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Oarch··on The coolest use for the Vision Pro
I've done this quite a lot while working at a large architecture firm. It can be great for both small and enormous projects.

Often, the more effort you put into the tiniest details, textures, etc the larger the realism payoff.

I also found that immersion got better when the headset responded to the subtle head movements that we all make.

Oarch··on The only road in London where you have to drive on the right
I watched a Waymo try to take this on last night. It drove on the left.
Oarch··on I sent Claude Opus 5 '–-' and it wrote me 5k tokens about a cartographer
Just tried this in Opus 5:

"Looks like your message came through empty, just a dash. What did you want to ask?"

Oarch··on Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge
I assume Van Gogh didn't paint enough hands to train from!
Oarch··on Why is it so hard for the U.S. to win wars?
I assumed the point of war these days was largely just money making. "Winning" puts an end to the grift - it's far more profitable to keep a nice long term rolling boil going.
Oarch··on OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court
HopingAI seems more pertinent
Oarch··on Purging George Orwell's books misses what drives the political right
But popcorn sales are through the roof!
Oarch··on Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel
It's probably more akin to changing where the fun is in maths.
Oarch··on Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act
I wasn't expecting to find Hamlet in these comments...
Oarch··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
I wonder if (this part specifically) is a solvable problem? Is it their altitude that causes them to shine? Perhaps finally a commercial use for Vantablack?
Oarch··on AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region
All glory to hypnotoad!
Oarch··on A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals
Can't you just append ".json" to the end of any Reddit link and read all sorts of these fields?
Oarch··on U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
Makes me question whether de-planetizing Pluto was just a clever tax dodge
Oarch··on Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards
I did
Oarch··on Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards
I'm in Europe and I can't say this is the case at all. I've never heard anyone express such an idea.
Oarch··on OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber
Realistically, what can these types of commitments look like for the AI frontier companies, moving forward?

They're releasing ever more powerful models with stronger offensive capabilities. So do they have to help bolster the defense of all existing software, just... forever?

If we advance both the offence and defense with each new release, is this sustainable?

Oarch··on AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost
It just really didn't want To Louse the game
Oarch··on Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher
Classic dark pattern /s
Oarch··on CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch
Oh this is brilliant, I've spent the last month doing something just like this. As a challenge, no libraries allowed besides Python standard libs (so no numpy).

Started with Word2Vec, built an RNN, then LSTM and am halfway through building transformer architecture.

Oarch··on The $500K AI Film That "Premiered at Cannes" Was Not in the Official Festival
Slop and fraud make the perfect pairing.
Oarch··on Project Glasswing: An Initial Update
I reckon that in 50 years the very idea of code existing will be esoteric knowledge, a bit like binary. We simply won't care to think at that level of abstraction anymore.
Oarch··on Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart
Honestly, I'm biased but I think it's the best one.
Oarch··on .de TLD offline due to DNSSEC?
Germany has fallen.
Oarch··on The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls
From the title I'd assumed this was a mixed metaphor between boiling the frog and facing impending doom.

Maybe I need to stop AI doomscrolling for a bit.

Oarch··on If This Road
I think you've answered your own point convincingly! Glad you enjoyed it.
Oarch··on Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
Didn't something like this already happen in the 1970/80s with pushback against synthesisers and electronic sounds?
Oarch··on Grok 4.3
I'd agree on the voice transcription; it seems so much more accurate than the other frontier models I've used. I often speak to Grok and paste the transcribed output to Claude!
Oarch··on Auto Polo
These days I have to check the upload date to see if I'm being duped. At 8 years ago this one passes!
Oarch··on Humpback whales are forming super-groups
We even weigh different kinds of drugs differently. So I'm told.
Oarch··on ChatGPT Images 2.0
Every groundbreaking new AI release feels like a volley of cannonfire towards the soul. Oof.
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