I was one of the fortunate 300 who got a ticket to the Rabbit R1 Pickup Party in NYC later this month. I could have waited a day or two to have my Rabbit delivered without having to pay for airfare, hotel, etc., but the release of the Rabbit R1 (or its offspring) may well be a piece of AI history.
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There’s a problem with color images: They’ve becoming a form of noise.
Photography Leica Q2 Monochrom
Henri Cartier-Bresson…blah, blah. First 35mm…blah, blah. Remember this: Legends are what used to be.
I’ve never bought a Leica before, so I just want to judge my new Leica Q2 Monochrom for what it is today. When you shoot with it, you quickly get why someone who spends an outrageous sum on a Leica will do it again. While people see Leica for the legend, I see it as 100 years of getting better and better at building cameras.
Photography Leica Q2 Monochrom
A couple days ago Rabbit R1 founder Jesse Lyu noted on Discord: “We prefer to take baby steps on the complexity of the OS.” In other words: it has to be right before it goes into the wild.
I was really happy to hear this. Far too often companies rush to launch, leaving out hardware features that quickly become obvious as missing and putting software out there that hasn’t gone through a stringent QA process. The results can be disastrous and even company-killing.
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Though I’ve never been a fan of Bill Gates, the man certainly is psychic. Many years ago he predicted that future software would be in the cloud and we’d lease it. At the time, software was still delivered on physical discs, you had to buy each update, people were still using 56K, land-line modems and there was no “cloud”, so it just didn’t seem imaginable. Well here we are: We don’t even have slots on our computers to put a disc in anymore. We download our software and lease through a subscription from companies like Microsoft. So when I saw two of Bill’s latest predictions they really caught my eye.
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