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Muse Spark 1.1 13 days ago

Me neither, though LLMs also provide services that don’t involve personal or sensitive data

Grok 4.5 13 days ago

This site supposedly attracts the brightest of us

What gave you that impression?

Just today as I pushed some changes to Github, I was thinking how user-unfriendly Git's UI is:

    Enumerating objects: 5, done.
    Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done.
    Delta compression using up to 10 threads
    Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
    Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 290 bytes | 290.00 KiB/s, done.
    Total 3 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
    remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (2/2), completed with 2 local objects.
I know all of these things communicate something to the die-hard Git user, but for most people (even most people using Git, I bet) this is just complete gobbledegook. What the hell is "delta compression"? Why do I care how many threads it's using? What is an 'object' and what does it mean when it's 'local'? What does 'pack-reused' mean?

From the documentation, it looks like Lore does a bit better in this regard:

    Pushing 1 fragment(s)
    Pushed 1 fragment(s), 124.00 bytes
    Pushing a3f8c2d1... to branch main
    Pushed revision 1 -> a3f8c2d1... to branch main

It seems macOS Golden Gate (the upcoming version) fixes quite a few of the problems with Tahoe, so you might consider skipping Tahoe entirely.

This is definitely a good point. I imagine the max capacity for video models is significantly lower than for text models (there just aren't as many professionals in video as there are people who write text or code) but I could be wrong.

Siri AI 1 month ago

For now at least, you can turn Apple intelligence off entirely in settings.

Unless I'm missing something, there's also nothing in the paper to indicate this is "all of human ingredients"? It looks like it's 11 data sources covering a bunch of common cuisines, with the English + Chinese sources accounting for 90% (!) of the dataset. Among others, Africa and the Arab world are not present in the data (good for about 25% of the global population).

Also, all non-English terms were AI-translated to English which is methodologically understandable but surely leaves room for error.

I don't mean to sound elitist, but in a way, Haskell's difficulty is kind of the point of the language.

The thing that's so elegant about Haskell is that it allows you to express programmatic constructs at a very abstract level. Abstraction is almost by definition difficult to grasp. That's why it takes a decade and a half for (most) people to go from arithmetic to calculus.

What's even worse is that when dealing with human software teams, a vague requirement will (at least in a well-run org) receive demands for further specification. "What do you mean by 'get data'?", etc.

An LLM will just say, "Sure! Here's the fully implemented code that gets the data and give it to the user. " and be done with it.

Bit off topic but why in the world are people still posting on medium? The reading experience is abhorrent; I couldn’t even finish reading this article before a full screen popup literally blocked the sentence I was reading.

Is there some incentive I’m not seeing?

Grok 4.3 3 months ago

If you need to ask about what people on Twitter are talking about, Grok is really good for that obviously.

Isn't that why OP was asking about racism?

The Prompt API 3 months ago

Man, that before-after slider on the home page makes me so sad... YouTube used to just be random people sharing cool stuff, and those de-sensationalized titles really brought me back to that time for a second! Cool stuff.

A lot of people are posting their similar projects in this thread. Is there anyone making a markdown knowledge management app that feels truly Mac-native, i.e. written in AppKit or SwiftUI rather than as a web page with an Electron/Tauri/whatever wrapper?

(No offense intended to OP, this looks like a cool project; I'm just looking for something else.)

ChatGPT Images 2.0 3 months ago

Maybe I'm stupid and naive but I just don't really see how any of this is _fundamentally_ different from Photoshop. Trusting the images you're looking at on the internet has been impossible for a long time. That's why we have institutions and social relations we place trust in instead.

The camera and headphones are composited in, pretty sure the skyline is shopped in as well (the shadows on the desk should be much harsher given the bright sky), same with what's on screen. The displays being mirrored for no reason doesn't exactly help sell the reality of it either.

The bookshelf is looking sus too.