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Re: NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

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Post by uejfiweun »

ceroxylon wrote: post #80
lern_too_spel wrote: post #50

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I tried Antigravity recently with Flash 3.5, and it got stuck in a loop saying the same sentence over and over. I haven't seen this pathological behavior from other LLMs in months.

Fable in Cowork can get stuck in loops, I've had a single prompt use 83% of a session quota on a single prompt before I realized something was amiss. Its explanation: "the wasted tokens came from re-rendering the document to verify layout after a page-orientation bug."

Fable is very bad at wasting tokens when it comes to doing these renderings and diffs - I had the exact same experience as you.

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Post by kalleboo »

tanseydavid wrote: post #128
jkkola wrote: post #55

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Looking at the recent decades-old-brand renaming bonanza with MS Office I'm pretty sure they're still in Redmond.

Got burned by this when I was wanting to uninstall MS Office from my laptop recently. Filtering with string "office" turned up nothing in the list of installed programs but it was clear that "MS Office Click-to-Run SxS" was regularly grinding away chewing lots of CPU. So I was not crazy -- Office was installed. The names of the "installed program" for MS Office is now Microsoft 365. Brilliant value add on that one

> The names of the "installed program" for MS Office is now Microsoft 365

It's now been renamed "Microsoft 365 Copilot". Not joking.

Re: NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

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Post by 21asdffdsa12 »

d4rkp4ttern wrote: post #46

When notebookLM was new, it was interesting to listen to the podcasts. Then the novelty wore off, and I wanted something where I can interact with the podcasters but it was janky as hell. My current “audio-learning” hack is ChatGPT Live which has become shockingly good after being awful compared to Claude Voice (Let’s not even talk about Gemini voice which is still bad). I go on a walk and dump a paper or article lin…

Moving mind in a moving body. Maybe the future of coding really is a philosophical debate with a dhjinn.. i like this a lot. bravo.

I actually can see this as advertisement USP. Some lone hiker going up a mountain through nature to a peak, while the city in the valley below far away becomes functional again because of what is said in that debate about .. walking for ideas - hunted down savanna mode similar to Darwin and all the other old thinkers.

Re: NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

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Post by TitaRusell »

eterm wrote: post #76
tapoxi wrote: post #63

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Their current product naming is still terrible.They went from the Xbox, to the Xbox 360, the Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox One X, Xbox Series S, and Xbox Series X. The latest console is the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X

I thought that was satire but I've googled it and you're not even joking.

And I bet marketeers got paid a lot of money to come up with those.

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Post by minraws »

frollogaston wrote: post #70
minraws wrote: post #10

Guys google, I know enough people in the company to know how this decision was made, but I must say as a user if you rename or kill another thing I will stop using any Google service I still use. This might be the one time I might forgive it but guys please don't it's annoying.

They've been doing this kind of thing for at least 15 years

This is the first time it has happened to a tool I use and have helped friends adopt it.

Again I don't condone it but this gets very annoying to explain that everything is renamed now to X instead of Y to your uncles and friends...

Re: NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

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Post by frollogaston »

sunaookami wrote: post #113
frollogaston wrote: post #52

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Allo, Google Talk, Hangouts Chat (not the same as Hangouts), "Meet (original)", idk maybe some other thing called Google Chat that isn't the new Google Chat, uhh my Android phone has 2 "Messages" apps so one of them is probably deprecated?

Good article from 2021: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-...

2021 was around the peak of this nonsense. Since then they've tried to clean it up. Well also have been whining about iMessage.

I did use Google Talk at some point back in the day, when I was heavily involved in XMPP-related development and therefore interested in using it too.

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Post by hacker-matrix »

d4rkp4ttern wrote: post #46

When notebookLM was new, it was interesting to listen to the podcasts. Then the novelty wore off, and I wanted something where I can interact with the podcasters but it was janky as hell. My current “audio-learning” hack is ChatGPT Live which has become shockingly good after being awful compared to Claude Voice (Let’s not even talk about Gemini voice which is still bad). I go on a walk and dump a paper or article lin…

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Re: NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

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Post by maccard »

ramses0 wrote: post #87
tapoxi wrote: post #63

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Their current product naming is still terrible.They went from the Xbox, to the Xbox 360, the Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox One X, Xbox Series S, and Xbox Series X. The latest console is the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X

...and the Ally ISN'T EVEN AN XBOX!!!! """AI Overview: No, the Asus ROG Ally is not actually an Xbox. It is a handheld Windows computer made by Asus, even though it features Xbox branding and uses an Xbox-style controller layout"""

Obviously it’s an ally, just like the Xbox series x is a series. How much clearer could they be? (Joking).

Let’s be honest, Nintendo are just as bad - new 2DS would like a word.

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