Running out of cash for the AI runway are we?

Yes, I don’t like the trend. “We put a laserdisc under a microscope and you won’t believe what happened”

20 min video

100% chance I’m not clicking.

Case study in “Speed limit signs don’t set the speed drivers feel comfortable at, only suggest it.”

Street design is critical.

“Nobody else is moving. Fuck that guy he’s dying anyways”

A video is worth a thousand words
https://youtu.be/j2dHFC31VtQ?t=366

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/11/whoop-platform-review.html

They extrapolate all kinds of data from a single datapoint (heart rate) using a sensor that’s far from optimal. Think “I can tell you the weather forecast based on your heating system function” except I don’t check the system, I check the air temperature in the house. The first past (forecast) is a wild stretch, the second part (sensor placement) is a silly choice.

But the marketing is slick!

That’s why I said originally generative ai and LLM

Some societies consider the welfare of others; other societies don’t.

Greed. Case study: insulin.

I think that’s just pattern matching like facial recognition. It covers more imaging in less time and can help identify areas of concern. But that doesn’t need trillions of dollars.

I don’t believe that the current definition of AI (LLM/Generative) will ever live up to half the hype. If I knew how, I’d try to make money from the hype imploding.

I even more confidently believe that it will not lead to a post-scarcity society. But most of that belief is because I don’t think humans are capable of developing such a society.

This has interesting ramifications. iPhone manufacturing is quite fiddly and needs skills and a high level of quality control. Several years ago, India did not have this capability.

Meanwhile China’s middle class is growing and doesn’t want do manufacturing.

Swap isn’t terrible though, a lot of current gen mac hardware has very fast SSDs and very low latency controllers so it’s pretty transparent in normal use.

They do typically have good hardware that works well together. It’s a ton of work replicating that level of hardware compatibility. Apple catches a lot of negative feedback and some of it deserved but they won’t be caught dead shipping a wifi chip as shitty as the one in my Surface.

I think if you are on a website like this, this computer isn’t for you

Probably. I’m in the minority on an iPhone.

Yeah, conceptually it’s good, but the free up is important and seems to be a secondary concern. Perhaps it’s the third party devs.

Wasn’t super fetch what they called the high speed usb flash drives you could use as swap? That reminds me of a time I was optimistic about technology. Vista RC and Office 2007 on my MacBook Pro.

XP used to just have ram sitting there empty waiting for something. Then over vista and 8 and 10 they started more and more preloading because hey if the ram is empty it’s wasted. Like database servers, they always suck down all the RAM possible. Problem is windows doesn’t release it when the cache or whatever isn’t useful and something else wants it.

It’s been a while but I think macOS is considerably better at both parts of that equation.

There’s no reason that computers need to be so powerful other than MBAs saying “optimization is too expensive, just push the feature.”

Good point.

It’s not discriminatory. They don’t have any legal obligation to serve citizens of foreign countries. Citizen of USA isn’t a protected class. When they do serve American citizens it triggers a whole lot of regulatory work, and it’s understandable they don’t want to do that unless you’re a high net worth individual (ie they make enough profit to cover that cost)

Apparently the maritime insurance market writes about $1b per year, around .005% of hull value to 1-3% - which exceeds the profit margin.

Trump is about to find out that ship owners won’t risk hundreds of millions per ship on an uninsurable voyage just to stroke his ego.

I tried to eliminate caffeine to reduce anxiety in combination with my ADHD meds.

My morning routine without coffee was hard; decaf helped a lot though. Ultimately didn’t kick the addiction though.

If I may be so bold, 400mg is a lot. Your body habituates, so why push the envelope?