HudZah ⁂
@hud_zah
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unseriously serious @socraticainfo
waterloo
Joined October 2018
over a 36-hour livestream, I built a neutron-producing nuclear fusor in my kitchen using Claude. successfully achieving nuclear fusion, entirely assisted by AI. this was my first hardware project!—full story below
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in a couple weeks, i built a nuclear fusor in my bedroom – with zero hardware experience. the secret? Claude sonnet 3.5 + projects. a glimpse into the process below
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also yeah the cathode grid of the fusor is a protein shaker ball
@hud_zah @freemanjiangg Shaker bottle ball is crazy too.
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a few months ago I built a demo fusor that produced plasma—this was nowhere near capable to *actually* do fusion. I spent the last many weeks gathering parts on ebay, battling Canada post strikes and then speedrunning the assembly using Claude Projects in less than 2 days.
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We just ran the worlds most impressive and entertaining AI Agent hackathon!. Students competed in challenges like “first agent to order a pizza to the venue” and built agents that work better than most companies demos. Here's a 🧵of the winners out of 100+ students:
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quick life update!. leaving sf to move to toronto and starting an internship at @cohere! my gap term in sf has been so delightful and i was lucky enough to be surrounded by the best people. thank you for everything, but the waterloo-toronto corridor is gonna be a movie
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doesn’t this take us back to google lmao? how are you supposed to get the best answer if it’s going to be biased by paid ads.
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building a fusor to do fusion is an order of magnitude more lethal. the specs of this setup:.- 30kV/10mA electrostatic precipitator.- 3 mTorr of pressure (253,333x more vacuum than atmospheric).- bubble counter to count neutrons.- hydrocar to electrolyze my own deuterium
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i feel extremely lucky to be surrounded by an incredible group of cracked engineers. thank you to @_yashkarthik and @AryanAfrouzi for teaching me how to solder. @oldestasian for saving me from getting electrocuted. @usrbinishan for helping machine things. and to all the others
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originally inspired by @oliviali_ to build this, i was hyper obsessed in making this exist within 10 days of construction. week 1: figuring out parts, design and navigating mcmaster carr
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I electrolyzed my own deuterium gas from heavy water using a hydrocar toy that had a PEM cell (mini electrolysis machine) and stored the gas in a syringe. this costed only $32 for the car + $80 for 50g of D2O to produce 56 litres of D2 gas!
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i bought ashlee’s elon musk biography when i was a naive 13 year old living in sri lanka. and it rewired how i thought about everything. it was a pleasure showing you around our/place!.
.@hud_zah was kind enough to show me his fusor this morning (from the very San Francisco sentences files). and i have thoughts. for one . .
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I primarily relied on a giant claude project filled with documentation from forums, call transcripts from @meetgranola, email threads and more. I use it extensively to debug, help me with safety, and follow otherwise unknown instructions that were outlined in the build process.
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ok can we stop lying about how good o1 is, its actually quite underwhelming.
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also—a shoutout to all the great humans who helped out with this!. @oliviali_ for constantly helping with debugging on random facetimes. @pavitarsaini for skipping out on a family Christmas dinner to stay with me and build this out. @ansonyuu for being the most joyful welding
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a lot of my fusor work started at a @socraticainfo coworking session in sf— I demo'd it there when it was only a notion doc and by the time I had finished building the whole thing out!
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week 4: hunting for a proper NST! called up every neon sign store in the city and found a nice 12kV one in redwood city. got plasma by the end of the day
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it takes an army of somewhat delusional people to make this real
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bro is mad. leaf robot vs nuclear fusor, who wins? vote down below
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week 2: parts arrive, time to build. started with main chamber design and the half bridge rectifier
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3 days in the san francisco bay area and i’ve the heard the phrase ‘zero sum game’ 13 times.
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actual week 3: setup system in bedroom. figuring out how to connect a neon sign transformer. didnt own a multimeter lol so we used an arduino to check continuity.
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one more shout-out! @535Toronto for generously funding this. full nuclear fusion will be done in toronto.
in a couple weeks, i built a nuclear fusor in my bedroom – with zero hardware experience. the secret? Claude sonnet 3.5 + projects. a glimpse into the process below
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week 3.5: setup vacuum and measuring system using an MKS-901p transducer. i fed Claude all my datasheets and it helped a TON with this. insanely was able to get down to 25 microns of pressure after hunting down several vacuum leaks for an entire week. this was by far the most
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and lastly, a big <3 to @sriramk and @tylercowen for helping fund this and making this a reality :>. thank you for enabling the future!!!.
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@Cooperwest02 in the end $3000, thought it was gonna cost like $15k but brought it down a lot.
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hiking half dome with the boys and we pull an all nighter to catch the sunrise at the top
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joined this CMU hacker fab discord and waterloo students have their own option select. truly insane
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we have been working for months behind the scenes planning this — come join us at the world's best demo day!. it’s a science fair x hockey game x dinner party x film-fest x conference x campfire all in one. march 19th, in waterloo, canada
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i just watched the entire congressional hearing on UFO sightings today and it seems like nobody cares about potentially one of the biggest discoveries in human history? . whats going on here?.
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am i stupid or is this just a microphone with a battery.
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@jacksonbelang - just read a lot on - my friend olivia.- basically none, the input/output energy ratio is super low.
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the squad pulled up and ran a night market in the forest – powered by solar a-frames we built and a cybertruck!
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i think we take for granted how insanely cool 3d printers are??? just vibing creating objects from nothing??? with actual millimeter accuracy??? and u can get one for like $200???.
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this write up leaves out a lot of technical details on purpose. I wrote a substack (linked below) on the actual hour by hour process. will be publishing final technical results once I get some new transducers shipped in. I completed this fusion run right before a flight last.
over a 36-hour livestream, I built a neutron-producing nuclear fusor in my kitchen using Claude. successfully achieving nuclear fusion, entirely assisted by AI. this was my first hardware project!—full story below
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my tldr from the congress hearing on UFOs from 2 days ago
i just watched the entire congressional hearing on UFO sightings today and it seems like nobody cares about potentially one of the biggest discoveries in human history? . whats going on here?.
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we regularly hit several hundred- and now even a thousand weekly attendees at our socratica co-working sessions worldwide. if a node doesn’t exist near you, help us start one!
we remembered the twitter password!!. in london, boston, waterloo, vancouver, montreal++ today — making retro game consoles, animations, material selection databases, stories, hacker fabs, and more
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the craziest grind i have ever seen is this dude at @socraticainfo working on a Minecraft clone on the browser for 4 years. it's so well-optimized that he can run it on a Chromebook no big deal. the calibre of people at socratica always amazes me.
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when your roommates get mad at you for turning the apartment into a hydroponic farm. remember they’re not the ones who will be eating the freshest and best lettuce in the city
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i measured every second I spent on the fusor and it took me a total of 51 hours of research. mostly supercharged by AI tbh
@hud_zah How much did that cost you? How long did it take? Do you have an engineering background?.
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lost to my friends in scotland yard yesterday. to prove it’s not skill issue (🤧) i built the entire game in python and simulated it 1000 times
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our friend group of 10 has traditionally bought dinner for the rest when they get an internship. our progression:. - shawarma plus platter ($10/per).- indian place ($30/per).- all u can eat sushi ($35/per).- cambridge mill brunch ($100/per).- best montreal tasting menu ($300/per).
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jam packed with information on how to speedrun ideation and executing on it using claude + other AI tools.
VIDEO: HOW @hud_zah BUILT A FUSOR IN HIS BEDROOM USING CLAUDE . You all probably saw @hud_zah go viral last week for building a nuclear fusor (I had to look up what that was) in his room using Claude Sonnet. @aarthir and I had him walk us through how he did it and he was kind to
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went to dc for emergent ventures. ended up seeing canadians, socratica friends and tyler
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if you're american and are applying for college, consider applying to waterloo.
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Olivia is an insane engineer, she also made - the fusor forum scraped and put into embeddings that is queryable.
A lot of people I've talked to have been excited about building a fusion reactor. Hudzah is the only person to have actually went on and executed! I'm creating a write up to help anybody else wanting to make their own fusor at home. Here's a WIP:
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i'm in the final 32 of @_buildspace and may win $25,000!. come vote for me tmrw and i will cook you a gourmet meal :)
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i find it strange that first class is positioned at the front of the plane when statistically its the most dangerous place to be during a crash. wouldn't it be a great incentive to pay more to sit further back on the plane and have a higher boost in survival?.
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a peek into what the socratica team was up to this summer in waterloo, ontario!
summerloo has been good to us - from bonfires, to slideshow nights, to brand new venues and tons of new faces. for all who are emotionally invested:
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WE BUILT A HYDROPONIC FARM TOY. sorry my dawgs were out . cc: @_buildspace @_nightsweekends
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the real california gold rush
@hud_zah lives in a house full of Waterloo youngsters. One was doing a mind-reading experiment. Some others had built a couple GPU clusters. There was even some gold panning going on in the bathtub. Go long Waterloo youngsters.
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a lot of my recent hydroponics work has been supported by emergent ventures, and i’m so honoured to finally announce it!
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you will never see a hackathon project as crazy as this btw.
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i found jackson on an internet forum and met him later in sf, he was very kind to help me and advise me with my demo fusor!.
At 12 years old, I built a working nuclear fusion reactor in my bedroom. I got a Guinness world record. and the FBI showed up to my house. here’s the story 🧵
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@logangraham @AnthropicAI @alexalbert__ yes, feeding it datasheets, email conversations, etc. annoying parts were:.- not being able to upload links (had to manually copy paste info).- message limits, hit this almost 3 times a day.- limited knowledge base size.- not being able to talk with claude via voice.
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1. Pizza ponderer. The first team to order a pizza fully autonomously from a random pizza place chosen off a spinner wheel. @0k_zh @og_chamod @mathurahravi @yccgabby @bobawithbonnie
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here's an app i made last week to easily create moving photos :). a thread of some of my favourite photos:
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friends asking you dumb questions?. just chatgpt it for them. a modern take on 'let me google that for you'
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this is actually the ultimate waterloo showdown. create-react-app bro vs first robotics bro.
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good lord
our friend group of 10 has traditionally bought dinner for the rest when they get an internship. our progression:. - shawarma plus platter ($10/per).- indian place ($30/per).- all u can eat sushi ($35/per).- cambridge mill brunch ($100/per).- best montreal tasting menu ($300/per).
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vancouver, you have been kind to me
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lol i just did a "spotify wrapped" but for my yearly expenses and saw that i spent $710.92 on shawarma this year.
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does anyone have a good answer to why old computers were made in an ugly beige color
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