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sidewndr46yesterday at 6:54 PM2 repliesview on HN

Glad to see someone pointed this out. The test consists of a bucket, plywood board & a stopwatch.


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givemeethekeysyesterday at 8:28 PM

Seems simple. Is it effective?

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jauntywundrkindyesterday at 7:13 PM

Hopefully there's good empirical data powering the model here, which just added slump prediction:

> Alongside the event, Meta is releasing a new AI model for designing concrete mixes, Bayesian Optimization for Concrete (BOxCrete). BOxCrete improves over Meta’s previous models with more robustness to noisy data as well as new features including the ability to predict concrete slump (an important indicator of concrete workability).

Seems hard to imagine not doing a slump test, trusting AI when it comes to your multi/many million dollar build outs for something so important. But perhaps still useful for planning, as a starting place?

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