
Sam D'Amico
@sdamico • 33,575 subscribers
founder/ceo of impulse @impulselabs
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when the team’s monomaniacal focus on latency and performance gets applied to … a stove
Sam D'Amico5,281,395 views • 1 year ago

Eggs are now reliably nonstick on stainless steel with Impulse The reason this works is that we can hold the pan at the Leidenfrost effect temperature — the egg floats on steam. You’ll be able to do this at home in like 1-2 weeks, max (the build is going through QA).
Sam D'Amico580,116 views • 3 months ago

since a bunch of people haven’t seen what active temperature control of the pan surface can do — cooking an egg with some commentary on Impulse Labs - butter doesn’t smoke - egg doesn’t stick - you only really need to keep track of the top of the egg’s appearance
Sam D'Amico1,154,584 views • 1 year ago

Continuous-video agents (computer use, robotics, static scenes) burn compute re-ingesting pixels that didn't move. VLMaxxing teaches a frozen video VLM to skip the reruns. 54 fps perception on Gemma 4 26B, training-free, no accuracy drift. w/ JF Bastien (arXiv 2605.03351)
Sam D'Amico62,956 views • 1 month ago

We’re cooking — and I genuinely think we made something super special Impulse Labs
Sam D'Amico770,802 views • 1 year ago

I am TWO weeks in and I have built ~95% of a consumer electronics manufacturing software platform. 1) Manufacturing Test UI that runs our existing test (temperature sensor one shown) but sucks the data out of it to the cloud 2) Relay to install on a bastion host to get data out of locked-down factories (1 and 2 can self-update, including through relays) 3) Cloud Platform (deployed on AWS via terraform using github CI) 4) How I am developing this Claude -- I actually have github CI posting screenshots into the PR comments so I can develop stuff end-to-end on my phone. The world has changed, strap in.
Sam D'Amico85,987 views • 5 months ago

OK at popular request, I made Annie’s Mac and Cheese in *about* the minimum time possible, with a stove about 3-4x more powerful than other induction stoves. This also demonstrates how we can control temperature precisely, as that’s key to making the all-important cheese sauce.
Sam D'Amico87,762 views • 1 year ago

james hong Nick Hollern Impulse small spoiler alert for what we can do (note: this is not final)
Sam D'Amico33,075 views • 7 months ago