Adam Nagel

Engineering @ P-1 AI @p_1_ai
Hiker, Camper, Motorcyclist, Music Obsessive

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

The single most accurate science fiction author writing about AI turned out to be… Douglas Adams

He wrote about AIs that work best when emotionally manipulated & that guilt you in turn. And he understood there was no upper bound on test time compute for hard problem. Also 🐬s.

[R/GA @RGA]

Imagine being prompted to sign in with Authenticator from here

[Grant Tremblay @astrogrant]

“I have two versions of outlook and neither of them are working” is actually a generational NASA quote now. Not quite One Small Step but every generation lives in a different world

[sigfig @sigfig]

people misunderstand the icarus story. the problem was not that he flew too high. it's that the wings were made of beeswax, which offered very little resistance to heating. with modern materials he would have had no problems. we can fly as close to the sun as we want now

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Command line & node-based interfaces are the default from the AI labs because so much AI work is focused on code

But many professions besides programmers have their own process interfaces that would be amenable to AI: journeys and canvases and lab notebooks and war rooms and...

[signüll @signulll]

civilization’s amnesia loop:

1. notice a problem
2. invent a fix
3. turn the fix into tradition
4. forget what it was fixing
5. toss the tradition aside
6. rediscover the problem

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Orson Welles, one my favourite interviews ever

[Sonya Huang 🐥 @sonyatweetybird]

From airplane wings to Dyson spheres, @PaulEremenko explains why physical engineering AI has lagged behind coding AI, and how @p_1_ai's approach to synthetic training data could change everything.

[Sonya Huang 🐥 @sonyatweetybird]

Our first special furry four legged guest on Training Data? And a very beautiful and well-behaved one at that! @gradypb @sequoia @PaulEremenko

PS Google dog decoder model wen @OfficialLoganK @joshwoodward

[Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) @antoniogm]

How can people fly with closed window blinds?

Flying is miraculous. Like God Himself, you peer down at creation in all its infinite complexity.

How can you manage to pull your eyes away, much less willfully ignore the wonder?

[Paul Eremenko @PaulEremenko]

🙋‍♂️ we are! here's a writeup from @sharongoldman on our journey thus far with @p_1_ai, and on one of my co-founders, the talented @gordic_aleksa

https://t.co/OJ7KNJFkT4

[Sharon Goldman @sharongoldman]

Exclusive: What If AI could design a jet engine—or even a starship? Google DeepMind and Airbus veterans just raised $23M with an eye on that future

@gordic_aleksa

https://t.co/NtbOTqLybb

[Steven Heidel @stevenheidel]

think really hard

[Adam Nagel @adamnagel]

@opensea Motorized 2-wheel transportation is pervasive in Cuba. While the retrofitted automobiles of the 50’s & 60's are the pinup models of Cuban transportation, it’s clear that motorcycles & scooters are the pragmatic choice, and they can be just as photogenic.

https://t.co/MWtzuA8Qna

[Adam Nagel @adamnagel]

@justinmj love the Peter Hook treatment on Fast Slow Disco

[Patrick Coddou @soundslikecanoe]

I have only two speeds of email reply:

27 seconds
3 weeks

[MetaMorph Inc. @metamorphTN]

TASCK provides the framework needed to create on-demand robotics tailored to a particular task in real-time. Enables the rapid creation of highly customized, on-demand robotic capability.
https://t.co/J0ad622tBr

#openmeta #hebirobotics #robotics #ros #gazebo

[Adam Nagel @adamnagel]

Programmer Shorthand, ex #1:
“Best” ➡️ “Least worst” ➡️ “Least worst for this use case” ➡️ “Least worst for this use case, assuming that we understand it correctly”

[Adam Nagel @adamnagel]

If you went back in time 20 years and told me that I could talk to robots on the phone, and furthermore that I would do it all the time, I'd be beside myself with excitement. As it turns out, not so great.