What? No, they're calling it a spatial computer because they don't want it to be lumped in the same category as the other VR devices. Because... theirs is $3500 while other VR devices are $400.
They literally just built a VR headset... do you seriously not think the Apple Vision Pro is a VR headset?
Lol when the iPhone came out, literally everyone was criticizing it for how expensive it was.
Also, looking at the functionality it had when it first came out, it wouldn't have really been very useful for me (no app store, basically just an iPod + shitty browser + phone).
Anyway, does anyone actually think that VR isn't going to revolutionize computing over the next 10 years?
It would be awesome if you could also add GPT-4 as a kind of helpful tutor. Not sure if you're already experimenting with that.
> Our spaced repetition model not only accounts for implicit "trickle-down" repetitions but also minimizes the number of reviews by choosing reviews whose implicit repetitions "knock out" other due reviews (like dominos), and calibrates the speed of the spaced repetition process to each individual student on each individual topic (student ability and topic difficulty are competing factors).
That's super interesting and definitely one of the issues I faced while building anki cards for math classes I took in undergrad. Thanks again!
Can anyone help me with some questions about this program? (I assume the founders will see this thread once they notice the HN hug of death)
1. How exactly is AI being used here? Is there an AI chat-bot that I can ask for help? Do you generate problem-sets with AI? Check answers with AI? Is it GPT-4?
2. Do you utilize Spaced-Repetition in any way? Have you found that to be useful?
> I am finding Apple to be such a greedy, hypocritical company and am getting disgusted by their PR image
I definitely agree with this but don't have too many issues with them installing the Journal app to be honest. I actually like the app personally, but totally agree with your sentiment.
No, being venture backed implies you're cashflow negative and you're relient on funding to live.
If you're a founder of a venture backed company, one of your main jobs is to build a pipeline of investors and constantly be planning for the next round of funding (that takes a significant amount of energy away from building the company).
With this strategy, you raise one round, then you go back to being similar to a bootstrapped founder where your only focus is to make the business sustainable and you're not spending mind-share trying to raise more money.
> I don't know how to tell this without being condescending, but do you guys even understand how farming works?
Not sure why you're being condescending when you're totally uninformed & wrong lol.
> The fertile soil is a result of a long process of bringing organic material and ash and depositing it on the field. Exactly the opposite of what we are doing today
2 minutes of research would tell you that the Terra Preta soil consists of
- tiny, broken pottery shards
- weathered charcoal
- bones/compost/manure
> It is very easy to see how this developed. They probably have noticed that if they keep throwing their leftovers or feces in a particular area, everything starts growing better there. The same if you throw out ash. Which they had lots of beacuse they were burning a lot of wood every day, living in the rainforest and not facing energy price hikes. If you have a village and you hunt and gather every day, if you constantly keep burning wood fire and spread it all around your village for thousands of years -- guess what -- whether you planned it or not you will create those fields because I bet nobody would be trucking the garbage far from the village.
The fact that you keep referring to them as hunter-gatherers when they've clearly developed an advanced fertilizer is hilariously absurd.
I mean, that pales in comparison to the power the government has. And our government (in the US at least) is clearly not democratic (DNC rigged their primary to prevent Bernie from winning... we have an election between Trump & Biden and most Americans hate both choices, etc.)
You should be far,far more afraid of that since government spends more than a trillion every year.
If some lonely dudes can't find a girlfriend, so they talk to a chatbot instead, why is that bad?