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I have also really been enjoying these lectures. Sarah is quick witted and insightful. I recommend the Dwarkesh podcast to anyone interested in AI in general (though Sarah Paine le…

I already feel like text models are already at sufficiently entertaining and useful quality as you define it. It's definitely possible we never get there for video or 3D modalities…

IMO current generation models are capable of creating significantly better than "slop" quality content. You need only look at NotebookLM output. As models continue to improve, this…

Generative AI is going to drive the marginal cost of building 3D interactive content to zero. Unironically this will unlock the metaverse, cringe as that may sound. I'm more bullis…

Meta actually has a native SDK for apps that appears very similar to what Google announced today with Android XR. https://github.com/meta-quest/Meta-Spatial-SDK-Samples

No, the 7950X is a CPU. CUDA is an API for computing on GPUs.

Not your compute, not your girlfriend, as they say.

With >150,000 employees, I think they can probably do both

I'm hoping they're building a commodity AR/VR operating system -- essentially spatial Android. They've already announced a partnership with Samsung and Qualcomm so I've got to imag…

In contrast, buying my Tesla new was about as easy as any Amazon order. I don't know why other car manufacturers don't make D2C a bigger focus for their business.

One of my all-time favorite records is entitled Crown Shyness. The eponymous track [1] uses this phenomenon as a metaphor for feeling alone while depressed. The branches are so clo…

I suspect for people like Sam who are compulsively ambitious and competitive, it's not about the dollars. It's about winning. Further, based on anecdotes from friends and Twitter w…

This made me laugh out loud

Curious what your sample size is on evaluating IC8s. In my experience the small handful I’ve known have been very pleasant people.

Just curious, with so much runway do you still work? What motivates you?

> WFH is here. its not going anywhere. I hope you're correct, but empirically this appears to be wishful thinking, at least among larger organizations. How many tech big-cos have i…

I love seeing this kind of detailed analysis of everyday things like this. It always seems to reveal intriguing correlations and insights.

Snap has 397 million DAU, up 14% YoY. They're far from irrelevant among young westerners. They just have a remarkably weak business for their scale. https://investor.snap.com/news/…

As someone deeply interested in AR/VR as an industry, it makes me really sad constantly seeing Snap fumble.

This is misleading. $36B is for all of Reality Labs, which includes Virtual Reality, but also their Augmented Reality glasses in development, Ray-Ban smart glasses, Horizon, Meta's…

I think you're conflating currency with interfaces to the financial system. The currency is the medium of exchange: the dollar itself. A debit card is merely a tool to transact usi…

Kotlin has the internal access modifier which can be useful for this

One datapoint: In 2022, I had an offer as engineer #2 at a venture backed startup in San Francisco for 1%. Not sure if this is typical, but I did some research at the time and it s…

Curious if you've ever done this personally? I've only ever worked at companies with tens to hundreds of thousands of employees, and my perspective has been that the bureaucracy is…

I am coming around to this line if thinking much more lately. Especially if you work at a big company in a fungible role. The power imbalance is such that it costs the company esse…