I'll add another obvious one: No rule that the SaaS, with its obviously much deeper technical expertise, can itself then leverage these tools to achieve even greater velocity, thereby exacerbating the problem for "internal teams"
EDIT: Oh and Erdős was the great collaborator. There is an Erdős number (Bacon and Ozzie too) which defines how close you are to him. eg if you co-authored a paper with Erdős you have a Erdős number of one. If you co-auth a paper with someone with an Erdős number of one, then you have an Erdős number of two etc.
I think that the Bacon (Kevin Bacon) number was the original and there is also a Black Sabbath number which is related to Ozzie (MHRiP).
I also gather that a very few people have managed a minimum measure of all three numbers. Feynman might be one of them (its too late to check).
Driving sims with the right setup are truly breathtaking gaming experiences. For driving, especially, even things like the weight of a headset almost add to the experience since in the real thing you are wearing a helmet. But it is a way to have a legit, e-sports level gaming experience with real-to-life controls with total VR immersion.
I once played a custom Japanese Highway map in Assetto Corsa made for nighttime cruising and was a little high and I forgot what reality was.
I used to do a lot of GoKarting at a local course before the Pandemic, and VR racing is the single most immersive video game experience that you can have. The only thing you are missing is the physical exertion and G-Forces. Even the feel of the helmet and reduced field of view is emulated by the headset. Even cheap wheels have force feedback, and you can feel the weight shifting around. You can intuitively glance around for situational awareness. If you have experience, you will naturally fall into the look at where you want to go style of skid recovery, and you will feel the tires about to skid and feel in the wheel when they line back up with your vector of motion. It all transfers so well, even real race car drivers enjoy it.
You can feel your body freak out when you hit a wall at 200mph because you misjudged the distance because you're not a real racecar driver.
Driving an open cockpit car like an old F1 car is insane. You feel like you are just hanging out in the open air. I guess we didn't have survival instincts back then.
If you have a few thousand extra dollars, you can even fix the lack of physical exertion and G-Forces!
Shooting games are super fun too because it feels rewarding to be good at actually aiming, rather than stupid mouse twitches I have never been that good at. Also because Pavlov VR mods let me play Halo 1 Blood Gulch for real and that's magic.
VR Chat is also a pretty incredible experience. When the pandemic first hit, I actually spent several weekends clubbing in VR Chat clubs.
I have driven on tracks in real life and then the same track in VR, and all the spatial cues map perfectly. It's so close to "the same thing" that I really don't mind driving in VR more and then only paying for the occasional real life track day.
My partner also likes that I can't actually die in VR, though sometimes I still close my eyes just before an impact.
Agreed, if you have all the sim racing equipment already adding in VR brings you basically "there". The sim rig is a rabbit hole of immersive technologies of its own, but even just a basic wheel and pedal plus a headset will get you an incredible experience.
I believe sim flight people would have the same opinions on that side of simming too. It's a uniquely ideal situation for VR. Seated with full tactile controls.
There was a lot of discussion about some work they've done to minimize compression artifacts... that's the biggest drawback for me in terms of ALVR + AVP... I suppose time will tell.
I had a friend in college who was the ultimate expression of this. If he was in a line, waiting for someone, outside a professor's office hours, etc., he was working on SOMETHING, usually getting ahead of some reading for class. I asked him later, and he gave quite a compelling account of how if you truly added it all up, it had a pretty huge effect in how long it took him to get through his work. He was incredibly bright, went onto a PhD at MIT, and was also very sociable, which I suspect was helped by this strategy of aggressively seizing on these little breaks of time.
I need a good chunk of time to settle into "productive" work, even if it is just reading. I suspect that what is needed is a little bit more discipline at first and slowly it gets easier, but I just never had the ethic to stick to it, and because of this friend I don't even have the ability to claim any doubt as to how impactful it would be.
I doubt they were doing deep work in 3 minute chunks in line at the parking ticket office. One thing I realized for me is that simply priming the pump for later had non-zero benefits. Eg, doing a Google search for something, and just reading the result snippets counts for something in those 3 minutes. Reading the Wikipedia page on something isn't full actual proper research, but reading it five times (because you keep getting interrupted in the post office), but still managing to read it, counts as progress for later. Your brain simply just needs time to stew on things, hence the solution striking during a morning shower.
I think we don't give the subconscious enough credit for "getting things done" so to speak.
Since youth I've had (what was always termed a bad habit) the habit of jumping into a task and then never touching it for a week.
For sure there was constant worrying and ruminating on the thing I need to do, but I also have my mind ample amounts of time to 'sleep on it'. So when it came time to sit down and finish the thing, so much of the thinking and ideating had been done and I simply had to convert that into mechanical output.
Isn’t it the opposite? A common “superpower” observation for people with ADHD is they excel at rapid context switching and have an advantage with multitasking, like in crisis response, problem solving, or keeping track of multiple predators.
Context switching is a common and accessible state, but it's severely taxing and relies on stress. To the point that ADHDers might purposely 'proctastinate' to make use of this stress.
But, not only is it not good for the system to constantly rely on stress, it also means that everyday /mundane / low stakes things simply can't utilize this "superpower" effectively.
At least, how I interpret and navigate my own bouts with ADHD
For anyone who is remotely interested in this, a considerable chunk of the Gemini program was all about solving some of the practicalities involved with Rendezvous, and it is quite interesting even hearing some of the astronauts come to grips with some of the physics while orbiting in space trying the various types of rendezvous and docking maneuvers that were attempted.
In defense of the parent comment, I don't know that he suggested that it wasn't effective, but it is a dark pattern that probably should be avoided if the gist of the effort is to truly be an educational game that you'd want to enthusiastically support.
I unfortunately did spring for a Nanit, but am keen to stop paying the subscription... any pointers of a resource you'd encourage me to look at to try to the same thing you did?
and the camera has a standard 1/4" female thread mount, so also a stand to hold the camera. And in the UniFi protect setting enable "Hallway Mode" to rotate it 90 degrees to get the length of baby.
- For a Unifi Protect console (basically an NVR), there's lots of other options too. The one I linked I also use as my Network controller and wifi gateway. I assume it's possible to just use it as a Protect server/NVR (but I also recommend Unifi Wifi)
- The G6 camera, since its meant for normal security uses, is wide by default. But I like it flipped 90 degrees for baby monitoring. Just find the advanced setting that lets you enabled "Hallway Mode" and it flips it 90 degrees so you a tall skinny screen
- Also, to save money, you can get an UCG-Max (linked above) without an SSD, then just install your own nvme SSD. Can get a semi-cheap one since you don't really need super high write and read speeds. But decent endurance would be good.
- I also use the 'privacy area' feature to black out areas in my camera that aren't baby. That way I make sure I'm not recording anything else, and it makes the video storage more efficient.
- You can run Tailscale on the UCG-Max which is another way to enable out-of-home access if you don't want to enable Ubiquiti's cloud services: https://github.com/SierraSoftworks/tailscale-udm
I had the exact same reaction, and then when reading some of the copy thought to myself: "omg, can't believe they are being so degrading to how clunky their own dashboards and things are!" And then it hit me...
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