I do hope Anthropic are better with IP, and I think they may be. Given Dario Amodei hasn't been sued by OpenAI while building Anthropic this seems likely.
I think Amodei may actually be quite a good human, despite my trust in big tech being at an all-time low.
I loved his Algorithms course on Coursera which I did during the brief moment Stanford MOOCs were all free. So useful for a non-CS grad doing any kind of algorithmic programming.
In the same sense that a blockchain can be forked by using software that only accepts certain types of block, is it possible to fork the WWW in a similar manner? e.g. with changes that neuter the ad-mongers.
For example coming up with a way to get rid of these god awful cookies. Maybe ad-monger sites could be allowed in the same way an insecure connection is allowed behind a series of warnings?
20 year GIS dev here. Looks pretty useful for data exploration. I'd say one of the more compelling GeoAI things I've seen.
The problem is there's really a lot of data out there and it's a lot of work to move it around, e.g. between S3 buckets. There's also a ton of GIS SAAS vendors who are pure rent-seekers: I'm looking at a newer offering charging $23 per month for 10GB storage. This has more utility than their offering in my opinion.
The good thing here is that it could keep data provenance because it's SQL over known datasets.
Nobody is questioning the longevity of AI. The internet itself wasn’t affected by pets.com but a lot of retail investors got burned. It’s going to happen again, I think perhaps in a different way.
For example many are treating vibe coding like slot machines and the app monetisation gamble is unlikely to pay off.
Is there any way to get raw digital numbers from a phone camera sensor that can be verified as reality, e.g. though a hardware provided hash of the image?
> Personalization will grow right at the vendor offering
I think so. There will be a short period, like now, where many will attempt to build their own products and the five good ideas out of five thousand will be incorporated into products built by those who know what they’re doing.
An absolutely technophobic friend asked me what agentic AI was today. I think Charlie Munger said “When even your barber is talking about it, sell and run”
Developing apps in SwiftUI it’s extremely useful to have SwiftData, an ORM that can act like a system of records. For my own use case this is basically metadata for large scale datasets in Parquet or similar.
That said it’s still my most frequent cause of crashes, however I think mostly it’s just because this is simply a hard problem that SQLite just isn’t cut out for (although it did take Apple until macOS 27 to supply a codable decorator grrr).
Ideally databases could evolve to fit OR mapping more closely, which incidentally is what Arrow and Parquet have done to an extent.
Instead of employing an engineer for a year we burned an obscene amount of resources to generate code which will enable vibe coders to burn more resources.
I don't think you followed the thread. I began discussing the OAuth privacy nightmare, then the counter point was that the with email auth providers know anyway, but they don't know the login times necessarily, unlike with OAuth.
I think Amodei may actually be quite a good human, despite my trust in big tech being at an all-time low.