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The initial ABC dataset is from public Onshape files -- clearly some people had a reason to design a dog model parametrically!

There's a pretty big bias for mechanical engineering components in the dataset- very few organic forms. It's one of the limitations we call out in the dataset card. There are a few…

This isn't meant to be a commercially useful search engine- just a demonstration. You'll only be able to search for terms that the VLM could directly discern. From the blog post: O…

We rendered the one million part ABC dataset from Deep Geometry, and open-sourced the data. We also built a fun demo with the following pipeline: CAD > render > caption > embed. Op…

Super cool! btw I love the name "Greptile" :)

Inspired by Ian Hickon's reflection on his 18 years at Google, I reflect on how Google got into their current slump- and what they can do to bounce back.

Interesting idea! One of the problems with any primary research (surveys included) is the delay in collecting responses, which can take hours to weeks depending on sample, IR, ince…

Very cool! I constantly struggle trying to do things in spreadsheets that are easy in Python. But I/O makes it annoying to write one-off scripts for a 30 second op. This would solv…

I wrote about a bad thing that happened to me recently and what the web3 people can learn from it.

> "However, the algorithm is only valuable for detecting scams accurately after they have been executed." Forgive me, but isn't it only useful to detect scams before they happen?

I've been using Superpowered for the past 2 weeks and can honestly say the experience is great. I don't live in the browser and the Mac calendar app is pretty awful, so this has be…

A survey platform designed around voice and video. https://phonic.ai It turns out that a LOT of podcasts are recorded asynchronously since it's easier to schedule.

"I don't know if camera based computer vision by itself will ever be enough for full self driving." Rebuttal: If you had a 3D camera sitting in the driver's seat of a car and hooke…