Completely unrelated to Origin, but are there plans for closer integration of Graphite with Cursor? A combined product would be a very compelling product, but not much seems to have changed since the acquisition.

Absolutely - we actually built this all on Graphite tech. Have you already linked your Graphite account with Cursor? If so, there might be a surprise!

Yeah, just like Stalin!

Yes believe it or not in the US you can also buy things from fabricators in Shenzhen.

If time is of the essence, or rapid prototyping is needed, the shipping hurdle is a real problem. Going down the street for the goods vs having them go across the globe is quite a difference…

Time is often not of the essence when doing fundamental research.

Thank you. I live in Japan and it is incredibly frustrating to hear people here talk about the exchange rate as if it is some temporary but unfortunate weather condition, rather than the downstream effect of a generation of terrible policy decisions that it actually is

Probably more accurate to say the bubble period was the weather condition and the current rate is more of an equilibrium.

I think what the person you're replying to is referring to is the fact that, in contrast to the US, many senior politicians in China literally have engineering backgrounds, or at least engineering degrees. Although this has actually been less true in the past 10-15 years. This article gives a bit of an overview - https://www.chinausfocus.com/2022-CPC-congress/chinese-techn...

Alright, but DocuQuest is actually a really good idea.

"DocuQuest: A platform that leverages LLMs to transform and simplify complex technical documentation into interactive, user-friendly learning experiences tailored for developers and engineers."

I recently found a vibe-coded app that generates courses on the fly from YouTube, including automatically generated quizzes. I forgot the URL, but the result was beyond awful. Questions were something like: "what was the title of the youtube video?" and other utterly stupid things.

Not saying that it isn't possible, but stuff like this does need the human touch.

Are you in North America? I’ve found this to be true in the US, but not in Europe or Asia.

I mean, the sitting President was shilling cars on the White House lawn and runs an active meme coin bribery slush fund.

This is not slightly behind Western Europe. This is miles behind any developed country. China may be corrupt, but Xi Jinping hasn’t yet sold beans or cars via press conference.

The rule of law gets down to nitty-gritty levels, too, not just a reality show at the highest altitudes: trust the police don't extort you, the ability to gain relief in court (small claims or civil), trust things you build won't be looted overnight, trust in your neighborhood to walk at night or leave something unlocked, trust in your bank to wire things, trust in your title companies, trust in your package deliveries, etc.

It's not perfect, but you could do so, so much worse.

"Could be much worse" is a platitude not an argument. "It is improving" might be, if it were true.

I often couch my arguments in soft language like a conversation would be in order to have a discussion. The idea that the US is miles behind developed nations is nonsense.

Depends. Would you still insist it's nonsense if any of these things you mentioned happened to you or your family?

What makes you think that people eat healthier and get more exercise?

In the US at least, Obesity is on the rise, people eat more meat than ever before, and life expectancy is basically flat over the past decade.

And they smoke a lot less. Of course it depends on your starting point, but compared to all of human history before 50 years ago, the trend is clear.

I dont know if this is just baader-meinhof at work or the fact that AI is so prominent in cultural discourse at the moment, but I feel like I am seeing Diamond Age references everywhere I look

Or maybe it’s that Hackworth hired a ractor instead of getting AGI completed