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In Memory of My Father

Rants

He was not just a loving, kind and patient father, he was literally my privilege in life. Everything that I am, my integrity, my drive, my intelligence, my love for science and storytelling, the very way I think, was all modeled after him.

Links

Hand picked collection of useful links and online resources resources from around web.

Here is a list of the latest and greatest:

Chat-GPT – OpenAI’s LLM
Gemini – Google’s LLM
Copilot – Microsoft’s LLM
Claude – Anthropic’s LLM
Llama – Meta’s LLM
Perplexity

Companies

Humanoid Robots

Atlas – Bonton Dynamics
Figure 01 – FigureAI
Optimus – Tesla
Digit – Agility

Vision Pro – Apple
Quest – Meta
Vive – HTC

Sora – Open AI: highest quality for longer and video generation
Midjorney: best image generator
Dall-E: OpenAI’s image generator

3d Printers

3d Software

Blender – free pro level 3D software modeling and visual effects
Fusion 360 – Autodesk: great for industrial design, free for personal use
Spline – web based 3D platform

3d Resources & Libraries

Printables – huge library 3D objects
Thingverse – huge library 3D objects
Cults3d – search mane sites at once
Creality Cloud

AI, Science, and the Singularity

Technology

The Verge – The CNN of tech
The Talk Show – Gruber FTW
ATP – Apple related tech. John Siracusa is our idol
Dithering – (subscription only) Ben & John on the same pod, worth the money even at 15min an per episode
Waveform – Marcus is solid!
All-In – Jason and his besties
TWIT – a classic
TWIG – underrated
Macbreak Weekly – Mac related classic. Sup Alex!
Decoder – Nilay is dope!
Darknet Diaries – security is important and can be interesting
Exponent (inactive) – Ben is smart
Robot Overlordz – (inactive) where did you all go my guys?
Off the Hook – one of the first

Other

The Verge