curiouscavalier

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by curiouscavalier 3mo ago
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 pull it out again. using as a spatial monitor was cool. for abo
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by curiouscavalier 7mo ago
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 much farther.
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by curiouscavalier 1y ago
Or that there is a sufficiently generalizable objective function for all “spatial intelligence.”
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by curiouscavalier 1y ago
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 there, but they aren’t massively publicized (most people would
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by curiouscavalier 1y ago
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.
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by curiouscavalier 1y ago
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 seen situations in the gov (not DoD) where despite high con
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by curiouscavalier 1y ago
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 extreme is interesting: What if appraisals never returned with h
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by curiouscavalier 2y ago
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 indifferent to your background and lineage (though not indiffer
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by curiouscavalier 2y ago
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 introduction to more formal approaches, as well as a taste
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by curiouscavalier 2y ago
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 today needs some time to marinate. That said I also don’t t
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by curiouscavalier 2y ago
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 4.0 undergrads really struggle with research in grad school, s
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by curiouscavalier 2y ago
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 interviews. It’s not “my opinion” other than perhaps our team’s
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by curiouscavalier 2y ago
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.
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by curiouscavalier 2y ago
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 an extent by individual. I suspect, again uninformed, it’s
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by curiouscavalier 2y ago
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 breaches rather than the collector. And sadly we have ample eviden
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by curiouscavalier 2y ago
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 images? Honest questions, as that’s where my concerns are. Boi
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by curiouscavalier 2y ago
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 stations are buying gas around similar prices at the terminal, but
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by curiouscavalier 2y ago
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 sector and at the time I worked for one of their larger custome
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by curiouscavalier 2y ago
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 that can give at least a lower bound. How applicable method
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by curiouscavalier 2y ago
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 at Z=82 and one at N=126. Do we get it one at higher Z? This
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by curiouscavalier 2y ago
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 didn’t realize that showing that pettiness really reaffirmed
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by curiouscavalier 2y ago
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. Imagine the progress if we could get that to transfer to h
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by curiouscavalier 2y ago
Statistical Mechanics by Pathria. Every read teaches me something new and reminds me how little I know.
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by curiouscavalier 3y ago
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 screens. When moving my head in the AVP I'm moving
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by curiouscavalier 3y ago
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.edu/newsdesk/releases&#x2F
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by curiouscavalier 3y ago
I think this is the main thing — plenty of other headsets showed how these aspects are problematic. I very much appreciate just how hard a problem things like hand tracking, distortion, etc. are to solve, but I was hoping (perhaps unreasona
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by curiouscavalier 3y ago
The iPhone launched with a phone, email and an internet browser (not limited to the mobile internet) in your pocket. I think those were the killer apps, where each one had already proved their value in other form factors. I think part of th
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by curiouscavalier 3y ago
I'm in the same boat. The idea of everyone watching TV in isolation defeats the purpose for me. Even (maybe especially) for sports, where for large swaths of a game it is essentially background content to a cultural gathering. Not to m
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by curiouscavalier 3y ago
Train-delivered inventory is an interesting topic in general. Where I used to live there was a railroad salvage that essentially sold re-possessed freight from train cars. The owners of the freight either failed to pay the freight charges,