Radically accelerating engineering to shape our physical world. Founder of @leap_71 @hyperganic @iridas
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Exactly how does ousting the brain behind a company help the company? Is NVDIA better off now? I literally don’t understand the logic.
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UAE 🇦🇪 traffic.
speeding up past 300km/h
speeding up past 400km/h
topping 500km/h
scary
congrats team BYD or should I say Yangwang?
⚡️⚡️⚡️
#alwaysbecharging
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Coding is fun again. LLMs take the tedium out of the non-fun aspects of coding, so we can focus on the enjoyable aspects of architecting and re-architecting things. Code quality and productivity are going through the roof right now. What a time to build software.
All of our work relies on PicoGK — a compact, robust geometry kernel that we open-sourced under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.
PicoGK is currently undergoing one of its biggest transformations since @linkayser first wrote it in 2023.
A lot is changing under the hood.
Stay tuned.
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While we are at it, let’s eliminate physics, math, and any other symbolic, deterministic, representation of logic, in favor of AI-generated intuition. This is one area where Elon is wrong. Source code contains more than just the machine instructions. It carries verifiable logic that we need for deterministic systems. AI is great at helping us write better code, but it’s critical that we can inspect the result. Often with help from AI, but an entire black box is not desirable (or even reasonable at this stage). We don’t replace math with just showing a result. We keep the math. Let’s keep the code.
This is exactly right. Source code is on the verge of becoming like assembly.
The next step is getting rid of “source code” entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI.
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We were among the first ever users of a GPU. 23 years ago at the @NVIDIA Siggraph booth in San Diego.
We were one of only two companies at the booth, using the newly-introduced GPU functionality of the Quadro FX 3000 graphics card.
Nobody knew what to do with a GPU! Games were the only applications.
We used low-level NVIDIA shader assembly code to create the first real time image processing pipeline for cinema-resolution uncompressed video, and later the first real time pipeline for film-quality RAW decoding at 24 fps. We sold the tech to Adobe 8 years later.
Facebook (of all platforms!) reminded me of the picture. Time flies.
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The beauty of space.
I finally have all 1.2 million raw image files from my latest mission to ISS! Here is a sample of one of my favorite Milky Way photos, taken from the Cupola with Nikon Z9, Arri Zeiss 15mm lens, T1.8 with custom sidereal drive that cancelled out star motion relative to our orbit.
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Probably one of my more concise attempts to formulate what motivated us to start @leap_71 and how #Noyron functions. 3dadept.com/why-leap-71-thin…
Still my most up-to-date article on how #Noyron works. But I guess it's time to write an encore. @leap_71
metal-am.com/articles/leap-7…
I remember reading this issue as a little boy (mostly trying to). It was given to me by my uncle Lutz Kayser, the founder of the first private space launch company, OTRAG. BYTE got me hooked on computing and software.
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First world problems
Their biggest problem isn’t the AI, the physics, or the printers but finding the right testing site. “We can design these things now much quicker than we actually can build the infrastructure to test it,” Kayser admits.
PicoGK is at version v2.2 and used by teams all over the world. It has proven extremely robust in the creation of some of the most complex geometries ever to be manufactured.
Computational engineering thrives on open source.
Three years ago we decided to open-source PicoGK (“peacock”), our foundational geometry kernel, under the permissive Apache 2.0 license. It has powered every object we’ve engineered since 2023.
More at PicoGK.org
Accelerate engineering, step-change-improve civilization.
No CAD. No humans were harmed in the design process.
Moving our Noyron-generated 200 kN Aerospike after metal 3D printing at @HBDAdditive2015 — this advanced rocket engine shares its engineering DNA with the 20 kN and 5 kN versions we previously hot-fired and was designed without human intervention.
