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New comment by app13 in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

app13 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:10:52 +0000

Routing in agent pipelines is another use. "Does user prompt A make sense with document type A?" If yes, continue, if no, escalate. That sort of thing

New comment by app13 in "1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order"

app13 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:47:12 +0000

$25-35/hr for the evening shift it seems. Not starvation wages by any means, but certainly not great (or even good) pay for that area.

New comment by app13 in "Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot"

app13 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:15:03 +0000

Most companies are using world model simulations for training nowadays, like Issac Gym or Mujoco, not just video data.

New comment by app13 in "Meta RayBan AR glasses shows Lumus waveguide structures in leaked video"

app13 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 07:31:12 +0000

2 million hardware devices sold is not nothing, that is a pretty significant amount of hardware to ship.

New comment by app13 in "Anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof"

app13 — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 14:21:30 +0000

Fear not, there is a handy proof we can use here...

New comment by app13 in "AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor"

app13 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:21:15 +0000

They're right. Toward the EOL the PS3 had a big resurgence as THE console of South America and Southeast Asia due to highly available used games, console jailbreaks etc. and of course FIFA.

New comment by app13 in "Unitree G1 Humanoid Agent"

app13 — Tue, 14 May 2024 06:55:08 +0000

If their Go2 video is anything to go by, you should take this video with a grain of salt and expect about 50% of the demos to actually work

New comment by app13 in "Low Cost Robot Arm"

app13 — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 14:56:44 +0000

Omniverse is a simulation platform specifically designed to do things like train/test robotics. It's not a creative engine like UE or Unity.

New comment by app13 in "Half-Life: 25th Anniversary Documentary [video]"

app13 — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 16:57:51 +0000

Significantly higher reach. I use steam every day and didn't know its used for video distribution.

New comment by app13 in "OpenAI's misalignment and Microsoft's gain"

app13 — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 19:46:59 +0000

>It would be much better if humanity's population were limited.

It's a shame your argument devolved into eugenics so quickly.

New comment by app13 in "One (1) new Wii U console was sold in the U.S. during September 2023"

app13 — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 13:20:34 +0000

There's a 99% chance this was me!

Mom and pop shop grocery store near me had one new in box in the back of the store and I nabbed it because my wife and I love the Wii U