Audrow Nash

Robotics engineer @IntrinsicAI + Host of the Audrow Nash Podcast

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New episode with Amarjot Singh of @SkylarkLabs!

Why Defense Gets Humanoids Before Your Home Does

We've been hearing how imitation learning won't work in production because it works 70-90% of the time, not the 99.99% needed in most industries. For defense work, like kicking in a door, 70% is fine if it gets a human out of harm's way.

I recommend listening at 1.5x

Timestamps:

3:30 Humanoids that sweep for bombs
17:26 1,000x less data
21:58 Spotting a camouflaged tank
55:01 The humanoid Turing test
1:10:56 Why defense before homes
1:28:21 Advice for founders

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Another weekend with no Claude usage left 😢

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@ethanblagg @_dynamo_air It's coming together, so exciting!

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@DanielMiessler This is great analogy.

Before we were exploring with a stick and poking around.

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I'd think lower your expenses (pay off debt, cut unnecessary spending) and try to get some alternate income streams (rental, stocks, etc). When your family can live meagerly without too much difficulty, go all in.

Also, work on ideas on the side. Much of prompting is waiting these days, anyway

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@kanekallaway Story!

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@wholemars There's also still a huge amount to it. It's still a massive undertaking to try to get something valuable.

I also think AI, being as good as it is, makes scope creep even worse - making it harder to ship without discipline

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@ChrisWithRobots @bot Good points. Yeah, false alarms would be bad.

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I'm all for the Roadster just being awesome, but could the jets also be a safety feature?

This happened to my grandparents recently. Their car couldn't fly out of the way.

(Made with Grok @bot and Blender)

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I'm all for the Roadster just being awesome, but could the jets also be a safety feature?

This happened to my grandparents recently. Their car couldn't fly out of the way.

(Made with Grok @bot and Blender)

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@hansonhihihi @bot 😂🚀💸

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@DanielSmidstrup 10x smarter. We could probably then figure out the other two

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@KevinNaughtonJr We have to rethink how to work. Deep work isn't what it used to be. Is deep context switching is the new game?

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@nagaraj_arvind @bot That'd be sweet. I wonder when we'll get it. Would be fun to be able to move like a super soldier.

The exoskeletons for rehab are great. Seems wonderful for folks that have trouble with mobility

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@nagaraj_arvind @bot Imagine you’re not paying attention, your car jumps suddenly, you land disoriented, and then you realize it saved you from a serious crash from a distracted driver

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@ben_sage SaaS
Coding
Blogging
Startups

(I don't know about SEO)

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@cheekyvisuals Yeah, I'm rethinking how I work.

I used to be all deep work, now it's a shorter deep work and then a few checkin windows throughout the day.

Way to exhausting to be checking in continuously while I'm doing other things

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@patrick_kuhnke_ With a big difference that it can be progressively improved

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@markbuildsbrand I think it's good to have a space that's easier for you and your AI to work with. A second brain can be that.

IE, summaries of research findings, tasks, meeting notes, online clippings are all good candidates for things you want to access and you want your AI to access

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@burkeholland Infinite programming speed hasn't really sped things up at work. I don't think programming was the bottleneck.

Seems like it's more consensus and understanding customer needs that's the bottleneck.