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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quintessence, to random
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The person I cherished more than any other, @nova , died unexpectedly late Wednesday in a climbing accident.

I have no words, only despair. The light in my soul is gone.

Joe Beda @jbeda and Nivenly are posting announcements. Others will also.

adamjcook,

@quintessence @nova @jbeda I am very sorry for your loss. 😢

Kris was an inspiration.

molly0xfff, to random
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RIP @nova. You were an awesome person, and the world will be worse off without you.

adamjcook,

@nova @molly0xfff A tremendously sad day. 😞

RIP, Kris.

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,

And a bit of history from Historic Detroit: https://historicdetroit.org/buildings/isaac-agree-downtown-synagogue

adamjcook,

Crain’s Detroit published a story recently: https://www.crainsdetroit.com/nonprofits-philanthropy/downtown-synagogue-emerges-54m-renovation-new-mission

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,

Some more history (and old postcards and historic drawings/photographs) can be found on Historic Detroit’s website here: https://historicdetroit.org/buildings/dime-building

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,

@redcrew No. Not yet!

But my wife really likes their Vegan Benny and so I go over there often to pick one up. 😄

adamjcook, to fediverse

So... I have been experimenting with over the past few days and I think that I am going to just stick with Mastodon for now.

https://calckey.social is absolutely superb and if you are very hungry for a closer Twitter-like experience (like Quote Posts), I would give it a shot.

For me, though, I intend to develop my own, independent -compliant platform (with unique engineering education features) soon so changing over is sort of a moot point for me right now.

adamjcook, to fediverse

Hello everyone in the !

A quick ...

My name is Adam Cook and my primary interests include , , and .

I am also very passionate about and - as such, I am working on a personal project called ManufacturingOpen which I hope to reveal soon.

I recently moved from to after 4 years - mostly to go once again.

Lastly, I am a to Tiggy and Benny, as pictured!

adamjcook, to random

Oh. This is cool!

https://youtu.be/vSNx926DxoQ

adamjcook, to random

The architectural lettering in a few prominent Downtown buildings is fascinating... to me at least.

The Building (which is most recognizable by its glowing "orb" atop the antenna mounted to the roof) is my favorite building in Detroit - a shame that its current owners do not take better care of it, however.

Perhaps someday, the observation deck will be reopened. Seems like a no-brainer to me at least.

A photograph of the hand dial clock situated above the entrance gates to the retail promenade area of the Guardian Building in Downtown Detroit. The clock is integrated into a wrought iron gate that is a dark brown color. The face of the clock is backlight with a yellow-ish light. There are various etchings surrounding the clock face that radiate outward. The typeface for the numbers on the clock is highly distinctive and similar to other typefaces found throughout the building. The typeface features sharp path deviations where the shapes would normally be smooth curves.
A plaque mounted outside of the Guardian Building in Downtown Detroit. The plague shape has a "staircase" pattern that is mirrored on both sides. Each staircase has three landings - which makes the width of the plaque on the bottom larger than the width of the top. The plaque features a think gold trim along its outer edges. Otherwise, the plaque is painted solid black with raised "Guardian Building" letter that is the same color as the outer gold trim. The typeface is distinctive and features sharp path deviations where the shapes would normally be smooth curves.
A photograph of the Penobscot Building entrance in Downtown Detroit taken from Griswold Street at dusk. The entrance features a large, domed, white stone entrance with gold trimmed glass panes taking up the top two-thirds of the entrance. The words "Penobscot Building" is featured just above the four doors that lead into the building. The typeface is similar to that found in the Guardian Building featuring sharp path deviations where the shapes would normally be smooth curves. However, it differs a bit as the corners of each letter seem less "sharp".

adamjcook, to random

One of the major misconceptions with systems is that they are an "AI".

But they are not.

They are systems.

Such systems carry additional burdens that are foreign to more consumer/business-level systems - in particular, the need to exhaustively quantify "the unseen" through objective analysis.

It is something that, most notably, fails to recognize with respect to their program, likely by design.

Let's explore two examples.

lumber, to random

It's been a minute since I've posted, so here's what you've missed...

adamjcook,

@lumber So sorry for your loss. 😓

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 Engineering

This is pretty cool work to follow, as someone in the process of learning and heavily experimenting with parts of @bevy myself. 👇

I will also post more about that soon.

My work is more technical related for applications.

Lots to build on here.

Quoting @lumber:

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@lumber/110913193289737213

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,

The ”key” demographics of each city that are relevant to this, by the way.

:

Black or African American alone, percent: 77.9%

:

Black or African American alone, percent: 4.4%

has made enormous strides in progressive policies lately, but we have yet to seriously address this type of structural .

adamjcook, to detroit

is so rich in history.

A modest amount of history has been lost over the years, but I really appreciate the frequent glimpses back in time… however small.

This the examination room at our vet’s office in Downtown Detroit.

adamjcook,

@beckalina Ha! Just brought my cat in for the first time today!

It’s a cute operation they got there.

Not a bad walk down Grand River also.

adamjcook, to tesla

🧵Here is my take on this development… this case should have never made it to judges and juries.

It does make it to judges and juries because of the deliberate disinterest of the US’s theoretical auto safety regulator - the .

We are dealing with extraordinarily complex and highly-opaque system engineering issues here.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-17/tesla-failed-to-fix-autopilot-after-fatal-crash-engineers-say

adamjcook,

The should have arrested ’s wrongdoings in their infancy, nearly a decade ago.

Now people are dead and a brutally-complex engineered system is just wholesale flopped on the back of a jury.

US auto safety regulation, if one wants to pretend it ever existed, is a joke.

End 🧵

adamjcook,

Human drivers and the public are also under the highly-mistaken belief that, just because they are positioned right in front of the steering wheel, they are in total control of all downtown safety outcomes - even if the vehicle has defects.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

But that seems to be true to many.

Powerful psychological forces and conditioning to overcome - and most are inherently ill-equipped for it.

Understandably so.

adamjcook,

All of that said, Professor Missy Cummings is set to testify as an expert witness for the plaintiffs - a wise choice.

Professor Cummings is one of the finest minds in the safety-critical systems, Human Factors and automated systems.

Professor Cummings is also an educator and public safety advocate.

And the fact that (and his cult) had previously singled-out and attacked Professor Cummings just underscores her competence.

If there is one thing Musk and his cult fears, it is competence.

adamjcook,

The other issue here is that the public has been browbeaten for decades by the NHTSA into a flimsy belief system that humans are “terrible drivers” and now, having lost complete control over roadway safety, are absurdly reaching for vehicle automation to save the day.

It has polluted the mind of the public.

Blame shifting at its finest.

Again, decades worth.

adamjcook,

Complex issues will surface in the courtroom like , mode confusion and system internals that, frankly, judges and juries are going to be strained to understand and appreciate.

But the , in its infinite wisdom, is just tickled pink to have private litigation deal with ’s vast wrongdoings because the agency can continue to do nothing, which they do well.

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