ashe
@ashebytes • 21,259 subscribers
follow for techno optimism & aesthetic rapture 🤍 building relational intelligence 🎥 https://t.co/b4yw6sCmjI ex ml eng stanfordcs nasa apple etc
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On the Frontier of Ocean Robotics in conversation with will o’brien, founder of Ulysses Maritime Technologies, Inc. 0:00 Cold ocean dips & morning swims 01:05 Underwater robots for industry, researchers, the Navy 03:38 Growing up by the sea in Ireland 05:37 Speed-running friendships from Twitter/X 07:44 The Irish language 10:58: Will's aesthetic inspiration 13:22 Underwater autonomous vehicles 15:08 Decoding whale & dolphin acoustics with AI 17:23 Hot take: reading is overrated in SF 19:34 Faith journey: Growing up Catholic & exploring Buddhism in Nepal 23:14 UFOs & disclosure 27:01 Illegal fishing & mine detection 29:38 The frontier: autonomous subsea robotic manipulation 31:07 Scuba diving & spearfishing lionfish 34:37 Ulysses Maritime Technologies, Inc. is hiring!!
ashe53,866 görüntüleme • 16 gün önce
From Math to Mysticism: On the Frontier of AI's Acceleration of Spirituality in conversation with nicole recorded in Edge City 🤍 00:00 Intro: the spiritual vacuum AI is opening up 04:23 When your nervous system is shot to hell 13:42 Rudolf Steiner predicted AI in 1919 (Ahriman) 16:12 Non-duality, the singularity & "waking up" 22:11 Reality glitches: Jung's golden scarab 29:12 Manifestation, the shadow & hyperstition 31:54 Quantum physics & the observer effect 35:40 Ego death, psychedelics & dying before you die 46:54 LLMs, local models & "parasitic AI" 50:41 thank you to Edge City 1:03:22 Gender-war content as a psy-op
ashe56,513 görüntüleme • 28 gün önce
from svms to neural nets, great awakenings & a nod to the barbault basket planetary alignment
ashe13,123 görüntüleme • 8 gün önce
on the frontier of peptides & community in conversation with Tori Pastore Chairman Birb Bernanke 00:55 an intro to peptides 08:13 on peptides removing food noise 14:30 dosing and combatting food engineering 16:14 on the verge of shapeshifting 20:30 Soup, bending attention, and corporate surrealism 29:35 the post atomic bomb societal shift 35:17 techno optimism
ashe42,490 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
my hot take is that tech doesn't need more storytellers... it needs more people who don't view themselves as outside and above others... it needs more people who like people, beauty, and being in connection people who are sharing from a real place, people you'd want to hang out with at a party (feedback incorporate from prev post, thank you team)
ashe21,482 görüntüleme • 26 gün önce
On agent factories, memory, continual learning & building on the frontier while growing a family In conversation with Sam Whitmore Sam Whitmore, eng at Cursor this is a special one! dive in: 00:25 Sam’s background 01:38 Family building while in frontier tech 11:50 Agent factories at cursor 15:46 Continual learning, agent self-awareness, memory, and user goal alignment 23:51 Building a thoughtful product culture at Cursor 27:00 Thinking about defensibility in 2026 30:01 Selling outside of the tech/X bubble 33:49 Kids & AI use 35:12 On reading fiction 38:32 On pregnancy, hormones, and building 42:58 On agent predictions for the next 6 months 46:35 Hiring at Cursor
ashe59,539 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
On frontier science: stepping into the golden age of energy tech In conversation with Danielle Fong Danielle Fong 🔆 00:45 Danielle’s background, starting with college at 12 04:16 The global energy crisis 11:15 Productizing: from drones to data centers 14:00 Powering your future openclaw with propane 14:34 US gov vs consumer applications 19:30 AI, data centers, and new energy sources 23:25 Agentic tools at Lightcell 27:54 Leveraging models across providers 29:54 Iterating on frontier science 43:22 Hyperscalers and the golden age of energy tech
ashe61,597 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
my attempt - calling it quits for now landed on the same conclusion as below + a few words that - with all the excitement of this moment in tech - we must also be very clear on the horror of the political landscape we are in. It does not represent progress. It does not represent America.
ashe72,931 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
on the frontier of consumer wearables: building an egoless AI product in conversation with Mina Fahmi, building Sandbar between Mina's eloquence and our nyc galavanting, this conversation feels like a work of art. stoked to be able to share it dive in: 00:34 Mina's background 01:42 Robotics, neural interfaces, and hardware 06:06 Bringing nervous system work into designing AI products 10:25 Building with voice 12:38 AI extending self-concept 19:05 AI sycophancy 24:58 Agentic memory 30:11 Hardware decisions at Sandbar 34:16 Hiring at Sandbar 36:04 Bringing AI to more people
ashe33,719 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
all you can do...all you can really do.. is create more than you consume
ashe14,281 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
On building consumer wearables in 2026 In conversation with Andy Kong Andy Kong interested in hardware? me too. fascinating chat, amazing lab aesthetic 00:00 quiz-bowl buzzers to the SF wearables scene 02:25 pebble, kickstarter, and what's changed 05:49 2 ways of developing wearables 06:59 CMs, budgets, and designing your own board 09:53 using Alibaba chat to source partners 14:07 planning a shenzhen trip 18:27 board vs mold design 25:53 boston vs sf vs nyc for wearables 30:00 LLMs + board design 33:50 is hardware still hard? 36:22 cubesats + chargerless 37:11 validate publicly, quickly
ashe35,716 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
on the frontier of AI detection: from the grifters, to auto reply bots, to russian influence campaigns, to the rising cost of training in conversation with Max Spero and dive in: 00:36 max's background & pangram labs 05:27 AI slop attack vectors 13:19 is this an intractable problem? 18:48 the relational value of content 21:36 a surprising learning... 29:36 customer problems we're not talking enough about 37:04 forecasting compute 43:52 is hiring!
ashe19,666 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
On pop up villages for folks in frontier tech & science In conversation with Timour Kosters timour kosters timour kosters, Janine Leger, and the Edge City team are on the cutting edge of curating in real life connections for builders a number of kids have been conceived because of Edge 🤍 I loved this chat. Dive in: 00:28 Timour’s background 04:55 Edge City - pop up villages for people in frontier tech + science 07:45 The crisis of dating & closely connecting 10:35 More kids in society 15:37 Funding models for the residencies 20:03 Reconceptualizing national identities 22:47 Safeguards to create communities that feel safe 27:43 Renormalizing mistakes within community 30:05 Berlin as inspiration for a post AGI city 34:27 Identity leaps 36:36 Advice for people who feel disconnected 41:36 Edgeclaw: openclaw for IRL meetups 44:27 Frontier tech: Vasocomputation 48:09 The next generation of Occupy Wall Street, Arab Spring etc 54:03 Edge city invitation
ashe23,938 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce