CTRL+I?

Reminds me of the ship of theseus philosophical experiment where they replace neurons by logic gates one by one and ask when exactly consciousness stops existing.

Maybe related to this? Crazy idea, but nothing surprises me anymore.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/01/politics/us-troop-withdra...

What component values do you need to time exactly 55 years?

Maybe it could work if you used 5 timers?

How exactly is exactly? Can I make it measure 1 hour with an allowed tolerance of 55 years, plus or minus. :)

I don't think you could do it. Not with the original BJT variant anyway. :)

Hmm, why not? For the astable configuration, you could use a 100F capacitor with R1 = 10 Meg and R2 = 7.5 Meg, for a 55 year period. Base current for the Threshold NPN will come from the Trigger PNP (and hopefully temperature drift matches OK). Other than maybe the 100F capacitor might have some variation in capacitance and leakage current over the course of 55 years ;-)

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/tecate-group/PBLH...

Time. In a few years there might be no old-school way to develop anymore. Everything will be built around AI.

And blockchain, don't forget blockchain.

Even the programming languages will be made for AI.

Maybe. At some point, humans will start sounding like AI.

They already do, I recently heard people literally talk like tiktok videos in real life...

But we can't just let the adversarial cattle get away with it.

Those running blades used e.g. in the paralympics can make locomotion more efficient.

Similar principle taken to more of an extreme: https://is.mpg.de/publications/bb01

I really want to build one of those, they look great fun. (specifically in context of the article I want to see what happens if you lower the CG. Harder balance problem, but might reduce some of the instantaneous torques)

What are the SOTA algorithms for making them walk/move?

I see a lot of videos lately, mostly from China, and I'm curious what everybody is using.

Without benchmarks and/or a whole suite of non-cherrypicked examples, this means nothing because you can trivially make an AI generate anything from text.

Working on benchmarks at the moment! Always open to feedback / PRs.

im def working on benchmarks for how my own general harness improves task performance vs same model in a commodity setup. its hard to do!

i will say that my current harness: https://github.com/cartazio/oh-punkin-pi is a testbed for a bunch of 2nd gen harness tech, largely optimized for reasoning llms only. the next one after this harness is gonna be epicccc