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Marco Arment

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Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And in the video, Robert said, and this was transcribed, transposed, transcribed by John, the general rule for pixel density is that if you multiply the pixel pitch by 10, that will give you the viewing distance in feet only.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

where individual pixels are indistinguishable.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

John, apparently you said the general rule is if you multiply the pixel pitch by 10, you get the distance where you can't see the pixels anymore.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

So 0.9 millimeters means about nine feet away.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

John, where did you go wrong there?

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Here it is.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

I'm trying to be inclusive and no good deed goes unpunished.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

yeah uh speaking of member specials a little while ago i think it was a couple months ago we did atp movie club war games and this is kind of apropos because the whole of the internet and that is not a complaint i'm glad that you all did the whole of the internet sent us a youtube video from dave's garage where he bought basically one of the display units i don't know how to describe this that generated those screens in the bunker those like um those i don't know how can i verbalize this

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

All right, we're going to talk about AI for a few minutes.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

This is still part of follow-up.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

We're going to do this a little bit in a funky way.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

What we're going to do is I'm going to introduce a couple things, and John, I think you would like to say a couple things, but then I'm going to plow through a whole bunch of stuff, and there'll be a bunch of links in the show notes, and we're going to try to get through all of the...

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

stuff that i need to get through to like set the stage and then we'll i'll let you two loose to have a conversation about it um but bear with us for a minute because it really requires a whole bunch of foundation before we can really have a conversation about it so uh first and foremost

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

On behalf of all three of us, we all apologize.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Genuinely, we all apologize for not having disclosed past or future sponsorships from AI companies.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

I like to think we do a pretty good job of this.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

We try really hard to do a good job of this, but we 100% whiffed on this one.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And so that is our bad and the offending parties have been sacked.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

But we should note that Google Gemini has been a past sponsor.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Anthropic has been a past sponsor, will be a future sponsor.