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akd
·4 months ago·discuss
I'm guessing that if you just uploaded a few pages of handwritten text to ChatGPT and asked it to make a font of your handwriting it would do a passably decent job. That might be the way that this business model ends.
akd
·4 months ago·discuss
Because a Macbook M1 is fast enough to do anything and most people aren't running local LLMs
akd
·5 months ago·discuss
What is the purpose of ASCII diagramming today? Seems like graphics are supported by every document and communications medium that I use. Is it for including directly in code?
akd
·6 months ago·discuss
The core of Apple's success has always been to capture the cultural leaders. Artists, musicians, journalists, etc. have used Apple at much higher percentages than the general public.

Now that the iPhone made Apple much more of mainstream company, it's harder to do -- what does it mean to focus on cultural leaders when 90% of American teens have an iPhone? But in the 15 years since Steve Jobs' death they have still been doing a decent job of it.

The company
akd
·8 months ago·discuss
The "Wall Street tech sell-off" is QQQM being down 1.7% over the last five days and up 17.4% over the last six months
akd
·8 months ago·discuss
This is how jealousy and regular ol' misanthropy manifests itself in the suburban biome
akd
·8 months ago·discuss
ROFL. The neighbors are not "regular people" for any reasonable definition of that term.
akd
·9 months ago·discuss
Facebook built a poker bot called Pluribus that consistently beat professional poker players including some of the most famous ones. What techniques did they use?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluribus_(poker_bot)
akd
·9 months ago·discuss
Very cool - I would like to contact you about this. Do you mind emailing me? My email address is in my profile.