The power company AI will generate the regulatory reports. The regulatory commission’s AI will summarize and score them for faster turnaround. Only 30% chance of hallucination making it through each cycle.

After a few iterations, they will get fully approved to deploy the giant hamster wheel with Bluetooth, powered by Nuclear-flavored RedBull.

Humans shopping online allows the seller to offer discounts, upsell services, create serendipity (“How about a lip gloss 50% to go with those shoes?”), and build brand loyalty. Or if you’re a techie, how about 50% off an SD-card with the purchase of a gadget?

This is why retailers create these expensive e-commerce websites instead of just dumping their wares into E-Bay or Amazon. They also do things like web heatmaps and other types of analytics to optimize the UI/UX.

Having an AI agent do the shopping means they lose all that. It’s any wonder they’re going to fight AI shopping agents. Be prepared for a lot more complex captchas when roaming around the web.

Pretty cool.

I’ve been noodling on what else you can run inside a GPU shader. Problem was data persistence. This is a pretty interesting approach.

Wonder what kind of performance you get running something like this on a bare, high-end GPU (outside the VRChat/Unity scaffolding).

Side effects: sharp fangs and uncontrollable drooling.

This, in a folding, commuter e-bike.

The BBC Microbit was designed for exactly this scenario: https://microbit.org/

If you want them to have a more desktop-like environment, the Raspberry Pi has kid-specific projects: https://www.raspberrypi.org/learn/

Or you can get a Pi Kano kit and it has everything you need: https://www.kano.me/

Privacy, shmivacy.

Can someone plausibly explain the Bending Spoons business model?

Big chunk of debt financing for decrepit brands with old tech. Other than strip-mining user data, I can’t figure it out.

Was in San Francisco last Sunday. Ridiculous number of robotaxis everywhere, most of them empty. Mostly Waymos, but also a few Zoox ones and 3-4 others with a training driver.

I kept trying to get away from them, but there were groups of 2-3 driving around, boxing me in. Mostly clustered around popular tourist spots.

On top of that, San Francisco has now started implementing traffic cameras that will snap your license and automatically send you a speeding ticket if you’re 5 miles over the speed limit. I get that it’s a congestion management thing, but add that to all the robotaxis and I’m not sure many people will be driving in San Francisco.

Come to think of it, that’s actually a good thing. Carry on.

That’s pretty decent range, and having solar panels trickle charge all day means for a lot of people it’s basically at zero fuel cost. That right there is the big selling point.

If they figure out how to lop off a foot or two from the back without destroying aerodynamics and solar charging, it would look and park more like a normal vehicle.

Gullwing doors are fun, but a bigger person might have trouble fitting through that gap.

FWIW, Toyota experimented with a three-wheel, two-seater a while back, but range was nothing like this: https://theautofuture.com/2014/07/12/toyotas-three-wheeled-road-ev/

The browser is one of the few places users interact with the internet. To train models, you need data and here you are getting a firehose of data including destinations, clicks, messages, everything. You can’t really get that from a browser extension because it’s not always running for every window and tab.

The only stream missing are user interactions via apps. They already offer SDKs for embedding inside apps, but they need to sweeten the deal to encourage adoption. That will come through offering ad embedding services or revenue-sharing with devs.

If they truly wanted to get every interaction, they could offer discount ‘smart’ WiFi routers, and either cut deals with telcos or create MVNOs to have visibility into those data streams as well.

It’s not Man-In-The-Middle if you invite them in. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Slow-walk to plain scripting.

AWS salespeople, meeting customers today.

Kora fighting Aang? Who the hell thought this was a good idea? Completely tone-deaf.

Repetitive motion in unnaturally cramped hand positions. Technically, it’s RSI, but Carpal Tunnel is one manifestation. Multiple family members suffer from it.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17424-repetitive-strain-injury

AKA: Carpal Tunnel Maker.

Have done it both ways. Will never go back to bare metal. Dependency hell forced multiple clean installs down to bootloader.

The only constant is change.