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What is your bet in 2025?

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Re: What is your bet in 2025?

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Post by anastasiaess »

doublerabbit wrote: post #30
felipevb wrote: post #22

"Dumb electronics" - iPods/MP3players, dumbphones, e-ink screens/phones/readers, film cameras.

I just bought a Lootoo PAW6K after getting fed up with the iPhone and the headphone plug adapter. This player has its own OS, no WiFi or only for firmware upgrades. Has no apps and boots up under three seconds and large capacity from SD Card. The best is it just plays. What's even cooler is that it's a DAC so I can have my headphones plugged in to it and then use Spotify/Service to stream to the player. Expensive tho…

Diva, you can get an iPod nano on eBay…

Re: What is your bet in 2025?

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Post by doublerabbit »

anastasiaess wrote: post #31
doublerabbit wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just bought a Lootoo PAW6K after getting fed up with the iPhone and the headphone plug adapter. This player has its own OS, no WiFi or only for firmware upgrades. Has no apps and boots up under three seconds and large capacity from SD Card. The best is it just plays. What's even cooler is that it's a DAC so I can have my headphones plugged in to it and then use Spotify/Service to stream to the player. Expensive tho…

Diva, you can get an iPod nano on eBay…

I didn't want an iPod nano, as I'm wanting to break away from the grey corporate gardens.

Re: What is your bet in 2025?

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Post by tsltrad »

AymanJabr wrote: post #16

From here to the next 10 years or so, the bet is on Medical-Help. Almost every country in the world is struggling with constant under-staffing, populations are growing older, while pay for Nurses is going down. Now with AI technologies becoming more and more reliable, the biggest pain point to solve is Healthcare.

At least in the US, a nurse has personal liability for a mistake.

A hallucination could not just be career/license ending but land the nurse in jail.

Even with 100% accuracy, is not entirely obvious to me how a nurse could leverage a language model to make their job that much easier.

A language model is not going to bath or dress someone.

Re: What is your bet in 2025?

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Post by mnky9800n »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #27

My bet is that the big tech movement to use AI to grab as much wealth as possible will result in a severe backlash and wake many people up to the fact that the lastest modern technology is not all it's cracked up to be.

I think it will be led dramatic than that. It simply won’t work and there will be another developer hiring spree to hire people into data engineering positions where they build large data processing pipelines to make training wheels or guard rails for LLMs to justify the investment.

Re: What is your bet in 2025?

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Post by mnky9800n »

rostakagmfun wrote: post #7
purple-leafy wrote: post #5

Product / Tech: - Retro game engines - Doom engine - Wolfenstein engine - Raycasting - Console/PC emulators getting more popular - New search engines doing okay (Kagi etc) - Linux distros - Programming - Anything low-level - C , C#, Rust - Anything without the term "AI" in it - Retro phones

Interesting take, can you share you reasons for all things retro computing gaining popularity?

I feel like retro is already in

Re: What is your bet in 2025?

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Post by danielbln »

Lionga wrote: post #23
AymanJabr wrote: post #16

From here to the next 10 years or so, the bet is on Medical-Help. Almost every country in the world is struggling with constant under-staffing, populations are growing older, while pay for Nurses is going down. Now with AI technologies becoming more and more reliable, the biggest pain point to solve is Healthcare.

"AI" (hallucinating LLMs) "solving" healthcare. One can just hope the VC money is not big enough for that horror show.

That GP on their second 48h shift might not be hallucination free either. The question is what we can fix first, the medical resource crunch or LLM confabulation.
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