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I think that quote was coined by AI researcher and robotics engineer Yacine Mahdid writing under the social handle @yacineMTB

Andrej Karpathy circulated it online and placed it at the center of his address at Sequoia Capital's AI Ascent conference in April.

The idea is very old though. There's a story of how King Ptolemy I Soter wanted to learn geometry from Euclid, but being a King, he asked for a shortcut to understanding it. Euclid replied that "there is no royal road to geometry". (A "royal road" was basically a fast road reserved for royals, such as the Persian Royal Road.)

Is that the same thing as "The Singularity"? If so, why the name change? The name "singularity" is useful, at least, because of the analogy to a break in the model after which prediction becomes impossible.

In my opinion, the coolest thing in NotebookLM is the podcast-episode-generator. Each one sounds like two people having a conversation. It's fun to listen to a podcast episode about some niche topic (e.g. nuclear isomers, or the Weyl curvature tensor) while I'm cooking or driving.

Fuchsia ended up in some Google products, such as Nest Hub, Nest Hub Max, and Google's smart speakers, thermostats and displays.

But Fuchsia won't be in the Googlebook because there's no Chrome browser for Fuchsia. (In early 2024, Google officially stopped trying to port the full, desktop version of Chrome to Fuchsia.)

On second thought, I think it's not for K12 after all.

Yes, you are probably right.

Now that I look closer at the Googlebook, I think you are right.

I think it's a successor to the Chromebook. In the vast majority of modern K-12 public schools, the school district owns the hardware, not the students.

I guess it will be running Google's new operating system (a "modern OS designed for Intelligence") that combines elements of Android and ChromeOS.

Edit: Probably Android at the core, and then a desktop-grade Chrome browser on top.

Aw, c'mon man, they're just doin their job, ya know? Chill out.

I can relate because my dad is 84 and he really struggles with simple things like entering a password to sign in to Gmail. He forgets what he did last time and so I'm back to explaining how moving his mouse causes the pointy-arrow thing move around on the screen, to get it pointed at the wide rectangle near the middle of the screen, etc. No UI library is going to solve his struggles.

I solved most of the sign-in problem for my dad by picking a simpler browser than Google Chrome, and by tweaking his browser settings to be just-so. That's not going to be much help for you, the website creator...

Maybe allow passkeys for login? These days, passkeys usually get stored/supplied by the underlying OS. (By usually, I mean that's the statistically most common source of the passkey today. They can also come from a browser plugin or a hardware key.)

Maybe bring a (printed) book, brochure, flyer, or treatise on the nocturnal behaviours of silkworms?

"OpenCode Go" (a subscription) lets you use lots of hosted open-weights frontier AI models, such as GLM-5 (currently right up there in the frontier model leaderboards) for $10 per month.