Link. Even Putin is not immortal.

Link. That’s better than I’d hoped. It suggests ChatGPT 5 is not looking great. (Slower is better)

Link. Managing the liquid warning and general wetness. Don’t use rice. (I like the drying agent packs – no rice particle problems.)

Link. It’s a continuum of course.

Link. Google would not have this problem but Apple is device-centric not cloud-centric.

Link. No mention of lock-in and exit strategies for a subscription tool. That’s a killer for me.

The most interesting part of story is the marketing experience. About mid essay.

Link. You need a cybertruck.

Link. Via Laura Jedeed’s newsletter. Read for the history of the region and the ideology of Putinism.

Link. GOP opposition understandable.

Link. The tsunami is coming.

Link. “when the CCP says device makers must jump to sell their products in China, Apple asks “How high?”

Link. As a boomer with Gen Z kids being so involved in their adult life has been mostly good but also very weird. My parents and I got along well, but I never looked to them for advice (though I should have). Our kids still haven’t turned off location sharing.

Link. Since America can imprison foreign suspects until they die I wouldn’t consider this a refutation of the GWB torture program. Torture remains popular with many Americans.

Link. I use Synology for networked TM but my Monterey MacBook could do this.

Link. I don’t think my son would go for this but I might ask him to test it. I’m pleased Apple is making this effort.

Link. Wishing to be special. To be meaningful. To be important.

Link. Google took a bad road. They need 40 days in the desert.

Link. They lost in court. But I would not be surprised if the future legal framework for an AI is an extension of corporate entity law.

Link. Chinese stocks are falling (as happens) — and the government isn’t propping them up. Investing indirectly in US index funds.

And emigrating. To Canada, of course.

Link. Just shoot it.

Link. “schedule a 90-minute meeting with the most senior (Individual Contributor) engineer that you have on your team… What is fucked up about this place?”

(Author has a feed that I now follow)

Link. I think Bill Gates really does believe this. I don’t think what is coming is so predictable.

Link. “Workers without sick leave and those who can’t work from home if they or their children test positive and are required to isolate bore a disproportionate burden”

Link. In the context of a talk Scott wanders all over the place – but he mirrors my thoughts on where AI-denial goes wrong. I’d have spent a bit more time on how “non-special” human cognition seems.

I mostly agree with his other points too …

Link. Several Novo Nordisk competitors have flamed out … a good illustration of why drug development is ferociously expensive (even before marketing and all the the rest).

Link. Sounds like Apple might now be backing off a bit.

Link. I’d not seen that comparison before.

Link. defaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate MajorOSUserNotificationDate -date “2025-02-07 23:22:47 +0000”

I don’t do these for fear of complexity and future problems.

Link. Persuasive comparison.

Link. “For about a year leading up to the submission of P.&I.D.’s proposal, Quinn and Cahill sent Taiga and one of her daughters just a bit more than $25,000 in incremental payments.”

Basically everyone is kind of a villain. Too complex to summarize.

Link. I have had to do this.

Link. Xi is what happens when a Trump gets unlimited power.

Link. Montreal was like this in the 80s. COVID accelerated health care retirements and also increased patient volumes.

Link. I have 3 slide rules I think. Beats looking up log tables.

Link. The Reds are now completely disconnected from reality.

Link. Most useful early review by a tester.

“No one has a great definition for sentience, which is okay because LLMs are in no way sentient…”

This sentence contradicts itself.

Link. Science is just getting started.

Link. A desperate rear guard action as Reds fight to preserve their lifestyle.

Link. “Apple declined to provide an early review unit to The New York Times …

… I could tolerate juggling a notes app, a browser and the Microsoft Word app for no longer than 15 minutes before feeling nauseated…

…had planned to write this review with the headset before realizing I wouldn’t make my deadline…”

Link. Sadly article doesn’t say why it ended.

Link. They never seem to break but it’s going to get hard to find replacement parts if they do.

Link. open ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/iCloud\~com\~apple\~iBooks/Documents/

Once you open it you can use a few methods to create a desktop shortcut. Changes to files here show up in Books.app. It seems a promising way to find things in the library.

Link. “… a mathematically provable argument for how and why an LLM can develop so many abilities… when Arora and his team tested some of its predictions, they found that these models behaved almost exactly as expected”

Researchers applied techniques from random graph theory. These models have unexpected behaviors.

We don’t know if this is how *we* “understand” but I suspect it’s something similar. We are not magical.

“Many people found it a little bit eerie how much GPT-4 was better than GPT-3.5, and that happened within a year. Does that mean in another year we’ll have a similar change of that magnitude? I don’t know. Only OpenAI knows.”

Link. They evolved so two X is the ideal. In humans two active X is quite bad news so women suppress one copy, but the technique has apparently bad side-effects.

Link. An explainer for the young who don’t remember RSS.

Link. It was done primarily for her epilepsy, she suggested doing the OCD as well. “work involved the coordination of researchers from OHSU, UCLA, Stanford University, and the University of Pennsylvania.”

Sounds like for her controlling the OCD was even more valuable than managing her epilepsy. It’s not a complete cure though.

Link. Best summary to date.

Link. A Mastodon inspired post. “The proto-Nazis will always be with us. At least until the AIs end us all. We have to manage them to have a civilization.”

Link. That number seems impossible, I think growth was maybe mostly Amazon. Apple’s layoffs sound covert. Microsoft is still growing.

Link. I think the first iPod used a non-Apple RTOS? I wonder what they are using here.

This is the most interesting VP article I’ve read.