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To give people confidence that we are not secretly manipulating the 𝕏 recommendations, it is critical that we open source anything that influences what people are shown

@NodYoung 如果只推荐一本有关设计的书籍，您最推荐哪一本？

前几天，我从编辑那里得知，《设计，下一步》（Design Forward）首版已经售罄，加印也已经完成了。 这当然是个让人开心的好消息。尤其是在今天，这个“知识不断贬值”、图书市场越来越冷清的时代，一本谈论设计的书，居然逐渐成为了一本畅销书。说实话，作为作者的我，有那么一刻确实感到非常骄傲。 这本书是在去年圣诞节前夕上市的。在过去半年的时间里，我收到了很多读者的来信。有意思的是，很多人都不约而同地提到了一个词：“陪伴”。 他（她）们说，读这本书的感觉，并不像是在“学习”，而更像是一种轻松而真实的陪伴。好像有人坐在旁边，一起聊设计，聊生活，也聊人与世界之间那些说不清的小事。虽然我们未曾见面，但我们的关系是亲密的，熟悉的。 我后来发现，这或许正是一本“好书”真正能打动人的部分。它不只是提供知识，也不仅仅是输出观点，而是让人愿意停下来，结伴一起往前走。其实，好的设计也是一样的 —— 真正让人感到舒服的东西，背后往往靠的是真诚。 而这种亲密感，并不来自作者刻意的谦逊或者姿态，而是来自于愿意坦率地面对自己，面对现实，面对我们真实的处境。这就是生活本来的样子，我想记录的也正是生活中“真实”的那部分。 这是我的第一本书。我其实还没有完全适应“作者”这个身份，但我已经开始感受到一种很特别的鼓舞与安慰。这比我单纯做设计带来的成就感更加强烈，这是我乘着设计之帆抵达的最远的地方。 所以，也想把这个消息分享给你。 相信我。在这个世界上，总会有人愿意与你一起同行。 我们并不孤单。

what’s a “rich people thing” you experienced once and immediately understood why rich people love it ?

@justinskycak example？

For anyone interested in a STEM career, acquiring advanced technical skills early unlocks the most valuable thing in existence. Something even money can’t buy. TIME. If you acquire demonstrable, alien-level technical skills, you can get doors opened earlier. You don’t have to wait until college to do research projects under professors, or even paid internships. If you’re intentional about acquiring skills and putting yourself out there, you can kick-start a serious career before most people your age are even taking serious classes. And once you acquire early junior-level experience, that opens the door to early senior-level experience, and so on.

C'est l'anniversaire de Reachy mini. C'est un produit incroyable pour l'interface homme machine. Regarder comment il transmets dès émotions. Tout est open source sur mon GitHub. C'est ce que le Homepod d'Apple aurait dû être.

NEW: Disney reveals “ReActor,” a new method for Walt Disney Imagineering’s robotic character pipeline. • Combines reinforcement learning with physics-based simulations to transfer human motion to characters • Could be the next milestone for more lifelike robotic characters

GPT Image 2 ile storyboard çizdim, sonra Seedance 2.0 ile bunu tam animasyon sahnesine çevirdim Bir rakun. Bir donut. Ve tamamen kontrolden çıkan çizgi film kaosu. Storyboard → cinematic cartoon video dönüşümü gerçekten deli hissettiriyor. AI artık sadece görsel üretmiyor, timing ve slapstick komedi de kurabiliyor Ve en absürt kısmı: Bunun tamamını sadece 10 dakikada yaptım.

Petting Paro the famed robot seal

Robotics has a dirty secret. The biggest bottleneck isn't hardware. It isn't compute. It's data. And right now, only a handful of corporations can afford to generate it... $ROBA No Code Studio is about to change that. 🧵(1/8)

Sparky co-designing his ... finger?!

“If you’re going to solve a hard problem and make something meaningful, you have to be relentlessly resourceful.” I spoke with @mehul from @MaticRobots on how AI is unlocking Robotics 2.0 and why the timing couldn’t be better. “We are reimagining robots from scratch… and something that we’ve all dreamed about which is the Wall Es and the R2 D2s.” “We thought it was time for robotics 2.0. That is what Matic is bringing.”

家庭向けソーシャルロボットのデザインには無限の可能性がある。 なのに、なぜ中国の大企業が、日本で愛されている人気ロボットをそのまま真似する必要があるのか。 これは完全にLOVOTクローン。

Mark your calendars, KATA Friends is coming soon🐾 Meet Noa & Niko, our twin furry AI Pets! These cuddly lil fur balls of cuteness will love you forever and evolve and grow as long as you're with them 💝 Stay tuned as they prepare for their debute! 📅 Launching on May 12 #MyKATAFriends #SwitchBot #AICompanion #SmartLiving #TechInnovation #HomeAI #FutureTech #CompanionRobot #ComingSoon

Jensen Huang doesn’t use AI the way you think he does. Huang: “90% of my instructions are actually conflated with questions.” The man behind a three trillion dollar company doesn’t give AI commands. He interrogates it. Huang: “I take the answer from one AI, give it to the other AI, ask them to critique itself.” He doesn’t trust the machine. He cross-examines it. Same question. Multiple models. Force them to argue. Then take whatever survives. The way you’d get three opinions before letting a surgeon cut you open. That is not how people use AI. They type a question. Copy the answer. Move on. They think speed is the advantage. It’s not. The advantage is what you do after the machine responds. And almost nobody does anything. AI made answers free. Eight billion people can now get an expert-level response to nearly any question in under ten seconds. Which means the answer is no longer the edge. The question is. And great questions require the one thing no model can replicate. Knowing what you don’t know. Judgment built from years of failure. Pattern recognition earned through reps. The instinct to sense when something sounds right but isn’t. That is a human skill. And it’s atrophying in real time. Because people aren’t using AI to sharpen their thinking. They’re using it to replace their thinking. Huang: “In order to formulate good questions, you have to be thinking, you have to be analytical, you have to be reasoning yourself.” Jensen didn’t say AI makes you smarter. He said you already have to be thinking for AI to work. The tool doesn’t elevate you. Your questions do. The machine just reveals the level you were already operating at. Jensen didn’t build NVIDIA into the most valuable company on earth by out-answering his competitors. He built it by asking questions they never thought to ask. Same market. Same data. Same physics. Different questions. Different empire. That’s the quiet filter. And it’s already here. AI won’t make the thoughtful obsolete. It will make the passive extinct. Every answer AI gives is available to eight billion people. The question you asked to get there isn’t. That’s the last edge a human being has. And almost nobody is protecting it.

everything a robotics company needs to go from 0→1: - one real customer problem with hard ROI, not a demo - one hero workflow you own end-to-end (automation + human-in-the-loop fallback) - simulation for fast iteration (NVIDIA Isaac, MuJoCo, Drake, Genesis) - a single testbed robot you can abuse every day - ROS 2 (+ Zenoh) + production-grade drivers and health checks - a reproducible OS image and reliable OTA (Mender, Balena, Airbotics) - logs and bags shipped to searchable storage (mostly S3 + custom scripts, Alloy) - a tight feedback loop between operators, support, and engineering (Slack threads and prayer) everything you need to go from 1→n: - fleet management, task dispatch, and traffic control (Formant, InOrbit, Open-RMF, Cogniteam) - secure connectivity with per-robot identity (Husarnet, Tailscale, Starlink backhaul, mostly custom) - edge compute and onboard inference (Jetson, Hailo, Luxonis OAK, AMD Kria) - observability wired into incident response and root-cause analysis (Nominal, Sift, Alloy) - labelled data, evals, and a versioned ML pipeline into production (Roboflow for CV, W&B for tracking, custom ETL) - safety cases, audit trails, and compliance your biggest customer will sign off on (mostly custom) - multi-robot ops playbooks and a real on-call rotation (mostly tribal knowledge) - a data layer that turns every mission into training signal (Alloy + internal glue) there is variance across industries but these categories are broadly true for modern robotics teams

Three rules for mixing plain text and designed emails: 1. Use plain text for high-trust moments. Win-backs, founder notes, and post-purchase check-ins perform better when they feel human. 2. Use designed emails for product launches and promotions where visual presentation supports the offer. 3. Never default to designed just because it looks more professional. Plain text in the right moment will outperform a beautifully designed email almost every time.

I don't know anyone doing email design better than us. + $50M in revenue says I'm right. Pick a template. Drop in the product. Hit send. ^ is what it feels like 90% of the market still does Then wonder why nobody's clicking. Every email we build follows the same core principles: - Clear CTA above the fold - Strong visual hierarchy - One goal per email - Scannable copy - Mobile first But there's something more fundamental underneath all of it. The email's job isn't to sell the product. It's to sell the click. Pique their curiosity. Get them to the site. That's where the conversion happens. When you design with that in mind, everything changes. What you include, what you cut, where the button goes, how much copy you actually need. Design is strategy. If your emails aren't moving people to click, nothing else matters. What do your current email designs actually look like?

I’ve got a theory. When people don’t create music art ideas anything… they start creating problems instead. Unused energy gets weird.

You can't copy someone who's creating from a place you've never been.