
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 просмотров • 1 год назад

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 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

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 просмотров • 1 год назад

may need to rename “power boil” to “ludicrous” or something
Sam D'Amico1,103,353 просмотров • 1 год назад

having a (rooted) impulse stove is insane because it’s like, you can literally have Claude code you a rice cooker that it then *runs*
Sam D'Amico248,862 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

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 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

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

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 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

Pretty excited for next week’s update Impulse. Now takes <40s to preheat pans in temperature mode (with … less? overshoot) — you can basically assume that the pan is hot when you start cooking. Will share more soon… this took a ton of work to get right.
Sam D'Amico17,841 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

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 просмотров • 1 год назад

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

cleaning Impulse Labs — since people asked. I just use a wet rag with soapy water and then a dry rag.
Sam D'Amico55,289 просмотров • 1 год назад