BulgarianIdiot

... It looks like Twitter. I'm not taking the piss, it's literally what it looks like. But do click the article to see the weird home screen logo I guess.

Discovery and invention are two words that point to the same process.

The fact "the Linux creator" is involved in this stupid political drama exchange says a lot about the sorry state of our society these days.

I'm not criticizing Linus, I'm just reflecting on the global cultural climate that's encouraging this. And it's getting hotter by the second.

I'll wait a year and open GPT-5, point to the Adobe Creative Suite, and tell it "make dis" for $20.

I don't like the implications of the quoted "discovered".

> Setting aside comparisons to humans for a second (will get back to this), monocular cameras can only provide relative depth. You can guess the absolute depth with your neural net but the estimates are pretty garbage.

Stereoscopic vision in humans only works for nearby objects. The divergence for far away objects is not sufficient for this. You may think you can tell something is 50 or 55 meters away through stereoscopic vision, but you can't. That's your brain estimating based on effectively a single image.

That said reality is not a single image, it's a moving image, a video. Monocular video can still be used to estimate object distance in motion.

Eventually AI will be good enough to work better than humans with just a camera. The problem is we're not there yet, and what Tesla is doing is irresponsible. They should've added LIDAR and used that to train their camera-only models, until they're ready to take over.

In your mind it's not that different. Consider the importance of media on shaping your thoughts, beliefs, memories, emotions. Whether delivered through a cinema screen or a tiny phone doesn't matter.

VR/AR has wow factor, but you quickly get used to it, and then your concerns are mostly pragmatic: the headset is huge, the battery life short and so on.

Although AR at least has pass through, which is a big benefit, as it doesn't completely hide your real surroundings.

> The 3D photo thing is super weird, they could release a stand alone camera in future

We can call it "iPhone"

Interesting. When you consider he may be a Russian asset, and that's a significant revenue source, his decision to be on Twitter makes more sense. He can combine both revenue streams and make ends meet. I doubt Twitter alone can pay his staff, production, make it worth it for himself. Especially for him to just end up peddling Kremlin's talking points. Totally by accident, of course.

You added a citation, but your cited source is wrong. The external battery is 2hrs. The device can't operate without an external power source.

Better productivity workflow: a sweaty device you need to carry on your head, with a cable with a battery pack, for the spectacular 2 hours battery life, reproducing low-resolution virtual displays around you, which you are supposed to very productively operate by clumsily making finger gestures around the display (instead of on them).

Yeah, I'll keep my monitors, mouse and keyboard, and my smartphone, thanks.

He's concentrating really hard on Twitter right now. This is why 80% of engineers are out, ad revenue is down %60 and going lower, and the lawsuits are piling.

It's hilarious and sad to watch. He has no clue what's he doing.

So it looked like a bad idea to most people. But to few, it seemed obvious. Should they try it, or should they project their thoughts onto others and pass because if it's obvious, no point doing it?

It's very simple. Take everything that you see potential in, obvious or non-obvious and do research. That research will show if it's done or not done.

His goal was to become X, the everything person.

This is what happens when you're surrounded by yes-men non-stop for like a decade and they tell you that you're awesome at everything you do. You start drinking your own Kool-Aid.

It's a quite vapid argument. "No point doing the obvious because someone already tried it!... And they tried it because they ignored this very advice you're reading right now!"

This argument is akin you "no matter what you'll do you'll die, so no point getting out of bed".

That's when the aliens invade us. When we're at our weakest!

I'm sure it's true that this happened and the young Pakistani dev won out.

But the generalization from this anecdotal example to broad conclusions is of course BS. We know nothing about this German coder, what they specialized in for 19 years, and how good they are. Meanwhile, being young and Pakistani also doesn't imply you eat grass and make grunting noises.

There are many bright young programmers, and youth does help with productivity and adaptation to new tech (like AI).

The end of self service in certain regions. Large franchises will learn to adapt to local conditions. One strategy fits all is a bad strategy.

Did you know in Japan there are food vending stands which is just.. racks of food with price on them, and a little piggy bank you drop money in? It's entirely honor based. And it works. Because in Japan this is the optimal solution.

In Chicago this would be a hilariously bad solution.

We'll eventually be paid to just hit an "AI, do the thing" button repeatedly 9 to 5, and eventually someone will figure out "wait, we don't need humans for this."

Why waste time type lot char, when few char do trick

AR won't happen in the mainstream. Not with this tech. I see only investor influencers and nerdy "I can now have a virtual girlfriend" fellas excited about this. The same crowd that was getting psychotic over Web3's potential like a year ago.

Poe's law is strong with this one.

I'd change your strategy a bit, yes.

1. Twitter is collapsing, I wouldn't invest in the account, but of course do look-up people you like and want to connect to and engage with them and seek contacts off Twitter.

2. Everyone is super-allergic to "threads" and giveaways at this point. They scream "hustler trying to meet a quota through low-quality BS that I can safely skip".

Keep it natural. Threads f**king suck. If you want to continue your thought in 2-3 tweets organically, sure! Or write a long tweet if you made the mistake of being a Blue subscriber. But otherwise: make a blog post, or a video about it. No one likes threads.

Sturgeon's Law: "90 of everything is crap".

It's no surprise that when you make virtually all mainstream programming languages OOP, then there will be a vast amount of bad OOP code out there (as by definition mainstream code then becomes "OOP code").

We needed it. But things changed now.

If they wanted that, they'd allow top-level code, instead of this weird halfway method of doing it.

Everything is possible. We're discussing what's likely and not likely. I don't buy the hallucination theory. BTW, technically it "hallucinates" everything, because it has no connection to the outside world, only memories to base its answer on. But if the hallucinations are correct, then being less correct is still a problem. If you can show it's more correct in other ways, be my guest.

Very unlikely. That's a pretty accurate description of the startup. "CollegeAI" doesn't suggest at all it's an admission matching platform. The hot take would've been it's a college driven by AI, or college specializing in degrees related to AI or god knows what.

Being nice is indeed the classic startup strategy. Then they grow up. More people come knock on the door. Other people go away. And the company becomes the only thing it can become. Another corporation, acting like a corporation. Of course, there are exceptions. Apple is one to me. But even they, slowly are reversing to the mean over time.

PS: Please don't gimme the sweatshop talking point, that's BS propaganda for an outsourcing partner that powers literally most of Fortune 500, yet somehow it's always Apple's fault.

In few years you'll be able to hire an AI to rewrite it in 5 minutes.