A feature that no one is talking about but which is even cooler: You can use the same technology to a) directly simulate color blindness (drive the L and M cones with the same signal) and b) in theory drive subsets of a dichromat's L cones with derived L- and M- cone amplitudes - does that make them sort of trichromatic? Such an amazing technology! The whole AO story ultimately links back to the Starfire Optical Range : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfire_Optical_Range

I see what you did there!

Their pricing is incredible on the token plan - something like 50b tokens for $60!

No that's not right. It's 50b credits, not tokens. What is a credit? Nobody knows.

Someone did the math a few months ago and paying API prices was the same as the monthly subscription.

To be fair while almost no company publishes what a "credit" or what a 5h window in their subscription plan really is in terms of input/cached input/output tokens, Xiaomi does: https://mimo.mi.com/docs/en-US/tokenplan/Token%20Plan/subscr...

> Nobody knows

Now you know:

2.5 pro: 300/600 credits per input/output token

2.5: 100/200

Cached tokens are 2-3 credits.

If you only use pro, with a 7/1 ratio and no discounts or penalties the $6 plan gets you a total of 12M tokens. This assumes zero cached tokens thought.

Yep, roughly the same. If you max out the sub each month it’s roughly 20% cheaper if you also carefully use all their promotions.

I’ve thrown $50 at it, use UltraSpeed liberally and have yet to exhaust it.

I've found these kind of models (Deepseek + Xiaomi) to be absolutely excellent when it comes to writing documentation for code. We have a bunch of internal tasks that need to be documented for a non-technical team.

I added 20 USD in credits for the Xiaomi models a while ago and they've been happily writing and updating hundreds if not thousand of pages and I still have 7 USD left!

Is it wrong that I prefer the Shrek version?

It's not. I prefer the bardcore version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx-x_1lIXh4

Fun fact: the original was only produced in English but the Shrek remix (which is a *BOP*) got translated into every language the movie did.

Through the magic of liner algebra it turns out that you can stimulate cones independently even with normal displays. Search for 'silent substitution'!

Also search for "impossible chimerical colors"

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color#Chimerical_co...>

I used to think that as well. This book recently made me think again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_10,000_Year_Explosion

I don't know about the big 5 but in the six-factor 'open source' version (the HEXACO) the 'H' stands for 'honesty/humility' https://hexaco.org/

Love those old photos of Macromedia - my wife worked in the same building at the time and they bring back a lot of nice memories :)

I think you would very much enjoy this book: https://share.google/boWcVLRiYz0c7EmKh

They talk quite a bit about this sort of thing at the end...

I went to Amazon where it informed me I have bought that book. But never read it! Found it. Thanks!