John Hardy

We’re hiring! Come and work with us at @Bath_HCI - up to two Lectureships (Assistant Prof) in technical HCI (AR/VR, wearables, physical computing, fabrication …). Please share with any great candidates! bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.a…

Would you like to make it easier for people to produce digital devices? Our shiny new website, prosquared.org launches today. Come take a look 👀and join our network! @EPSRC #DigitalDeviceProduction #Network

The power of open research and open source.

On March 27 we're launching the Pro2 (Prototype to Production) network - a place for academics and industrials to come together to address the challenges of scaling up (hardware) prototypes. If you can't make the launch, but want to get involved, let me know!

EMERGE is an interactive, physically dynamic bar chart. Its 10×10 grid of illuminated vertically actuating rods encodes values similar to traditional bar charts. Read about the iterative+evolving design process in our new book! @_kiwijason @_JohnHardy @_faisaltaher @John_E_Vidler

@zsk Quickly replicating programming sections of published scientific papers to test ideas (it's not perfect, but usually gives a good initial push/framework) #mediacityuk

At OpenAI a lot of our work aims to align language models like ChatGPT with human preferences. But this could become much harder once models can act coherently over long timeframes and exploit human fallibility to get more reward. 📜Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2209.00626 🧵Thread:

This #renal industry challenge call from @Devices4Dignity is looking for early stage #innovations in renal tech, where people are seeking support & expertise to progress development. Funding up to £10K available plus the D4D team’s expertise - apply by 8 Jan! #medtech #SME

Differential geometry in daily life: these containers take up a lot of space in my recycling. Rather than try flattening them by brute force, I know I can simply cut through four “cone singularities.” More on cone singularities: cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Proje… youtu.be/4YHmaoQoT9s

@jamesmedd Niiiiice

We held a Halloween party at our house on Saturday with the theme: "Night of a Thousand Gandalfs". I made a staff that lit up using a switch in the base and a little 3D printed jewel in the top. Yes, we are dorks.

Tested the NeRF-to-Model Target pipeline with @LumaLabsAI. Quite the game changer for industrial, shiny targets. From scan to model target in minutes, without powder coating nor projected laser grid to help with reconstruction.

@jasminezroberts @OpenAI Nice! It like how it has the same vibe as the 1979 "put that there" work 👉 :) youtu.be/RyBEUyEtxQo

thrilled our preliminary research on #generativeai in #vr was accepted into #neurips2022 here is a bare-bones "holodeck" #3d implementation real-time in #unity. spoken user commands are compiled at runtime. 3d objects are created, loaded and manipulated via @openai's gpt-3.

Complete this image in a way that proves you won’t be replaced by AI

@jessegenet Congratulations! I found what you did very inspiring

Fam. I am starting a new chapter in my career -- going forward reach out to me on my personal email or dm's, I'm no longer using my Lumi email 🤯✨

@jamesmedd @is0explore @FreeCADNews I love mine, fantastic tool but I use the other hand so might be missing out on the keyboard modality gains!

@is0explore @FreeCADNews @_JohnHardy has something akin to this.

Any Spacemouse users out there? I've been using one for five years now, but I can pan, rotate and zoom on the mouse in my right hand, and now taking my left hand off the keyboard seems counter-intuitive. Anyone else in the same boat? #Opinion #design #FreeCAD @FreeCADNews

@csweichel Indeed - working with you on on these topics changed how I look at engineering 🤯

Compared to regular CNC work, using assisted hand tools retains the feeling of "creating something with your hands", and provides abilities that would not exist without these tools. It's utterly exciting to see a paper turn into such a wonderful product.

Ten years ago Rivers et al. published one of my favourite papers: "Position-Correcting Tools for 2D Digital Fabrication" [1]. Five years later they turned it into a product: the @shapertools Origin. Today, I finally got my hands on this wonderful machine. 🧵

Models in engineering & science have *way* more complexity in geometry/materials than what conventional solvers can handle. But imagine if simulation was like Monte Carlo rendering: just load up a complex model and hit "go"; don't worry about meshing, basis functions, etc. [1/n]

@Loechti AlphaGo is playing the long game!

@dansodergren Have fun!!

What you mean? Last minute changes to my #TedxTalk. Nah. Not me. Never... Clocking in at 18 mins and 41 seconds* Petacuhca style. 100 slides. Edited down from 200 or so ideas. Into 30 post it notes. Edited down to 20 notes. 3 themes. 1 go. *takes laptop on train tomorrow.

WOW. Bloomberg finally opensourced memray—a new versatile memory profile for Python. Can't way to use it. Thread 👇