I will say…. My first gen robot vacuum was retarded. The new one we got is pretty snazzy. 🤣

Some of us don't have a robot vacuum because we couldn't imagine the ad-serving, data-vacuuming hell hole that is current #IoT all those years ago. And we refuse to participate in utter BS systems. None of this insecure crap needs to be connected to the internet. Any real #AI system can operate #of...

Roombas are snitches I will never let one into my house 🔫

Once again, Roborock doesn't struggle. Plus you'll learn not to leave usb cords on the floor.

I think being able to usefully navigate a noisy, cluttered (real world) environment requires a cognitive architecture with a vast number of edge cases. Finding an architecture like that from first principles takes an evolutionary process operating over a vast area (the biosphere of the earth) and ...

So maybe the capital was deployed productively after all.

… or 🖨️ printers

it should be pointed out that this is also the basis of the expectation of ongoing security for encryption algorithms that are in use... if there is no acceleration from expected they are gonna be good for a few hundred years more yet

Ok, but I still think robot vacuums are very useful tools. 🫂 ☺️

The last few dots in the first chart make it look (to me) as if were slowly approaching the flat part of a sigmoid, rather than getting steeper.