The former president has been dragged into court on a flimsy charge that rests on the testimony of a convicted liar. | Continue reading
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Look, I should not tell you to choose my caption as the winner for this New Yorker cartoon. All I can tell you is that I have small, silly dreams and winning this thing is one of them. ⌥ Permalink⌥ Permalink | Continue reading
We flew to Austin with my sibling and their partner this past weekend for my sister’s college graduation. Incredible obstacles were overcome while family drama threatened to drown us in a torrent of angry messages. We saw my niece and dear old friends, and snuck in one last trip … | Continue reading
With my workmen all day till the afternoon, and then to the office, where Mr. Creed's accounts were passed. Home and found all my joyner's work now done, but only a small job or two, which please me very well. This afternoon there came two men... | Continue reading
Paul Ford, Wired: What I love, more than anything, is the quality that makes AI such a disaster: If it sees a space, it will fill it — with nonsense, with imagined fact, with links to fake websites. It possesses an absolute willingness to spout foolishness, balanced only by its c … | Continue reading
But where the company once limited itself to gathering low-hanging fruit along the lines of “what time is the super bowl,” on Tuesday executives showcased generative AI tools that will someday plan an entire anniversary dinner, or cross-country-move, or trip abroad. A quarter-cen … | Continue reading
Molly White: I, like many others who have experimented with or adopted these products, have found that these tools actually can be pretty useful for some tasks. Though AI companies are prone to making overblown promises that the tools will shortly be able to replace your content … | Continue reading
PaliGemma model README One of the more over-looked announcements from Google I/O yesterday was PaliGemma, an openly licensed VLM (Vision Language Model) in the Gemma family of models. The model accepts an image and a text prompt. It outputs text, but that text can include special … | Continue reading
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You can get Ptyxis on Flathub now if you would like to run the stable version rather than Nightly. Unless you’re interested in helping QA Ptyxis or contributing that is probably the Flatpak you want to have installed. Nightly builds of Ptyxis use the GNOME Nightly SDK meaning GTK … | Continue reading
Google I/O 2024 is underway and a bunch of articles came out about what Google's changes to its core product (search) mean for the web as a whole. Sean Hollister at The Verge has a piece on the new “web” search option (a piece that starts with “This is not a joke”) while Casey Ne … | Continue reading
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Managing your work in the API platform with Projects New OpenAI API feature: you can now create API keys for "projects" that can have a monthly spending cap. The UI for that limit says: If the project's usage exceeds this amount in a given calendar month (UTC), subsequent API req … | Continue reading
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Absolutely hilarious that Google brought Marc Rebillet on for their stuffy annual keynote; I’m dying laughing watching a bunch of Patagonia jackets getting thoroughly trolled. Marc started the show with “Siri, navigate to google dot com”. Google I/O 2024 – YouTube (in case the ti … | Continue reading
Let’s Encrypt is a nonprofit certificate authority that provides free SSL/TLS certificates, which are essential for enabling secure HTTPS connections[...] | Continue reading
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Everything you love about lemon bars … but better. READ MORE... | Continue reading
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If we want LLMs to be less hype and more of a building block for creating useful everyday tools for people, AI companies' shift away from scaling and AGI dreams to acting like regular product companies that focus on cost and customer value proposition is a welcome development. — … | Continue reading
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WWDC is one month away and while I was out on a walk this morning I got to thinking about how I was feeling about it. This will be the 16th(!) consecutive WWDC which I have attended1. My first in 2009 was a few months after the birth of my oldest child. He has never known a world … | Continue reading
How to PyCon Glyph’s tips on making the most out of PyCon. I particularly like his suggestion that “dinners are for old friends, but lunches are for new ones”. I’m heading out to Pittsburgh tonight, and giving a keynote (!) on Saturday. If you see me there please come and say hi! … | Continue reading
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Hi! This is Elana, co-CEO, and lead of the team responsible for the development of... | Continue reading
While I’m not sure I want an iPad that runs macOS as Matt suggests I am sure that my iPad is my favourite form factor for a computing device. I’m typing at it now, but I often grab it off my stand and take it to another part of the house to have a recipe, […] | Continue reading
But unlike the phone system, we can’t separate an LLM’s data from its commands. One of the enormously powerful features of an LLM is that the data affects the code. We want the system to modify its operation when it gets new training data. We want it to change the way it works ba … | Continue reading
Paul Campos forwards along this quote from University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers: The income of the average American will double approximately every 39 years. And so when my kids are my age, average income will be roughly double what … Continue reading → | Continue reading
It is easier to close Threads if you have a great book waiting for you. It is easier to press pause on Spotify if you can play the piano. It is easier to avoid Uber Eats if you know how to cook. It can be hard, but it’s easier if you have something meaningful to do. This is almos … | Continue reading
Under Campari's stewardship, Aperol's revenue has grown by more than 20x and there still may be room left to run | Continue reading
Nellie Bowles on ‘Honestly.’ Ben Kawaller meets the reggae heads. Another Tinder inquisition. And much more. | Continue reading
The 1615 House, designed by Nordest Arquitectura, is nestled in the picturesque town of Begur, Catalonia. The plot features a significant slope, with a dramatic 17-meter elevation difference between the front (north boundary) and back (south boundary). Continue reading | Continue reading
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The Barrera House, designed by Cotton Estes Architect, offers a seemingly simple solution to a complex program on a small, downtown property. Located within a historical district of San Antonio, this 370 sq.m. site is just a stone's throw from the Tower of the Americas Continue r … | Continue reading
This new 7.8 star rated energy efficient family home on the Surf Coast is built on four acres for a young active family. The home stretches out across a re-vegetated native landscape to capture north sun and views across an existing pool to a creek beyond. Continue reading | Continue reading
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An open and integrated space was the vision for a couple when they approached architect Juliana Garcia for their project on Rua Augusta, São Paulo. The color and material choices for the decoration also stand out. Continue reading | Continue reading
Up until recently, approximately 60% of the traffic on my various websites were from bots, some that I barely knew even existed. And I'm not alone, according to this 2023 report by Imperva, a web security company, around 50% of internet traffic comes from bots. In other words, mo … | Continue reading
Liz Reid, head of Google Search: People have already used AI Overviews billions of times through our experiment in Search Labs. They like that they can get both a quick overview of a topic and links to learn more. We’ve found that with AI Overviews, people use Search more, and ar … | Continue reading
[Full disclosure: the reason I am so consumed by the Arabic vernaculars is because of their own inherent, intrinsic nature, but I must confess that I'm also preoccupied by their comparative parallelism with the Sinitic "topolects". The workings of both are extremely difficult to … | Continue reading
Came across this beautiful newsletter by Oliver Burkeman on our propensity to hoard life – the desire to have beautiful moment again and again. He describes this phenomenon as a form of... | Continue reading