Pardol Kittimanon

Life is for learning.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Understand. Don't memorize.
Learn principles, not formulas.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

The thing nobody tells you about exponential change is that it feels like nothing is happening right up until the moment everything happens at once.

[nature @Nature]

Chemical traces on fifteenth-century surgical tools suggest that topical anaesthetics were used in China more than 600 years ago

https://t.co/nctK8GpY9B

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"Find your own way of functioning... I struggled for the first year and a half as an undergraduate... but I developed my own ways of learning things.

So I advise students, find your own way and your own directions that you can be successful in."

- Physics laureate Kip Thorne

[Premier League @premierleague]

In a league of his own.

Bruno Fernandes breaks the record for the most assists in a Premier League season!

[ZoAina_AI @AiwithZoaina]

🚨 SOMEONE JUST KILLED THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY

A guy scanned an entire house with his phone. Uploaded it.

Now anyone on Earth can walk through it in a browser tab. No app. No VR. No agent. No appointment.

Click → you’re inside. Every room. Every angle. Every shadow. Photoreal.

The numbers are insane:

- Agent fee on a $500k home: $15,000
- Cost to make this scan: ~$200
- Time to “tour” 50 houses: one evening
- File size: smaller than a TikTok

The science is wild too:

It’s called 3D Gaussian Splatting instead of polygons (how games render), it uses millions of tiny glowing “splats” of color and depth.

AI reconstructs reality from your photos. The result loads on a phone and looks like you’re THERE.

The grift opportunity is even wilder:

Freelancers are already charging $300–$800 per scan for realtors, Airbnbs, venues, car dealers, museums.

One person + one phone + one weekend = a business.

100% Open source. Built on PlayCanvas.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Christina Santhouse underwent surgery at age 8 to remove half of her brain in an effort to stop severe, ongoing seizures. Doctors predicted she would never be able to drive or live independently. Despite that, she went on to get her driver’s license at 17, complete both a bachelor’s and master’s degree within five years, and become a speech pathologist.

[Ronald van Loon @Ronald_vanLoon]

Small but Mighty: 1kW Wind Turbine Delivers Reliable #RenewableEnergy
by @engrfix1

#Sustainability #CleanEnergy

[Architect NLA @one_miloo]

These builders construct solid arches and domes without steel or concrete; pure craftsmanship.

[Science Simplified @Scivf4]

Italy developed fruit - shaped solar panels -designed like leaves that tilt toward sunlight, mimicking how plants naturally maximize energy absorption.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Tesla's Optimus V3 robot hand looks to have been revealed in a new international patent published today.

The patent describes a tendon/cable-driven hand:
• Actuators in the forearm
• Each finger has 4 degrees of freedom
• The wrist has 2 degrees of freedom
• Tendon-driven system: 3 thin, flexible control cables (tendons) per finger run from forearm actuators, through the wrist and into the fingers.
• Advanced wrist routing: Cables switch from a lateral (horizontal) stack on the forearm side to a vertical stack on the hand side, plus a transition zone to minimize stretch, torque, friction, and crosstalk during yaw/pitch movements.
• Integrated control cable channels in the finger segments and precise routing (behind some joints, forward others) for selective bending.

The full filing is in the thread below if you want to read more about it:

[tanık @tanik_tr]

Toyota’nın 2 metre 18 santim boyunda, 74 kiloluk tekerlekli insansı robotu, Japonya’nın basketbol maçının devre arasında tanıtıldı.

Robot serbest atışı sayıya çevirdi ancak üç sayılık şutu kaçırdı.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True currency is steadfast friendship

[GiGadgets @gigadgets_]

This machine automatically irons and dries your clothes at once.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Chinese carmaker BYD unveils a recharge as fast as filling up with gas

[Space and Technology @spaceandtech_]

Allonic Robotics has introduced a new robotic hand built without screws, cables, or complex joints.

It uses braided fibers to create both tendons and structure in a single automated step, making it strong, flexible, and smooth in motion.

This approach could simplify manufacturing and speed up the production of robotic hands.

[Min Choi @minchoi]

Netflix just dropped VOID.

This AI removes objects from video...

And even corrects the physics after objects/people are removed.

Demo in commets👇

[Philosophy Of Physics @PhilosophyOfPhy]

Visualization of Hooke’s Law (F = -kx) onto human movement by treating joints as anchors in a spring-mass lattice, every extension generates real-time tension, radiating force field vectors that turn the stage into a living physics engine.

[Gaurab Chakrabarti @Gaurab]

The inside of an LNG carrier: 1.2mm of stainless steel between 174,000 cubic meters of liquid cooled to -162°C and the ocean. At that temperature, flat steel contracts hard enough to crack its own welds within minutes. The waffle pattern stamped into each panel gives the metal room to shrink in every direction without tearing apart. A French company designed this system. It is installed in 80% of the world's LNG fleet, with over 300 new carriers under construction. Every one of them relies on a sheet of steel thinner than a car key, folded into the right shape.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

An incredible feather mimic caterpillar from Ecuador

even taking steps back periodically to give the appearance of a dropped feather, moving in the breeze.

Filmed by Andreas Kay
Full video https://t.co/zUaDfdZ4LK