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Most interesting are owners’ debates over what, exactly, they just purchased. Is the Vision Pro for watching movies? Working? Being alone? Collaborating? Nobody knows, really. Rather than settling into a new routine, or building a workflow around their new computers, users spend a lot of time talking in the future tense, about what this thing…
This type of cultural creep from major corporations is nothing new, but Disney has a particularly disturbing history of accelerated, amplified control across the mediums they enter. Each new property they acquire seems to permeate culture instantly, from stores to amusement parks to screens around the world. Even for non-Disney fans, escaping exposure has become…
The AVP feels like Apple cargo-culting itself The truth is that there’s very little true vision behind the Vision Pro. The headset is not the product of revolutionary work being done in the bowels of its donut-shaped headquarters. It exists to prove to investors and critics of Tim Cook’s leadership that the company isn’t just…
Can’t get enough of Chibi projects… their work, IMO, represents one of those branches. https://chibitronics.com/2024/01/17/sending-hugs-using-animating-led-sticker-and-the-pull-tab-switch/
Our current computing eco-system is, essentially, a speed-run down *one* branch of the possibility tree. When you grok that, you then ask the what-if question. When you unhook yourself from the profit motive as a culling mechanism… shit gets really interesting. If I die an old man exploring those other branches… I’ll die a happy…
China will have 1,200 gigawatts (GW) of installed wind and solar energy capacity by the end of 2024 — a full six years earlier than the government had targeted, according to the International Energy Agency’s estimates. Why it matters: The IEA says the unrivalled renewables boom underway in the world’s second-largest economy has increased the chances…
The biggest event of the week was the Sleeper Agents paper from Anthropic. I expect that to inform our thoughts for a while to come, and to lay foundation for additional work. We also had the first third of the IMO solved at almost gold metal level by DeepMind, discovering that math competition geometry is…
This makes me borderline giddy… I fucking love it! Here’s a project that demonstrates the advantage of having an opensource instruction set (RISC-V) along with the power of being able to wire an FPGA into one. This project implements a minimal RISC-V core in an iceFUN FPGA board. While having a license-free instruction set is nice,…
This guys work is a pleasure to watch. I saw his PS3 video and was hooked.
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