chaostheory

You can wish for things. I'm just saying that comments like that aren't very thoughtful and don't really add much to the discussion.

"In 1992, Deng exhorted CCP cadres to “learn from the world, especially from Singapore”, touching off a “Singapore fever” in PRC political and academic circles."

https://jamestown.org/fortnight-end-singapore-model/

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/607615/summary

https://www.thinkchina.sg/politics/construction-singapore-mo...

https://www.fairobserver.com/economics/china-and-its-mentor-...

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/singapores-success-cont...

https://www.fpri.org/article/2019/12/the-odd-couple-singapor...

What are examples? In my experience, Gemini is too lazy to get things done. It just opts to answer as quickly as possible even if I'm calling Pro on High and Extended effort. It's only good as a Google Search replacement for me and maybe maybe critiques of specs and plans. Most of the time it's not very enlightening and it misses a lot.

Before Xi, Singapore is what China aspired to become. Totally onbrand

What keeps both Gemini and Grok from actually being frontier class AIs is effort. Both AIs rush to give you a response even when the effort is set to the highest setting. Hopefully, Argon isn’t as prone to satisficing and premature convergence compared to its predecessor

It implies you have forgotten when you don't have counterarguments for the safety and crime deterence that lighting has brought society, a net positive, while you are complaining about not having enough darkness.

It's like wishing that tall high density housing didn't block your formerly great view, all while ignoring the fact that there's not enough affordable housing in your area.

Wishes without thought show naivety at best or selfishness at worst. I probably won't agree with kelnos, but at least kelnos thought about the problem surrounding his desire.

You’re forgetting about how crime thrives in darkness. Better street lighting has helped reduced crime over the years. Better lighting has also reduced nighttime traffic accidents.

That’s the point from Tibo’s tweet:

“Over time, we see prices go low enough that it makes sense for most to buy usage as needed without there being a significant gap between what you get in a subscription and what you get in the API for a dollar spent.”

What are you building with your $20 plan? Small scripts?

Does it matter when I burn through all my Fable subscription usage in about a day? Astra is much better on efficiency, but doesn’t last a week either. With the new subscription limits, it’ll end up being like Fable.

> I gave Astra a hint from Opus and permission to change the test in question, which it did, and got a bit farther, but still ultimately didn't produce a working implementation (to be fair, Opus's was not completely working either, but was closer).

Going on a slight tangent, I find that I get the best results when I force Codex models (Astra/Sol) and Claude models (Opus/Fable) to consult each other (just have them build a simple skill). There are tasks that neither one can fully solve on their own, but their differences are large enough to make a difference when they collaborate.

You might be able to use the accelerated depreciation schedule which is 100% first year

I’ll be doing the same as you 10/26 when our grandfather limits end, in addition to downgrading my Anthropic sub. I guess I’m shopping for hardware and open weight AIs now.

Way easier to do with Anthropic plans, but I guess subsidized AI is over? Didn’t think it was happening this soon.

You can also right off actual $6000 hardware

At this price points (including the reduction of usage on the Pro 200 and Pro 100 subscriptions), more people will be looking buying their own hardware and running with open weight AIs. $6000 per year is the threshold

Google got weird on the day Pichai sided with the ads team/division over the search team/division, resulting in the enshittification of Google Search which led to people relying on LLMs since search no longer works

Agree it is small and it should be much larger if meta pivoted the marketing towards children instead of adults

Given the memory and general hardware shortages, I expected the price to be above $1200. Valve’s subsidy isn’t as high as Meta’s insane and aggressive hardware subsidies which is not the norm.

I guess their ad platform for LLMs didn’t pan out?

There is some truth for all three.

1. Python has a lot of training data

2. Go runs with the philosophy of one same way to do stuff even further than Python. It’s also typed

3. Rust’s type system and strict compiler is what helps keep AI on guardrails

I love the aggressive design which is a stark contrast to the quirky toy designs that plagued EVs early on.

The Steam Frame has a $150 addon for pass-through.

Standalone wireless headsets are great for fitness. Almost every game is a cardio workout. You won’t need to have a separate workout from playing video games.

Also the visuals got a big improvement with Quest 3. I’m sure that Steam Frame will also have decent visuals.

Adults understand the Switch because it’s familiar, but they didn’t understand the NES because it wasn’t familiar (Atari was a failure)

One of the big complaints of online VR games is that it’s overrun by Gen Alpha children. The only mystery is why meta keeps targeting adults instead of Gen Alpha. It’s a marketing strategy that has already failed multiple times now. Judging from most of the comments here, it will continue to fail. IMO only Apple can breakthrough to adults and even they failed with AVP.

Yeah infinite office was vaporware, which made sense since prior meta device video res and ppd was too low for work.

From my experience, wired streaming never really worked well even with the expensive fiber optic cable.

> I really wish VR had followed an iPhone like trajectory over the past decade where we got a new Quest/etc every year

That didn’t happen because you would need market demand for that. Only Gen Alpha likes VR as a demographic.

The list is too long, but essentially almost every VR game will force you to move since you’re no longer controlling an avatar with buttons. You are now inside the game instead of viewing it from outside of a box, so you’re going to be moving and punching.

For me the biggest calorie burners are boxing games. Beat Saber and others like Synth Riders are great too. Then there are fitness focus apps like Body Combat and even one for rowing machines.

Hopefully, Meta can convince HR firms that this is a fitness device that is eligible for FSA like benefits.

If Apple released a product with the same form factor, it would likely be a winner. The issue with Meta is that its brand is tarnished for anyone older than Gen Alpha. I don’t have hard data, but I am guessing the majority of VR users are children under their parents’ meta accounts.

I’m still buying this for myself. I enjoy the private movie theater experience and turning every video game session into a decent cardio workout; I’ve lost 60 lbs with VR to date.