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It’s pretty cool what a robot can do. This is before hand finishing.
But if you look at this and think you’re getting fine art without human stone carvers…just look closer.
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Sebastian Marino
@waiting4yuki
CTO @ Monumental Labs | Robots, Physical AI, Art
Manhattan, NY Katılım Haziran 2017
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Subsurface scattering has a real impact on marble sculpture as well. It smooths and flattens the object. The direct carver of marble will compensate by deepening and sharpening.
Often digitally designed objects appear sharp in render but smooth after CNC milling. That is partly the limits of the conical bits used but also the effect of the digital designers not compensating for subsurface scattering.
At Monumental Labs we designed a render tool to show the impact of subsurface scattering to our designers so they can deepen and sharpen appropriately at the digital file stage.
Samuel Hughes@SCP_Hughes
Marble has a property called 'subsurface scattering', meaning that sunlight not only illumines its surface, but a millimetre or so of its depth. This yields an effect of softness and luminosity. In the few cities in which architectural marble is common, the aggregate effect of this is astonishing. This is true above all in Washington DC. I discuss this and other impressions in my travel diary from Washington DC: worksinprogress.co/issue/a-washin…
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We gave our digital artist the tools to capably design sculpture in marble:
Micah Springut@mspringut
Subsurface scattering has a real impact on marble sculpture as well. It smooths and flattens the object. The direct carver of marble will compensate by deepening and sharpening. Often digitally designed objects appear sharp in render but smooth after CNC milling. That is partly the limits of the conical bits used but also the effect of the digital designers not compensating for subsurface scattering. At Monumental Labs we designed a render tool to show the impact of subsurface scattering to our designers so they can deepen and sharpen appropriately at the digital file stage.
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Another NY landscape reborn thanks to the carvers, artists, and robots of Monumental Labs.
(We re-carved a large section of the tympanum that had cracked and split off)
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If you want cities of stone, you’ll need autonomous robots.
Micah Springut@mspringut
Never manually directing a robot arm again...no MOVEJ's, no ZROTs, no nothing This is Monumental Labs’ NOFUX IK — Non-Oriented Free-Update Xform System just push one button…and the user has to give no f____ 🤓🤯
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Never manually directing a robot arm again...no MOVEJ's, no ZROTs, no nothing
This is Monumental Labs’ NOFUX IK — Non-Oriented Free-Update Xform System
just push one button…and the user has to give no f____ 🤓🤯
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@eladgil BS.
Attention was born in Montréal
PyTorch in NYC.
AlphaGo in London
AlphaFold in London
ESMFold in NYC
Llama 1 in Paris.
Llama 2 in Paris+NYC+SV
DeepSeek in Hangzhou
Plus:
DINO in Paris
JEPA in Montréal+Paris+NYC
SV is 3 mos ahead on topics SV is singularly obsessed with.
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Dario is wrong.
He knows absolutely nothing about the effects of technological revolutions on the labor market.
Don't listen to him, Sam, Yoshua, Geoff, or me on this topic.
Listen to economists who have spent their career studying this, like @Ph_Aghion , @erikbryn , @DAcemogluMIT , @amcafee , @davidautor
TFTC@TFTC21
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: “50% of all tech jobs, entry-level lawyers, consultants, and finance professionals will be completely wiped out within 1–5 years.”
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We're going around the Moon. Come watch with us. Artemis II's four-astronaut crew is lifting off from @NASAKennedy on an approximately 10-day mission that will bring us closer to living on the Moon and Mars. The launch window opens at 6:24pm ET (2224 UTC). twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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Order now C̶e̶i̶l̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶D̶a̶m̶o̶c̶l̶e̶s̶ the focus stone™
Micah Springut@mspringut
As a company leader it’s important to listen to great ideas from your team. My colleagues Andrew and James imagined and prototyped the product that’s become Monumental Labs’ #1 revenue driver! They understood that high ceilings are great for creative thinking but terrible for focus. And most rooms just can’t change shape that easily. Their breakthrough: the focus stone™ A 6-inch slab of marble that matches your ceiling height to ANY task. What are customers doing with these 6+ ton stones over their heads? Let’s dive in. 🧵
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Of course y'all did.
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Monumental Labs@Monumental_Labs
We made this 4ft, 1000lb marble bitcoin
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I know there is some overlap between open source and anti-AI activists, but I have a hard time reconciling it. My million+ open source LOC were always intended as a gift to the world. Yes, I would make arguments about how it would strengthen our communities, and the GPL would prevent outright exploitation by our competitors, but those were to allay fears of my partners to allow me to make the gift.
AI training on the code magnifies the value of the gift. I am enthusiastic about it!
Some people do look at open source as a tool for social change, career advancement, or reputation building, but those are all downstream of the gift.
Rich Whitehouse@DickWhitehouse
Genuinely devastating take to see from someone who popularized the GPL across so many communities. Fails to appreciate the social and cultural importance of the license.
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News flash: we’re going to build entire buildings of stone that are cheaper than steel and concrete. That’s how beauty returns (and venture gets their returns).
Nick Durham@pnickdurham
Last year, we invested in @Monumental_Labs. They use AI and robotics to reduce the cost of stone fabrication by 90%. Construction tech is our game and while I think what they are doing with art and sculpture fab is amazing, the bull case for ML imo was doing building scale construction with stone. Essentially, reviving a dormant material type for type I construction to compete directly with steel and concrete. Before investing, I had to answer a question that's been nagging me for years: exactly when and why did we stop building with natural materials like stone? Where did beauty in our built environment go to die? It's mostly always been an economic story.
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