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Extend all tails of the bell curve. Daily nerd snipe(s). Robotics. Photonics. RF/microwave. Nanofab. KO6FFN. Twitter as an open journal.
SF Bay Area
Joined August 2011
a 2.6 million hours MTTF/MTBF is getting hard to comprehend, we should start using "oh your CPO is Tang dynasty grade?" "my transceiver is Roman empire grade"
One of the key questions surrounding co-packaged optics (CPO) has been its reliability. While many claimed it was reliable, there had been limited empirical test results to substantiate that and build confidence. Meta addressed this at the recent ECOC confernece held in Denmark,
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🌍 Everything around us is getting smarter. From phones and homes to cities and economies. Now that same wave of intelligence has reached money itself, transforming not just how we move value, but what value truly means.
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I am starting a venture on top of LeRobot! We’re at a pivotal time. AI is moving beyond digital to the physical world. Embodied AI will change our surroundings in ways we can barely imagine. This technology holds the potential to empower everyone. It must not be controlled by
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now i think about it my parents were really good at picking movie for educational purpose
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@jwt0625 If you want to see some macros I did on them. https://t.co/u1FLmgmPpB
Mullard AF114 germanium transistor with some small tin whiskers, crystal needles inside the case. Macro on the right.. It's fascinating how these metal hairs has grewn into the walls of 60s transistor 😶🌫️
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the other scene i could remember was this "car hits hydrant -> trash blocks drain -> citywide flood" scene [GREAT SCENE - The City Of Lost Children]( https://t.co/1XNbEWxCpR)
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gpt-5 just found out a weird film i watched when i was ~5 years old that I could only remember two scenes. I've been searching it every now and then for years.. words cannot describe my feeling rn
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it could kill you in 20 years 😅 [Anecdote #1: Field Failure Caused by Tin Whisker Short ~20 Years after System Fielded]( https://t.co/HkGKN9ARuB)
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still not well understood as of 2023, but it can be stopped
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it could grow thru coatings lool Brusse2002: [Tin Whiskers: Attributes and Mitigation]( https://t.co/ZYmJ3BOAYw)
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[Long-Term Tin Whisker Risk Mitigation using a Conformal Coating]( https://t.co/zHuTvChDwB) [Tin Whiskers: A History of DocumentedElectrical System Failures]( https://t.co/p5ulVG0CRW)
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TIL nasa has a whole website dedicated to tin whisker (and other metal whisker)
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if you listen to the whisper of the grid, you might be able to hear the heartbeats of a newborn AI?
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Franken2025: [Integrated coherent sources from infra-red to ultra-violet]( https://t.co/3Jo4DjeuZk) ( h/t @humphilomath )
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this is a really good thesis with a lot of fab details on thin-film lithium niobate nonlinear optics/photonics
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Kulik2025: [Are we there yet? Adventures on a road trip through machine learning as a computational chemist]( https://t.co/ZrzuWQAPIn)
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rare review/perspective written in author's career pov, a good read regardless of your field or career, and esp relevant if you are considering sprinkling some ML onto your domain
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