AI in robotics gets all the attention right now, but sometimes the most interesting work is very practical.
Viet built a small vision system that counts potatoes on a conveyor belt. No giant dataset. No huge model. Just a clear problem and a smart setup.
He used Ultralytics’ ObjectCounter, trained a tiny YOLO11 nano model, and because there was no potato dataset, he annotated a single frame with SAM 2 and trained from that. One frame. Still works across the whole video.
It is a good reminder that useful AI in industry often looks like this.
Focused. Lightweight. Solves a real task.
If you work in manufacturing or robotics, these small systems are usually the fastest wins. They save time, reduce errors, and do not need massive infrastructure.
Nice work, Viet.
His projects:
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Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI):
"You no longer need to write prompts."
In just 38 minutes, he explains how to use ChatGPT at a level that most people can't even imagine.
It's a talk he gave to Stanford students. A friend sent me the recording last night.
After watching it, I realized I was only taking advantage of about 15% of what this tool can really do.
Watch it in full and then read the guide I leave below on how to create a system that prompts itself.
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i'm sorry, Claude can WHAT?
it can take your website link, find people who need your product, email them and book the calls?
since when?? i've been doing this by hand for a YEAR.
ok. testing it: $30 free 👇
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Met a guy making $1.4 million a year as a prompt engineer.
I asked him how he learned prompting so well.
He sent me a video that was never supposed to get out. Andrew Ng's 2 hour prompting course.
You wont find anything better about prompting than this video.
I watched it last night.
Halfway through, I realized I have been using Claude completely wrong for years.
Bookmark and watch this today.
GOOGLE CEO SUNDAR PICHAI: "IF YOU DON'T LEARN HOW TO ORCHESTRATE AGENTS NOW, YOU'LL SPEND 2027 CATCHING UP TO PEOPLE WHO STARTED TODAY."
30 minutes on why the best engineers stopped writing code line by line and started orchestrating agents instead.
Most people think building an agent requires an engineering degree.
It doesn't.
It requires one guide and one afternoon.
Watch the interview. Then read the article below.
One guide. One afternoon. That's all it takes.
Today we're introducing Claude for Hardware.
Just enter your hardware idea and Blueprint gives you an entire hardware plan for your build.
What becomes possible now is insane.
I'm a Muslim mother. Most of my daughter's friends are non-Muslim White girls, and they practically live at my house.
They tell me they feel safe here. There's no alcohol, no drunk parents, home-cooked food, stability, and someone who actually listens to them.
To be honest, I know more about some of these girls than their own parents do.
Now, I'm not saying this is every family. It isn't. But there are pockets of the UK where family breakdown, absent parenting, substance abuse, and a lack of structure are having a real impact on young people.
What strikes me is that these girls don't reject boundaries, they crave them. They want guidance, consistency, and adults who are present in their lives.
As a Muslim, none of this is accidental. Islam teaches me that raising children is a responsibility, that parents should be present, that the home should be a place of safety, and that family life should be built on love, discipline, stability, and mutual respect.
For years, many traditional values have been dismissed as old-fashioned or oppressive. Yet I see young people actively seeking the very things those values provide: structure, belonging, accountability, and care.
Children don't just need freedom. They need guidance. They need adults who are invested in them.
Maybe part of the problem is that we've spent decades dismantling institutions, traditions, and family norms without asking what would replace them. From where I'm standing, a lot of young people are paying the price for that experiment.
The endgame of competence is simple: you become so skilled, so resourceful, and so strategically embedded that whether it’s a company, a relationship, or a project, the rational move for everyone involved is to keep you, reward you, and bet on you, because losing you would cost them more than they’re willing to pay.
A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.
He knows his time is running out.
So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.
He died 5 months later.
This is that lecture.
The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later
Every time you accepted a salary, chose a price, or walked into a negotiation, the other person was running GAME THEORY in their head.
You were guessing.
This 1-hour Yale lecture by Professor Ben Polak will permanently change how you read people and make decisions.
Most MBAs pay $150k to learn this. Yale posted it for free:
someone built an OPENSOURCE MILITARY RADAR that tracks multiple targets up to 20km away.
contractors charge a quarter-million dollars for this tech. one dev just put the entire github repo online for free.
pcbs, fpga code, schematics, python gui. all under MIT license..
🚨 Microsoft has solved the biggest problem with AI.
They open-sourced bitnet.cpp. It’s a 1-bit inference framework that runs massive 100B parameter models directly on your CPU without GPUs.
it uses 82% less energy.. 100% open-source.
Don’t overcomplicate it.
• Build a File Search Tool to learn recursion and indexing
• Build a Markdown to HTML Converter to practice parsing
• Build a Rate Limiter to understand queues and timing
• Build a JSON Database to learn serialization and storage
• Build a Chat Server (CLI) to understand sockets and concurrency
• Build a Static Site Generator to learn templates and file systems
• Build a Git-like Version Tracker to understand diffs and commits
• Build a Task Scheduler to learn cron like logic and timing
• Build a Cache System to understand TTL and eviction strategies
• Build a Load Balancer (simple) to understand routing logic
• Build a Port Scanner to learn networking basics
• Build a Config Manager to learn env files and parsing
• Build a Search Autocomplete using prefix trees (Trie)
• Build a Notes App with tagging to learn indexing
• Build a Simple Queue System to learn producers & consumers
• Build a Backup Tool to learn file copying and versioning
• Build a Feature Flag System to learn toggles and configs
• Build a Simple API Client (like Postman CLI)
• Build a Diff Tool to compare files line-by-line
• Build a Mini Template Engine to learn string processing
Build Projects, Not just tutorials.
🚨BREAKING: A dev just open-sourced the #1 ranked OCR model on Earth.
It's called GLM-OCR and it just hit 94.62 on OmniDocBench V1.5, beating every OCR model in existence.
Only 0.9B parameters. One pip install. Handles documents no other model could touch.
100% Open Source.