Notices by Ian McKellar (ian@mckellar.social)

@evan it is done, and so is my maps app that renames everything to "America": https://americize.com/

Apart from some 502 errors that the agent will track down logs for while I sleep. I hope.

Now that LLMs can turn any dumb idea I might have into a functioning web app, should I give my agent the ability to register domain names itself?

@BethanyBlack @lisamelton
You can and should. But also think about how The Weavers stole it from Solomon Linda, a black South African artist who wrote the song. At least once Pete Seeger found out he had his share of royalties sent to Linda...
(Wikipedia has a reasonable summary of the story)

@thomasfuchs
They can't launch a new classifier and call it "AI" in 2024 because the market thinks "AI" means chatbots and image generators.

They've skipped or delayed jumping on bandwagons in the past. They cancelled all their Internet stuff when Jobs came back and never did much on the "social" front, for example. They can sit out the "AI" hype cycle and then when someone comes up with compelling value just recreate it in their products.

@thomasfuchs
A groundbreaking, revolutionary new iPhone color.

@thomasfuchs I have doubts about AI, at least as we conceive of it, playing a big part of their product launches in the next year or so for a couple of reasons:
1) they're starting from behind, they don't have big models that they've been evolving or big teams publishing papers
2) they're very sensitive to their brand and generative AI is risky. Look how long it took Google, after inventing diffusion & transformer models to ship products, and then how they pulled things back. Apple's that x 10.

I thought "The Tortured Poets Department" was the name of the new season of Serial about Guantanamo, but apparently there's a Taylor Swift album too?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poems_from_Guant%C3%A1namo

@andrewrk
You're not going to win an argument with a web server...

If transubstantiation isn't trans then I don't know what is.

With Space X we thought we were past being stuck having to use rockets made by Nazis.

Plus ça change...

@lauren
Meanwhile in 2024, one of my side-projects is an n-key rollover velocity sensitive keyboard. The prototypes so far are... okay...

@lauren
That's definitely the primary use case, but then I started thinking about what I could do when it's being a HID keyboard. Like maybe adjust font weight (ie: boldness) based on velocity. Or ALL CAPS yell when I'm banging real hard.

@lauren @raph
The AI revolution isn't real until my manuscripts are being illuminated as I type.

@thomasfuchs
I'm 45 now, and while I've learned that that is true, I'm a long way from perfecting actually doing it...

@evan i loved that place. Lived right around the corner.

You can tell Zuck isn't serious about the metaverse because he didn't buy Roblox.