Link. “the interface to turn it on or off is in Control Center, when you’re on a call.”
Daily Archives: March 28, 2023
Google mandated DKIM or SPF starting Nov 2022. I saw zero mention of this. Would have been nice to know.
Link. “Starting November 2022, new senders who send email to personal Gmail accounts must set up either SPF or DKIM. Google performs random checks on new sender messages to personal Gmail accounts to verify they’re authenticated. Messages without at least one of these authentication methods will be rejected or marked as spam.”
Wisconsin Adventure Bikepacking Route
Link. Gravel and trail and road. Link to the MTB trails map. #bike
Improvements to Apple Password Manager in 16.4/13.3.
Link. Now make it a proper app. Darn it.
Audio Hijack: RIAA v. Steve Jobs: “We’re celebrating a small victory, but the larger story is one of a loss.”
Link. I was always surprised Audio Hijack was allowed to exist. As Tsai says there was no principal in play and Apple blocked anything like AH going forward.
Hand osteoarthritis: “therapy with conventional and biologic drugs in HOA has not achieved the expected success”
Link. One of the most common disorders in humans and we got nothing. No clear cause, no treatment.
“The work-from-home bubble has not completely burst, however, as 11.1% of employers had all of their employees working from home in 2022, which is slightly up from 10.3% in 2021.”
Link.
“between 2009 and 2019, [child] mental health hospitalizations increased by 25.8 percent and cost $1.37 billion.”
Link. iPhone?
“I’m going to walk you through setting one a large language model from scratch, simplifying things and leaving out a lot of hard math.”
Link. NYT introduction to LLM, part 2 of 5. Pretty good really.
ChatGPT 2022 “IQ of 147”.
Link. Presumably higher now. I’m sure there are better numbers known to many, but any IQ topic is culturally radioactive.
LLMs pass some “theory of mind” tests.
Link. “Because their reasoning is sensitive to small changes in their inputs, scientists have called the knowledge of these machines “brittle.”
“In a data set of 172 mass shootings, which the group defines as involving four or more victims, only four assailants were women or girls”
Link. Only women should own guns.
North Carolina Expands Medicaid – thanks to Dem governor.
Link. Only 10 dummy states left. “it is now clear that the Affordable Care Act … is here to stay. Republicans in Washington have been unable to repeal the law and appear to have largely given up fighting it”
“These violent up and down forces are more than virtually any passengers have ever experienced aboard an airliner.“
Link. Killed a passenger on a private jet. We don’t know the cause but pilots did make mistakes on the flight.
“Russia, which was much richer than Poland, Romania, or the Baltics when the USSR collapsed, now lags these countries significantly.”
Link. Russia has a limited future. Putin can’t change that.
Apple Passwords should be a proper app.
Link. “You can import from, say, 1Password, and export everything back to 1Password.”
Shortcomings of the Standard Model of Cosmology.
Link. “Over each ~10-32 second interval that passes during inflation, a region of space the size of the Planck volume gets stretched to become larger than the presently observable universe.”
A fun discussion for the lay audience.