP, I came across this sentence. You may bow before me in awe. "A pile of them was in a pile of them."

@mooreth42 All atomistic sims should conclude with a spherical body flying in and demolishing it.

Check out Akshansh's Youtube channel, too. He uploads many of the input scripts, great resource to learn from.

@mooreth42 It's not clear to me what is connected/part of what. There're two white clips, clipped into yellow stationary bits. How is the nanotube connected?

Gear is spinning at 2 billions times a second, held in place with two clip-pins. The CNTs needs to be one row shorter. I think there is some interaction between them and the clips.

@jflWrites 'Respect' is def better. I'll go with Neal Stephenson and Jason Matthews

Tell me your writing style by naming two authors you respect. For my WIP: Mark Twain B.V. Larson Previously: Craig Alanson Tom Clancy