shariq (@shariq) / X

shariq

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shariq

@shariq

the future can be wonderful if we make it so

London

Joined November 2012

shariq
@shariq
May 8, 2023
An early timelapse video of Alfie, the general purpose teleop robot we've been building at @prosper Here it cleans a kitchen table, wipes the surface, rinses dishes in the sink before placing them in the dishwasher, throws trash, and puts other items away.
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shariq
@shariq
Sep 9, 2021
Just did some weird math... If you take the amount of energy used by humans annually (5e20 joules), the number of joules to increase the temperature of 1kg of air by one degree (700 joules), the weight of the atmosphere (5e18 kg); then by entropy this would give you...
shariq
@shariq
Nov 26, 2023
Nicer video of Alfie cleaning an office.. next up, we’re working with Buck Lewis ( issuu.com/risd/docs/risd… ) to redesign Alfie to be more ✨🫧⚡️
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shariq
@shariq
Nov 5, 2022
Just had a @prosper robot clean up my living room while I was showering, remotely piloted... Feels like having a futuristic friend taking care of you, very comforting. We need a "prosper freeze" voice command though for coming out of the shower 😂
shariq
@shariq
Nov 26, 2023
We decided to rent a warehouse and set up a lost PLA investment casting line ourselves lol — this is the first test part. Surface quality should dramatically improve in the next few weeks with tweaks to the process
shariq
@shariq
Sep 4, 2023
Would be cool if someone tried making turnkey lost PLA casting with chemical surface finishing a thing.. 3D print part with PolyCast PVA/support, chemical surface finish in a chamber, dip in slurry, dry slurry, burn off PLA in furnace, pour in metal in next furnace, break off
shariq
@shariq
May 8, 2023
Replying to @hschhaya and @prosper
Good question :) It currently can last 2 hours off of battery, without being plugged in; and then it needs to plug itself in. Fitting enough batteries for a 8-12 hr shift would take up too much space and $. So the robot is designed to plug itself into the wall while doing
shariq
@shariq
Dec 15, 2021
robots are coming
shariq
@shariq
Mar 29, 2023
The general purpose robotics race probably comes down to who gets to 10k-100k robots deployed first, to get the data needed
shariq
@shariq
May 9, 2023
were you thinking something like this?
laundry
From youtube.com
shariq
@shariq
May 8, 2023
Replying to @ikirigin and @prosper
During teleop, the operator is in VR, manipulating the robot like a puppet master. But this likely changes quite a bit as the system develops
shariq
@shariq
Jan 12, 2021
Governments should probably fund things like Hack Club and Khan Academy as part of their education budget; in general we do such a bad job of funding effective non-profits
shariq
@shariq
Sep 4, 2023
Would be cool if someone tried making turnkey lost PLA casting with chemical surface finishing a thing.. 3D print part with PolyCast PVA/support, chemical surface finish in a chamber, dip in slurry, dry slurry, burn off PLA in furnace, pour in metal in next furnace, break off
shariq
@shariq
Mar 11, 2021
Replying to @ID_AA_Carmack
When I reached out to Coinhive (biggest browser based crypto miner at the time) about this, was surprised to learn nobody had asked them before. In 5-10 hours I sped it up by ~6% ( mobile.twitter.com/coinhive_com/s… ). The diff was less than 10 bytes of wasm, but worth $X million/yr to them
Coinhive
@coinhive_com
Apr 3, 2018
A huge thanks goes to @shariq who helped us to improve Coinhive's miner performance with some hand crafted WASM!
shariq
@shariq
Dec 13, 2022
Generative models (text/image/video) with lots of users could one day be optimised to maximise engagement, like FB/TikTok. Scary thought: our devices are already addictive; how much worse will they get? I think it's OK if we have System 2 control over our AI's reward function