Thoughts on Technology

FFS

We focus on the times when LLMs do a bad job, but since humans are deliberately doing a bad job pretty regularly, this might be a good use for the tech.

Merry Christmas to the Ruby team, and thanks for the annual gift.

I ended up on IBM Plex Mono, although the font I’ve been using, Berkeley Mono, isn’t in the game, presumably because it’s not free. One note that really affected the outcome of the game for me: make sure to adjust the font size and ligature on/off options to what you usually use in your editor.

I found this episode of “On With Kara Swisher” to be an excellent listen. Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, is a fascinating guest and Swisher did a good job interviewing him. It’s definitely worth a listen if you’re at all interested in LLMs and AI.

Ugh, a new cable. Sure, technology marches on, but I don’t look forward to trying to guess whether or not I’ve got the right HDMI cable again.

I’ve been using the new display modes in visionOS 2.2 since they came out in beta, including on four plane trips and one day in my van. As the article says, “…if it’s not in killer app territory, it’s at least right next door to it.”

Love it! Backed.

Apple working with Sony for hand controller support is great news, if true. The hand controls are good, but they’re not good enough for a lot of games.

It looks like you’ll _have_ to pay the $200/mo if you really want to use o1 for much. I’ve been using it this weekend on the $20 plan and got the following: “You have 5 responses from o1 remaining. If you hit the limit, responses will switch to another model until it resets December 10, 2024.”