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One statue of liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World, Liberty Island, NYC) is approximately 4 times the size of one statue of liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World replica, Île aux Cygnes, Paris).

Easy peasy.


I am sympathetic to your analogy. I think it works well enough.

But it falls a bit short in that encyclopedias, lossy or not, shouldn't affirmatively contain false information. The way I would picture a lossy encyclopedia is that it can misdirect by omission, but it would not change A to ¬A.

Maybe a truthy-roulette enclyclopedia?


I guarantee every encyclopedia has mistakes.


I remember a study where they checked if wikipedia had more errors than paper encyclopedias, and they found there were about as many errors in both.

That study ended the "you can't trust wikipedia" argument, you can't trust anything but wikipedia is an as good as it gets second hand reference.


I am not sure I would rely on observations of gyms and beaches for whether people are healthier for fear of selection bias. Going to the beach and seeing mostly fit bathers is like going to the hospital and seeing mostly sick people and thinking that can be generalized to society.

Why would you ask old people if young people are healthier than they were? Surely, Spain compiles medical statistics.

Anyway, Spain appears to have the same weight issues as everywhere else:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9105543/


I send texts via voice command/dictation all the time. How would this be distinguished?


Because the device records detailed usage information with timestamps such as device locks/unlocks, the screen lighting up and going dark, apps going in and out of focus, and in many cases details of exactly what you were doing in the app.

https://cellebrite.com/en/how-a-suspects-pattern-of-life-ana...

https://cellebrite.com/en/samsung-rubin-digital-forensics-va...


I followed the Murdaugh murder case a while back and that level of evidence was critical

The father killed his family and had a pretty good shot at sowing reasonable doubt until they pulled his sons phone telemetry and it showed the son unlocking his phone and checking socials at a time that conflicted with the dads story.

Phones truly are a surveillance dream. You couldn’t ask for a more invasive tracking device, and people love it. You couldn’t pry a phone away from most people these days


Isn't a solution to assign vicarious liability to whomever approves the use of the decision-making machine?


Humans do like to fuck.


rishathra


This is seriously the thing I like the most about my 2017 and 2023 macbooks. The trackpad feels so good. Every other manufacturer that I have tried, and no it is not all of them but a lot, they all make my fingers feel bad after using them. I don't know if they are rougher or textured somehow? The only one that does make my finger pads feel sore is the macbook.


It's also the accuracy. I'm able to do light photo editing work right from the trackpad, even basic sketches and airbrushing. Have never been able to do anything remotely close with other laptops


NB: "the only one that does[n't] make my finger pads feel sore is the macbook"


Surely the hopes for Pope Pizzaballa is in part because of his name?


I will remember Pizzaballa forever for two reasons:

1. Great name. 2. After October 7, he offered to trade himself for Hamas's hostages. [1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/jerusalem-catholic...


Would definitely vote for that guy if I could. On the other hand, buying "no" has a 6 cent return by end of year which is roughly 10 months away. Thats near 8% annualized if you hold to maturity: (1+(6/94))^(12/10)-1, better than a T-bill right now.


Surely. But popes are called by their first name, and almost always a first name they choose, so there won't actually be a Pope Pizzaballa.


He could be! Popes pick their new names, after all. But yeah, he'd probably pick "Innocent" or something less amusing.


I do wonder what would happen if some cardinal already named John or Gregory or some other indisputably papal name got elected. Would he keep his name?


He might be seen as presumptuous for already having a pope name and get sunk in the Vatican politics.


I would pay $500bn to get siri to distinguish between a 13 minute timer and a 30 minute timer.


I am very resourceful so I got around this by setting a 14 minute timer to outsmart the Ai.

"Your 40 minute timer starts now".


Workarounds: 781 seconds timer, or 29/31 minute timer.

I’m serious, that’s what I use.


When I put in timers -- for some reason my timer frequently/randomly just sets to 79 hours and a random assortment of minutes and seconds. I have no clue why. I always have to double check otherwise I might be waiting awhile.

It feels like it was a residual timer or something but I have never set anything like that - it is quite strange.


I solve this by asking for a 31, 41, or 51 minute timer.


How does this help me se a 13, 14, or 15 minute timer?


Could you ask to set a 780 second timer?


You can, and it works.


"10 minute timer" + "add 4 minutes"


I don't know if this is an actual problem you have, but since Siri appears to be composed of independent voice-to-text and text-to-action systems, you can say "start a one three minute timer".


The problem is AI current best use case is creative work, art, music, programming, but skilled creative professionals is a/the core userbase for Apple products.

Apple is stuck and it’s AI will never be good enough until those creatives embrace it. Right now it’s disdain when mentioned.


> The problem is AI current best use case is creative work, art, music, programming

This is where it’s being pushed and marketed but I’m not actually sure it’s the best use case.


An oft-cited quote goes something like this: "we wanted robots/AI to automate boring, routine, meaningless jobs to let people be free to pursue arts, music, creativity. It's a sad state of affairs that AI is taking over arts/music/creativity stranding people with boring, routine, meaningless jobs"


> It's a sad state of affairs that AI is taking over arts/music/creativity stranding people with boring, routine, meaningless jobs"

So far it’s not though.


Oh. It already is. Artists are already saying that a lot of commission work is drying out (e.g. illustrations).


> skilled creative professionals is a/the core userbase for Apple products.

Then why doesn't it have a professional CAD application?


Even Apple doesn't do CAD on OSX. They run Siemens NX on Windows.

But your statement isn't quite right. Fusion 360 runs fine in mac. I'm ex-Apple btw.


Ok, that's good to know, but my colleagues all use SolidWorks so it doesn't change much for me.


It does.

AutoCAD came to the Mac when Intel was shitting the bed (with aggressive OEM contracts for first party system integrators that prevented AMD adoption across HP/Dell/Lenovo-lines) and Windows 11 was being forced on users.

WINTEL played the monopoly game too hard and is starting to lose ground.

You love to see it.


Uhh

> The problem is AI current best use case is creative work, art, music, programming

By “best” do you mean “marketable?”

Seems weird to see a bunch of creatives and creative professionals “disdain” a tool and still say it’s “best” for them…


This is what I do. I cannot call it Twitter anymore because that makes me sad (I miss you Twitter 2008-2016). I cannot call it X because that is dumb. So Xitter it is.


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