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daveed commented on ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 – Lenovo’s rollable laptop theverge.com/reviews/7174... · Posted by u/xrayarx

0xEF · 23 days ago

I openly admit that I probably lack the vision others have about these devices with flexible screens, so I find this type of display functionality useless and prone to failure. I'm not the target audience, I guess.

I cannot possibly imagine what I'd do with a "rollable" laptop, but I do see one tiny benefit to foldable phones; reduced pocket consumption. Having a smaller device or a device that gets smaller is just two different ways to solve my main beef with modern phablets.

Personally, I wish someone would just make a clamshell smart phone where I open it up to a single screen on one half and a physical keyboard on another, but that's a different discussion.

That all said, I'm curious to hear from the people who want this device. What's drawing you to it? What problem does this type of display on a laptop solve for you? What are your concerns about its robustness or longevity, if any?

daveed · 23 days ago

I mean, I wouldn't buy this one, but I see the use case. A lot of reading (code, webpages) is done vertically, it's helpful to have more vertical real estate in a typical form factor.

I'm not sure about robustness, would have to wait and see tests.

daveed commented on Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding reuters.com/technology/mi... · Posted by u/spenvo

ritzaco · a month ago

> The fundraise also saw participation from AI chip giant Nvidia

This is really obvious 'round-tripping' no? Nvidia invests in startups that are going to spend a majority of their funds on GPUs, Nvidia's revenue goes up, Nvidia's stock goes up, Nvidia makes more 'investments' in startups who use that investment to continue the cycle?

daveed · a month ago

The magnitudes make it s.t. it doesn't really matter, I think.

daveed commented on Google is winning on every AI front thealgorithmicbridge.com/... · Posted by u/vinhnx

ramraj07 · 5 months ago

I don't know what you did there, but clearly being ex OpenAI isn't the intellectual or product flex it is: I and every other smart person I know still use ChatGPT (paid) because even now it's the best at what it does and we keep trying Google and Claude and keep coming back.

They got and as of now continue to get things right for the most part. If you still aren'ĥt seeing it maybe you should introspect what you're missing.

daveed · 5 months ago

Don't think it's a flex, I think it's useful context for the rest of their comment.

> I and every other smart person I know still use ChatGPT (paid) because even now it's the best

My smart friends use a mixture of models, including chatgpt, claude, gemini, grok. Maybe different people, it's ok, but I really don't think chatgpt is head and shoulders above the others.

daveed commented on The Rise of Bluesky cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/the... · Posted by u/g0xA52A2A

GloomyBoots · 9 months ago

Every time I've opened the bluesky homepage it's been highly political. Not even in the sense of "here's a topic I feel strongly about". It's just "fuck conservatives" over and over. At the same time, even the most mild conservative opinions result in a ban. That's not a platform that one goes to for an escape from toxicity. It's a platform that one goes to so that they can burn strawmen with like-minded toxic people without worrying about getting blowback for it.

daveed · 9 months ago

I'm opening up my app right now, and I see none of this. Granted I'm a recent installer (this week), and all I've followed are tech/ml based lists. But it is a much quieter place than twitter.

The major accounts from twitter are not on bluesky, but I don't care for vitriol or meme replies (all of which are much higher on twitter). That being said, twitter still has a lot of interesting people, who are the main reason to continue using the site.

daveed commented on Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT news.mit.edu/2024/mit-tui... · Posted by u/gnabgib

meetingthrower · 9 months ago

Yes but the algorithm also is that they take 5% of your assets each year. So if you've saved $1M (not much for a $200K a year couple in their 50s), that's $50K a year out the door.

daveed · 9 months ago

Where are you seeing this?

daveed commented on Susan Wojcicki has died twitter.com/sundarpichai/... · Posted by u/grandmczeb

daveed · a year ago

I'm not a Googler, but would still ask commenters to show some respect for the person who died, and save your opinions about youtube for another day.

daveed commented on Where have the IMO gold medallists ended up? Part three of three xquant.substack.com/p/whe... · Posted by u/nb_quant

lacker · a year ago

I think MIT has been specifically trying to recruit IMO winners - if you look at the Putnam winners recently MIT has been dominating. This wasn't the case until the past few years though.

For example see:

https://news.mit.edu/2024/four-peat-mit-students-first-place...

daveed · a year ago

The recent MIT period of dominance correlates very well with professor who is coaching the team there.

daveed commented on Qdrant, the Vector Search Database, raised $28M in a Series A round qdrant.tech/blog/series-a... · Posted by u/francoismassot

francoismassot · 2 years ago

Congrats to Qdrant's team, $28M for a Series is really nice.

There are a lot of OSS vector search databases out there, we could probably list the main ones:

- Qdrant: https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant

- Weaviate: https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate

- Milvus: https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus

What else?

daveed · 2 years ago

I think Activeloop(YC) is too: https://github.com/activeloopai/deeplake/

daveed commented on How is AI impacting science? michaelnotebook.com/mc202... · Posted by u/occamschainsaw

canjobear · 2 years ago

Quantum doesn’t help for NP problems.

In the case of codebreaking, where QC may have an advantage, AI is unlikely to provide an alternative because modern AI is all based on finding probabilistic patterns and cryptography is explicitly designed to be resistant to that kind of attack.

daveed · 2 years ago

^ Just pointing out, the parent didn't say NP-hard or -complete, so they weren't wrong (but could be misunderstood). But saying Quantum doesn't help for NP isn't right either.