ambient one is a handsome looking device.
Random observation: I’m noticing that the word ‘cook’ is all of the sudden being used A LOT to describe something that is about to take off, is taking off or is otherwise impressive in some way.
Simon Willison linked to this great post from Daniel Fedorin discussing the “microfeatures” he enjoys in blogs and personal websites.
This piece from Adam Curtis was really something. I highlighted so much of it.
Finally finished listening to the episode of Tetragrammaton with Julie Greenwald. Great listen.
My Fastmail subscription was coming up for renewal and I decided to move the domain and migrate the email to iCloud+. I’m already paying for it through our Apple One family subscription, so I figured why not? I do like Fastmail’s service and recommend them to people over Google all the time. My main domain is hosted on Google Workspace and while I would love nothing more than to ungoogle my life, their services are great and prefer Meet over Zoom or (shudder) Teams.
IDGAF what anyone says. Hokas look cool. Maybe I'm just old, but this Hoka x Nicole McLaughlin collab is 🔥🔥🔥
Remember when being connected and tethered to our devices was a sign of importance and even prestige? That’s over. It has flipped. In the not-so-distant future, there will be a new class of people, not defined by their monetary wealth but by their temporal wealth. A new sense of value and importance will be placed on being disconnected and on slowing down.
Ethan Mollick made a great point in a LinkedIn post about what Apple announced on the AI front in yesterday’s WWDC presentation.
a 3B quantized model running on local silicon will be good for some stuff but not agentic reasoning. The cloud model doesn’t seem to maintain state or history and isn’t frontier. It looks like GPT-4 is just for specific questions.
It is amazing that you can beat Siri largely with local AI on the phone, but the gap between a 3B model (plus whatever low latency model they are running in the cloud) and a frontier model is large.
The way I interpret what Apple is doing when it comes to AI, at least at this point from a consumer standpoint, is that they are going for the fundamentals and the lower-end use cases vs. the higher-end or edges of what might be possible. This feels safe and feels very Apple-ish to me. They care deeply about the experience and the experience of using AI for most people is not great a lot of the time.