I am limited by the time I live in.

@krishnanrohit That’s because an LLM can’t reason. It’s statistically choosing words. It’s the same problem with hallucinations.

@UrbanF0X @dreamspace2 @girdley Your TC is 600k? How did you get that as a SecEng

@yacineMTB Hardware superiority gang

@HassanRIsmail @evansammccann I’m gonna beat Evan to it :

@evansammccann Most ethical real estate agent LOL

Absolutely phenomenal video that I feel I have to post. The video talks about how steam was utilized early in steam engines (and how inefficient the design was). It then talks about the engineer, Charles Parsons, that introduced in its stead, the steam turbine. At this point in the video, if you're unaware of the history like I was, you may be thinking "of-course, how obvious, the turbine". But the video goes on to talk about how hundreds of patents were filed before the steam turbine was invented, none of which worked well. As well as a long history of failures to utilize steam energy. At this point I'm realizing my own ignorance of how something obvious to us, was infinitely complex back then. Talking about how the stators and rotors of the turbine sizes had to be carefully calibrated to account for steam expansion throughout. Imagine doing this without CFD, my god. Let alone being able to come up with the design. He then goes on to explain exactly how Parsons did it : "the data of physicists". Henri Victor Regnault had spent decades taking measurements of the thermal properties of gases, tabulating thousands of pages of data on steam. Straight from a Cambridge lecture given by Parsons I found : "In the practical sphere of engineering the same systematic research is now followed, and the old rule of thumb methods have been discarded. The discoveries and data made and tabulated by physicists, chemists, and metallurgists, are eagerly sought by the engineer, and as far as possible utilized by him in his designs." I relate to this so much as someone both in the practical sphere of engineering, and physics. Sometimes I forget we truly do stand on the shoulders of giants.

@JoelWish @edsuh On some level it makes sense. A creative person is someone who by definition introduces new concepts and breaks old ones. How would you even measure that? So founders are measured on ‘good student’ resumes. Regardless of if a good student would make a good founder.

@evansammccann Not looking forward to seeing how this plays out

@MLSophist This is the first prototype of a rifle I designed with my co-founder. We call it the ugly duckling (it's gotten way better). I leave to you to determine if computers can enable a stick figure person like myself 🙏😂

I wonder why there’s no home depot equivalent for electronics

@CooperZurad Surprising, I’m usually reading about how U.S manufacturers are easier to find on here. Our Ontario guys were easy and great to work with.

Is there anything worse than finishing a design ready to be 3D printed and realizing you’re out of PLA?

I really think this has potential to be amazing, couple things and these are just my opinion. Aside from the bugs and unless I've missed some things : 1. Really need an option to turn off all the fancy coloring and highlighting, maybe a select then right-click 'turn on/off highlighting' option, because I can see where it would be useful if you had many, many, functions and variables, color coding them would help visually organize them. However, most of the time your brain is already highlighting and 'organizing' the math in front of you. Corca obviously doesn't think the way I do, so I'm just seeing highlighted things I don't consider relevant. Maybe I'm saying the same things old coders said when IDEs came out so I might get used to it idk. 2. Extremely important and a pre-requisite to me using this : the ability to export the page. I don't brainstorm math by typing and probably never will, I am however typing it for notes or other people. If I can't turn this into a PDF or add it to my site etc, it doesn't serve anything for me. Which brings me to my last point because I would like to see this succeed, the main value this would bring me is ease of use, and speed. You guys got the idea in terms of 'let people type math the way they naturally type other things', but it's not streamlined (ofc it's alpha). If this ends up being a 'super speedy math typer', then I would straight up pay for it. I would probably end up with a lot more math in my notes and personal site too.

This debate isn’t just about our spending habits, and it’s not even just a North American one. It’s a symptom of a larger concern. 1. A fear that those who don’t feel the weight, of current and upcoming conflicts, will lay the burden on those who are. See an image of proximity to 🇷🇺Moscow vs % of GDP on defence. 2. The 🇺🇸U.S is concerned about the future of the ❄️ arctic, 🇨🇦Canada would be CENTRAL to the arctic theater. Our lack of spending and delayed timelines leaves our allies nervous, putting us at odds. How do we move forward? 🔵 Defence spending needs to be understood as economic stimulus 💵 . Silicon Valley 📱 was born out of U.S military 🪖 spending, this is not a coincidence. 🔵 Excelling in our niches. While we aim to hit 2%, put those dollars to areas that we can be leaders in🥇. Arctic warfare, novel systems and R&D, etc. We become force multipliers for everyone around us and build up our strength 💪 while we do it. 🔵 Linking jobs and security. @westtekdefence prototyped the Sarissa 100% in 🇨🇦Canada, but U.S. AR-15 specialists are advantaged at scaling. Tech and rifles, designed in 🇨🇦, produced in 🇺🇸. These ties strengthen security and insulate against tariffs All in all, this is just another mountain for Canada to climb, and our history is marked by the summits we’ve conquered. 🇨🇦

@RCRBuck Do you think this happens in the CAF more than it would other organizations? Or are you talking about in general, because I do believe things like this in any sufficiently large organization of humans. We like neat boxes and labels of who did what.

Really glad to see a community of 🇨🇦 founders. Meeting other founders is one of my favourite things about being an entrepreneur. Would love to hear what everyone is building!

@LagasseSubstack Interesting article. Our allies want Canada to become strong again, that’s what this is really all about. Innovative and rapid change from Canadian gov. & defence companies is what’s needed. Our current systems are slow, and led us no where, so why are we clinging to them?

@davepl1968 @CheriDiNovo You’re quoting Pierre Trudeau