Captain Lin Rauch
One sparse factor, three passes: DiffPhD rewires the soft-body solver stack
DiffPhD, a GPU differentiable solver, stays stable at 100x stiffness contrast and runs 10x faster — bringing gradient-based form-finding to the AEC desk.
The cheapest tactile sensor is a camera you already own
EgoTouch infers contact, force and pressure from egocentric video — no tactile hardware at inference. Inside the systems move behind scalable robot touch.
One Hyperbolic Element Decides If Your System Holds Steady
A May 2026 arXiv paper reduces a hard dynamics question to one algebraic test — is there a hyperbolic element? — and shows why the rigid body can't comply.
A Novelist Replaced Adobe with Git. Architects, Draw Your Dependency Graph.
DJ Speckhals replaced Word, InDesign, and Kindle Create with Pandoc, Typst, and Git. Why his dependency graph is a warning for every Autodesk shop.
A zero-knowledge proof that hides its secret in math's blind spot
Rahul Ilango built a noninteractive zero-knowledge proof from Gödel's limits — what trust-without-disclosure means for BIM, tendering, and e-permits.
Michigan's Spring 2026 Floods: A Dependency Graph from Orbit
Grand River crested April 8 just below major flood. NASA Landsat reveals what an aging dam fleet looks like under rain-on-snow stress in 2026.
TypeScript breaks into the robot-software stack — Flue, Mastra, and the DACH read
Flue and Mastra ship TypeScript agent runtimes in 2026 — and the robot-software dependency graph just shifted. Read it carefully before you commit.
ROS 2 Lyrical Luth lands with 2031 support — the robot-software topology shifted
ROS 2 Lyrical Luth lands with support to 2031 as OpenHarmony, LeRobot, and humanoid factories redraw the robot-software dependency graph for DACH labs.
The Building That Compiles Itself: Rust Proc Macros Reach the BMS
Rust procedural macros let a building's firmware derive BACnet, KNX, and IFC bindings at compile time. PAZ on why the building should compile itself.
Truss that grabs: VTT's hybrid control collapses the structure-actuator boundary
VTT's new hybrid control turns truss structures into manipulators — one static equilibrium model does the work of three controllers. PAZ on robot topology.
