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This is awesome, keep going!

Fwiw early childhood education (pre-k) is a slam dunk, one of the highest ROÍ investments a society can make in its people. Yes it can be studied longitudinally and it does make a marked difference.

Capabilities that would be most impressive with a jigsaw:

- 50mm of z-axis travel

- Cuts in the center of a 4x8’ sheet of material

- Repeatable cuts to a decent tolerance

- Cuts made while you sleep


> - Cuts made while you sleep

Can you leave the Maslow completely unattended? The video examples/timelapses I came across seems to always have a person removing sawdust (or something) every X minutes.


It’s pretty ill advised to leave any subtractive manufacturing machinery unattended


Commercial machine shops that run “lights off” typically will have continuous process monitoring, automated fire detection, automatic fire extinguishing, smoke containment and evacuation, and of course the correct permits and insurance coverage.


And, correct me if I'm wrong, they also have a person somewhere around and a big red button, right?


I work with one machine shop in Kent, WA that has a dozen Citizen L32 swiss machines in a row, turning out parts all night long. It will automatically stop with no notification for minor faults but stops and pages the on-call for major issues.

https://youtu.be/HLSerqr6WTs?si=xslBZNXjpDGTlfy5


> but stops and pages the on-call for major issues.

Just for curiosities sake, where are those on-call people located? At location, close to factory, home presumably?


Just local management, so I’d assume within a “reasonable” commuting distance. Note that in Seattle, a 2 hour peak-traffic commute might be only 20 minutes in the middle of the night.


Not if they're running lights-out, which is increasingly common in machining. A modern machine tool with all of the features mentioned above is designed to run unattended. It isn't uncommon for bar-feed lathes or mills with pallet pools to be actively running for >160hrs per week. If you're careful about your parameters and run the machine well within its capability, you rarely need to hit the big red button. Modern machines are smart enough to hit the big red button themselves when they really need to, and alert a human to the fact that something has interrupted production.

https://www.mscdirect.com/betterMRO/metalworking/definitive-...


Can we have a word about my butter sculpture?


Good point, probably ill-advised to sleep with it running!


Social networks are social advertising networks.

A privacy-first solution by its nature is unlikely to benefit from network effects. You don’t organically discover content that has to be explicitly shared with you.

So they way to do it is to already have a network or platform and then allow private photo sharing. E.g. Apple Photos built on the iOS ecosystem or if WhatsApp had a photo feed.

One idea would be to sell photo-sharing tech to a non-US messaging app that’s popular abroad like Viber or CacaoTalk or that serves some niche community. (Photo-sharing for low-bandwidth users in developing countries?) Maybe it aggregates shared photos into an ergonomic feed or something. But they could just copy that themselves; it’s hard to monetize an improved UX directly without the data/community to power it.


I wrote a Python script to simulate a simple co-op board game I play with my kids to empirically confirm my reasoning about the optimal strategy.

Ended up writing it up:

https://productgardener.substack.com/p/monte-carlo-methods-m...


Agreed, I smiled a this line. Good reminder that you don’t have to be super experienced to have big insights and impact.

And also that being brilliant doesn’t magically correlate with being knowledgeable.

https://xkcd.com/1053


“… the science behind it, let’s just say there’s some debate.”


I’d wager my nonexistent tech GTM credentials that they specifically encourage the demo model to do this to highlight the multimodal input for the wow factor.

At this point in the hype cycle being memorable probably outweighs being creepy!


Ooh I see PixiJs can make content available to the screenreader for a11y. That’s always a big question mark for me when people start cramming a content tree into a canvas.


Yes a11y is very important! I do think this creates an HTML element per sprite/graphic, but the slowdown should not be terrible.


Ooh I like “nontent.” Nothing like a spicy portmanteau!


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