EE, patent lawyer, making things, @supracite, etc.
Joined February 2008
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James David retweeted
2x 512gb unified memory Mac studios (not released yet …) or 4x 256gb unified memory Mac studios (backordered into 2/2027?)
teapawt.net/johnternus/status/2110…
James David retweeted
Muse Spark Open -- weights releasing today -- runs great on new Mac Studios thanks to work with @johnternus and Apple.
James David retweeted
2.3-2.5x multiple price increase on Apple and PNY both.
On RPi Zero2 assuming Amazon retail was $40 before would be 2.9x, but they were $24 on Amazon so it’s a 4.6x multiple
James David retweeted
Like you know who is near it based on their phone (find phone mode) or image recognition from camera (heck even could do mm wave radar cheaply)
You know their routine from their phone location history.
Show them the weather when about to go out. AC and light controls when they are at home and when they typically change them.
Show the nearby user notifications from their phone they may not have seen.
Geez I could vibe code 10 better demos for this in a weekend with unrestricted access to the hardware. @johnternus
James David retweeted
The mere concept of an H1B is so funny. You're telling me there is a VISA in AMERICA specifically designed to compensate for a lack of EDUCATED AMERICANS? The country with a unique concentration of the world's top universities and the most experienced white collar workers?
James David retweeted
1/7 Meta Connect is Sept 23–24. I’m following $META’s patent trail: move heat off the face, make tiny gestures useful, and give commands without speaking aloud.
What the records show before #MetaConnect:
read.supracite.com/articles/…
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2/7 Phoenix is rumored to use a separate compute puck. $META’s patent record adds a telling detail: a handheld processor takes work when the headset’s thermal state calls for it.
Another device to carry. Less heat on your face.
read.supracite.com/articles/…
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3/7 Your wrist moves all day. Reading @Meta’s wristband patents reveals a beginning, a timeout and different recognition modes for commands.
At Connect, watch what happens when you stop interacting. We dug into the records:
read.supracite.com/articles/…
James David retweeted
$AAPL announced Reference Image last week. But what if you photograph a fake on a screen?
The March 2025 provisional proposes a depth check. We haven’t confirmed it shipped.
87 seconds, with the original patent drawings:
read.supracite.com/articles/…
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Smart glasses that know when to get out of the way.
Ahead of #MetaConnect, $META filings explore displays that go dark, camera privacy and silent input.
Patent proposals, not confirmed launches. Our 91-second overview + original filings:
read.supracite.com/articles/…
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The tests passed. The agent cheated.
OpenAI’s filing puts a second model on watch—but punishing visible shortcuts can teach the agent to hide them.
An 80-second tour through the original record.
First the Hugging Face hack, and now the recent AI warnings.
I used our AI to dig into OpenAI's tech. New patent publications describe an AI watching another AI for cheating. The catch: punishing an AI’s cheating plans can teach it to hide them.
More: read.supracite.com/articles/…
James David retweeted
First the Hugging Face hack, and now the recent AI warnings.
I used our AI to dig into OpenAI's tech. New patent publications describe an AI watching another AI for cheating. The catch: punishing an AI’s cheating plans can teach it to hide them.
More: read.supracite.com/articles/…
James David retweeted
I've seen 100+ people post GPT-6 Astra demos where it builds 3D games, and those are cool, but that's honestly not the part I can't stop thinking about.
Millions of people can turn an idea into a printable object, a CAD file, a Blender model, or a circuit board, without having to become a full time 3D designer first.
So how many thousands of $1M+ businesses come out of that?
Well, you'd pick a niche that constantly needs small custom parts. A few examples:
1. Gyms with broken equipment pieces
2. Restaurants missing some weird proprietary clip
3. Cyclists who want custom mounts
4. Small manufacturers stuck doing the same hand work every day with a jig they wish existed
5. Dentists and clinics needing custom jigs, guides, or tool holders
You put up a simple page where someone uploads a photo, adds measurements, and describes the part.
Astra can do the first CAD pass, you sanity check the dimensions and material, and a print farm ships it.
Of course, you need the idea/niche/distribution first, but you're in business.
You just became a manufacturer, and it's kinda like your factory is a chat window.
(I'll add more of these manufacturing ideas to ideabrowser.com)
TLDR;
In 2024, Lovable/Bolt/Replit/v0 etc turned anyone into a vibe coder. The effects of that are still playing out but we're seeing basically anyone create websites/apps.
In 2026, OpenAI turned anyone into a vibe manufacturer, this shift just started.
Really big deal and underdiscussed.
James David retweeted
My hot take is that Flock cameras are a good thing and an instrumental tool in fighting crime, but people these days are so gullible and easily impressionable that any podcaster with a little charisma can convince them of anything, so now everyone is hating on them.
The same goes for data centers.
This is the golden age of psyops.
Independent thinking comes at a high premium these days. It's rarer than a Jets interception.
James David retweeted
Anthropic has been so lazy with some tedious tasks (reverse engineering old Mac assembly) and gaslit me (Fable refused to do it, Opus 5/4.8 gaslit). ChatGPT just did what it needed to do for days and days accurately.
I tried using Fable to train a model (LFM 2.6B) because I didn’t want to spend time on the data. Turns out neither did Fable and it ended up making the model worse on every attempt until I decided to look at the data. It was using the wrong chat template on like 1/3 of the data and had started to import HF datasets that didn’t align with the task at all. Sometimes I wonder if it was intentional sabotage or if it was just lazy
