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There's definitely still room for innovation in custom use cases with AI. I like to write and draw comics, but it's very time consuming to make a finished product. Working with tools in default and you'll have a bad time. You have to really guide it and if you're using a longer story to adapt, it'll compress things and lose context during Thinking. Luma labs was the most interesting tool I've seen so far, but there's still a lot of room for growth

Even a simple ZMA worked wonders for me when my fitness coach recommended it. Got some of the deepest sleep of my life

Not necessarily true. A lot of autodidacts have significant gaps. Going through fundamentals can unlock things applied across the board in the field and outside. Sometimes this approach is useful.

Consoles have been on their last gap as the difference between what consoles and PCs offer have converged. PS2 had significant sales because it was many customers first DVD player. With everything digital and console prices coming close to mid-tier Gaming PCs, where's the benefit of buying a console? Nintendo was smart for making the Switch a hybrid console.

We have two worlds:

1. Cutting edge LLMs developing ASI/AGI. 2. AIs doing general knowledge work

The second world will be achieved far before the first world is achieved. And as the first path gets develolped, the second path becomes cheaper and cheaper to run inference on along with being democratized which reduces the margins for the cutting edge companies. It seems like a mad dash to go as far as possible until 90% of general work can be automated with more cheaply available tech

7 was amazing. I was checked out from 8 on. I hope MacOS isn't repeating the 8 mistake with their recent MacOS updates. They seem to want to converge on one OS for every platform, watering down the experience across the board

You can buy a Macbook Air for that price. It doesn't make sense to buy it at that price.

I bought an original LCD Steam Deck and wouldn't purchase one if it was that price. This is great news for the Switch, but the Ally X would be the only other viable option right now (~$650)

This is a great bridge between non-designers with taste and designers who can't fully technically implement their solutions (or want to more rapidly prototype their solutions). Well done AI implementation is like cosmetic surgery. The trashiest implementations you can tell immediately and the more tasteful ones are subtle

Twitter Bootstrap did more to elevate design on the web than reduce artisinal quality. Most of it was bad and definitely not ADA/other compliant

Seems like it only makes sense if it's a hybrid tablet laptop like the Yoga. Otherwise it's a nice gimmick. I can also see Apple being terrified at someone's dirty fingers smudging the laptop, though they'd have some anti-smudge coating built in at that point

Ever since Covid, people are obscuring their faces in public more often. I especially see gig workers wearing balaclavas. Partially for sun and wind protection, but potentially for anonymity

For a lot of high value per employee businesses it usually makes more sense to hire local. Offshoring is usually for jobs that don’t directly generate profits and more of a necessity. If you’re a programmer you shouldn’t work for a company where coding isn’t a profit center

The project author has the choice of which set of projects vouches to use or to have a project-specific vouching system. People could still object to the vouch system via Issue/Pull-request Tool and off platform. Enough votes would highlight it.

Windows 8 was an insane product decision to force one platforms UI to be friendly to another (make desktop more like tablet). Mac is doing this now by unifying their UIs across platforms to be more AR friendly

People have too much to lose nowadays. Having a jail or protesting history gives you a black mark if you're middle class and you have to pursue alternate avenues to provide for yourself and your family. It's a last resort and has allowed a lot of insidious things to grow in US gov't and outside

They didn't have nonviolence trainings ahead of it. It was an unorganized to loosely organized mob, which is the hallmark of most modern movements today

Based on recent experiences guiding my parents and younger brother through the medical world, I'm happy with AI as an alternative or complement. There are good doctors out there, but they're often booked solid or you only see them for 5-20 minutes in your parade of specialists you're forced to see to extract as much money from health insurance as possible

It ultimately doesn't change the advice. Strongly deciding I wanted a career change led me to putting in some extra time and tripling my income. It's easier if you can reduce obligations and noise and focus on what matters to optimize for whatever you want. It may not be easy, but you have some degree of power to alter your trajectory to some extent

We were hacking library computers as a kid to access blocked sites. If you put a good enough reward behind almost any OS a kid will figure it out

It's a full PvP server now. Old Social media outrage algos + paying people for posts further broke it

For a lot of usecases there is a strong 80% functionality. E.g. For Handbrake, 80% of the time I am reducing the size of my video screen grabs from my computer or phone. Don't need any resolution change, etc.

There are other times I want cropping or something similar, but it's really only 10-30% of the time. If people want to have a more custom workflow they can use an advanced UI

I'd argue most software scares normal people. They only learn because of a strong intrinsic motivation (connecting with other people/access to entertainment) or work requirements which come with mandatory trainings and IT support

The contributors of free software tend to be power users who want to ensure their use case works. I don't think they're investing a lot of thought into the 80/20 use case for normal/majority or users or would risk hurting their workflow to make it easier for others

A lot of people don't know how to ask for what they want or ask it in different ways. If you can normalize this, you can normalize results. When consistent results are more important, introducing guardrails via UI or a guided flow is more relevant

I mean if you’re building for a consumer and you know what most of them may prompt, you can interface it with the UI so it’s not a game of hope you’re good at prompting because if not your experience isn’t going to be good. You could still offer a text panel if it fails

Prompt engineering is a transitory phase. Embedding it into existing tools so the 80-90% of regular prompt patterns can be worked into the UI (or contextual UI designed around how a user uses the product) is the next step

The article kind of addresses that in identifying what are the best type of problems AI can solve

Same with my little brother. I've seen autism turn into an ignored subject to being hijacked by higher-functioning autistic people who are controlling the narrative. It's good to have more autism awareness, but they're the top 1% of people with discernable autism and can hurt large numbers of lower functioning people with autism who basically have to be taken care of by their families for the rest of their lives.

This is the most detailed I've seen covering numbers on train stats, especially around revenue per employee and different business models ranging from fully private to government subsidized around the world. I've also seen a number of other Modern MBA videos ranging from ok to good and this is arguably his best video

I mean a lot of people Autistic and non-autistic exhibit that behavior. There should be some genetic or biological component to autism, otherwise we're just labelling boutique awkward behavior as Autism