adamjcook

@adamjcook@mastodon.social

Engineer focused on #Robotics, #ControlSystems, #SystemsSafety, #Manufacturing and #Simulation. #ManufacturingOpen Contributor. #Purdue Engineering alum. Living in #Detroit. He/Him.
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adamjcook, to detroit

The Dime Building light well in Downtown .

The Dime Building (also known as the Chrysler House) is one of Detroit’s oldest skyscrapers.

23 floors. Completed in 1912.

adamjcook,

@LK_Sass Thanks!

Not sure about the historic district designation as far as the City of is concerned... I had assumed it already was (but I have only been in Detroit for about a year so I am still playing catch up 😅).

adamjcook, to China

Truer words have yet to be spoken.

Just look at the failed (not literally, but certainly effectively) Manufacturing USA initiative - a constellation of research institutes first launched in 2012 to counter the Made In 2025 program.

To its credit, the Administration foresaw the Chinese economic threat to the West before most in Washington, but the actions taken were structurally ineffective.

https://www.apricitas.io/p/the-semiconductor-trade-war

adamjcook, to detroit

Damn.

I was wondering why my throat was getting sore.

adamjcook, to Engineering

Going live again on my channel in a few minutes. Probably going to make this an ad-hoc, regular thing - with weekly, and educational streams intermixed in there.

Today, it will just be me working on some OnShape models with some classical music in the background. I do not plan to do much talking unless there are questions in the chat.

I am new to OnShape (having used PTC Creo for decades), so I am in a learning phase. 😅

Stop on in! 🤪

https://kick.com/motorcityadam

adamjcook, to detroit

The Beaubien House.

Built in 1851, it is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Downtown .

Today, I believe that it is an office building for rent and/or a small co-working space.

adamjcook, to 3DPrinting

The recent consolidation in the market has been interesting from its lofty promise back around 2015 or so.

I can recall many pilot programs at many manufacturers that I saw personally.

is a tough nut (perhaps, the toughest nut) to crack in terms of displacing entrenched, proven processes like machining and casting.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-13/3d-systems-is-said-to-bump-offer-for-stratasys-to-24-a-share

adamjcook, to TeslaMotors

’s completely unsupported and unhinged promises of future therapies, treatments or prosthetic devices enabled by his firm and this “” humanoid robotics project is pretty damn disgusting.

A new, disgusting low.

Even relative to Tesla’s vast and wrongdoings, which is saying something.

This man lies like he breathes.

adamjcook, to opensource

Wow. Big!

The compiler will almost certainly not be , which is just a tiny bit sad, but the advancement of Rust into this domain would be a milestone.

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/a-decade-of-rust/

adamjcook, to random

A missed opportunity, in my view, to discuss how ’s somewhat recent entry into the systems space is really the far more pressing issue here.

Hand-waving systems safety yields enormous cost savings (far more than is typically expected) and is corrosive to a modern society in ways that courts could never rectify once sufficiently lost.

https://www.businessinsider.com/venture-capital-big-tech-antitrust-predatory-pricing-uber-wework-bird-2023-7

adamjcook, to detroit

The US is in an abusive relationship with cars - and in nowhere is that felt more than here in , so I submit.

The car’s heyday as an economic growth engine has long passed, ICE or or otherwise, and all that is left in its wake its sprawl, unmanageable roadway death, unnecessary environmental damage and housing inaccessibility.

https://newrepublic.com/article/173782/ev-revolution-help-bankrupt-public-transit

adamjcook, to detroit

’s last free-standing synagogue, one of the most unique buildings in Detroit, just completed a $5.4 million renovation.

Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue.

And the building looks great.

It is absolutely wonderful that these institutions and community staples are doubling down on Detroit’s future.

We need more of this.

adamjcook, to Michigan

"Fix the damn roads" is one of the most out-of-touch slogans in politics today and I wince every time I hear and see it.

I live in and I cannot even get a damn bus to because the City of Livonia was allowed, inexplicably under Michigan Law, to simply opt-out. 🤷‍♂️

adamjcook, (edited ) to chicago

An interesting and depressing, look at the construction of the Eisenhower Expressway in my hometown of - what was lost and how, naturally, it was explicitly designed to negatively impact and destroy minority and communities.

Faux-progress of the 1950s that we desperately need to unwind in all US cities.

https://interactive.wbez.org/curiouscity/eisenhower/

adamjcook, to detroit

The latest on the United Artists Theatre Building renovation in Downtown …

The renovations are obviously extensive, but seemingly moving along nicely.

This building must have been really messed up inside, unsurprisingly.

Entire external walls are being rebuilt.

It looks like they are finally ready to put new windows in on several of the building faces.

A closer photograph of the north side of the United Artist Theatre Building in Downtown Detroit, as it exists on July 1, 2023. All of the old windows have been removed and it appears that the window frames are being prepared for the imminent installation of new windows - especially on the lower floors. The building is 18 stories tall.

adamjcook, to transit

Transportation Riders United (a advocacy group that serves Southeast and ) is apparently excited about the passed Michigan Budget: https://www.detroittransit.org/state-budget-win/

And, so, as a supporter of their work, I am excited well.

Still, this is a serious let down at a time when matching funds are finally flowing out of Washington.

We need substantially more rail-based local and regional transit in this area - and it is killing us that we do not have it.

We are in big trouble.

adamjcook, to LGBTQ

I know next to nothing about political figures or business leaders, but it sure is interesting that the conference would headline , an individual that has spent the entire month targeting the community and is now dabbling in just in time for .

No surprise that 's current leadership would embrace Musk.

And 's did too.

Of course, we also have so-called here at home like and that do the same.

adamjcook, to random

“Safety” is a term tossed around like a cheap suit these days - with cars, submarines, planes, whatever.

Note that safety has primarily nothing to do with software, software versions, sensors, 5-star ratings, statistics, data and so on.

Safety is all about the process - what is the fitness of the process that continuously seeks to identify, quantify and handle failure modes to avoid unacceptable death and injury.

No system can ever be “perfectly safe”.

But what is the process backing it?

adamjcook, to detroit

Incredibly tragic.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2023/08/19/eastern-market-ceo-injured-wife-dead-after-being-hit-by-car/70631502007/

adamjcook, to chicago

Holy shit, !

When did you build all of these new buildings? 🤪

(Have not been here since 2018.)

adamjcook, to ML

Well put.

And frankly, the community needs a serious (technical and ethical) wake-up call.

Many would gush over Tesla’s so-called “ Days” while neglecting to demand any safety case.

That advanced and legitimatized Tesla’s wrongdoings - wrongdoings where people have died avoidably.

These are systems and not “AIs”.

A robust systems safety process is the real, competitive value - not the data, NN architecture, sensors, compute, or whatever.

Tesla has no process.

adamjcook, to animals

mood.

adamjcook, to plc

Tonight, in about a half hour (10 pm EST, 7 pm PST)... I am going to try and launch my first stream on Kick.

The channel is here: https://kick.com/motorcityadam

We will see, but I am currently thinking of doing Monday and Friday streams.

I will not be playing videos games, because I am terrible at those. 😅

Instead, we will be doing using some and, in time, other digital engineering tools. In the future, programming and more.

Please join the channel if that interests you!

adamjcook, to China

Good. This is a good move.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-considers-new-curbs-on-ai-chip-exports-to-china-56b17feb?mod=djemalertNEWS

adamjcook, to tesla

Here’s the thing.

Clearly, today does not have internal engineering competence in systems.

Competent safety-critical system engineers do not ship “beta” systems to the untrained public.

But let’s put all that aside for a bit.

Overworked, stressed engineers is simply incompatible with the exacting work of safety-critical systems anyways.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/16/23833447/tesla-elon-musk-ultra-hardcore-employees-land-of-the-giants

adamjcook, to detroit

Wild weather in right now, pretty much out of nowhere.

Tornado Warning in , so I am told.

Stay safe out there!

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