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That's another thing that I found strange. Why make the version you show the public so tiny, especially if you want to show off multiple people on it. I underst
by ehsankia 3y ago
That's another thing that I found strange. Why make the version you show the public so tiny, especially if you want to show off multiple people on it. I understand it's a prototype, but surely they can scale it up a bit more to a reasonable size before showing it?
- afavour 3y agoYou might as well ask “why show it at all”. If you’re a small research outfit you do demos like this to attract potential clients but Disney has more than enough internal applications for this thing to keep them occupied for a long time. My cynical view is that an exec was looking at the share price and thought “ahh crap let’s go film some stuff in R&D to reassure people we’ve got the future in hand”. Didn’t matter they hadn’t scaled the thing up, we’re still all talking about it in the top post of HN.
- kd5bjo 3y agoI believe that these sorts of demos/disclosures are intended to be soft job adverts-- They're cultivating a reputation of being not only an innovative R&D lab, but one that allows researchers to (sometimes) share results without being buried under a pile of NDAs. These are both things that potential new hires will likely care about a great deal.