Abel Lin

Skill-edge searcher, loves @melotones.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

Norway now has more than 2,000 underwater AI laser robots shooting lice off its salmon

they're made by a company called Stingray, and they already guard more than 50 million salmon and trout 24/7

the reason is sea lice, tiny parasites that latch onto salmon and feed on them

as few as 11 can kill a small fish, and one pen can hold 150,000 salmon

the usual fix is pumping the fish out and blasting them with warm water or water jets to knock the lice off

but the handling is so rough that Norway's fish health report ranks it the top cause of death in full-grown farmed salmon

so instead, Stingray puts a robot inside the pen that hunts lice one at a time, all day:

> two cameras watch every salmon that swims past

> AI checks two frames to make sure it's really a louse

> then a green laser fires from up to 2 meters away

> the salmon's scales reflect the beam, so the fish swims off fine and the louse is dead

we now live in a world where AI lasers do pest control on your dinner lmao

[han @hanhanhan_kim]

Your competitors tell the world what they're building. It's in their patent filings, and almost nobody reads them.

So @fearnlegal we built The Thicket. Follow a company, a technology or a single patent, and every Monday you get what moved.

[Abel Lin @abel]

@chanian That's right, it seems I have the 2010-2016 OG profile :) Half-pound wagyu with duck-fat fries...

[Abel Lin @abel]

Tears in rain

[Ya Boy Big Nel @TheeNelDog]

Norm Macdonald describing why he loves to gamble is really quite profound.

[Abel Lin @abel]

I asked the machines what the physical equivalent was of over 4,000 people working for eight years on GTA VI.

Hoover Dam (1931 to 1936), at its peak had an average simultaneous crew of ~3,500 to 4,000.

So GTA VI was roughly one and a half Hoover Dams of human labor.

[Matt Huang @matthuang]

Open USD (OUSD), the new stablecoin from Coinbase, Mastercard, Stripe, Visa and others launches today.

Excited to have over $400M of launch liquidity on Tempo!

[han @hanhanhan_kim]

Today, we're killing the billable hour for patent work.

Fearn Legal (@fearnlegal ) is a modern patent firm built from the ground up on our own operating system, FearnOS.

What that means:
→ Flat fees, not hourly billing
→ Drafts in days, not months
→ Experienced patent attorneys reviewing every application
→ One platform for your entire portfolio, with permissions you control

If you're building something worth protecting, we'd love to help.

[Ian Chan @chanian]

🔊professional update

tl;dr: I started a company, TokenCompass (@tokencompassai) a workforce AI spend measurement and impact attribution platform.

I've spent my career building analytics, attribution and measurement products. I've also managed hundreds of engineers and multi-million dollar cloud bills. Nothing could have prepared me for how much AI has changed our industry and how we plan and work.

The token is becoming the fundamental unit of enterprise work - spanning teams, departments, humans, and agents alike. Organizations need to budget tokens deliberately and deploy them across a diverse mix of AI products and platforms. That demands new tooling, and new ways of measuring work.

That’s why I’m building TokenCompass, which focuses on multi-provider AI spend measurement (how much are we spending across every tool?), and cross company usage + impact attribution (are we using the tools effectively, and making an impact?).

We’re in private beta now. So if you’re trying to stay on top of costs, and trying to get a better understanding of AI usage and impact within your organization, please comment, DM or sign up to request a demo!

[link below in the comments]
More soon!

(ok, back to doom posting)

[Abel Lin @abel]

The “I normally hate AI slop but this was good” is now a regular take across all my feeds. The water’s getting warm…

[The Mind Scourge @TheMindScourge]

This is a Costco door, and it’s increasingly standard in new build construction in the suburbs

Developers know their customer very well.

[allison harvard burke @alliharvard]

i've pumped all my money into this fucking lizard

[Abel Lin @abel]

@jamesjyu AIs just have their own accents like any other race would

[Abel Lin @abel]

"Not giving up" means finishing the game with 100% effort. Ten moves ago, this was -7.2 dead lost for White.

[Abel Lin @abel]

"The last really big math revolution was all the stuff in the wake of Witten and 4-manifold stuff predicted by string theory in the early 90's. This is going to be so much bigger than that. Buckle up."

[Kenneth Cassel @KennethCassel]

there are corners of capitalism you’ll never know about

you truly can make money making and selling anything

Non nyc pizza businesses buy this system so their pizza can taste more New York

[Atoms Not Bits @AtomsNotBits]

BREAKING: Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, has crossed 1 million drone deliveries across Texas, Arkansas, Florida, and North Carolina.

The company says its drone delivery network now averages 23-minute deliveries

[Abel Lin @abel]

@OrleansPokerRo1 You guys used to have NL 2-7 SD events, something I always looked forward to on the calendar!

[Abel Lin @abel]

@tamhussein Great read, so much of the training in all skills goes unnoticed, so that for many, the results are not well understood anymore.

[Abel Lin @abel]

@nummanali @mattpocockuk @leerob Is there someone you'd recommend for Claude Code?