Interesting. I switched to the Mac in 2005, and what I missed the most was the fact that in windows you could double click an image and then tap the left and right keys to browse other photos in the same folder. I learned objective c and made an app for it back then, but never published. I guess the jpegview fulfilled a similar purpose.
What is the deal with the image of the article ? Mosques are as empty in Iran as churches are empty in the west. Yes the government is tightly coupled with religion, but this image isn’t representative of Iran at all.
Articles. Some articles I fully read, some others I just read the headline, and some others I want to spend 2 minutes reading the summary to know whether I want to read the full thing.
I use it for summarization constantly. I made iOS/mac shortcuts which call Gemini for various tasks and use them quite often, mostly summarization related.
Right? That drives me crazy. It only does that for me in the voice mode. And in cases I ask it to elaborate, it ignores my request and repeats the system instructions from my preferences “ok, I’ll keep it concise” and gives a 5 word answer
I’m surprised there’s no mention of creativity and outside the box thinking. Listening to this podcast I was wondering if we could train the LLM with knowledge cutoff right before transformers, and ask it to come up with an ML method for LLMs. I’m quite sure none of today’s models would be able to (obviously without access to internet search)
Humans are quite bad at a lot of primarily human tasks... I'm grateful every time I don't have to deal with a secretary behind the phone, bank teller, travel agent, etc thanks to all these functionalities having become automated. One exception was ordering food in Japan at some restaurants which was done on iPads and food was being delivered by robots, because I actually really enjoyed interacting with the delightful and polite people over there. I cannot say the same about people in where I live.
I agree with the general sentiment. I also think we forgot how to enjoy quality time together and these “solutions” will make matters worse. But in some scenarios, like what I described, which is just spending time together, it can help
This is the first feature which makes me kind of excited for VR. I live away from my country and my parents for over 20 years and I’d love to be able to sit in my parents’ living room, or have them sit in mine and share a moment together. FaceTime is already great, but I can imagine this will feel more intimate.
> you really need to be able to compare CPUs is a healthy mix of synthetic benchmarks and real-world workloads
I like how Apple got roasted on every forum for using real world workloads to compare M series processors to other processor. The moment there’s a statistic pointing to “theoretical” numbers, we’re back to using real world workload comparison
the screenshots from Samsung look like a high school project compared to the iPhone ones. Granted, Samsung is in a much better place now compared to back then.
I tried math academy for this exact purpose, but I had to give up because it didn't let me test out of lessons that I was already good at (Similar to how duolingo would allow you to do). So I ended up wasting a lot of time sitting through all the exercises which I didn't need.