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layer8··on Apple reports fourth quarter results
It’s not the same size at all, much wider and heavier (both wider and heavier than the Pro Max). One-handed use is a very different experience on the Duo than on the mini, and it’s quite thick and heavy in one’s pocket.
layer8··on Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal
It’s only fitting that the peak Windows was introduced by Patrick Stewart.
layer8··on Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads
Memory fabs are quite different from logic chip fabs.
layer8··on Apple reports fourth quarter results
> it required specialized/miniaturized hardware

Looking at the earlier smaller iPhones and the budget SE line, at least the “miniaturized” part isn’t very convincing.

layer8··on Apple reports fourth quarter results
The logical screen size was the same as the iPhone 11 Pro (375x812), so the iPhone mini didn’t add a new display size, and everything rendered exactly the same as on the 11 Pro (which itself was merely a vertical extension of the earlier iPhone Plus resolution). The display is rendered internally at the 11 Pro’s physical resolution (1125x2436) and then downscaled to the mini’s physical resolution (1080x2340). Similar internal downscaling had already been done on the earlier iPhone Plus models, so also nothing new. The 11 Pro is still supported by current iOS, same as the mini.

It was, to the contrary, the non-mini iPhone 12 that introduced a new resolution and required adjustments.

https://iosref.com/res

layer8··on Apple reports fourth quarter results
Same for the iPhone mini. ;)
layer8··on Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
That Astra is using the same methods as humans do (like abliteration) for modifying the behavior of a model, and that there is no particular connection to Astra itself being a model, and no inherently new ability involved.
layer8··on SOML – A Config Format for Humans
Schema support is the way to go, because applications will have a formal or informal schema no matter what, but then it’s better to drop most of the schemaless syntax rules in the first place. If someone wants `10.20` to mean the exact decimal value, or wants `30m` to mean “30 meters” instead of a duration, then that should be possible. Similarly, self-delimiting syntax like URLs shouldn’t require quotes.
layer8··on Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era
He wants to give those posts exposure by posting them on his blog, so a second blog would counteract that. What he should do is simply put “Guest post: ” in front of each title.
layer8··on SOML – A Config Format for Humans
> what you see is what you get: […] '10.20' and 10.20 are a string and a float, exactly as written.

This seems both underspecified and incorrect. Assuming a single-precision binary IEEE 754 floating-point number, 10.20 is actually 10.19999980926513671875. With double precision, it would be 10.199999999999999289457264239899814128875732421875. So what you see is not what you get, and it’s also unclear what exactly you’ll get.

> A value's type comes from its syntax, never from its content […] allowed-origins: [ 'https://example.com' 'https://example.org' ]

This looks like URLs, but are strings. What if you had:

> allowed-origins: [ 'httpș://example.com' 'ħttps://example.org' ]

Still strings and therefore fine for the SOML parser, but probably not a valid configuration in terms of the application-level types of the values. The syntax telling you the types is of limited utility as soon as the application schema has more specific ideas about the types than the configuration language.

layer8··on Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era
Like many other posts on Tao’s blog, this is a post by guest authors, not by Tao himself.
layer8··on Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
I’m more shocked by how many commenters in this thread seem to be misunderstanding what is going on here.
layer8··on Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span
The identified factor is exercising one’s own bones, not eating them.
layer8··on Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span
Read the article?
layer8··on Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
The one unit you buy is an insignificant drop in the bucket for them, and getting their actually good underlying hardware and display firmware is much more valuable for you in comparison.
layer8··on Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
The characters you see on screen are a mix of the writing and the acting. In long-running shows like TNG, the writers pick up on how an actor plays their character, and it informs their writing. TNG is generally considered to have come into its full form only after Roddenberry’s involvement leveled off. It might have become a very different show with an actor other than Patrick Steward as Jean-Luc Picard.
layer8··on Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts
The bounty payouts must be public in order to serve as an incentive.
layer8··on Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man
https://youtu.be/cKcH-ZR7Fao
layer8··on We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
Enough that if you have to ask, you can’t afford it. ;)
layer8··on Forging a Microsoft Edge Full Chain with Logic Bugs Only
No “here’s why it matters” and friends, thankfully.
layer8··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
This looks the same as the iPad Pro tandem OLED pixel layout. That I happen to write this comment on.
layer8··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
You could buy one from the price difference of the touch MacBook.
layer8··on Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI
I think there’s a wide space between refusing any AI use, and refusing AI use requirements imposed by an employer. For example, one might find AI valuable for search, research, and getting a second opinion, but refuse it for primary generation of content.
layer8··on Start Doing Graph Theory
I’d be surprised to see current LLMs write as well (and as non-annoying) as the writing in this book.
layer8··on Start Doing Graph Theory
I spot-checked a few random chapters, and it looks clearly human-written to me. But I share your general worry.
layer8··on Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible
The new or the classic context menu? (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2287432/...)
layer8··on Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure
Alexa had already been using other models like Claude depending on the question, and the French version for example uses Mistral.
layer8··on Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google
Just as friendly feedback, monospace fonts are difficult to read for me for that kind of content. The site also doesn’t explain what it is about. It says “terminal-grade communities” (whatever that means), but Fluxer doesn’t seem to be bound to terminals?
layer8··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
Not what you’re asking for, but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_law#Secret_law_in_the_U....
layer8··on Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-de...

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-destroyi...

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