will be individually addressable LEDs on a wire driven by a local LLM!

Shit, that Groq stuff looks sweet. Would have been cool if Apple bought them. The interconnect alone.. though they have their own 1:1 ultra chip interconnect it doesn't go to 100s of chips as far as I can see.

I picked up a fantastic "like new" souped up 2023 mbp to replace a 2016 model as a buffer at 40% what I would have paid, while waiting for an m5. If yours works for you fine, I couldn't wait but didn't want to get something I would have buyers remorse over. I am greatly enjoying this machine so far and can hang on to it or sell for half off. For Mac mini I would guess in March the M5 should be out.

Maybe, but I hear we will be able to boost memory (slowly) via Thunderbolt. I don't think they would have done that while also riding the psychopathic road you illustrated of intentionally forcing swap to run down SSDs. My battery failed before my SSD did.

That's all well and good but how will I pay for my 256GB M5 Max MBP? 128GB M4 is over $6000 so who knows what it will be in 6 months. Eyes are bleedin here, not sure how cornering the market using speculative investment and government money is all that valid an argument. From someone who is not buying into hype but sees some actual value in AI personally day to day, I *need* my RAM fix more than sammy.

It seems so elegant, wonder why it didn't arrive earlier. Google says Energy Dome (Italian co.) actually invented it in 2019 with a test in 2022 so I guess it is pretty new but still it seems so simple compared to stacks of lithium or whatever. Though gravity batteries are even simpler it seems.

It is totally byzantine if you need an app that is only on one App Store or happen to travel. Actual case that happened to me. United app for boarding pass, mobile roaming app from another country's phone company. Media subscriptions from U.S. App Store which was my default. Apple had me cancel my media subscriptions, create another id with an iCloud email address I don't otherwise use, and every time I need to spend time to make sure something I need will work in advance. Apple PLEASE let us use multiple app stores at the same time without forcing such destabilizing kludges. Even now I never know if what I need to work will work, or if my subscription or billing will work.. The billing screen also has issues like that.

What if you forked it and it is an exact copy of what they used, would that change your standing? Just theoretical for me.

Apparently they did nightly runs and then reviewed them.The baseboard took 27 hours of compute time, the SOM took 15 hours of compute to get to 98.7%. The human effort of 38.5 hours replaced 428 quoted human-only hours. It's apparently a cloud service, so I guess you can't rent your own machine and speed it up.. though if it is a physics heavy simulation maybe they were running an A100 or something? At any rate, it took a *lot* of compute but saved a *lot* of time. Based on Claude finding and digesting this blog article for me: https://www.quilter.ai/blog/co...

I like them too, family even is an antique book dealer. But.. I am allergic to a lot of old books. And now I need bigger print and more interested in new books with option to find old ones. So even though it has drawbacks, my kindle PaperWhite has some killer features: big text, instant purchase, and kindle unlimited. Big e-ink tablet (Daylight Computer DC-1) is also useful. The AI feature? Haven't seen it yet but people who buy cliff notes or my family member who had to give a talk about a difficult book to a book club recently could make use of the feature.

On the one hand, Meta made openllama right? So maybe these guys will do some similar things. On the other hand, maybe the world is safer if they focus on ads and we can just trade up on potential hellscapes.

Make me a 30 or 32inch trifold display, Mac compatible. I can pack it next to my MBP. Give it a shock absorbent case. Just shut up and take my money!

Speaking to a relative who was doing cold calls / cold emails as a BDR (business development representative). Manager said they will be able to get rid of 20 BDRs with AI at some point. This seems to be the most vulnerable kind of job.

Yup, that's scary. Also, the actual implementation of "do the right thing" is a big issue. I'm guessing that tip-toeing prompts and keyword scanning are being used now to avoid harm, but if it makes 99% of users uncomfortable the vendor might decide it is necessary to create a secret mental health evaluation score for every user in self defense, and send those users to neutered models with more guard rails, monitoring or even deny service. I can imagine lots of ways that could go wrong.. and also what might happen if they *don't* implement it. I'm guessing GDPR will need to ramp up their game.

There's a pretty awesome young singer/artist I've discovered, Sophie Powers, who just reported that some company had totally stolen her likeness, unique fashion, body, everything and I hope she finds a good lawyer. Some evil company like that doesn't even ask they just steal. There are going to be a lot of little Warners, it's pretty scary. Maybe some licensing organizations could get into it? I know JASRAC but when I googled for its U.S. counterpart it sounds like there are a lot of performing rights and mechanical rights orgs.. it gave me ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, AllTrack, MLC, Harry Fox Agency,... too many. One or two big ones might have the clout to go after these people.