Introducing the state-of-the-art SPEED agentic architecture and speed-core, a fully open-source AI architecture designed to do everything: be fast, be smart, be secure, be reliable, and be easy to use on critical systems. Above all, speed-core was designed with one goal in mind: be reliable enough that you would trust it enough to launch a […]
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I am mostly here to brag a bit. I’m so proud of myself. For what? For making some SVGs. Icons to be exact, for my AutoTS forecasting project to use as launch icons for any associated apps. And to be fair, Claude and Codex did most of the heavy lifting on making the SVG code,
An IMU (internal measurement unit) is an device that measures movement, usually an accelerometer and a gyroscope. This is the thing that lets your phone know when you’ve rotated the device so it knows to rotate the screen, can count steps, and helps your phone autostabilize the focus of its camera. They also help guide
I actually want to live in the beating heart of the city, and not flee into the dull suburbs like so many do. But the city really does have crime issues, and no one wants to raise their kid in a neighborhood where drive by shootings occur. Somewhere between the multimillion dollar homes on the
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After a year and a half, I have finally gotten around to posting about my solar necklaces project. The first version was a lightsaber-inspired necklace. Using solar power to charge a supercapacitor, it also uses the solar panel to sense when it is dark, and turn on and glow. The second version attempted to overcome
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In the last several weeks, I have felt something. Not the ground shifting, it was already doing that, more a sense of certainty that yes this really will happen. The combination of the latest large language models with maturing agentic pipelines (often using MCP servers) mean that human level performance (or better) is achievable quickly
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Cycling is an amazing activity. It is great for physical/mental health and fitness, a practical form of transportation, and a great sport (technically a whole family of bike-based sports). One thing to know is that aerodynamic drag is the primary force slowing down a cyclist. Meanwhile, a primary nuisance on the bike is getting covered
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As I am designing a house, I have gone down the path of the ‘perfect wall’, working towards thick layers of continuous insulation and no roof overhangs. No roof overhangs really points towards using standing seam metal over rainscreen as siding. You might arrive at using standing seam metal siding for other reasons, simple longevity
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I have been agonizing over wall details to try and make the perfect (but practical) wall for a residential home that balances moisture (mold risk), thermal bridging, air tightness, and constructability. Here is what I came up with, and got some feedback on reddit of. While I will probably not go with this detail (it
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While working on two multicopter drone related projects, I was distracted by the idea of an ultra endurance drone build, inspired by this discussion. There are really three steps to drone efficiency/endurance 1) keeping everything as light as possible 2) using high efficiency power regulators, motor controllers, and motors 3) highly efficient propellers (which is
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