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If only they would build a Ti-84 RPN, I would snap it up in a heartbeat

So many competitors are releasing free or low-cost alternatives, that shifting away from Adobe is becoming plausible for many folks.

APL was the first programming language I learned, I was obsessed with learning every intricacy of the language. I almost lost my mind when I had to switch to a procedural language. APL warped my mind in such a way that it took almost a month to feel comfortable using anything else.

Both Amex and Chase regularly ask me to confirm my income. I wonder why they do that if the data is already available to them via Equifax.

Preferably, solid state

Reminder to all Capitalists: The earth is a finite resource

I ordered 96GB of memory last Tuesday from Corsair. Two days later when I checked the website again, the exact same memory was being sold for twice what I paid for it.

I was an APL programmer for many years and I insisted on writing as much of my code as possible without branches. Fortunately, it was reasonably easy to do in that language, if sometimes resulting in very cryptic code

I was in a Waymo in SF last weekend riding from the Richmond district to SOMA, and the car actually surprised me by accelerating through two yellow lights. It was exactly what I would have done. So it seems the cars are able to dial up the assertiveness when appropriate.

I address that problem by scheduling a brown bag lunch and inviting devs from related teams to join in so I can present my cool new tools and techniques to everyone. Sometimes it's wasted effort, but sometimes it does result in wider usage

I think Microsoft may doing that with Microsoft Edge as well. My Windows 11 Registry has an HKCU key called MicrosoftEdgeAutoLaunch_[...]

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --no-startup-window --win-session-start

I've cancelled my planned visits outside of the US for fear of being unwelcome and fear of difficulty getting back into the US.

For Windows 11 users, the latest Notepad.exe can also pick up where you left off the last time the app was closed.

The last oddity I wrote on a whim was a C++ MFC dialog application that was a Spirograph-like epicycle/hypocycle generator. It would would generate screen art by semi-randomly generating layered epicycles and hypocycles with evolving colors. I spent an entire week of evenings tweaking that thing and adding more and more variations before I burned out on it and moved on.

When I was in the CS department at NMSU, the Computer Science building was open to the public 24-hours a day. I suppose that's not commonly the case nowadays.

Every new generation of GPU seems larger and more power-hungry than their predecessor. Is there any effort to produce faster GPUs that are smaller and use less power?

- Face and object detection in photos and videos

- Computational photography features like Night Mode and Smart HDR

- Real-time video processing for effects and stabilization

- Object and action recognition in videos

- Faster on-device speech recognition and natural language understanding for Siri

- Real-time translation, object detection, and scene understanding in AR

I was at NMSU during his time as head of the CS department. His interest in chess inspired to write my first chess playing program

I usually keep all my work in a stash until I'm ready to create the PR. I used to preface my intermediate commits with "WIP -" and then reset the branch and re-commit everything when I was ready to create the PR, but that was just too much effort

Casey Newton proposed, partly tongue in cheek I think, that as LLMs advanced, it might spur investment in and a newfound appreciation for Journalism as way to provide fresh source material for the models

I would go a step further and teach them how to read code before teaching them how to write it

It's much harder to sneak in an easter egg now that it's common practice to require all code to go through code review.

Is it possible that Elon Musk intends to use the next six months for Tesla engineers to catch up with OpenAI? As a significant funder of The Future of Life Institute, which authored the letter, his concern for the safety of LLMs seem to contrast with Tesla's history of beta testing potentially hazardous AI software.

S&P Global Market Intelligence reports that as of Dec 31, 2022, 97% of Silicon Valley Bank's deposit accounts exceeded the $250,000 insurance cap.

I'm using an iOS shortcut that lets me make voice requests to OpenAI via Siri. It would be nice to eliminate that step!

I wonder if integrating integrating something like Lenat's Cyc predicate database into Chat-GPT would have this effect.

Brian Christian, the author of "Algorithms to Live By", has also written "The Alignment Problem" on the technical and moral questions of A.I.

One possible effect of his craziness is that the banks that helped finance the buyout, thinking that Musk is driving the value of Twitter down to zero, will agree to sell the loans back to him at a big loss. Better to get 50% of their money back than nothing at all.

This paradigm shift appears to be driven in part by the increasing congestion of the sub-6 GHz frequency bands. Integrated communications and sensing devices should be able to share spectrum.

I would love to see something similar to Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammer for other languages. It seems like it would be a great tool for learning a new language.