Konez

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[Konez @0xKonez]

THIS IS THE VIDEO TESLA DIDN'T NEED TO HYPE. IT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF

No demo stage. No cherry-picked camera angle. Just Optimus moving through a real environment like it belongs there.

Watch the hands. Watch how it adjusts mid-motion instead of freezing and recalculating like robots did two years ago. That smoothness is the whole story.

Every previous generation of humanoid robots had the same tell: the pause. The half-second where the machine stops to think. It's gone now.

People keep waiting for one big "iPhone moment" for robots. There won't be one. It will look exactly like this: short clips, each slightly less impressive to argue with than the last.

By the time everyone agrees robots are ready, they'll already be everywhere.

[0xForge @0xForge]

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[Konez @0xKonez]

Lecture 2 opens with a trick question: an object moves for ten seconds, ends where it started, and its average velocity is exactly zero.

That's the whole reason physics separates speed from velocity, and he proves it with one squiggly line on a chalkboard instead of a definition.

Minute 5 is the drawing everyone should have seen in school. A position versus time curve, two points picked on it, and the average velocity is just the slope of the line between them. Δx over Δt, nothing more.

Minute 7 shrinks that line until it touches the curve at a single point. That's instantaneous velocity, and that's the derivative, arrived at by squeezing a triangle rather than by memorizing a rule.

Minute 13 is the part textbooks skip. He measures a distance of 148.5 ± 0.5 cm, times the trip, and then compares relative errors: a third of a percent on the distance, several times worse on the clock. The lesson is which of your two measurements is actually ruining your answer.

Minute 16 is the honest bit. He states the predicted outcome before the demo runs, so there's nowhere to hide if the equipment disagrees.

Minute 25 does the same squeeze again, one level up. Average acceleration becomes instantaneous acceleration, dv/dt, and therefore the second derivative of position.

Minute 30 is the mental switch. Motion in one dimension with constant acceleration means position is always C1 plus C2·t plus C3·t², no exceptions, and every free fall problem you'll ever see is that one line in disguise.

Minute 41 closes a loop from lecture 1. There he derived t proportional to the square root of h over g but couldn't get the constant. Now with x = ½gt² the constant appears: it's the square root of 2.

Minute 47 he holds up an apple and drops it under a strobe firing twice a second, turning gravity into a row of dots you can measure with a ruler.

Fifty minutes of chalk, one apple, zero slides, and calculus arrives quietly as a side effect.

[Woodox @0xWoodox]

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[Konez @0xKonez]

@0xAlgero constraints reveal motion

[Algero @0xAlgero]

MIT filmed an exam review in 2007 and the best minute is at 47:26, after all the exam advice is over. 223 thousand views in 17 years.

it is free on YouTube. lecture 7 of 18.02, the first exam review, taught by Denis Auroux.

a student asks how to differentiate a dot product. the product rule survives: d/dt (r · r) = r' · r + r · r' = 2 r · r'.
now assume the length never changes. |r|² = r · r = constant. differentiate both sides. 2 r · r' = 0. so r ⊥ r'.

that is all of circular motion in one line. if a point is stuck on a sphere, its velocity is tangent to that sphere. no picture, no angles, no trig identities.

the rest of the review is built from two products in the same flat way. n = a × b is a normal to a plane. the line where two planes meet runs along n₁ × n₂. the area of a triangle is ½|a × b|. and Mx = 0 has a nonzero solution exactly when det M = 0, which is just the vectors being coplanar, said in algebra.

r · r' = 0 is what a gyroscope obeys. it is why a normalized quaternion stays normalized under its update. it is why the tension in a pendulum rod does no work: the force points along r, the motion does not.

the math is free and public. so is the lecture. what nobody can sell you is the reflex to differentiate a constraint instead of drawing a picture of it. that reflex is built over a semester, not one video.

[Konez @0xKonez]

Fake hair is not a strand count problem. It is decided before any strands exist.

The noob half has more hair than the pro half. That is the problem.

Guides emitted over the whole scalp. All shooting straight out. Nothing combed. A porcupine with a face behind it.

The pro half starts almost bald. About a dozen guides.
Steps and keys stay low. Six control points can be shaped by hand. Sixty cannot.

Deflect emitter on, small distance. Strands stop cutting through the skull. That checkbox is why most hair reads fake.

Then combing, in order. Parting first. Edges at the temples second.

Those two lines carry the whole illusion. They say hair grows out of skin. Everything between them is filler.

Density comes last. Children go up only after the flow is right.

That is why the final afro holds in gray clay. Real part line. Tight edges. Volume with direction.

The noob version ran the same math. No direction.

Hair is twelve curves and knowing which ones matter.

[Zynex @0xzynex]

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[Konez @0xKonez]

@0xNoraa persistence beats knowledge

[Konez @0xKonez]

HE TOOK A SCREWDRIVER TO A MAC MINI AND APPLE CANNOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT

The machine ships sealed, soldered, final, that is the whole pitch, you buy the configuration you can afford and live with it

Then a dock shows up that slides underneath with two M.2 slots inside and suddenly the sealed box has an upgrade path

Two drives, hidden, under the machine, no cable draped across your desk, nothing external to knock over

The clip is just hands and a screwdriver, no talking, and it still pulled thousands of saves

That number is the interesting part, every save is a person who paid Apple storage prices once and is not doing it again

It went up on Kickstarter, which tells you this was never a niche complaint

[Dominique @0xDominiqq]

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[Konez @0xKonez]

120,000 PEOPLE WATCHED HIM SLIDE AN SSD INTO A MAC MINI

A 990 Pro going into a slot Apple never gave you, underneath the machine, out of sight

8 in 1 workstation, dual SSD, 40Gbps, no external drive on the desk

30,000 people saved it, which tells you exactly how many quietly regretted their storage choice at checkout

The machine was never the limit, the order page was
Hit play, then check what Apple wanted for that upgrade

[Konez @0xKonez]

120,000 PEOPLE WATCHED HIM SLIDE AN SSD INTO A MAC MINI

A 990 Pro going into a slot Apple never gave you, underneath the machine, out of sight

8 in 1 workstation, dual SSD, 40Gbps, no external drive on the desk

30,000 people saved it, which tells you exactly how many quietly regretted their storage choice at checkout

The machine was never the limit, the order page was
Hit play, then check what Apple wanted for that upgrade

[Dominique @0xDominiqq]

https://t.co/nYXzVaAn7R

[Konez @0xKonez]

APPLE SELLS YOU A SEALED BOX HE TURNED IT INTO A STORAGE MONSTER

For years the Mac mini meant one deal

Pay Apple whatever the storage jump costs, or live cramped forever

And the price was never small, a few terabytes could nearly double what the machine cost

So people clicked the smaller option and quietly regretted it a month later

Then he slid this under the machine

A dock that hides beneath the Mac mini with real SSD slots inside, dual drives, no external box on the desk, no cable hanging off a port

He dropped in normal Samsung drives, the kind you buy anywhere for a fraction of Apple's price, terabytes just like that

And it moves data at 40 gigabits a second, faster than most people will ever need

The first reaction is always the same, you mean I never had to pay Apple for this

The math is what breaks people, Apple wanted a small fortune for the jump, he paid a slice of it and got more
And here is what nobody tells you, the Mac mini was never really limited, the checkout page was

The storage lives underneath, out of sight, the desk stays clean, the machine looks like nothing changed
He quadrupled a machine Apple called maxed out, most people are still paying full price for less

The upgrade was always in your hands, some people already stopped overpaying

Hit play, watch him slide it in, then tell me you still want to pay Apple's storage tax

[Konez @0xKonez]

@0xDominiqq true

[Konez @0xKonez]

APPLE SELLS YOU A SEALED BOX HE TURNED IT INTO A STORAGE MONSTER

For years the Mac mini meant one deal

Pay Apple whatever the storage jump costs, or live cramped forever

And the price was never small, a few terabytes could nearly double what the machine cost

So people clicked the smaller option and quietly regretted it a month later

Then he slid this under the machine

A dock that hides beneath the Mac mini with real SSD slots inside, dual drives, no external box on the desk, no cable hanging off a port

He dropped in normal Samsung drives, the kind you buy anywhere for a fraction of Apple's price, terabytes just like that

And it moves data at 40 gigabits a second, faster than most people will ever need

The first reaction is always the same, you mean I never had to pay Apple for this

The math is what breaks people, Apple wanted a small fortune for the jump, he paid a slice of it and got more
And here is what nobody tells you, the Mac mini was never really limited, the checkout page was

The storage lives underneath, out of sight, the desk stays clean, the machine looks like nothing changed
He quadrupled a machine Apple called maxed out, most people are still paying full price for less

The upgrade was always in your hands, some people already stopped overpaying

Hit play, watch him slide it in, then tell me you still want to pay Apple's storage tax

[Dominique @0xDominiqq]

https://t.co/nYXzVaAn7R