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A lot of stuff that underpins planet-scale infra is open source and has been for a long time. The general approaches and architectures for it have also been widely discussed and li…

> "If you say two different and contradictory things, and do not very explicitly resolve them, and say which one is the final answer, you will get blamed for both things you said, …

Are they actually running the Apple playbook in reverse? It seems to me that they're actually running Apple's playbook pretty squarely, just in another domain. First-gen product th…

I share your skepticism. This feels like an attempt to tap the trainloads of money piling into "AI", for a company that is in pretty desperate need of more cash to stay alive. In a…

You really want to break a task like this down to constituent parts - especially because in this case the "end to end" way of doing it (i.e., raw audio to summary) doesn't actually…

Your 2K monitor occupies something like a 20-degree field of view from a normal sitting position/distance. The 2K resolution in a VR headset covers the entire field of view. So eff…

Yes but that can create major motion sickness issues - motion that does not correspond top the user's actual physical movements create a dissonance that is expressed as motion sick…

Oh yeah for sure. Most people seem to accept that 35ppd is "good enough" but not actually at-par with a high quality high-dpi monitor. I agree with you - I would personally conside…

There's no precise criteria but the usual measure is ppd (pixels per degree) and it needs to be high enough such that detailed content (such as text) displayed at a reasonable size…

The Verge reports similarly - can't tell foveated streaming. Seems like Valve really cracked the code with this one.

Listen, I'm literally just describing basic market dynamics here - my post is not intended as an endorsement of plainly observable phenomena. The depreciation/utility curve has alw…

> "What part of EVs is "rapidly advancing technologically"?" Battery capacity, motor efficiency (getting more range out of the same battery), charging rate (800V architectures for …

> and get something way better. The last part of OP's statement is the key. In a field that's rapidly advancing technologically, used prices are depressed because the new product i…

Because there's more to "actual user experience" than peak CPU/GPU/NPU workload. Firstly, the M5 isn't 4-6x more powerful than M4 - the claim is only for GPU, only for one narrow w…

Funnily enough prior to this startup I had worked at a rainforest-themed big tech co where we ran all kinds of stuff on MySQL without issue, at scales that dwarfed what this startu…

Ah yes. I once worked at a startup that insisted on Mongo despite not having anywhere near the data volume for it to make any sense at all. Like, we're talking 5 orders of magnitud…

This is generally how other devices work as well - for example all Android devices and Android-derivatives (which many of these cars are!) use a similar A/B partition to prevent br…

You can measure probabilistic systems that you can't examine! I don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater here - before LLMs became the all-encompassing elephant in the r…

What you're getting at is the heart of the problem with the LLM hype train though, isn't it? "We should have rigorous evaluations of whether or not [thing] works." seems like an in…

Moore's Law has been dead for a long time. The doubling rate of transistors is now drastically below Moore's prediction. We're adding transistors at ~18%/year. That's waaaaay below…

> "Why even have employees then? Why not just milk your monopoly, keep the team lean, and let everybody involved have a big share of the profits?" So we're seeing this play out. Th…

Yeah I'm kind of puzzled by what Qualcomm is getting out of this. Arduino has so little presence in production devices and is largely an enthusiast and hobbyist product. To be clea…

It's also a matter of incentives. Starbucks wants you in their app instead of as a widget in somebody else's - it lets them tell you about new products, cross-sell/up-sell, create …

It's a good tool for optimizing around local maxima and is (generally) incapable of propelling you through a major product gap to the next (and hopefully greater) maxima. But IMO t…

Not necessarily? That assumes that the first "good enough" model is a defensible moat - i.e., the first ones to get there becomes the sole purveyors of the Good AI. In practice tha…