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Dhanush
1 year
Sui generis 🦄 Beautiful both inside and outside. Clone, the next-generation personal computing platform to succeed the iPhone is on its way!
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Dhanush
1 year
Hello World! 🌎 At Clone, we are making synthetic humans, starting with a 1:1 copy of the human hand. Here’s the Clone Hand’s first manipulation demonstration, manually preprogrammed in a few hours!
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@pokervincent @wildtiktokss Growing up, I played Monopoly for PC by the book. It’s a fair and fun and not-nearly-so-long game when you follow the game instructions :)
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1 year
Pick-and-place with Clone Hands is pretty straightforward — 99.999% accuracy not needed. Here's Clone’s VP of Engineering showing off his new telekinetic powers 🦾👽
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1 year
Here's the first Clone Hand connected to a UR5 arm!✋x🦾 pick and place is easy for the Clone Hand even with inaccurate tracking software due to its high fidelity biomechanics.
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1 year
Meet the Clone Hand XVIII! This is our most advanced, anthropomorphic hand yet with 24 DoF, new ligaments and connective tissue, and a quiet and portable hydraulic powering system!
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Dhanush
3 years
See what habits your friends are completing and monitor your habit data. Demigod is back on the App Store
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1 year
The origin of a new species. 🌱
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Clone has created the most human-level synthetic hands in the world by strength, speed, and degrees of freedom.
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Dhanush
11 months
@MoonstruckED__ @pokervincent @wildtiktokss The game is more fun with humans, but it sounds like your family doesn’t make up debt covenants and strange trade terms every other turn after hotels have been built lol
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Dhanush
5 months
Robotics folks saying this is teleop and thereby unimpressive have missed the point. Training the autonomous policy on 15 minutes of teleop demos can be done with relative ease if the hardware isn’t breaking. My disdain for this design is due to the rigid body that will cause
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Elon Musk
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Optimus folds a shirt
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The thumb of the Clone Hand with flexion, deep flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, and interphalangeal rotation. Child’s play.
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Dhanush
1 year
Some Clone 2022 highlights 👽 Get ready for android development to accelerate in 2023!
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Dhanush
1 year
Technology is about doing more with less.
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Dhanush
2 years
@andykreed Uber stats
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Dhanush
11 months
@sbuss @Waymo @jasonpjason He prob fell to the ground like he’s Shaq getting fouled
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Dhanush
2 years
Lots of engineers want to work at Clone. Some are more serious than others. The Clone Hand inspired this 19 year old student in Korea to build frictionless anatomical joints. He produced incredible results in just 6 months, better than any cover letter.
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Dhanush
1 year
Clone has a team of 12 and doesn't hire anyone who built motor-actuated robots before. To a neural network, the control input and sensing feedback are just numbers. Motors' perceived edge in linearity / controllability disappears.
@Scobleizer
Robert Scoble
1 year
Steve Jobs, when he formed his first iPhone team of about a dozen people, told them "you are not allowed to hire anyone who has worked on a phone before." I didn't really grok that until I saw this. What "rules" are about to be broken due to AI? All of them. A NeRF has
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Dhanush
7 months
Robotics will be solved and scaled up at Clone. People who are really serious about software (ASI) build their own hardware (androids with human-level hands). Even with teleop+IL, trying to shoehorn human-level motor abilities into an open-source, 6 DoF snail robot will result
@xiao_ted
Ted Xiao
7 months
Nice summary of the zeitgeist of robot learning discourse these days: is scaling enough for general-purpose robotics? I’ll add a perspective: it depends on what you view as “solving” robotics. #1 99.X% robustness and deployed broadly across society in homes, factories,
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Dhanush
1 year
Force maps behave like images. This is the most impressive use of tactile sensing I’ve seen!
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1 year
Rotating without Seeing: Towards In-hand Dexterity through Touch abs: project page:
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Dhanush
4 years
@Julian Also - High dimensional space - Compressed representation - Isomorphic ideas - Limbic resonance - Lagging indicator - Signal-to-noise - Random walk / Brownian motion - Natural monopoly - Double exponential - Convex returns - Two orders of magnitude / 100X
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Dhanush
1 year
This is sci-fi that understands androids in all their forms: Protoclone, Neoclone, Heavy Industrial, Chinese knockoff.
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Dhanush
2 years
@TechEmails I will cancel any and all of my streaming subscriptions to pay for more of this content
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Dhanush
1 year
This work is incredible, and I can't wait to implement it on a Clone!
@kevin_zakka
Kevin Zakka
1 year
Introducing 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗣𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁 🎹🤖, a new benchmark for high-dimensional robot control! Solving it requires mastering the piano with two anthropomorphic hands. This has been one year in the making, and I couldn’t be happier to release it today! Some highlights below:
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2 years
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2 years
Touch the future.
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Dhanush
1 year
Watch @bakowroc clone his thumb movements to demonstrate tool use!
@clonerobotics
Clone
1 year
Teleoperating the Clone Hand: using a needle holder 🫵🏿 Check out the full video on YouTube later today!
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Dhanush
1 year
@RueNahcMohr No, the creator of MuJoCo, Emo Todorov, made that hand:
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Dhanush
1 year
Clone’s seed round will enable us to manufacture the most powerful and biomimetic androids in the world at a fraction of the cost that most believe to be possible! You can invest over the next 60 days at 👽
@clonerobotics
Clone
1 year
Hi Clone Community — Clone’s crowdfunding campaign just went live at ! Check out our pitch for more details about the company and our path to androids, and consider supporting the campaign!
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Dhanush
1 year
@ErichWeikert @Bbbn192 @clonerobotics I see the resemblance! But seems it works like Nebula’s arm in GotG3 :) Łukasz and I loved the scene where all of injured Nebula’s joints crack back into place like a zombie haha
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Dhanush
1 year
Tune in at 2PM EST today to learn more about Clone’s rapid development and why we’re poised to deliver the best-in-category product!
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Dhanush
4 months
This guy is a genius who is seeing the future with his systems. First he produced all the best results in unsupervised RL. Then he cracked near-infinite context transformers, which he has now applied to video with @wilson1yan 👏 Excited to make this large model colossal at Clone!
@haoliuhl
Hao Liu
4 months
We are excited to share Large World Model (LWM), a general-purpose 1M context multimodal autoregressive model. It is trained on a large dataset of diverse long videos and books using RingAttention, and can perform language, image, and video understanding and generation.
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@DrJimFan It’s an impressive demo! Still visibly has <half the grip of the Clone Hand, and it’s missing 14 DoF on the Hand, including finger abduction/adduction. For pen spinning, the Clone fingers will work at least twice as fast :)
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Dhanush
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Dhanush
1 year
@Rainmaker1973 Dude appreciate the re-posts, but it’s @clonerobotics ! We re-branded years ago. Please fix :)
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Dhanush
3 years
@WillManidis @BroductManager One of my friends/customers asked me for tips to help his baseline dopamine. I suggested deleting Spotify!
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Dhanush
1 year
@Rainmaker1973 @clonerobotics Post this one next time!
@clonerobotics
Clone
1 year
Clone Hand XVIII. Yes, your Clone will come in space gray ✌🏿🤞🏿🤙🏿🤘🏿🖕🏿👊🏿✋🏿
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1 year
@DrJimFan @clonerobotics Thanks for the shoutout! Ameca is a HUGE step forward from Sophia. Big fan, but EA had to move the camera from the head to the chest to save skull space for motors, and it’s still missing a few degrees of freedom. With 40 facial muscles, Clone can make the face truly 1:1!
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1 year
Clone will further narrow the representational gap.
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Vikash Kumar
1 year
@aravindr93 @DhruvBatraDB @jpineau1 @MetaAI @rutavms This figure from @rutavms was one one of the early figures that convinced me that representational gap between human videos and robotics domains might not be too wide to bridge.
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2 years
@kimmytaylor @JoshuaOgundu Baizuo. I knew there must be a word to describe this sort
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Dhanush
1 year
@flemuh Yes if you're an amputee, and you can survive another few years, we will give you your limbs back. Before that, we are making androids.
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Dhanush
1 year
@tomnork Just looked these grips up. The Hand has the range for it!
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Dhanush
1 year
@balajis Thank you for your support! Balaji is easily the most helpful investor a founder could have backing him/her.
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Dhanush
1 year
@ylecun Want to help give this guy a brain? This is just a preprogrammed sequence.
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Dhanush
11 months
@zebulgar @andrewmccalip Lol Sigma Aldrich’s website is actually just slow, buggy, and horrible irrespective of the chemical
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Dhanush
1 year
@Rainmaker1973 Thanks for the coverage! A lot more coming soon…
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1 year
@HDPbilly There are many ways to create pressure :)
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Dhanush
11 months
@tunguz DishBrain’s Pong results were statistically insignificant unfortunately, but it’s still a strong research direction. Here’s the only other lab I know working on this: .
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Dhanush
2 years
Our child left the lab for the first time today, an uplifting day for the Clone team at the “Made in Wrocław” Expo!
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Dhanush
4 years
@DeepMind @TheOfficialACM Also thanks for the YT videos ✌️
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Dhanush
2 years
Excited to show off the Clone Hand’s incredibly durable, strong, and efficient hydraulic actuators!
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Dhanush
1 year
@MelMitchell1 @geoffreyhinton “Cognitive science” folks are abundant, but there are few human beings in the world like Geoff who devote most waking moments of their entire lives to understand how brains work.
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Dhanush
7 months
Massive respect to everyone at OpenAI responsible for pioneering the GPT paradigm. We welcome you to come finish the job at Clone!
@clonerobotics
Clone
7 months
If you want to create an embodied general intelligence and bring the world’s most human-level androids to life, send us a DM or email your CV directly to dhanush @clonerobotics .com.
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Dhanush
6 months
Human-level Clones for home healthcare.
@vkhosla
Vinod Khosla
6 months
There is a real opportunity to do this right. Sad that Curai is the only AI healthcare startup on this list. That is where great AI will come so sign up to this AI Executive Order! $5/mo digital first primary care and chronic care overseen by human doctors is possible for every
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Dhanush
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@SmokeAwayyy @clonerobotics Not just yet since we are still finalizing actuation and sensing systems over the next few months. But it should be known that the Hand is the hard part. Scaling up the musculoskeletal design to the rest of the body is quite straightforward for us.
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Dhanush
1 year
Eliezer parroting season 4 of Westworld as a doomsday scenario and passing it off as his own idea 🤦‍♂️
@liron
Liron Shapira
1 year
But how will the AGI physically kill us??? 🤖💣 @ESYudkowsky names a couple specific methods: * Pathogen-aided mind control * Artificial life forms that reproduce in our atmosphere These are just human-understandable lower bounds, to help you gain respect for superintelligence.
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And, of course, True Clones.
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2 years
Clone Hand grasping different objects
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"...there are weeks where decades happen."
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Dhanush
4 years
My first tweet is a flex. I built a magnetoplasmadynamic thruster when I was 13. Here’s a ~1.2 MW discharge with argon propellant operating at 270V and peak currents of 7-10 kA
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Dhanush
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@hausman_k Yes. Second question is left as exercise to the reader
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Dhanush
1 year
@natfriedman We’ll buy one and let you know. But here’s an old Hand gripping 66lbs!
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1 year
Control sequence by @bakowroc 👑
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@iamgingertrash Much of OAI’s best talent is straight outta Poland
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Dhanush
1 year
Dyson Jellyfish > Dyson Sphere
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Dhanush
9 months
Men care about the Roman Empire and “stoicism” because Gladiator is one of the greatest movies of all time, and most guys have seen it multiple times
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Dhanush
6 months
Human-level Clones for home building.
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Dhanush
11 months
Here’s one of my favorite scenes from any sci-fi series or film! ———— Spoilers Ahead ———— Context — Mother is an android WMD raising human children and the Quantum Trust is the incorruptible governor of the human colony.
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Dhanush
3 years
@spakhm Damn Thiel said the only remaining pro-China constituents in the US as of 2020 are (1) a subset of asset gatherers on Wall Street, (2) universities, and (3) Hollywood
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Dhanush
6 months
The most favored personal computing platform(s) will win assistants.
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Grant♟️
6 months
Apple will probably win LLMs. They'll release a model that runs locally/native on your iPhone, is good enough, has great privacy/security and has access to all your personal data. The advantages of larger foundation models will be negligible for 99% of tasks.
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Dhanush
2 years
@ylecun What other option is there to control these robots in the open, real world, where the environment keeps changing and new adaptations are necessitated?
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Dhanush
2 years
Excited to show off the Clone Hand’s incredibly durable, strong, and efficient hydraulic actuators!
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@DrJimFan My first thought upon seeing Gemini was video results are meh but AlphaCode2 x Eureka 🤔
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1 year
@tothamoon629 @BdDeminsky @Rainmaker1973 Yes, natural intelligence is an availability.
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Dhanush
2 years
I’m not sure why something so intuitive is blowing my mind.
@FelixHill84
Felix Hill
2 years
Because they infer that you would have used your hands if you could have (i.e. the manner is not important in that case). 3/2
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Dhanush
6 months
Human-level Clones for home cooked food.
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Dhanush
1 year
@silly_silicon_ That would help to collect high quality demonstrations, but we can also collect those demos without a glove and only more accurate tracking. This teleoperation system was hacked up in a week without using any learning.
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1 year
@DariusPresent Protoclone will be the bestseller for a while! There’s no probability. We won’t launch a product in the uncanny valley. Ameca and Mesmer are almost out, but not yet. Their motors in the skull don’t capture all degrees of freedom in the face, but our artificial muscles can do it!
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1 year
@akber1khan @joinrepublic @clonerobotics Yes, Abher. Another investor made an offer to get us all the resources we need to make low-cost androids, and we wouldn’t have been able to close the capital due to a several month delay in converting the Crowd SAFEs to equity as a part of a priced round. Deals unfortunately
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What objective function? It’s not next token prediction
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@HmFood4Thought Get ready to laugh 😂
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Dhanush
2 years
@tobias_sterbak @ilyasut The price of energy and the cost to manufacture goods approaches zero in the intelligence limit. Maybe the manufacturing decentralizes further. Then, each human being’s endlessly manufactured and imitated desires can be perpetually quenched!
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Dhanush
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@ljxie "The lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of the sheep" --lord tywin
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@DrJimFan @clonerobotics You got it. It’ll just be Realworld :)
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@NateSticco Most TV is trash, and as soon as something fresh and unique is created, the bureaucracy feel compelled to cancel it :/
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Dhanush
6 months
Cybernetic intelligence comes next.
@bindureddy
Bindu Reddy
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Prediction: LLMs are going to hit a wall after GPT-5 Reasons: - No one other than OpenAI has released a GPT-4 class model yet - We are soon going to hit a data and LLM-generated synthetic data limit - GPT-4 already uses several RLHF tricks to improve performance We will have
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@FinitePhysicist Christopher Nolan obv read this wiki page and 💥💡🔔🔔🔔
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Dhanush
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@yangWao @0xnullcline Neuralink’s major innovation, from what I understand, is the neurosurgical robot that can implant electrodes with greater speed and scale. Making NeuE probes that don’t elicit an immune response for over a year is still an open problem.
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@sama I had an angry tweet ready to go in drafts several hours ago. Crazy how quickly we go from not ever having something to being upset when it’s broken for a day.
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Dhanush
2 years
@balajis 's network state movement is real. I met my co-founder (sui generis) on YouTube. Obsessed with androids, we started a company together. I moved to Poland, enabling us to work together on the hardware. Now Clone is crowdfunding on Republic and recruiting internationally 🚀
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Dhanush
2 years
The entire @clonerobotics team is based in Poland, and our Manhattan project has never felt more important.
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The Associated Press
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BREAKING: A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people. A Polish government spokesman did not immediately confirm the information, but said leaders were meeting on "crisis situation."
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@m2jr @andrewchen @elonmusk @BernieSanders A civil servant with no #skininthegame vilifying an entrepreneur... how do people fall for this shit
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@benyogaking With your fingers!
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@AlexReibman @DrJimFan @AdeptAILabs A brilliant LLM/robotics researcher told me a year back that the adept ai demos are trivial to make...
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Dhanush
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More effective questions: “what is preventing me from getting this?” and “why am I NOT curious about this?”
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James Clear
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It's easy to find ways to improve when you are genuinely curious about something. Rather than asking yourself, "How can I be better at this?" start by asking, "How can I be more curious about this?"
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