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having developed multiple apps on it and tried every which way to use it (as an XR enthusiast in general), I have never been so happy to put a headset up on the shelf and never pul…

yeah this is really a part of it. Both founders and investors get spooked by the rapid entries into a market but persistent not just when it’s hard but when it’s boring goes so muc…

Or that there is a sufficiently generalizable objective function for all “spatial intelligence.”

The adoption of it in various industries for training is larger than most people might suspect. First responders and retailers have some of the largest internal deployments out the…

Thanks for posting this. Water rights and who gets priority was the first thing that came to mind. The thought of “wind augmentation plans” is fun to think about.

Yep, the procurement process (and related) requires a lot be baked into pricing. I’d also be curious what the fully burdened rate of in-house staff is compared to consultants. I’ve…

Appraisals also act as a gate for prices due to lender requirements. A bit round about, but I can see how looser appraisals can enable inflated prices. Imagining the opposite extre…

I’m not following the “unconnected” part. There are definitely problems with our patent system (referring to US), especially around software, but in my experience examiners are ind…

One of my favourite texts. One of those that I found influential early in academics as well as when re-reading later in my career. Even for younger students I think it can be great…

Agreed. There’s a lot of variables (and I think price is a big one). But, while slow, adoption in enterprise is showing signs that the basic concept has some legs. Even if the tech…

And it penalizes in many ways. Focusing too much on grades can be detrimental in graduate studies, despite graduate admissions focusing on GPA and test scores. I remember seeing 4.…

Who said what we want has anything to do with our vision. Please don’t make assumptions about what drives our product development. What I want in a product comes from customer inte…

Solid point. We’re building in a space adjacent to this and it definitely feels hard to balance removing friction for adoption and delivering everything we want.

That’s a reasonable point. And I’ll admit I’m expressing more of an opinion on privacy in general. I don’t know what the real risk is, immediately or over time and it would vary to…

That’s true, but those are also different agencies, so at a minimum you’re spreading the data (and risk surface). My concerns are generally (though not entirely) around data breach…

Are they basic RGB cameras or do they collect depth as well? Would even know if they decided to change the system to start collecting depth data, even if comparisons are to flat im…

Many do go out of business, and many substantially undercut others. This is particularly true for the diesel market, where OTR truck operators are more price sensitive. Most statio…

This reminds me of working with a company that provided market-wide pricing data for a particular commodity across the US. They were the de facto aggregator of pricing for the sect…

Dating is done with more than just material analysis. Evidence of tools used to make the toy, techniques for things like joins and stitching, etc. can all be indicative of methods …

Been a while since I was in this area, so I may be off base. But my knee jerk thought on Ubn is getting another valuable data point on nuclear structure. We’ve got a magic number a…

I had a similar experience with an annoyed agent, who also made sure to point out how I was holding everyone else up instead of just letting my picture be taken. The agent likely d…

I appreciate this perspective on prompt engineering. I’d love to think that one of the great outcomes of LLMs are people returning to more decent and precise forms of communicating…

Statistical Mechanics by Pathria. Every read teaches me something new and reminds me how little I know.

That's an interesting point. You potentially also have alignment issues with the window being placed spatially, i.e., rendering text that is not perpendicular to the plane of the s…

We've sent spiders to space[0] (honestly, it's like we _want_ a horror movie to play out). But who knows - maybe one day we'll get DNA from extraterrestrials. [0] https://www.si.ed…