I'm sure there are some good stories to come and some coming out slowly already. I was listening yesterday to an explanation of how the Moskva was sunk. The rumour was western air forces could see it going in circles on their radar and suggested to the Ukrainians to send R-360 missiles to the appropriate location with their radars turned off so a not to be detectable and then turn them on for the last few seconds not giving the Russians time to react. (https://youtu.be/6gUkBMzIjoQ?t=1241)
Ironically the nearest I've come to the vibe in the picture - peace, beach palm trees has been in less developed countries like Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Less American cars but you can't have everything.
I'm not sure you call those third world anymore? The standard of living in the better parts of those is not far off the west. Apparently Singapore was 'third world' and now has longer life expectancy, more income at ppp, lower crime etc. than the US.
I tried them out and it mostly didn't grab me - heavy, uncomfortable and it's much easier to do your computing on a laptop than with 'spatial computing'. Some of the 360 video from mountain tops and the like was cool though.
You hear people saying it's a problem but you discount what they say because you know better yourself?
I'm perfectly capable of setting up macOS to my liking, but I think it's important to consider all users. The abuse of default settings is quite rampant.
I say that because I've been using macOS for the last decade and haven't found clicking the occasional 'no' on would you like to pay for iCloud much of a burden.
Also my 89 yr old mum has switched to mac and not had that particular issue. Some other issues like MS Outlook not importing her 40GB email file which had built up over a couple of decades on Windows, but not ads etc.
Cool video. I had no idea chips were so complicated with all those wiring layers above the transistors. It's kind of amazing the whole thing works with all that and 114 billion transistors in some chips (M1 Ultra).
In common with AI there was probably a long period when the hardware wasn't really good enough for it to be useful to most people. I remember 300 baud modems and rubber things to try to connect to your telephone handset back in the 80s.
Thats all irrelevant. Is/was there tremendous value to be had by being able to transport data? Of course. No doubt about it. Everything else got figured out and investments were made because of that.
The same line of thinking does not hold with LLMs given their non-deterministic nature. Time will tell where things land.
>following along the last few years the promise was for “exponential progress”
I've been following for many years and the main exponential thing has been the Moore's law like growth in compute. Compute per dollar is probably the best tracking one and has done a steady doubling every couple of years or so
for decades. It's exponential but quite a leisurely exponential.
The recent hype of the last couple of years is more dot com bubble like and going ahead of trend but will quite likely drop back.
A lot of programmers seem willing to pay for the likes of Claude Code, presumably because it helps them get more done. Programmers cost money so that's a potential cost saving?
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