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I don't ever remember needing or being advised to cycle it.

It was always start by 'loading' and then cruise at 5g. Of course GNC was filled with sugar filled "delivery" products like Celltech that claimed to forego any need for 'loading'.

The biodiversity in West Africa in general is completely underrated. I mean, Darwin solidified his trajectory in life a few short days after the Beagle anchored off of Cape Verde (a place he initially detested then fell in love with).

I'm hoping that Cape Verde's World Cup success story translates to more eye balls on stories like this (with the mere mention of the country landing it in search results). Which means more attention, money and research to West Africa's relatively fragile but diverse ecosystem.

Congrats man. I've been in edtech for the last 15 years. I was working on something similar (socratic method, 1:1 LLM <-> student, skills based) but joined a company and had to shelve it due to a non-compete.

You've picked one hell of a time to enter the K12 market. 1:1 device backlash, AI tool scrutiny hightening, teacher exhaustion, no recovery in sight for the recent funding cliff.

Your pilot model is the way to go. My favorite tools all grew out of that model. Stay patient, listen to the early users, encourage them to spread the word. Dont' be above grinding it out at a table at some of the smaller regional educaitonal confreneces.

Sounds like you're already doing this but take IXL head on. They are ripe for the picking.

Good luck!

This is where treating these smaller models more like parts in a purpose built appliance ultimately benefits us.

tldr; continue to cede ground on the slippery slope.

did i get that right?

The job description touts investment from some members of the "PayPal Mafia." For some odd reason that fact that and the SAT requirement combine to make this whole thing feel kind of normal.

Apple sold over 500k (the last reported number) of Apple Vision Pros and they had/have a built in ecosystem and known developer tools.

It's been considered by all measures a flop. (I have one and love it).

Snapchat has a 2nd rate social media platform after a new audience, they already failed with hardware once, they lost all momentrum relative to their geo spatial ad filters and Lens make app (blew up during COVID).

I dont know convinces anyone that they are due for an Apple like moment in AR at $2k+ per glasses.

This is why VCs/PEs tend to not like founders.

I prefer Codex’s depth and guidance but prefer Claude’s execution because it’s more transparent.

I use both daily. I’m the intermediary though.

My home runs on Linux and my life/career runs on Mac OS.

I look forward to tinkering and tweaking my home lab but I barely remember my interactions with Mac OS. I like it that way.

It surely beats tinkering with my life.

I run Linux across a dozen thin clients and a server class desktop in my home lab. It's rock solid for home assistant, proxmox, routing, etc etc. Set it (hours and hours of work) and forget it exists.

I couldln't imagine having the time to set it up as a daily driver that handles my daily workflows, hardware needs, etc. Terminal in OS X is a close enough approximation out of the box and goes beyond it in DX (IMO) with very little additional setup.

I know this will be an unpopular opinion.

Anthropic's wants to sell us Claude Code with no model selection at all.

Opus seems to be overly eager of late to 'vibe' out entire solutions and build out things that you didn't ask for.

/goals is helping set the narrative that does it really matter if Sonnet and 3 Haiku agents got you to that end state...eventually...if its what you asked for?

For better or worse Opus is already handing off 80% of its work to background agents of Sonnet, Haiku, and likely a quantized Opus.

Want model selection? Pay for the API.

That’s interesting. I’ve yet to wear it around any other human beings other than my immediate family.

I’m also more than happy breaking it out in my hotel room.

Couldn’t imagine wearing it on a plane or train and would rather use my much more discreet laptop directly.

The project has not been scraped or scrapped. Any outlet that reported that walked it back. It’s reportedly put on hold while they work on the glasses. Its fate might ultimately end up all the same.

I own a AVP and it’s super niche. Can’t blame Apple for putting their attention on the more wearable glasses form factor.

Also, in the year that I’ve owned my AVP I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve been in full VR/immersive. And I use it everyday.

There’s a native YouTube app. And I don’t find myself missing the others. But besides the background noise from YouTube and Apple Music/Podcasts I don’t really consume media in mine. It’s a work tool.

I do 4 hours a day minimum. Typically the first part of my day where I tend to have no meetings and can wear it uninterrupted. I’m sure I can get the virtual persona working in Meet and Zoom but I don’t want to creep anyone out.

I’m in Ultrawide at 4k via a MBP or a Mac Mini. Wireless keyboard and wireless mouse. Typically multiple Ghostty windows open, an IDE, and a web browser with a bunch of tabs.

If I have a podcast, YouTube or music playing in the background I do so via the AVP directly via the native app.

Though I like virtual environments I don’t use them much. The amazing pass through (I have a Quest 3 and it’s not even remotely comparable) allows me to feel like I’m still IRL and be aware of my surroundings. And to see and interact with my wife who’s also remote if she happens to pass by. This need to touch grass is the same reason I typically don’t wear AirPods while in them. You can really get sucked in with virtual environments and AirPods on.

No eye strain issues. Have had 20/20 my entire life and a year in still 20/20. We’ll see. It does get a little sweaty/heavy. I have the Apple double knit and the CM Global or whatever it’s called.

I do have a decent office monitor setup with a 43” OLED and LG Dual-ups. I don’t use it much since getting the AVP as I like moving around the house.

The Cayenna has never been a bad looking vehicle. Like other German SUVs from that time it elevated an established design language into SUV form. If anyting it was criticized as lazy and unimaginative.

The real beef was Porsche enthusiasts (911 purists) thought SUVs were for unwashed masses and soccer moms. They thought Porsche was jumping on the the relatively new (at the time) premium/luxury german SUV bandwagen establised by the X5 and ML500 (GWagen excluded).

Once they got over that they became customers.

This..thing...on the other hand is a tasteless abomination. Aside from the badges and tail lights there's nothing in it that's inherently Ferrari.

His firm did the entire car. Inside and outside.

Not sure what OPs reasoning was but you have to wonder if this far-more-human type of film criticism will see a revival in the age of AI assisted writing.

I always like to remind people that before talk heads were battling it out on cable news or ESPN we had Siskel and Ebert shaking things up. They made me realize that movies could carry subtext, nuance and meaning. They made reading ABOUT movies more interesting.

Last time someone cared to measure they owned 98% of the $1,000+ PC market. If that number ever slips you should offer your services to them.

Where is a Mac above MSRP?

Good luck trying to stand up something usable.

Instructure got their systems back up but they but their handling of that student data is unacceptable.

Sounds like you should pick something other than MacOS.

HTML and hand written CSS mind as well be legally binding.

HTML is by far simpler than Markdown.

Can’t answer the person who responded to you but:

Yesterday. Astro components.

3 million people will have seen it as I type this. More next week.

I learned HTML 20+ years ago in high school.

I did not go to a front end high school.

They should have named this study the "The Turning test for Design." All they proved was that AI could convincly mimic long established human created norms in in visual communications. "Hey, our prompt output images that are competent enough"

Is anyone surprised that a diffusion model trained on petabytes of human created artifacts could properly mimic human created artifacts?

I'd still argue that there's this AI'ish veneer that's just slimy enough to pickup and tell.

The real benchmark in human creativity is originality / novelty. These look like they came off of every half-decent designer's Pinterest board.

How the hell did something like this ever make into the product?

I can't even have Claude assist in creating a Hermes or OpenClaw agent that utilizes a 3rd party API?

Fal.ai does the same thing.

It's pretty much a universal API credit policy at this point. I'm not sure if this legitimately escapes the prepaid gift card requirements or if the providers see nuance where there might not be any.