Marc Compere
@Marc_Compere
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professor of mechanical engineering. sustainability. vehicles. sensing. born at 325ppm. texan in florida. e pluribus unum!
Orlando, FL
Joined December 2013
NEWS: In a first for any Elon Musk company, SpaceX has created its first Super Bowl ad for @Starlink.
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After 50 days on the job, visits to every NASA center, a dozen town halls, and reviewing thousands of workforce submissions, it is clear there is much we can do to better empower our people and focus resources on the most pressing objectives. Getting back to the Moon means
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Alzheimer’s may be linked to gum bacteria, new research shows. Scientists have repeatedly found Porphyromonas gingivalis—the chief bacterium that causes periodontitis—inside the brains of people who died with Alzheimer’s. When researchers deliberately infected mice with this
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Our CNC machine has now clocked a speed of 1304 pieces/minute!! That’s more than 21 springs in a second! A 30% increase in speed over our previous record. We achieved this feat without a thorough redesign of the entire machine. All springs you see here are in the tolerance
We have breached the 1000 pcs/minute mark on our CNC spring coiler! Ours is now the fastest CNC spring machine in the country built by an Indian company. This machine is now comparable to speeds and precision of global benchmarks from Germany and Japan of this category. This
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Atlas from Boston Dynamics showing advanced agility with a cartwheel followed by a clean backflip. This is insane. https://t.co/XKtpcWOSaR
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.@GrazeMateInc builds autonomous drones that herd cattle. Ranchers can spend hundreds of thousands per year moving cattle between fields; GrazeMate ranchers do it with three clicks on a phone. Congrats on the launch @samrogerrs! https://t.co/F7VNrfwXTM
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NEWS: A new study shows that EVs are cleaning up the air in dense urban areas. Researchers used satellite data to see how much nitrogen dioxide was in California’s air. As the number of electric cars and plug-in hybrids rose, neighborhoods had lower NO₂ concentrations. "These
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BREAKING 🚨 TESLA LOCKS DOWN THE "SECRET RECIPE" FOR ITS DRY ELECTRODE MANUFACTURING 🔒 For years, the battery industry believed that mass-producing dry electrodes was impossible, a lab trick that simply couldn't scale. Published on January 29, 2026, patent application
GOOD NEWS 🚨 Tesla has engineered a pure dry cathode that delivers maximum energy with minimal binder 🔋 Published on August 19, 2025, patent US20230411584 reveals the engineering breakthroughs behind a new manufacturing process Tesla has been developing to remove toxic solvents
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Duke Energy and Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) are sending notices for the freeze in Florida @DukeEnergy, @OUCreliableone “You can help us protect the electric grid & avoid possible temporary outages by cutting back on nonessential energy use Monday morning from 5am-9am.”
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The balance of power is changing
🌍 Top 10 contributors to global real GDP growth (2026) 1．🇨🇳 China — 26.6% 2．🇮🇳 India — 17.0% 3．🇺🇸 United States — 9.9% 4．🇮🇩 Indonesia — 3.8% 5．🇹🇷 Türkiye — 2.2% 6．🇳🇬 Nigeria — 1.5% 7．🇧🇷 Brazil — 1.5% 8．🇻🇳 Vietnam — 1.6% 9．🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia — 1.7% 10．🇩🇪 Germany — 0.9%
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I wrote about Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw and Moltbook, the fascinating, weird and sometimes even useful social network for digital assistants to swap tips and gossip with each other
simonwillison.net
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …
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Our latest safety innovation is scanning wheels to catch potential defects, all while we keep rolling. Meet the Wheel Integrity System: https://t.co/a32UgPfX1s 🚂 HOW IT WORKS ⚙️ Six synchronized cameras capture about 55 ultra-high-resolution images of every wheel at speeds up
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SpaceX has developed a novel Space Situational Awareness (SSA) system, called Stargaze → https://t.co/vE0qSpfDt2 To maximize safety for all satellites in space, @SpaceX will be making Stargaze conjunction data available to all operators, free of charge. By providing this
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I made an internal tool for myself to check the VRAM required to run models on GPUs Open-sourcing it today! "do-i-have-the-vram" checks the amount of vram you need to loading the model, without loading the model! use it by running ` pip install do-i-have-the-vram `
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In Switzerland, they’re turning their train tracks into solar farms. [📹 Sam Bentley] https://t.co/ODEjDC7kcU
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Do Cheap Batteries Today Eliminate the Barrier to Replacing Fossil Fuels for Electricity? Yes E.g., the 11.2 GW/44.7 GWh of battery storage on CA's main grid is equivalent to only 0.2 c/kWh-grid-electricity-consumed https://t.co/961onyUDWw
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