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Don't just think out of the box, keep the box too small.

Follow your heart ♥️

Shaping atoms, moving bits.

Ikigai: staring into the abyss and eating glass

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@Zellerfella @hthieblot @fdotinc

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@fanatelevision Finally

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@r0b0t_sp1der @yacineMTB Routing a PCB like the motherboard of a PC

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@ShangguanJiewen Beautiful

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@jfbrly @kodjima33 For some archetypes it is

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@BallifJed @aegrabs Get Creality Halot Mage for $300-$400 on Amazon.

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@cixliv @meowbooksj Right, 10/4

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@cixliv @meowbooksj The new versions are taller

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A 15-year-old girl immigrates to New Jersey from China. Doesn’t speak English. Her parents, both educated engineers back in Chengdu, are now working as cashiers and restaurant cooks. She gets a job washing dishes at a Chinese restaurant to help the family survive.

She gets into Princeton on a full scholarship. Her reaction is so disbelieving she asks two different advisors to verify the acceptance letter is real. Then her mom gets sick, so the family opens a dry cleaning shop in Parsippany. Every weekend for seven years, Fei-Fei Li leaves Princeton’s physics department to run the register, handle inspections, talk to customers, manage billing. Monday through Friday: quantum mechanics problem sets. Saturday and Sunday: sorting other people’s laundry. She later called herself the “CEO” of the dry cleaning business. She kept running it remotely through half of her PhD at Caltech.

In 2007, she proposed building an image dataset so massive her own mentor told her she’d taken the idea “way too far.” Pre-ImageNet, the entire AI field was working with datasets containing a few hundred images. She built one with 15 million. Most researchers at the time believed algorithms were the bottleneck. She bet on data when nobody else would.

By 2012, a team ran a neural network on that dataset and halved the existing error rate overnight. AlexNet on ImageNet became the moment the deep learning era started. Every computer vision product shipping today traces its lineage back to that dataset.

Fast forward to 2024. She starts World Labs. Four months in, $230 million raise, $1 billion valuation. Today, $1 billion more at roughly $5 billion.

The bet investors are making: that the woman who gave AI its eyes with 2D image recognition is about to give it spatial awareness of the 3D physical world. Her new model, Marble, generates persistent 3D environments from text or images. Unlike video generators that fake depth frame by frame, Marble creates actual geometric space where objects stay where you left them.

The investor list tells you everything. AMD and NVIDIA both wrote checks. When the two biggest competing chipmakers both fund the same startup, they’re telling you this workload is coming whether their competitor funds it or not. Autodesk put in $200 million and signed on as strategic advisor, which means they see spatial AI integrating directly into CAD and design workflows within 18 months.

From dry cleaner to ImageNet to a $5 billion spatial intelligence company. Fei-Fei Li has now placed two bets that the rest of the field thought were too early and too big. The first one created modern computer vision. The second one is trying to give machines the ability to understand physics.

If she’s right again, this is the last major unlock before embodied AI actually works.

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@buildpcbswithAI @tundespeaks seems like Trace?

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@R3PL1C8R @clayhaight More RAM, more sheets

[Bella @BellaBaddie__]

I still don’t get the concept behind life. What exactly are we here for?

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@gabednconfused @Material_HM SG, good luck!

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@techreview @grok what's this about

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@Fateen_Anam @heybondu Really cool

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@SocraticScribe @jurijkovalenok1 Light acts as both a particle and a wave. Even in vacuum, without air bubbles, light waves can have momentum and cause a spin.

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@muvaofmarketing Naaa, I'm good

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