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But, now you can play through the second half in VR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXho2LdD1qo

A flood of VR mods for popular games have been coming out lately.


Yes I've already played those ports on my quest 3 (streaming). That was fun!

But they were talking about playing on a virtual 2D screen which I have no interest in


That's not necessary. If a service has access to the raw audio of a show, it can fingerprint each second of that audio in a way that can be matched in a tiny amount of computation even for a recording in a noisy environment.

That can't recognize what you say. But, it can ID where you are in a specific show out of zillions of hours of shows.


Notably, the caught the TV also recording and transmitting recorded audio and transcripts from the microphone.

I know a guy who made a Shazam-like phone app that can listen to a few seconds of noisy audio and make a fingerprint that can be used to quickly ID those specific few seconds out of a pre-fingerprinted archive of an enormous amount of audio (zillions of hours of TV). Making the fingerprint requires a tiny amount of very smart code (in C with no dependencies). But, the fingerprint is not useful for understanding audio that's not in the archive.

Roughly how old was your nephew when he started using MakeCode?

I think four for scratch junior with help, and then make code at six? He wasn't able to use either of them independently at first, it's a learning process.

But it's different for every kid! He was a very early reader and he's autistic, one of the markers of his presentation of which is being ahead of some developmental benchmarks and behind on others. If you have the resources, those kids coding clubs are all over these days and they do a great job of making it a fun, social activity for a certain type of dorky kid.


Logo was my introduction to programming. Working on a 1 MHz Commodore64, my masterpiece was a fireworks show that was animated by the fact that the individual drawing commands were so slow you could watch them play out.

So, draw a curve from the ground to the sky. Draw some explosion shape. Change pen color to the sky color. Draw the curve and the explosion again to erase them. Change pen color and start the next firework.



You just need to work your way down to a deeper layer in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain Not the deepest layer. Humans would fry instantly there. But, the warm glow of the third layer down upon the fourth is quite pleasant.

> Who is like, "damn I wish I had a tablet that I could fold up and still barely fit in my pocket"?

Me. I get why people like small phones. But, I've have the iPhone Jumbo Huge edition for a long time now. I use my phone as a pocket tablet 10X more than as a phone.

Looking at the Duo specs https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/specs/ vs my current 12 Max Pro specs https://support.apple.com/en-us/111874 it looks like the differences I care about are

1) 1878 pixels over 4.64" vs. 1284 over 3.07" 2) Default camera mode is 48 MP vs 12. Other modes are surprisingly similar. 3) A much faster CPU

I'm sure there are 1,000 more small differences. But, my 12 Jumbo Huge from late 2020 still runs great. If I were to upgrade, I'd get the Duo. We'll see how much longer I keep waiting, I guess.


My understanding of Hugging Face is limited to "File Host with Model Cards". Can someone with more understanding explain what the $12 billion value comes from?

They are the primary service for this. That comes with an audience and a lot of data.

I only learned about their CDN and protocol called Xet a couple of days ago https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/xet/index That puts it in the Cloudflare of AI models category.

They offer inference, too. I don't know anyone who uses this service, but presumably it must be reasonably popular.

This is the most compelling case I've come across:

https://www.decodingdiscontinuity.com/p/nvidia-hugging-face-...

tldr; Acquisition is an option on Hugging Face becoming the distribution and data-creation infrastructure for open physical AI.


I distinctly remember as a child watching Garfield the cartoon cat walking on the sofa. I remember explaining to my mother how cool that was that I could actually see him as real as anything.

I don't know when that ability faded. I think it was early because didn't really notice until people started talking about it recently. I can paint and draw. I can think about how things look. But, I don't see them. If I'm on the edge between awake and asleep I can force visualization as a lightweight lucid dreaming.

When I code, I think about data structures and algorithms using a mental proprioception. Putting things in space, moving them around. But, I have to remember where they are. Like playing the shell game with your eyes closed.


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