Meta releases their Llama AI model as open source: what should we think of that?
Llama 3.1 outperforms OpenAI and other rivals on certain benchmarks. Now, Mark Zuckerberg expects Meta’s AI assistant to surpass ChatGPT’s usage in the coming m...
Author: charlie
How many people were affected by the CrowdStrike meltdown?
How many billion people do you think were affected by this? Microsoft said 8.5 million PCs (no Macs of course). A tiny 42KB file took down 8.5 million machines....
Phone mirroring – something I did on my Nokia S60 almost 20 years ago
[sarcastic clap clap clap] OK, I truly don’t know if this is a new thing or if Apple is Sherlocking some poor developer. But, congratulations Apple for re...
Ford chief says Americans need to fall ‘back in love’ with smaller cars – duh
Jim Farley says country is ‘in love with these monster vehicles’ but big cars are not sustainable in the age of EV Source: Ford chief says Americans need to fal...
AI in the physical world
I’ve always been straddling the physical and the digital – thinking of how the two worlds interact and complement each other, and what it means for ...
Now that genAI remembers so well, I’d like a bit of forgetfulness
When I started using genAI tools like ChatGPT (whom I call Geoffrey), the tools could not remember what was said earlier in the thread of a conversation. Of cou...
Whimsey, whimsey, whimsey: I love this
Life is too short. I love seeing folks mixing things up like this. I am a simple midwesterner living in the middle of New York City. I put my shoes on one at a ...
What’s the fascination with humanoid robots?
I was reading an interesting article on the fusion of robots and LLMs (see link below). One concept in the article that caught my attention was ’embodied ...
Will more free time destroy the world?
I had a brainwave [coincidentally when on my own free time holiday]. I had listened to a series of articles on long work hours in China, changes in American wor...
Ghost’s manifesto is a call to take back the graph, take back the cloud
Years ago I was trying to find away to keep folks connected across all their various digital streams. At the same time, the large Platforms were kicking off the...