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- Comment on Why does a Local AI Voice Agent Running on a Super-Cheap Soc Matter? 1 day ago:
Advantages of running things locally:
- Saving on electricity, bandwidth, and processing
- Able to customize for individuals or families
- Enhanced privacy
- Option for future federated/mesh applications
- Keeps running when network/cloud goes down (Hello, AWS!)
- Comment on Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents 2 days ago:
Subscription service. This is why you get an MBA.
- Comment on US | Miami Is Testing a Self-Driving Police Car That Can Launch Drones 5 days ago:
In San Francisco, self-driving cars had a small, usability issue. Let’s hope these don’t.
- Comment on Amazon’s giant ads have ruined the Echo Show 1 week ago:
Amazon Leadership Principles: www.aboutamazon.com/…/leadership-principles
- Customer Obsession: Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers.
- Comment on Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
Someone I know just got a job offer and pasted that offer letter and his current job’s offer letter into ChatGPT to compare.
That cow may well have left the barn.
- Comment on Motion sensors in high-performance mice can be used as a microphone to spy on users, thanks to AI — Mic-E-Mouse technique harnesses mouse sensors, converts acoustic vibrations into speech 2 weeks ago:
the raw audio data is run through digital signal processing using a Wiener Filter, where you can start to hear some information.
Oy, no tittering in the back.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
The FT has used AI tools to identify these mentions of the technology in SEC 10-k filings and earnings transcripts, then to categorise each mention. The results were then checked and analysed to help draw a nuanced picture about what companies were saying to different audiences about the technology.
So… using AI to find out who is using AI and warn of underuse of AI.
- Comment on Disney+, Hulu Are Hiking Prices Again Next Month 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Mark Zuckererg Demos New Facebook AI And It Couldn’t Have Gone Worse 4 weeks ago:
I’ve had my share of botched tech demos, so I can empathize. Steve Jobs, during an early iPhone demo legitimately blamed the Moscone Center wifi (I was there).
But this was just bad demo planning at every level. I’m sorry, but I couldn’t stop laughing.
- Comment on China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool 4 weeks ago:
Microsoft and Google both prototyped it. FWIW, they didn’t take it to production once the data was collected.
IIRC, cooling worked fine if placed in the right place with circulation, but maintenance and part replacement was a major issue.
- Comment on Google will throttle your Pixel 10's battery, and there's nothing you can do about it 1 month ago:
Actually, there is something you can do about it.
But it doesn’t involve Google.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears 1 month ago:
Kudos on consistency.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Last time a CEO said the opposite they got pilloried. Don’t say something your product can’t back up. The lesson has been learned.
- Comment on After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6 1 month ago:
They’re speedrunning to GPT-9000 just so they can lay claim to the HAL number.
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- Comment on UK government to use AI to predict crime locations by 2030 2 months ago:
Tom Cruise lives there. Maybe he can advise them on the feasibility.
- Comment on I Tried Every Todo App and Ended Up With a .txt File 2 months ago:
Have tried ALL the same ones. Probably even more.
Square Post-it notes. One for what needs to be done that week. Another for that day. Cross each item as I go. When every item is crossed off, crumple into bin. End of day, whatever item is left gets scribbled on fresh one for next day. End of week for the weekly one. That’s it.
Stuck on desk, to laptop, or carried in pocket. Works great. It’s all about reducing friction and clutter. If too much effort to keep track, gets easy to drift into bike-shedding territory.
Keep going back to new, shiny apps every once in a while. Always end up back on damn sticky notes.
- Comment on CATL announces sodium batteries that cost as little as $10/kWh, a massive price reduction compared to the current average of $115/kWh for lithium-ion batteries. 2 months ago:
Not just that but they’ve also got the Choco-SEB modular battery swap thing going. 2min battery stops to full charge.
- Comment on AI Startup Perplexity Makes $34.5 Billion Bid for Google’s Chrome Browser 2 months ago:
AI inside browsers. Fantastic way to collect ML learning data.
Enjoy!
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Anthropic Revokes OpenAI's Access to Claude 2 months ago:
Last week I asked ChatGPT for a list of coding AI agents and what was unique about each one, just to see what was out there. It spewed out a whole bunch, including a few that weren’t real agents, just tools like static code analyzers.
Funny enough, Claude Code wasn’t on the list. I had to ask explicitly “what about Claude Code?” Only then it generated a separate list with some overlap, also with irrelevant tools, that included Claude.
Laughed at how petty it was. Like Bing search not returning anything with Google in the name.
- Comment on Pebble is officially Pebble again 2 months ago:
I backed all their original Kickstarters. After they announced the revival, I dug them up. Only one would charge. Wonder if their new app will be backward compatible with the old watches.
- Comment on Researchers announce babies born from a trial of three-person IVF 2 months ago:
Eugenicists everywhere.
- Comment on This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action 3 months ago:
Not buying it, unless there’s smoke involved at the end.
- Comment on The End of the Internet As We Know It 3 months ago:
There was a core flaw in the whole CPM model. This means the web has to find a different way to fund itself.
Sadly, it will cause a lot of pain, and it’s not clear what will be next.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey working on Bluetooth messaging app, Bitchat 3 months ago:
Briar is Android-only and BitChat is iOS-only.
A quick search shows a few other cross-platform candidates: geckoandfly.com/…/chat-without-internet-connectio…
- Comment on Cloudflare’s New Tool Lets Sites Charge AI Crawlers 3 months ago:
I have friends working on related tech.
We shouldn’t go all knee-jerk on this one. It’s a solid first pass at allowing copyright owners to assert control over their own creations and getting paid for their work.
- Comment on BYD is testing solid-state EV batteries in its Seal sedan with nearly 1,200 miles of range 3 months ago:
Charging to 80% in 12 minutes with regular chargers or special ones? If it requires upgrading chargers, adoption may be slow.
- Comment on Amid AI Plagiarism, More Professors Turn to Handwritten Work 4 months ago:
I’m all for it.
When the data centers force widespread blackouts, people will still be able to hand-write their complaints. Should also bring back the wax seal and the signet ring for two-factor authentication.
