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garyclarke27

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garyclarke27··on AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn
Pangram claims they detect AI-generated content with 99.98% accuracy. I'm sceptical that it can be anywhere near that, but that's subjective based on my instinct, does anyone have more objective data on this accuracy?
garyclarke27··on Is Italy the new tax haven for the global rich?
Portugal has NHR2 which is great for Tech Entrepreneurs, Zero Tax on foreign sourced Dividends and Zero Capital Gains for 10 years plus no inheritance tax if you leave to your children.
garyclarke27··on Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen
Glycine + NAC even better, both precursors for Glutathione, Glycine also great for sleeping.
garyclarke27··on Meta's Omnilingual MT for 1,600 Languages
They can translate 1600 languages, but they cannot do basic text formatting, where are the paragraphs?
garyclarke27··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
I would not discount how much of a factor, irrational human emotions play in negotiations. Dario is arrogant and pompous so probably wound Hegseth up the wrong way. Sam is much more charming and amenable so more able to get his way despite similar terms.
garyclarke27··on What I Learned After Building 3 TV Apps Coming from Mobile
Interesting, explains why there are so few good TV apps like YouTube eg Spotify TV app is appalling. Strange that X has not created a decent TV App for long form video. YouTube could do with some competition, great UI but their suggestion algorithm and woke censorship sucks.
garyclarke27··on The TV industry concedes that the future may not be in 8K
What baffles me is that TV manufacturers create amazing hi-definition home screens with glorious colour at incredibly cheap prices - then idiot Netflix directors completely waste 40% of the pixels for zero benefit with their stupid letterbox formats.
garyclarke27··on Autodesk burns the village to feed AI and the Cloud – cuts 7% of workforce
Autodesk is an evil rapacious company. Competition authorities should not have allowed them to buy Revit, to create a monopoly for Architecture software, enabling them to get away with charging outrageous prices to Architects, especially considering how poorly paid they are.
garyclarke27··on Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
Yeah such an idiot, the youngest ever self made billionaire at 23, created a multi trillion dollar company from scratch in only 20 years.
garyclarke27··on Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
Zuck did this on purpose, humiliating LeCun so he would leave. Despite LeCun being proved wrong on LLMs capabilities such as reasoning, he remained extremely negative, not exactly inspiring leadership to the Meta Ai team, he had to go.
garyclarke27··on Claude for Excel
I guess Claude maybe useful for finding errors in large Excel Workbooks. May also help beginners to learn the more complex Excel functions (which are still pretty easy). But if you are proficient at building Excel models I don't see any benefit. Excel already has a superb very efficient UI for entering formulas, ranges, tables, data sources etc I'm sceptical that a different UI especially a text based one can improve on this.
garyclarke27··on My Favorite PostgreSQL 18 Feature: Virtual Generated Columns
Stored generated columns would be much more useful if they could reference other rows and tables, they are limited to only the current row. Automatic incremental view maintenance would also solve this problem, but is unfortunately still a glaring omission in Postgres capabilities.
garyclarke27··on Materialized views are obviously useful
I love Postgres but my biggest disappointment with them over recent years, is they are still missing automatic incremental materialized view maintenance. Has been proposed for many years but never implemented, there are extensions but they are not popular which makes me weary to use them. Would be so nice to have in the core, would also be nice to have an explanation as to why they can't do it?? Oracle has had this for many years.
garyclarke27··on A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes
Interesting, over the past few years, I've ignored the critics score and just looked at the audience score - this explains why.
garyclarke27··on The Future of JavaScript: What Awaits Us
Looks good but what about Named Parameters? Why on earth is Javascript still missing such an important feature? I know you can kind of fake it with objects, but is clunky in comparison.
garyclarke27··on Apple Finally Destroyed Steve Jobs’ Vision of the iPad. Good
Steve Jobs duly listed browsing the web, dealing with email, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading ebooks, and enjoying photos. Coincidentally, those were the exact things the iPad was really good at. Agreed * Except Music * I have loved having many iPads, but the speakers have always been terrible and they point the wrong way - about time this was fixed.
garyclarke27··on Instagram's new 'Friend Map' feature puts your privacy at risk
Meta copying Snapchat for the umpteenth time. Friend map is very popular with Teenagers.
garyclarke27··on Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big
One of the basic principals of the EU is freedom of movement between countries. One could argue that imposing such an onerous tax on moving to another EU country breaks this principal, so maybe worth a legal challenge - for someone with a lot to loose.
garyclarke27··on Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December
This is good news, the US should join in aswell in stopping this despicable behaviour by Apple. Apple handicaps browsers because web apps are the only viable alternative to Native Apps which generate huge commission for Apple.
garyclarke27··on The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public
I agree copilot for answering emails is negative value. But I find Google AI search results are very useful, can't see how they will monetise this, but can't complain for now.
garyclarke27··on Huawei Patents 3,000km Solid-State Battery with 5-Minute Charge
I'm surprised Carbon Fibre structural batteries have not been adopted by Car manufacturers - could be a game changer I think.
garyclarke27··on A New Obesity Pill May Burn Fat Without Suppressing Appetite
Mirabegron a well tolerated drug for Urinary Incontinence also promotes thermogenesis and conversion of white fat to heat producing brown fat
garyclarke27··on Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial
I tape my mouth shut and use the CPAP nostril mask, work great, I wake fully refreshed.
garyclarke27··on Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial
I never had a problem with adopting CPAP. It's been transformative for me, sleep quality is literally 10 times better than without, I wake up feeling awful if I have a nap without it. Why would someone keep a mask on for 4 hours, then take it off? does not make sense to me.
garyclarke27··on iPhone users can now set WhatsApp as their default calling and texting app
It works well for voice with data over cellular
garyclarke27··on The race is on to build the most complex machine
Interesting $350M similar price to an Airbus 380 when it was sold new. Still no where near Ford class Aircraft carrier at $13 billion each.
garyclarke27··on Reintroductions of beavers into the wild in several parts of England
Rewilding the UK is a great idea, especially considering that we have so little boring wildlife. Why is it so painstakingly slow, Lynx should be introduced urgently, the countryside is overrun with deer causing an unbalanced eco-system and many road traffic accidents.
garyclarke27··on Floating nuclear power plants to be mass produced for US coastline
I always thought a submerged nuclear plant with torpedo nets would be a good idea Protected from storms and air attacks One reason Land based plants are so expensive is to protect them from air attacks
garyclarke27··on More users are watching YouTube on TV than mobile
I watch mainly on TV, shame YouTube has no competition on TV, Rumble and X not available on my new Samsung TV in Portugal, Spotify TV app is a joke.
garyclarke27··on New York claims a small victory in 'forever war on rats'
I have a tiny skinny female 3.5 kg cat who regularly brings home rats that look half her size, my other fat male cat 7.5kg never catches anything nor does my huge 54kg Doberman.
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