Jacob Werbin

Biomed engineer, industrial designer, human
Prev Co-founder/CTO @ Spectral Smart Clothing, & CS are starting to look the same..

[Ryan Orbuch @orbuch]

A weird property of the frontier: finding the edge forces a realization that there’s very few people there, the others who’ve found it are tightly clustered and therefore quite happy to see you, and you all can’t help but ask “where is everybody?” in escalating confusion

[John Rush @johnrushx]

4. A mushroom was given a robot body and learned to crawl on its own.

Non-human life might be way smarter than we all think and perhaps connecting them to tech/ai will bring new forms of useful life.

[Jacob Werbin @JacobWerbin]

@snwy_me It’s symbolic computing all the way down. or pointers :)

[Jacob Werbin @JacobWerbin]

@matthuang I was told to come collect this quest. What are we making?

[Jacob Werbin @JacobWerbin]

@Plinz Is this similar to the embedding hyperdimensional computing performs?

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

I expect that the most important breakthroughs towards AGI will require moving to the models to real-time interaction and continual learning, and entice them to discover a coherent language of thought. Consciousness is probably going to emerge with second order attention.

[Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh]

Which makes you happier?

Knowing

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

Happiness, bliss and even satisfaction are instrumental. Don't aim for positive emotions, aim for integrity.

[Jacob Werbin @JacobWerbin]

@mattparlmer I bought cut to length black extrusions from Misumi in mid November. Just shipped yesterday. Driving me insane too

[Jacob Werbin @JacobWerbin]

@knikkhilraj @typesfast Just-in-time production infra is the way

[lab.bio 💚🥼 @lab_dao]

💚🌱 The future of science is a world where you can raise funding, run experiments and publish papers no matter how old you are, what you look like and what credentials you have.

[Jacob Werbin @JacobWerbin]

@callmehouck I made something that solved an unsexy problem and was scalable with good margins. Teachers nitpicked at the small solvable design quirks, engineering lab wouldn’t allow me to build it without a professor signing off that it was a school project

[Jacob Werbin @JacobWerbin]

@camwiese @SeaworthyDaniel

[Jacob Werbin @JacobWerbin]

@wolfejosh The future of medicine, space, sensing, robotics, mathematics, are already returning in a big way to human’s oldest inventions: textiles

[Jacob Werbin @JacobWerbin]

@vkhosla @karpathy @edpizzi @ilyasut Is the book dedicated to Friston’s FEP?

[Jacob Werbin @JacobWerbin]

@PartyRound @chrisbosh

[Pablo Felgueres @pfelgueres]

Last week hacked on a mushroom robo-farm to help solve for our mental health needs with @HardTechMiami and @JacobWerbin, who’s been thinking deeply about this problem.

Hardtech is for ambitious and particularly optimist builders.

Can't wait to see what comes out of this group!

[Jacob Werbin @JacobWerbin]

@swimsf @LarissaInsogna @lab_dao

[fbones212 @fbones212]

celebrating @HardTechMiami 1st place win @MiamiHackWeek @channingpear @CarlosLiverani @Alie_GG @schneurwerde @JacobWerbin @davefontenot @yardie @HowardBGil LFG

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

The perceptual now is partially in the past and partially in the future of the physical now. Neurons are slow; the current moment is a prediction of states hundreds of ms in the future. Since predictions are often wrong, the memory of what happens now is reedited after the fact.