Bad ventilation can make your thinking scores drop by... half. That's what a Harvard study found looking at indoor air quality and carbon dioxide levels. Same brain, worse air, worse thinking. This video shows us three rooms, each modeled system by system in Revit before construction starts. A mechanical room with the heat pump and main lines. A living room with ducts planned above the ceiling. A bathroom with the whole network overhead. If you mess up the living room ducts, you end up with that common issue: a hot bedroom and a cold kitchen. If the bathroom setup is wrong, moisture can't escape, and that's how mold grows behind the walls. It's cheap to fix these mistakes in the design phase. Move a line, change a size, done in a minute. Fix the same mistake after the walls are up and it usually runs $1,500 to $9,000 in a regular house. Engineers have a term for this: the 1-10-100 rule. A mistake costs $1 during design, $10 after it's built, and $100 once people are living in the house. AI can already check ductwork designs. The next step: building them with a sentence.show more

CATCH A DESIGN PROBLEM ON AN EMPTY LOT, IT'S... FREE. CATCH IT AFTER FRAMING, IT'S A CHANGE ORDER. This is a phone camera on an empty yard, AR-mapping the actual house frame onto real ground, full scale, before anything gets built. WITHOUT AR WALKTHROUGH: Design issue caught during or after framing. Cost impact: 5-40% of project budget, per construction cost-overrun research. On a $450,000 build, even the low end of that range is $22,500 in avoidable overruns. WITH AR WALKTHROUGH: Design issue caught on the empty lot. Cost impact: a five-minute walk and an edit to the plan, before anything's actually built. That gap is the entire pitch. Not a fancier rendering, a cheaper mistake. This clip shows a house before it exists. The article below covers the flip side, scanning a space that already exists and turning it into something anyone can walk through from a phone, no headset needed.show more

Today I took Farokh and Sergito ❚ ❚ to... the gallery we are building! Heres a video update. This space will truly be a hub for art and a high end experience for collecting art at all levels. Whats inside? 4000 square feets Café/cocktail bars Sculptures, painting, digital art Collection graded cars will be rotating immersive projection mapping rooms You can rent the immersive room at the back by burning Fvck_Crystals// and Fvck_Avatars// We already have a line up, if you are interested in curating that room drop a ⛓️ in the comments! See you at the end of the summer.show more

$180,000 VOLVO SEMI TRUCK. EVERY WIRE AND PIPE IN... THE CAB AND ENGINE BAY MAPPED IN ADVANCE. BUILT BY TYPING SENTENCES INSTEAD OF PLACING THEM BY HAND. A cab and engine bay this dense needed its wiring, cooling lines, and air and brake lines modeled and checked for clashes before a physical prototype could be built. The design team connected Kimi K3 to their CAD software through MCP, then had it read photos of the cab and engine bay alongside plain English descriptions of each system and build the model directly instead of placing every line by hand. Old process: 2 engineers, 3 weeks, around $19,000. New process: 1 engineer reviewing and refining the AI's output, 5 days, roughly $3,500 combined, engineer's time plus AI compute. Routing clashes caught this way cost a few hundred dollars to fix. The same clash caught after a physical prototype is already built costs 10 to 100 times more. See the article below for a smaller example of the Kimi K3 + Blender MCP workflow.show more

This setup of the house is an instant red... flag and a major design error. That driveway was designed to turn the basement into an indoor pool with every rain. 🤯 Never ever buy a house with a paved surface sloped towards the house! Never Ever!! 💯 And never buy a house without a qualified home inspection. Even if the sump pump was working, it wouldn’t have kept up with that unless you have a suped up sump pump.show more

The moisture question always comes up when I post... pics of my indoor pools on my new builds. Step by step below on how I control it. We create a room where moisture can’t escape into other areas of the home while also having a mechanical system in place to pull the moisture out of the air so mildew/mold don’t ever develop in the pool room itself. In the STR space, investors are trying to stand out. Pools rent. Indoor pools rent even better. You can swim in the winter or summer. 1) Pool is always built on lowest floor inside (generally basement structure) 2) Concrete block wall for basement with very little wood frame 3) Densglass (kind of like a moisture resistant drywall) attached to concrete block 4) Special stucco just like you see on exterior of homes sprayed onto Densglass. The stucco is dyed to color of my choice. 5) Industrial grade dehumidifier (I use Santa Fe or Watchdog Brand). The humidity pulled from air is pumped back into the pool system near the mechanical room or outside. 6) Mini split for the pool room. Main floor HVAC covers the sleeping rooms, bathroom of basement and is always separated from pool room. You don’t want chlorinated air running through a main HVAC system. I look at having to replace the minisplit & dehumidifier about every 4 to 5 yrs because of the chlorinated air that goes through them. 7) Exhaust Fan leading to exterior which also pulls humid air out of the room as a supplemental support for the dehumidifier. When overhead lights are turned on, we have it so the exhaust fan kicks on as well. That’s it. We create a “bubble”, where no moisture gets into the other areas of home and the humid air gets pulled from the pool room.show more

A GIRL BENT OVER A MECHANICAL BULL WITH A... SIGN BEHIND HER THAT SAYS "BODIES: 1000+" WHILE MEN LINE UP BEHIND HER ONE BY ONE — THIS VIDEO DID 22 MILLION VIEWS AND IT'S A RODEO EVENT PROMO. Thread. Alright so look at this setup. She's at some kind of barn event. Hay bales, warehouse walls, mechanical bull. She's leaning over the machine with both hands on it, bent at the waist. Behind her there's a black sign with her photo that reads "Phillips' Glory. Size: S. Age: 24. Bodies: 1000+." And one by one, men walk up from behind her, shake her hand, and move on. That's the event. That's also not what 22 million people see when they watch this video. Here's what makes this the most efficiently suggestive setup I've ever seen on this platform. Every element is innocent by itself. A girl at a rodeo event. A stats board like you'd see for a bull. A handshake line. But the position she's in, the angle the men approach from, and the word "bodies" on the sign turn an event promo into something your brain can only read one way. She's bent over. They come from behind. The sign counts to 1000. Your brain did the math before you finished the first frame. "Bodies: 1000+" is the line doing all the heavy lifting. In rodeo it means bulls ridden. On the internet it means something else entirely and the person who wrote that sign knew exactly which audience would read which definition. The rodeo crowd sees a champion. The internet sees a body count. Both share the video. Neither audience knows they're sharing it for a completely different reason. She never stands up. Not once in 17 seconds. She stays bent over the bull the entire time while men approach, interact, and leave. The position is the format. If she was standing next to the bull this would be a meet-and-greet with 50K views. Bent over it with men approaching from behind it's a video that broke 20 million because your brain cannot overwrite what the geometry is telling it regardless of the context. The hay bales in the background are the final touch. They say "this is a barn, this is a rodeo, this is agriculture." And they're right. But a girl bent over in a barn while men line up behind her is also the opening scene of something that has nothing to do with agriculture and the hay bales are in both versions. The setting didn't change the read. The read hijacked the setting.show more

This system is called the “Canadian well.” The essence... is very simple: at a depth of 2-3 meters, the earth always holds a stable temperature of about +10... +15°C. In the winter, the cold air from the street goes through an underground pipe and heats up before entering the house. ☀️ In the summer, the hot air is cooled down in the same pipe. That is, the earth functions as both a natural conditioner and a heater. It does not replace heating or air conditioning completely, but it greatly reduces costs and makes the air in the house more comfortable 👍show more

Two girls, arms overhead all day, plastering a ceiling... in perfect sync and it makes them around $12,000 a month between them, mostly from filming it. Anyone who's done overhead work knows it's the worst position in the trade — arms up, neck back, shoulders burning inside ten minutes. Most people tap out. These two do it for hours, side by side, matching each other's pace like they share a brain. That's the thing you can't look away from: not just that it's two women on a ceiling, but that they're in rhythm doing the part everyone else dreads. Here's why the pair matters more than people think. A solo worker is a clip you watch once. Two people moving in sync — no talking, just anticipating each other — is a relationship, and relationships are what turn a viewer into a follower. You're not watching a task get done. You're watching a partnership work, and that pulls people back for the next one. The money runs three ways off one phone. Their calendar stays booked because homeowners watch the finish and hire them at full rate, zero ad spend — the video sells the work. Tool and material brands pay $3 - 5k a post to get their gear in genuinely skilled hands. And views, often 5-10 million a clip, stack payouts on a phone one of them wedges on a bucket. Neither of them edits. They film the shift, hand it to AI, it grabs the tightest synced stretch, cuts it to the beat, captions, schedules. They're onto the next room before it posts. The reframe for anyone doing hard work: the part of your job that's physically brutal — the part you assume nobody wants to see — is exactly what people respect watching. Struggle that looks effortless is magnetic. Doing it in sync with someone else doubles it. Do you work with someone you're so in sync with you barely need words? Drop it below — I'm breaking the best ones down next.show more

Summers are coming and people will be challaned by... police for using sun shades to escape scorching heat. But if you are a Bollywood actor, nothing happens. You can drive with black film and zero visibility. A common man does the same and faces heavy fines. Laws seem to exist only for the common man in this country.show more

Just a heads up that you should never be... rendering 10,000 lines of anything, especially if all the lines are the same height, as in code. List virtualisation is a very old and simple technique. You can experiment with the below atshow more

ONE OPERATOR STACKED 300 GPUS ACROSS TWO APARTMENTS IN... THE SAME BUILDING AND RUNS A $48K/MONTH AI INFERENCE FARM ON VAST AI FROM HIS LIVING ROOM 00:17 he walks past stacks of GPU boxes, "and probably another 100 GPU boxes in the second apartment, let me know in the comments if you want to see them" he rents 2 units in the same building, one as his living space with 200 GPUs in the bedroom and hallway, the second is dedicated and climate controlled just for the other 100 cards a 300 RTX 4090 setup pulls 135 kilowatts fully loaded, his power bill runs $9,800 a month at $0.10 per kwh, on vast ai the same fleet clears $48,000 in gross monthly rental income he never built this in a warehouse because residential electricity in his city is cheaper than commercial under 150 kw, the split apartment trick keeps him under that ceiling while doubling his rack space the same hardware would have cleared maybe $9,000 a month mining ethereum classic in 2022, vast ai pays 5 times that for AI inference because nobody can ship enough H100s to meet startup demand bookmark this and read the article belowshow more

A view from a plane... What is happening! Are... we living in a parallel universe? How is it possible for anyone to look out of a plane window at 38k feet and see this, above the cloud cover, and just go with the propaganda narrative that it's only condensation?show more

There is a room in Málaga that was built... to be the closest thing on earth to standing inside heaven. It is called the camarín of the Virgin of Victory, and it is hidden at the top of a tower inside the Santuario de la Victoria. To reach it, you climb and the ascent is the entire point... The building you are climbing through was completed in 1700, and it was designed as a single argument made in stone. At the bottom lies a crypt: a black chamber crowded with white plaster skeletons, a meditation on death and the brevity of life. From there a staircase rises, and as you climb it the light grows stronger and the imagery changes from bones to saints. The architects of the time understood this ascent as the soul's own journey, the dark crypt as the stage of penitence, the staircase as the stage of spiritual progress, and the room at the very top as the final stage: the union of the soul with the divine. That room at the top is the camarín, and its dome is one of the most extraordinary interiors in Spain... Every surface is covered in white and gold plasterwork. There is no empty space anywhere. The Baroque called this horror vacui, the horror of the void: the conviction that a space meant to represent heaven should not contain a single bare patch of stone. Out of that plasterwork emerge angels, flowers, birds, and mirrors. The mirrors are not decoration alone. They catch the light pouring in through the windows of the drum and throw it around the chamber, so that the gold seems to move and the whole room appears to shimmer and breathe. This wonder was built by people who believed that if you wanted to show a human being what heaven might feel like, you did not describe it to them. You built a room, and you let them climb into it... -- -- -- If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here: If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.show more

This is quite a big change in the past... few years: delivery robots have become pretty much ubiquitous in Chinese hotels (and many residence buildings too). Half the time I take the lift in a hotel I share it with a robot. The way it works is pretty seamless. When I - as a hotel guest - order something online, the delivery guy puts it in the robot at the hotel's reception, the robot orders the lift, sets the floor, goes in front of my room and calls the phone in the room: "open the door for me, I'm here with your order!" It's a huge time saver for delivery folks - or hotel staff - and a good experience for guests. I think that's the way the whole delivery process will be automatized in China: bit by bit all residences in the country - at least those with lifts - will be equiped with those, and that's actually the most complex part of the process handled, the last few meters of the delivery process. Once that's done, it's just a matter of connecting the dots: autonomous delivery vehicles or drones - which are already a feature of many Chinese cities - will dock at the building's entrance and hand off to the indoor robot, completing a fully automated chain from merchant to doorstep.show more

We were taught the derivative as a formula to... memorise. A definition to recite. A rule to apply. Something that "gives you the slope." But nobody told us what the formula was actually saying. Every symbol is a sentence. Every fraction is a question. Every limit is a story about getting closer and closer to something you can never quite touch. The top of the fraction? That's a change. A difference. A before and after. The bottom? That's how long you waited to see it. The limit? That's you, zooming in, refusing to settle for an approximation - chasing the truth all the way down to an interval so small it almost disappears. Put it all together, and you get the most honest question in calculus: How fast is something changing - right now, in this exact instant? Not on average. Not over a minute. Not eventually. Right now. That's it. That's the derivative. It's not a trick. It's not a rule. It's a beautifully precise way of asking a very human question: what's happening, in this moment? We spent years solving these. Maybe it's time we actually understood them.show more

The rumors around the UFO topic are that the... others see us as containers for the soul. How will the masses react if they find out that there are higher-dimensional entities that can mess with your soul, read your emotions and thoughts, and manipulate you without you even realizing it? It's like you are alone in a room with an entity that you know nothing about, but it can read you like a book.show more

$40 MILLION HOSPITAL WING. EVERY PIPE AND DUCT MAPPED... BEFORE CONSTRUCTION STARTS. BUILT BY TYPING SENTENCES INSTEAD OF PLACING THEM BY HAND. A seven-story hospital wing needed its ductwork, plumbing, electrical, and fire suppression modeled and coordinated before construction could start. The design team connected Claude to Revit through a community-built MCP connector, then had it read the coordination model alongside plain English descriptions of each system and build the pipe and duct runs directly instead of placing every component by hand. Old process: 3 engineers, 5 weeks, around $42,000. New process: 1 engineer confirming Claude's output, 8 days, roughly $9,000 combined, engineer's time plus AI compute. Coordinated models finished this way cut change orders by 40 to 60 percent once construction begins. See the article below on why Autodesk built the official version read-only, on purpose.show more

How we run bug fixing loops at Amplitude: -... Bug found in Slack > agent ships a fix in minutes - One-off fixes > a system that remembers every bug it's seen - Manual review > risk-scored auto-approval - Testing hygiene still matters, automation isn't a substitute for it If you'd like to learn how to do the same, we've written it up as a dating-manual ebook (“Falling in Love with Loops”) and built the site as a teenage bedroom in Blender + Three.js. Walk the room, click the book to read it, there's a game hidden in the TV: Every product team will run on loops like this. Might as well fall in love now! ❤️🥰show more

After Tropical Storm Edouard hit Texas, a tree in... the yard of a house was knocked down. Sadly, only three baby squirrels from the squirrel family living inside the tree survived. The mother and father squirrels did not survive the storm. Luckily, the three baby squirrels were very lucky. The house cat found them and carried them into the house one by one in its mouth. The homeowner was shocked when they saw the cat coming into the house with the baby squirrels in its mouth. The cat took the baby squirrels in and cared for them as if they were its own kittens, protecting them and taking care of them. Sometimes, you don’t have to be the same species to save a life; all you need is a compassionate heart 🥺❤️show more

IMAGINE YOUR NOTES APP LOOKING LIKE MISSION CONTROL this... is what a second brain becomes when you stop treating it like a folder and start treating it like a system it's called omega. every note is a star. every connection is a line. and it tracks stats most people have never seen on their own knowledge: maturity: 58%. velocity: +196%. active clusters. hotspots. top hubs. it's telling you which ideas are growing, which ones are going stale, and where your thinking is actually concentrated your regular notes app has none of this. you dump things in and hope you find them later this treats your knowledge like a living thing you can measure and grow here's the part that matters: when you can see your second brain, you actually use it the graph pulls you back. the growing clusters make you want to feed them. the stats make it a game you want to keep playing most people's notes are a graveyard nobody visits this is the version that's aliveshow more