I’ve wondered how feasible it would be to start building browser-based CAD/design products to replace our expensive and poorly supported paid plugins and niche products. Seems promising!
It made me raise my eyebrows when everyone was rushing to jump to Claude because OpenAI agreed to work with the DoW. Both companies are just as shitty as each other and will resort to underhanded tactics to stay on top.
Go China to be honest. They're the most committed to open AI research and they have more interesting constraints to work under, like restricted access to NVIDIA hardware.
Or Apollo development was a massive boondoggle that would never work and a small subset of those involved faked it to avoid being fired or going to prison. I know that directors of multibillion dollar projects lying to save their own skin is unheard of, but hear me out.
Artemis, launching on April Fools Day, seems like a joke waiting to happen.
I suspect the next big marketing gimmick is this supposed leak about capybara. I suspect the leak is intentional and meant to influence their expected IPO.
I think the big reveal is going to be that frontier models are no better than the open source models that you could feasibly run on retail hardware however they have a highly complex harness behind the API where the magic is.
I think we're talking about two very different things. I don't think that Anthropic's anthropomorphizing is a marketing gimmick. It would be less concerning if it was.
We’ve come full circle to sumptuary laws. You can’t have upwardly mobile people born to working parents going around enjoying the finer things like air travel, consuming meat, or living in a climate controlled home. It would be unseemly. Casting pearls to swine! These luxuries must only be enjoyed by the truly worthy.
If they’re sourcing some of their information from GPS data, the vertical precision for elevation is pretty poor, even if you’re using professional equipment. I’ve been being off a foot or tube is perfectly normal. You really need to use survey monumentation as controls. Also many states known invest in a statewide light R elevation program. It’s really too bad because they are so useful for planning and design.
Yeah, it's understandable that the real world is messy and user-sourced data can be very suspect.
The case I'm thinking of is the eastern end of SR-520 over Lake Washington in the Seattle area. It has hundreds/low thousands of bicycle crossings/day (so surely dozens of Garmin users/day), the background is a dammed freshwater lake with a well known elevation, and clear view of the sky. Yet the elevation data is garbage somehow.
It doesn't really matter for planning purposes as any alternative has such a huge delta but it does signal that user data isn't being utilized to refine their data set even on high volume segments.
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