DdCno1 @ DdCno1 @beehaw.org

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Until this has been independently verified, I have my doubts. This wouldn't be the first time for China to vastly exaggerate its technological capabilities.

The article mentions the cost of tokens to end users, not training time.

Overvalued - as in, less useful than it seems to be - probably, but the costs of running it are immense and they are certainly not that much lower in China (despite low energy prices due to nonexistent environmental standards), given the hardware embargoes they are under, forcing them to use less efficient hardware.

Not a word on Chinese models being censored in the article. What an odd omission.

It should also be pretty obvious that this is following the usual Chinese MO of using massive state subsidies to destroy the international competition with impossibly low dumping prices. We are seeing this in all sorts of sectors.

And my card from 2018 (RTX 2080) runs Indy just fine. 1440p/60. Not at max settings, of course, but nobody would realistically expect that.

Clearly a lot of thought and effort went into this, but for as much as I enjoy 3D printing myself and finding new uses for this technology, I really don't think this makes much sense. It's a solution in search of a problem, which is a trap one can easily fall into with 3D printing in particular.

The frame is by far the cheapest part of a pair of glasses, it needs to be durable (this one is not and can not be) and UV resistant (PLA isn't - why not at least use a better filament?). The 1940s-looking design isn't helping either, unless you want to cosplay as a cough Indiana Jones villain (I know it's much older, as mentioned in the text, but that's the association people are going to make). You'd think that a proof of concept like this would at least try and make use of the unique advantages inherent to 3D printing to come up with a design that isn't possible or economically feasible with mass-produced glasses, but there's none of that here - apart from the high degree of customization, but I would personally rather trust a professional to fit glasses to my head instead of winging it myself.

That's like reading only one book at a time. Unthinkable.

I see that Technology Review now publishes Chinese propaganda fluff pieces (complete with equally blatant and clumsy appeals to the "Global South", one of Beijing's latest global influence campaigns).

There's not a single word in this "article" about the fact that this model is heavily censored.

Couldn't have happened to nicer people. Reap what you sow.

If you've ever had to deal with a Gamergate dogpiling campaign, you are probably high as a kite on schadenfreude right now. You are probably knocking back a huge mug of crocodile tears.

Ayup.

Biden was the most liberal President the US has ever had, so that's not really necessary. He's not doing it to stick it to Biden, but instead because he's a racist asshole doing racist asshole things.

This statement simply isn't correct. I can procure much faster chips as a consumer, even at the low end. This isn't the fastest single board computer either, not by a long shot. Like I said in another comment, it's only about as fast as a 2010 Macbook Pro. That's not "very fast" by any metric.

I'm using a Core i3-N305 based single-board computer (Odroid H4) for my Plex server and it performs easily twice as well at just 3W more - while being x86 and fully compatible with any relevant OS without having to modify boot loaders and drivers or worry about incompatibilities. Reducing its power draw to the 12W of this chip would still easily outperform the Rockchip and would allow for a smaller heat sink. Best of all, MSRP is nearly the same compared to the CM3588 with the RK3588 (admittedly without RAM). You'd have to do something to the rear IO to make it slim enough for use in a laptop project, but that's trivial on a project like this.

Huh, it uses the same Rockchip SoC - but they are dishonestly claiming that it's "very fast". Not a good look.

This is a highly impressive project, not just for a high school senior, but it should be stressed that this is nowhere near as powerful as a similarly priced modern laptop. This is a legendary school project, impressive enough to open doors to universities and lay the foundation for a successful career in the computer industry, but not really something you should try and build yourself if you're looking for a laptop in this price range.

A Geekbench 5 single-core score of 492 and a multi-core score of 2019 points are about comparable to a Macbook Pro from fifteen years ago. There is a small NPU present on the chip, which the old Macbook doesn't have, but if that's not important to your use case (which is very likely), then this device is not suitable for anything but the most basic tasks and will feel sluggish with any current software. There's a reason the video barely shows the device in use, because it just wouldn't be very pleasant to look at.

Makes sense. I didn't believe the claim for the article for a second that only the cloud-hosted version would be censored. In fact, they didn't actually claim that "only" the cloud version was censored, but instead weaseled their way around saying that they only tested that version.

Is it able to generate text on Winnie the Pooh or how free Taiwan is without crashing though?

Sounds familiar. Been there countless times: One paragraph planned, one "War and Peace" written.

Thanks for the detailed reply!

What an unbelievably ignorant thing to say. Why are you downplaying this?

How's the AI now?

As a more portable and budget-friendly alternative, consider a small emulation console. I'm very happy with my Anbernic RG35XXSP. Since the screen folds like on the original GBA SP, it's absolutely tiny and fits into any pocket - without having to worry that the screen might scratch. Configure it correctly and you can close the screen to suspend games.

This kind of system would also make for a great first gaming device once your kid is around five years old.