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Why did Apple wait until now though?

I guess my diet/physiology must be different from y'all? I might be sitting down for 1 minute tops.

Sounds like that move would also be about artificially restricting features from cloud models that don't require significant local ram.

Most years the camera improves enough to be worth it for me and I have a few different people my hand-me-down phones go to so it averages to 1 new phone every 4 years for the group…

Apple is introducing this now because hardware capability ceilings are being hit and component prices are preventing higher specced components from being used. I buy a new (non app…

Aren't coal power plants waaaay more polluting than natural gas? Not just in terms of C02, but also really nasty stuff like particulates, sulphur, and metals? It's very trendy righ…

Nah, the part of management that sucks is the people. Management/operation of a thinking machine is a dream by comparison. With AI you can still get into the details all you want. …

> As the population has grown poverty has decreased. True, but not obviously a causal relationship.

Hard for me to get too upset about billboards in an urban environment, let alone if they're promoting sugar water or some dumb AI service. Let them waste their money.

Anyone who enjoys that video (I did!) should watch the largest glacier calving ever recorded: https://youtu.be/hC3VTgIPoGU

"De gustibus non est disputandum" ("In matters of taste, there can be no disputes") One thing I'm excited for is the expanded ability to modify and create my own interfaces and sof…

AKA redbook audio

unshittified manure

> The same plant also makes ... Choco Tacos Made. RIP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choco_Taco

The night heron gulping the rat was something! I think it even surprised them. https://youtu.be/SRRbspvheRc?t=2057

A weed is just a plant growing where you don't want it. So everything/nothing is a weed depending on context.

Ultimately, the only evals that matter are for the tasks you're interested in. The only way to game those is by being better.

Clever name

LLMs rewriting legacy code in newer languages is going to have an impact.

Bing shows no signs of marketshare growth: https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share

68% per year is pretty good!

2 things Jeff Dean has mentioned in talks as interesting areas for research: * Is there a better way to do matrix multiplication? * Could less reliable chips perform better in aggr…