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When you say continuous interlocking U shape, are you saying it fills one channel from the top until the connected channel fills from the bottom?

Yes. It's a modified triangle infill pattern.

A solver pairs the triangle with one of its neighbors. Then cuts a window at the bottom during the slice. So plastic gets injected into the top of a triangle tube and flows through the window at the bottom of the U to its neighbor cell.

Download the binaries and try slicing with magma infill type. Turn off visibility of all the other line types and you'll see how it works


There was some discussion on that topic when they self-promoted this 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47242929

Slate is outsourcing service operations to any shop that wants to pay $50 to get certified.

https://www.slate.auto/en/certified


Slate has my interest.

I don’t want to get stuck with a failed company EV, so I’ll be cautious. But man, they seem to have some good ideas so far.


From what I have read most of the recent EV companies failed due to investor shenanigans. Fisker and Coda made it to production promising ~$30-40k models, but only really delivered ~$50-70k models before they folded. Slate is posting videos of an operational factory building the model they advertised and seem confident it will be under $30k.

I don’t like the bins drifting from so far away so slowly. There needs to be repulsive force that prevents the bins from colliding.

It would be interesting if the resonators could adaptively model timbre to factor out harmonics while still handling unique timbre at each frequency. That could produce a pitch diagram color coded by instrument.

Edit: I bet you could fork a resonator and run over the window it just finished in reverse to correct the drift.


My approach is to let the "bins" collide at the filter bank level (really let nearby tracking resonators agree on the dominant frequency in the neighborhood), and use the bank's instantaneous state as input for a frequency component tracker, whose output is a list of (frequency, amplitude) rather than an array of bins.

Here is a short video demonstrating the concept (with spectrogram-style visualization): https://youtu.be/STayypC1pvU

This is all pointing towards a dynamic systems approach, with prediction/feedback loops, e.g. establishing a tonal context and feeding it back into the analysis.

I believe some plasticity in the natural frequencies in the bank and tuning of the resonator dynamics would improve the convergence time to some extent, but I think this will only go so far and most of those effects should be addressed via prediction/feedback.

I envision the timbre analysis to take place on these tracked components as well as harmonics should be tracked as components whose frequencies are multiples of a fundamental (so analysis on actual small number of actual frequencies rather than a large number of bins).


Businesses like a record of reliability, so devs going solo with AI is going to be a hard sell. I think we will know that AI is actually good enough when these AI providers start absorbing project management companies and hiring contractors to use their product instead of selling subscriptions.

It also says it is supposed to be available in their own Edge Gallery app and it’s not there (on iOS).

If only they had launched that yesterday I might have avoided Copilot auto model selection using a 9x model, quietly burning my monthly quota in a single afternoon.

Prologium is depositing thin film solid state batteries onto flexible ceramic insulators. They have some demos of single cells that appear to be thinner than 1mm continuing to operate after bending in half.

https://prologium.com/tech/core-technology/


But it jumps around and flickers pretty bad. Chrome’s own demos in the docs don’t work at all.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/css-ui/scroll-driven-anima...

Edit: Their reference works and has some really nice demos. Must be an iframe problem. https://scroll-driven-animations.style/#demos


Not only did they switch to token billing and increase the multipliers, they started auto selecting 6x and 9x models more often than before. The UX is such that you don’t find out what model it chose until after the request is complete.

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