Testing Reachy Mini - Hugging Faces Pi powered robot When I saw Jensen Huang introduce the Reachy Mini at CES, I thought it was a gimmick. His keynote showed this little robot responding to human input, turning its head to look at a TODO list on the wall, sending emails, and turning drawings into architectural renderings with motion. HuggingFace and
This AI robot didnt replace my parent-child interactions When I saw Jensen Huang introduce the Reachy Mini at CES, I thought it was a gimmick. His keynote showed this little robot responding to human input, turning its head to look at a TODO list on the wall, sending emails, and turning drawings into architectural renderings with motion. HuggingFace and
My Optimistic Vision for 2050 The following are prepared remarks that I delivered by Zoom to a student group at my old stomping-grounds of MIT, and which I thought might interest others (even though much of it will be familiar to Shtetl-Optimized regulars). The students asked me to share my “optimistic vision” for the year
Programming in the swamp The grand prophecy of agentic programming goes something like this: in the not-so-distant future, we puny humans—limited as we are by our tiny working memory and limited cognitive abilities—will no longer build software “by hand.” Programmers will no longer write code as we once did in days of yore, keystroke
Introducing Showboat and Rodney so agents can demo what theyve built
Nate Soares visiting UT Austin tomorrow This is just a quick announcement that I’ll be hosting Nate Soares—who coauthored the self-explanatorily titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies with Eliezer Yudkowsky—tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5PM at UT Austin, for a brief talk followed by what I’m sure will be an extremely lively Q&A about his book. Anyone
How StrongDMs AI team build serious software without even looking at the code
Exploring a Modern SMPTE 2110 Broadcast Truck With My Dad In October, my Dad and I got to go behind the scenes at two St. Louis Blues (NHL hockey) games, and observe the massive team effort involved in putting together a modern digital sports broadcast. I wanted to explore the timing and digital side of a modern SMPTE 2110 mobile unit,
Exploring a Modern SMTPE 2110 Broadcast Truck With My Dad In October, my Dad and I got to go behind the scenes at two St. Louis Blues (NHL hockey) games, and observe the massive team effort involved in putting together a modern digital sports broadcast. I wanted to explore the timing and digital side of a modern SMPTE 2110 mobile unit,
Luca Trevisan Award for Expository Work Friend-of-the-blog Salil Vadhan has asked me to share the following. The Trevisan Award for Expository Work is a new SIGACT award created in memory of Luca Trevisan (1971-2024), with a nomination deadline of April 10, 2026. The award is intended to promote and recognize high-impact work expositing ideas and results from the Theory of Computation.