Mark Cummins
@mark_cummins
Help for blind robots. Other half to @stalagnick
We have developed a new tactile sensor, called e-Flesh, with a simple working principle: measure deformations in 3D printable microstructures. Now all you need to make tactile sensors is a 3D printer, magnets, and magnetometers! 🧵
No amount of Enterprise Ireland funding could produce this level of Irish cultural propaganda 🤝
One of the best parts of Stripe is working with the world's most interesting businesses. Taking advantage of this, we're launching a podcast where we host founders and leaders for a cheeky pint in our hastily-constructed office pub. Coming soon: episodes with @gdb, Meta’s Susan…
Every day I read Irish news I wonder if I hallucinated.
Today An Coimisiún Pleanála upheld Fingal CC’s decision. It said demolishing the old ramps “would diminish the visual amenity on approach to T1” 🫠
you wont believe how smart our new frontier llm is. it repeatedly samples from the data manifold just like our last one. but this time we gave it new data to cover a past blindspot. watch in awe as we now sample from a slightly different area of the data manifold
I really like this idea. Nice way to generalize test time training
🧵 1/ Excited to share our #ICML2025 paper: “IT³: Idempotent Test-Time Training” A simple, domain-agnostic method to adapt models during inference, using only the test instance — no auxiliary task, no tuning. Let’s dive in 👇 🔗 norange.io/projects/ittt/ youtube.com/watch?v=eKGKpN…
The current path of AI feels worst-of-all-worlds for Google: good enough to change consumer search behavior, but not good enough to open similarly sized new revenue streams for Cloud.
Also can we acknowledge the Valley is the only place in the world where a billionaire tech founder thinks "yeah of course I want to be an individual contributor engineer again!" @calvinfo
This from @gwern is pointing in the right direction: gwern.net/ai-daydreaming
This is great, but get ready for some really weird industrial accidents
Over the past few months, my team at @AnthropicAI has had a bunch of fun running an autonomous... vending machine business. We are now convinced that it is very valuable that we should study automated businesses in the wild. And we should get ready for that world.
There's an avalanche coming / Don't cover your eyes / It's what you thought that you wanted / It's still a surprise
Another day...another step on the path towards a useful quantum computer: New research from @GoogleResearch shows color codes are a viable alternative to the surface code for quantum error correction, leading to more efficient quantum computing especially for cryptanalysis
Error correction is a key component of tomorrow’s large-scale quantum computers. Today we’re excited to report the experimental demonstration of a color code system that provides an advantageous alternative to the well studied surface code. Check it out →goo.gle/4ljZwli
You don't see one like this very often. Seriously impressive. Great new AI driven product + long term thinking on pricing = magic.
This is a story about how we rebooted a 15 year old decelerating business to be on course to be the fastest growing large software company in the world in four quarters from today… :) The Q1 Intercom board meeting starts in one hour. Q1 FY26 was the largest quarter by net new…
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Genuine epigenetic rejuvenation in primary cells has long been the holy grail. A groundbreaking preprint reveals that over-expression of a single (secret) gene overcomes this barrier: greatly reduced age estimates across in fibroblasts and keratinocytes according to validated…
Too many people bounce to the rails. AI 2027 + latest Anthropic predictions seem very unlikely. But that doesn't mean you can ignore the whole thing. Just dilate the timeline a bit.