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People were already wearing watches along smartphones. Smartwatches didn’t need a new user habit formation. You can definitely create new habits (like people wearing ear buds for h…

Also Microsoft couldn’t match Apple taste with effectively all resources in the world. And they really tried. True taste is interesting because is more like a worldview, a modus op…

How and when VAR should be applied is an ongoing contentious discussion not exclusive to the World Cup. I actually loved the 48 teams. It will probably expand to 64 next cup. More …

Yes. I was there at the france-spain match. Flew in in the morning was directed to the shuttles by super nice volunteers. Reasonable lines that were mostly in the shade and they we…

The 27 min half time was only in the final. Every world cup introduces changes that will stick or not (e.g golden goal rule). Hydration breaks probably won’t stay. I’ve followed th…

I’m spanish living in the US

Hydration breaks a tad weird. Half time shows were pretty subtle, didn’t change the length of the break except for the final. There’s no soccer competition without someone complain…

How was it a shit show? I’m genuinely curious. I attended 5 games (Atlanta, LA and Dallas) and was a fantastic experience minus the process to get tickets.

Not worth it. Get a Meta Quest 3 and can vibe code something similar in a few hours. I recommend WebXR that comes with the built-in browser. Easier to distribute, share, collect fe…

Cervantes was capturing the zeitgeist of the time: reading too many books can make you mad as they were becoming accesible to anyone. We know it’s not true. People at anthropic don…

None of the previous concerns were true and nothing indicates current ones are. It’s extrapolation, hypothetical apocalyptic imagined scenarios and piles of assumptions on how the …

And video games, democracy, novels, TV, cars, photography, cryptography, the Beatles… pick your favorite and read commentary / opinions of the time. Many thought that came with uni…

Every single technology in history has had people claiming potential existential risks that didn’t materialize. Burden of proof is on people making the risk claims. Those have to b…

Splats can indeed come with view dependent colors to represent lighting, reflections… Those are captured in values called spherical harmonics of different levels 0, 1, 2, 3 represe…

Principled: open source is the right thing to do for the greater good Tactical: Open source is the best tool to advance whatever goals I have at the moment but that could change. W…

What user above said is exactly what I was trying to convey

I don’t know. thinking machines perhaps? A lot of things have to come together: talent, capital that is not looking to maximize returns, ambition to compete in the marketplace. At …

Only way would be an actual open source model: code + training data

All countries see AI as a geopolitical concern. An open source strategy is smart. It’s effective and also builds good will / soft power. Many see Chinese AI companies as the good g…

The outcome is plausible. Open weights models though look like a tactical more than a principled play by Chinese companies to overcome the disadvantage and difficulties to access w…

I’m a big fan of Musk. One of the few criticisms I have is how xAI is also inconsistent with original OpenAI mission. I had imagined xAI as en effort to correct and fully embody al…

I mostly agree with you but, how do you square the use of other types of automation that are not AI? e.g computer animation vs hand-drawn, CAD software for engineering and architec…

Oak Lab mission statement: A trillion-parameter agent that learns and plans in real-time with 20 watts of energy. Seems the kind of goal that suits Carmack perfectly. I wonder what…

Thanks so much! Really happy to hear. It makes all sweat, blood and tears of open source maintenance worth it.