> Then again, perhaps as boss of DOGE, Musk will just use his "special government employee" status to bring the USPTO to heel, purging it of the experts needed to regulate his business, just as he did at NHTSA.
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I hear the tax argument all the time but it doesn't make any sense to me. Taxes don't change daily. The retailer knows the final price and they can accordingly show that price to customers. In Texas the sales tax is 8.25% and it has stayed that way for years. Our receipts at any retailer will show only the sales tax as an additional charge. In comparison, the actual prices of goods and services have changed (increased mostly) way more frequently, particularly in 2021-2024 period. So the argument here is that the seller has no problem changing the price labels when they want to increase the prices but somehow printing the labels with taxes which take years to change is a burden.
I like these projects but in my experience the four most common products people use for making slides are Google Slides, Canva (mostly by undergraduate students), PowerPoint, and Keynote. The common thread is the ease of use. So it's difficult to see why someone would switch to another product.
It’s definitely niche, but one of the best presentations I’ve ever seen was done in godot [0]
One of my coworkers copied our PowerPoint theme, built a super basic presentation mode with transitions and used the engine for interactive demos live in the slides running the code.
I am not sure how he managed to do it, I tried building a very simple game in godot and it took me way too much to figure out the physics etc. part, though that might be because I was making a simple shooting game like space invaders but with red and green squares and ability to rotate ...
Using godot to do this does seem to me pretty cool since godot is more interactive than lets say pygame but I am also still not sure how he managed to do it in godot, I would love it if your co worker could write a blog post explaining how he did so in godot!
I once wanted to create a presentation tool in ebitengine in golang just for fun and oh boy I failed miserably hard.
I genuinely like this idea. I had heard of this idea of using godot for unconvential usecases a long time ago in some HN post but seriously , while writing this post, I realized that your co worker could have also actually made a way to run that powerpoint tool in wasm since godot can compile to wasm and its kind of insane that you can get android,ios,web,every single desktop support while still not being electron or heavy on javascript.
I did find this https://github.com/GDquest/godot-presentations which is pretty interesting though I wish that some kind of video tutorial could go in hand with this because I am not that level of familiar with godot to actually run this
The inside joke among academicians is that our slides have wall of text because we make them on the flight while going to the conferences! Our presentations tend to be bland because the audience is reading off the slides and ignore what the speaker is saying. That's why for our doctoral students we make it mandatory to present at least twice internally before presenting to external audiences. Otherwise, they have these giant tables copied from the manuscript and pasted on the slides, which most people can't read without binoculars.
I had to learn Bayesian econometrics mostly on my own[1]. Fortunately, Jeff Miller[2] created a series of fantastic YouTube videos to explain Markov Chain Monte Carlo in detail. Personally, I prefer to learn mathematical concepts with equations and develop the intuition on my own. If you have the same preference, you will find his videos really helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12eZWG0Z5gY
[1] I am lucky to know people who are fantastic Bayesian modelers and they helped me polish my concepts.
As a university professor, I agree with you. I think universities must cut the cord and be independent. The university faculty gave up the control to administrators and administrators, in turn, gave up the control to politicians.
Chinese cities like Shanghai have been world class for a long time. The last time I was there, I had a dinner with a client on the outskirts of Shanghai. I took multiple subways to reach there and found that neighborhood quite ordinary and starkly different from Shanghai itself. Of course this is also an anecdote but gives you a different perspective. I also know a few people who visit China often and they tell me the cities are definitely futuristic.
Personally I think Singapore is the most futuristic city-state in the world.
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