UBC Engineering Physics

Info for current students, news about alumni, and musings about this reality's manifold. All are welcome to follow!

[Marathon Fusion @MarathonFusion]

To get there, we’re assembling a team of the world’s best engineers, scientists and operators.

We’re a team of 28 and growing quickly. You don’t need a PhD to contribute (only a fifth of us do). What you do need is determination, creativity, and a history of outstanding execution on hardware projects.

[Marathon Fusion @MarathonFusion]

Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10.

Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years.

Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.

[FanlessTech @FanlessTech]

We found it! https://t.co/g021jekg5M

[Jamie Shotton @Jamie_Shotton]

Final preparations for my keynote tomorrow morning at @eccvconf! Excited 😁

[DHH @dhh]

Sweet mother of AGI! 🤯

[Krishna Murthy @_krishna_murthy]

This Fall, I'm teaching a new "Hands-on Robot Learning" class at @JHUCompSci

A full-stack class where students will get SO-101 robot kits, build robots out, collect data, train and deploy learned policies/WAMs/agents/etc.

Materials will be posted here:
https://t.co/pvu5nxhIUU

[Shelby Willis @ShelbyOutHere]

new account + reach currently limited to people who can see my monitor. hi.
real news anyway: @neuralink summer 2027 internships are open. tell us about your three sickest projects.
"n/a" is not a project. good luck

https://t.co/jLzFWZKRxY

[UBC Engineering Physics @UBCEngPhys]

600mm Mitutoyo calipers. Hand for scale. Manouvering these calipers to measure a part will be like wielding a sword.

[UBC Engineering Physics @UBCEngPhys]

In light of the Navier-Stokes solution I think it is very important to consider Terence Tao's perspective. The field of mathematics grows through the struggle of getting to a solution. If there's minimal struggle the field is poorer.

https://t.co/aGPf4ZyrjW

[UBC Engineering Physics @UBCEngPhys]

Thank you Tim and Jacob Weissman from @the_air_hockey_centerline (Instagram account) for your visit and also for your data! :) It was very fun.

[UBC Engineering Physics @UBCEngPhys]

@UBCphas student machine shop got a refresh along with new mills and lathes. Getting ready for the school term to start.

[UBC Engineering Physics @UBCEngPhys]

New equipment just dropped in the Project Lab. 2 of these.

[UBC Engineering Physics @UBCEngPhys]

At high noon yesterday we had a man vs machine showdown in the Project Lab.

Here is a glimpse of the aftermath:
https://t.co/zkseJoZcTO

[UBC Engineering Physics @UBCEngPhys]

For anyone who is interested: on Aug 26 at 0900 PST Taiga is giving a talk at the August @OpenRoboticsOrg online meeting. The talk is focused on his work developing a reinforcement learning toolkit for ROS2 and Gazebo Sim.

You can register here: https://t.co/fX63Rayels

[UBC Engineering Physics @UBCEngPhys]

In this technologically accelerating world the words of James Russell Lowell come to mind: "New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth;"

[UBC Engineering Physics @UBCEngPhys]

As a weekend note. This is the introduction to Steven J. Wallach's Eagle architecture: "Nothing in this world is so powerful as an idea whose time has come." Victor Hugo.

[UBC Engineering Physics @UBCEngPhys]

Maybe the AI should also sprinkle introspective quotes at the beginning of each chapter of the ISA specifications. This might improve impedance matching to human readers - if any are going to read the ISA.