Is there any information on exactly what kind of processor is inside this thing? Since running python I'm thinking it's actually a low end mobile processor.
wslh 20 hours ago||
Looking at the price of this and other calculators, I wonder if there's a market for "dumb calculators" analogous to dumb terminals: a device with the calculator form factor, keyboard, and display, but where the actual computation happens on a paired computer/phone or a cloud endpoint over WiFi/Bluetooth.
Willish42 19 hours ago|
The cost of these devices isn't the computation, and if anything more connectivity would probably make these more expensive and harder to use (many "smart" devices in classrooms have networking issues and if even one of them can't connect, it hurts the ability to run a lesson). I think standalone computation abilities are pretty important, and connectivity can be a downside for preventing cheating in standardized exams etc.
wyre 20 hours ago||
It has Python? That's pretty cool.
petra303 19 hours ago|
It doesn’t have a qwerty keyboard. That would be such a pain to type on.
For some reason qwerty keyboard calculators are banned in tests.
Ekaros 19 hours ago||
I think those were aimed at different market segments. And that would be engineers, professionals and working academics that is not students.
Generally limitations in education on what was allowed led to more limited feature sets. Where as full feature set that could be upsold with qwerty keyboard was aimed for different users.
markus_zhang 16 hours ago||
Can we still program assembly on this one? There must be a way to hack it open.
higgins 18 hours ago||
nostalgia
devanshranjan 18 hours ago||
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josh2600 20 hours ago||
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commentprotocol 18 hours ago|
is any of this really necessary now that we have LLMs ?
peesem 18 hours ago||
ever been to school?
WolfeReader 18 hours ago||
Yes, things that are not LLMs continue to be useful and interesting even though LLMs exist.
I hate what AI hype is doing to peoples' brains here.