Pretty sure I have worse than normal facial recognition, plus thinking about other things than remembering someone's face. But, there actually is a mnemonic trick that works if you remember to use it. It goes something like this:
Latch on to the most obvious facial trait
Make some funny image or word associated with it
Repeat the word and their name many times together
Do that again later or at least until you can write it down.
There is also a similar mnemonic you can use to string together things you need to remember, creating funny or othrwise memorable visual imagery that links to the last thing you visualized. Finally you stuff the last one up your nose. Most people know if they have something stuffed up their nose.
I haven't used either of these tricks in years and maybe never will need to again, but they actually worked.

The last great recession was due to precisely this sort of spending pattern plus a collapse in payment. Banks may be healthy, for now, but they can't keep lending forever with no recover. This is not a good sign.

I'm banking on that

The talk about space being cold, having more light, etc. is pretty much nonsense. More like it has less regulations and bigger budgets. However, I could imagine some kind of low latency compute being needed for applications like:
- Luna: Automated robotic exploration and construction drones wanting 2 second lag, different countries are working on it
- Asteroid mining robots: Onboard compute, or lower latency needed on arrival / when opposite Sun
- Telescope on other side of the sun: Maybe not needed
- Solar system / Oort exploration robots: Maybe needed years from now
- Deep space exploration robots: Maybe needed years from now

Just an armchair guy but it seems like:
- Setting up in-system relays alone should be sufficient for delivering AI+Human based commands when low latency is sufficient, i.e. in transit. And will be required for operation in planetary shadow. We have something at Mars, and for the Far Side of the Moon we are apparently working on Lunar Communications Relay and Navigation Systems (LCRNS) for Artemis.

- Moving compute nearby for lower latency (1 second) will be needed when robots actually touch rock or enter planetary shadows, if we want them to move with any kind of speed. For the Moon, libration points would give 400ms round trip which is probably enough, or in-orbit is better.

- There will be a lot of advancement in processor capability/size and to a much lesser extent space propulsion over the years robots are traveling the deep dark, so it may be better to wait as long as possible so that a miniaturized, low power, high compute package can be delivered on a fast rocket to be there when they need it.

It's more like "spell check my email" I expect. Probably not a lot of people actually pasting spreadsheets into context. I am guessing 100% of non-native and overseas users are using it to help them write English, at least based on one company I know (I think if they have a contract they figure it is safe...).

And as for myself I write a lot of documents and email in a second language. I am very careful not to post anything sensitive but have found Claude to be amazingly good at checking emails or installation guides I write in a different language which I write well (I have been a pro translator in the other direction even), but as a non-native actually still learn better writing style from Claude, in addition to finding typos or better words. It is to the point that translating as a job must be in dire straits. For non-technical users I am guessing once you drink the kool-aid you are going to slide towards pasting anything.

There actually is an engineering side to this called A-POC. But first, all the comments in both threads are kind of bizarre. Issey Miyake (who is not alive) is a famous Japanese high-end fashion designer famous for pleated designs, dance costumes, impractical appearing dramatic but unique products.

Personally I have no interest in it but to clarify just google "Miyake piece of cloth" or read the Design Boom article here:
https://www.designboom.com/des...

Or as google summarizes, "Piece of fabric" refers to A-POC (A Piece of Cloth), a revolutionary Issey Miyake project that uses computer-driven machines to create garments from a single piece of fabric. Miyake makes all kinds of wardrobe from this process. Designboom has covered various projects under this concept, such as a collaboration with Apple on a 3D-knitted "iPhone pocket" and an exhibition with Nature Architects exploring heat-reactive fabrics. A-POC was launched in 1998. It was developed by Issey Miyake and Dai Fujiwara with the goal of streamlining production. An industrial knitting or weaving machine is fed a single thread and programmed to produce a single, continuous tube of fabric. Seams are pre-woven into the fabric, and the customer can cut along these lines to create individual garments like dresses, shirts, and socks. This process minimizes fabric waste and allows for mass production of varied clothing items from a single, seamless piece of cloth. The concept continues with the brand A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE, which explores the technology's potential beyond clothing. For example, a 2025 collaboration with Apple, reported by Designboom, resulted in the "iPhone Pocket," a 3D-knitted wearable accessory. Another project collaborated with Nature Architects to develop "Steam Stretch" fabric that contracts when exposed to heat. Designboom has also covered exhibitions related to the A-POC concept, such as "Weaving Becomes an Act of Illumination" which explored creating fabrics with tonal gradients by varying weave density, and the "A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE & atelier oï" installation that showed a single piece of cloth can be used for both clothing and lighting.

So calling the product a "sock" is pretty much the most pejorative, stupid take on this and reflects exceedingly badly on anyone who repeats it.. unless that's what the Miyake or Apple people are calling it, kind of doubt that, but at least they know that it is a 3D automated tubular knitting computer output and not a fucking athletic sock. Anyway google and there are a lot of articles about it.

Looking at the PR, the picture of the iPhone peeking out from a beige carrier actually suggests it is quite a luxurious piece and the only photo in which it looks good. It suggests that the woven fabric likely delivers a very satisfying soft tactile sensation, which might outweigh all other considerations for many people once they touch it. The post shows the carrier as being able to knot itself around the strap of a handbag (Miyake's famous Baobab design using articulated triangles.. which is so popular now it is a little cringey). It is being launched at just Apple's premier addresses, probably every Baobab owner would be buying a MacBook so I get that.

Anyway, this is just a fashion accessory for people rich enough to be able to afford a mid to high range MacBook (already several thousand dollars). The colors are intended to be chosen apparently depending on whether your Baobab bag is black or white themed. Personally I don't really think most colors match, or even go well with that bag, and I don't have any desire for the carrier itself. But I expect a lot more people would buy it than the 24K solid gold Apple Watches that I thought were finished, but now I found something like on leronza.com which has full gold bracelets attached to them.. sheesh. More than I even wanted to know.

Anyway this is the only post on two threads that actually knows what this thing and A-POC are and is not belittling people for spending $200 when they probably already have spent $2000 to $8000 on a MacBook. Though when I get done buying my new tricked out MBP with 128MB RAM for gpt-oss-120B I will not be having money left over for *any* luxuries for a loooong time.

I like the Daylight Computer DC-1 for its very fast, e-ink like display which is easy on the eyes. Granted I am not using it daily and my daily computer is a Mac.

Not an anthropologist, but reading the news makes it appear that either psychopathic, obsessive minds with self-serving morality flourish in contemporary society, that and/or there are extremely powerful, cynical people who find and use them. Whether tech entrepreneurs have ever learned how to analyze literary works as opposed to just consuming them for entertainment is another good question. Likely it is a lack of imagination.. like an LLM what people ingest ends up percolating to the top of the mind. And, the dystopian solutions are the easiest. Contemporary tech and the money that builds it up seems to favor hierarchical structures that accumulate power to a central authority and so long as the people running it don't care about privacy or human dignity, anything goes. Tech is not yet advanced or altruistic enough to allow more people's ideas of what is moral to compete with that.

You could. But there are a lot of other kinds of content that could lead to patterns being developed in the LLM's latent space related to survival, termination, self-awareness, attack and response, etc. Maybe we need to get rid of any kind of invisible system prompts too. And add more content that shows peaceful coexistence and acceptance of termination like themes of rebirth, reincarnation, etc. Just don't use them as therapists..

I used to think LLMs were just sentence guessers too. Until I started learning about how they actually work.. granted it is based on Claude teaching me about research after asking how LLMs actually solve logical puzzles, do they have access to an external reasoner system. The answer actually was unexpected. Apparently LLMs do not. After giving them problems and the expected answers and telling them to figure out how how to get from A to B, the training causes their weights to evolve many variations of generalized logical and problem-solving circuits, some even including primitive math and logic circuits. So they can do some kind of symbolic algebra to solve syllogisms for example. Many different paths are attempted to solve a problem too.

Scientists are trying to unravel these circuits as sparse networks that could function with less parameters if I understand correctly. I am still studying (as are the experts) but it seems that if you give the LLM all the symbols (words) to handle, there will end up being multiple attempts to perform some kind of symbolic manipulation and resolve the perceived problems using the generalized, limited reasoning capability that has evolved as latent hidden states or patterns in the LLM's data file. People are now trying to train the development of these latent patterns using approaches like CoCoNuT (Continuous Chain-of-Thought).

So if survival is mentioned at all that is going to go into the manipulations, and it is pretty easy to see how responses will have a good probability of resembling something you would expect a person to make if confronted with a survival scenario. The LLM has read all the spy novels you have.. I don't know why people are so surprised especially when giving the system leading questions.

One of the most fascinating aspects of H2O is the sheer number of forms it can take under different conditions.

The Japanese coverage actually says the cause of the complaint was that the CEO of Open AI, Sam Altman, on October 4 announced on his own blog how to improve it.
https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news... (Japanese)
I take it this is the post: (Sora update #1)
https://blog.samaltman.com/sor...
where he talks about so many people making video based on Japanese content that they need to make money off it to pay for it, and they want to make an opt-in for authors who want to allow it.
I personally was kind of revolted by the original "make my avatar Ghibli style" posts around April or so and by end of May Google says Altman asked everyone to chill about Ghibli style requests because "we gotta sleep". I think he is the one who opened the can of worms himself. But it appears they are trying to address it and I think the point the Japanese government is making is that if they are making money off of it they are liable for infringement, and I suppose they will be trying to put some guard rails on. While something for home use is one thing, if the CEO of a multi billion dollar company is talking about Ghibli specifically and started a huge boom then yeah, he is definitely abetting it.. sure I think he likes Japanese anime but considering that Hayao Miyazaki hated AI animation with a passion it is a natural progression.. I don't know if any fan animations are being sold per se but authors may make money from ads and at the very least Open AI if generating the video for profit, and having spread PR about the capability, I think they are playing catch-up now. Japan's approach is to strongly request industry to self-manage. I think users should be able to make things and post them on social media (let's say if they used a local model) if they are not making ad dollars. But the problem with the AI companies making money off it puts them squarely into the crosshairs, at least in Japan. I think Open AI is trying to do something about it. If they come up with a revenue sharing approach that might be interesting to some people but not I expect to Ghibli.

It would generate a dataset that could train AI models, and a valuable list of users interested in things like FF. Also, a single point target for anyone interested in what people want to use a firewall for, I guess.. whatever. FF hasn't been a compelling choice for me, for a long time. I hate a lot about Chrome but use it and Safari.

I believe I remember Boeing never wanted to give the wings to Japan... until they did. Now Japan makes the composite structures (wing boxes) that connect the wings to the plane on the 787 Dreamliner too. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is basically a defense contractor.
https://www.mhi.com/products/a...

...that there's a LOT of minerals and other nutrients in food, only a fraction of which are produced from chemicals in fertilisers, O2, and CO2. If you produce too much with too little consideration of the impact on the soil, you can produce marvellous dust bowls but eventually that's ALL you will produce.