William Pryor

i'm just on here to pay for my sailing addiction

Boston Dynamics, 1X, Rice alum
Skycatch (acq. Caterpillar) founding engineer

RT != anything

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@i2cjak Must be inspired by the AT-5000 autodialer from the Simpsons. Nice

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@OSHBuilt @c0nst I hear ya, tho these days you could sic an agent on it.

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@OSHBuilt @c0nst Were you able to negotiate them down?

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@SamuelBeek Would this work to replace a label maker?

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@youwillmakemaps incredible stuff

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

It’s been 51 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank into Lake Superior. Today, we honor the 29 brave souls we lost on that tragic day. May their memory live on.

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Do you want a monkey cargo cult? Because this is how you get a monkey cargo cult.

[ABC News @ABC]

A drone delivered food to a 38-year-old chimpanzee named Kaleb after flooding damaged roads, buildings and equipment at the Save the Chimps sanctuary in Fort Pierce, Florida. https://t.co/OqiGkFN4bd

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@bhertzog @john_frankel @AnthropicAI @starwars Duuuudw, you did not!!! Hahaha!!

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@Willob @LaFrogman new Burning Man theme camp just dropped

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@creatine_cycle L6 SWE (Brisbane/remote) = AU$78,000 p/a

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@Ricburton golden pdf as fuck

[REINDUSTRIALIZE @reindsummit]

Onward and upward, American.

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“Ask directly for what you want, far more often than feels comfortable.”

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Fable 5.2 on the worlds greatest life hack

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@jamesonhodge It’s always just a series of tubes isn’t it

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This is truly the stuff of legends. Adrian Bowyer (founder of RepRap, the foundation of modern 3D printing) level contribution to society. Thank you @hardwareguy_

[Gareth @hardwareguy_]

Two years ago I open sourced my DIY CNC machine, which cost me £2,655.80 and 9 months of my spare time. The Fusion 360 project, the drawings, the bill of materials, the STLs, the wiring diagrams and the Mach3 profile, all for free.

People ask why I didn't sell the plans... the answer is simple. Selling the plans would have defeated the whole point of the project, shutting out the very people I built it for.

My goal was to build a capable, sturdy machine for as little money as possible. Industrial-grade larger footprint machines are well out of reach for most hobbyists and small woodworking businesses. With a few minor trade-offs, you can build my machine for a fraction of the price, with nothing more than basic workshop tools.

10,000+ downloads later, people all over the world send me photos of the machine I designed, now fully built and operational in their own workshops.

That's what I love about open source. It's for people. Nobody needs permission or a subscription to build their own tools. You can repair them, upgrade them, and write your own software, because you know them inside and out.

This fills me with joy like nothing else.

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@lennysan Can confirm. Saw dozens of whales off of the Farallones recently. Absolute feeding frenzy

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Narrative violation: Met a fisherman from Santa Cruz last night who’s been fishing for over 50 years. He said the ocean is the healthiest he’s ever seen it. More fish than ever, whale populations are booming, species that had nearly disappeared are coming back.

Not all doom and gloom out there.

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wow. love this analogy

[Nate Lorenzen @NateLorenzen]

Bootstrapped founder finding PMF

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@chris_j_paxton Keep going, buddy!

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History repeats itself! Handle, a wheeled biped from @BostonDynamics, was created after warehouse operators had a strong response to seeing an early Atlas demo moving boxes. A decade later, we see Atlas with wheeled legs.

[Boston Dynamics @BostonDynamics]

When rubber meets the road, we have to get creative to ensure our robots will be reliable and performant outside of the lab! Putting wheels on Atlas let us test how faithfully an RL whole-body controller can work with real actuators running at the edge.

Learn more about this experiment: https://t.co/jLfnmuIZbl
Join our team: https://t.co/AKksfLSB0k