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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joined June 2010
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Aragorn Meulendijks retweeted
I’m furious and heartbroken to see my country like this.
I could be prosecuted for this, but so be it. It needs to be said.
Our empathy is killing us. I stand with MY people, and they’re not my people.
Share this. We’ve had enough, and time is running out for France.
Aragorn Meulendijks retweeted
Many think AI will be a bad thing for gaming but I do agree here that matter fact it's gonna open doors to new possibilities and more awesome games from fellow developers.
Aragorn Meulendijks retweeted
It’s frightening to look back at what Hitchens warned about 20 years ago, and yet Europe ignored him and carried on. Today we are warning America.
Aragorn Meulendijks retweeted
Mass immigration has been a catastrophe for Europe. There is no issue more urgent before the continent than to correct this mistake.
Aragorn Meulendijks retweeted
I used Gemini 4 Argon to make Subway Surfers for the new flying Tesla Roadster 🚀
Fly over moving traffic, hit the thrusters to barrel roll in the sky, and collect air power-ups to set a high score.
Play + code below!
Aragorn Meulendijks retweeted
The "far-right" is developing flying cars, spaceships, and epic military technology.
The far-left is sterilizing themselves, killing babies, and a death cult that does nothing but destroy.
We are not the same.
Aragorn Meulendijks retweeted
Over the past month, we completely switched to frontier LLMs to control a robot in a customer deployment.
By doing this, we have a classic System 1/System 2 architecture, but on steroids.
For the high-level reasoning layer, we use an agent based on Opus and Astra, which are many generations more capable than any VLA. For the fast execution layer, we use computer vision code written by the model, which is fast, editable, and reliable.
As a bonus, we got in-context learning, which is just a basic feature of LLMs, and continual learning, since whenever a new situation arises, the large model steps in and adapts the pipeline.
And it just feels better to be on the right side of the Bitter Lesson, benefiting from the billions being invested in frontier models around the world.
Aragorn Meulendijks retweeted
Introducing Hugo: the first human companion robot.
At Boston Dynamics, I was Chief Strategy Officer, bringing robots into the real world.
My co-founder, Farbod Farshidian, led research at the RAI Institute.
Together, 15+ years teaching robots to run, jump, and work.
So we asked: what if robots could connect with people?
Hugo runs on the first Vision-Language-Expression (VLE) model.
He links what he sees and hears to movement, expression, and gesture.
He notices you, reads the room, and reacts in real time.
And he's only the first.
Dynamic Creatures is @BostonDynamics' official entertainment and hospitality partner.
We're building a cast of characters with film studios, resorts, and theme parks.
dynamiccreatures.com
Aragorn Meulendijks retweeted
We are open-sourcing V1.0 of our agentic robotics framework, ASPIRE, with full real robot skill discovery and self improvement capabilities! On the day Astra arrived, our lab switched the backend model and saturated all the benchmarks to ~99% over night.
And the frontier is already on the move:
- Opus 5.5 slightly edges out Astra on our robot simulation bench.
- Sonnet 5.5 hits the Pareto frontier of cost vs. robot capability, $12/task.
We first introduced ASPIRE and /robot skill library in June, way before the big models could reliably do robotics. A rising frontier tide lifts all boats, but Astra was a 0->1 tsunami on many tasks.
Now you can also feel the Physical Bitter Lesson at home like we did on that fateful day ;)
links in thread
Aragorn Meulendijks retweeted
En France, on a inventé le Concorde.
En 1969, il décollait et atteignait Mach 2 symbole de la grandeur gaullienne, conçu pour défier les Américains.
En 1972, le TGV 001 battait le record mondial à turbine (318 km/h).
En 1981, le TGV électrique reliait Paris à Lyon à 260 km/h. En 2007, il pulvérisait encore le record mondial sur rail : 574,8 km/h.
Dans les années 70, le plan Messmer lançait le plus grand programme nucléaire civil de l’Histoire : 58 réacteurs, jusqu’à 70-80 % de notre électricité, une indépendance énergétique que le monde entier nous enviait.
Dassault, Sud-Aviation, EDF, Framatome, la SNCF : nos ingénieurs étaient les meilleurs. On avait dix à vingt ans d’avance sur presque tout le monde.
Puis 1981, Mitterrand. Nationalisations massives (banques, acier, chimie, électronique, aéronautique). Semaine de 39 heures. Lois Auroux. Charges sociales qui explosent. Syndicats tout-puissants. Fiscalité punitive. Droit du travail rigidifié.
En moins de cinquante ans, le socialisme a transformé un pays d’ingénieurs conquérants en un pays de grèves, de délocalisations et de stagnation relative.
L’industrie est passée d’environ 28 % du PIB à 11 %.
Le Concorde a été abandonné. Notre nucléaire a été presque démantelé pendant des décennies faute de choix politique mortifère.
Ce n’est pas le destin, c’est le prix d’une idéologie qui a préféré redistribuer et réglementer plutôt que construire et innover.
A bon entendeur.
Aragorn Meulendijks retweeted
The most dangerous myth in medicine is that aging is natural and therefore acceptable
Aragorn Meulendijks retweeted
6 years ago I left Lebanon for a normal life with my family in Amsterdam. Today, the terrorist party that destroyed my country and drove me out is glorified on Dam Square.
How is this acceptable in the Netherlands? The suicidal empathy of the European Left makes me sick!
Aragorn Meulendijks retweeted
Every single assault rape in Norway's capital over the past 3 years was committed by foreigners.
Every. Single. One.
Mass deportations would quite literally remove this crime from existence and prevent all potential violent rapes.
Every single rape is a government policy.
Aragorn Meulendijks retweeted
🥊 صدمة موسم العتاد: ليزا سو (رئيسة AMD) تقتحم ملعبي "إنفيديا" والاشتراكات السحابية بجهاز صغير بـ 1,499$ فقط! ⚡️🔥
ضربة قاضية لسياسات خنق الـ VRAM والاشتراكات الشهرية الباهظة:
صندوق صغير بقدرات خارقة: جهاز بحجم "علبة طعام" يعمل بمعالج Ryzen AI Max+ 395 بذاكرة موحدة 128GB (تتيح للـ GPU الوصول لـ 110GB كاملة)، متفوقاً بثلاثة أضعاف على RTX 5090 (32GB VRAM)!
تشغيل نماذج ضخمة محلياً: يشغّل نموذج بـ 235 مليار بارامتر (مثل Qwen3 235B) محلياً بدون سحابة، وبسرعة استنتاج في DeepSeek R1 تتجاوز 3 أضعاف RTX 5080 لعدم وجود اختناق ذاكرة!
إنهاء كابوس الاشتراكات: بدلاً من دفع 5,280$ سنوياً (Claude Code Max + ChatGPT Pro + Cursor)، قيمة الجهاز تكافئ اشتراك 3.5 أشهر فقط! اربطه بـ Ollama واكود بخاطر مرتاح محلياً وبسرية تامة وبدون Rate Limits.
⚠️ تنبيه: رغم قدرته على استيعاب النماذج الضخمة، إلا أن نطاق التردد لا يضاهي عناقيد H100 السحابية، مما يجعله مثالياً للأكواد الخاصة والأتمتة المحلية 24/7!
لأول مرة، جدار الـ VRAM يتهاوى، والعتاد المكتبي يهدد هيمنة الاشتراكات السحابية إلى الأبد.
هل تستغني عن الاشتراكات السحابية مقابل جهاز محلي بهذه القوة؟ 🧵👇
