It was good thanks, managed to unplug for a whole week. Which is a good way to regularly break a lot of unwanted habits.

Whew, been away for 10 days on a holiday.

What did I miss?

Solipsism is going to become a common worldview.

I have no idea? Do you subscribe?

GPT went multimodal and now you can have a two way verbal conversation with it.

i.e. microphone and speakers.

Now whenever I am eg driving alone, I’m basically going to be riffing ideas with AI.

None of it is real.

OK, this hits different.

I think human-human relationships are in deep trouble. Using this two way audio conversation interaction, I can cognitively multiplex and it somehow feels natural when I do it verbally.

This is a very new experience.

Seeing the multitude of drones it seems clear that wars are now fought by autonomous machines, meanwhile AI continues to advance.

Is Sci-Fi merely predictive, or is it actually instructive?

Privacy depends on who it is from.

Privacy from lay people? OK, you can have that.

Privacy from tech savvy person? You need to do some work and have the discipline of a monk.

Privacy from a state? Not a thing.

I cook eggs at a lower temperature than this. 🤣

255 photon quantum computer solves boson sampling problem in 1 millionth of a second.

That’s 10^20 times faster than contemporary supercomputers. Quantum computers are essentially ASIC machines, they can solve 1 specific task instantly.

They are not general machines like we are used to. Maybe we could complete the room temp superconductor search with a purpose built quantum machine?

A journalist said…

https://thequantuminsider.com/2023/10/12/chinas-photonic-jiuzhang-series-sets-yet-another-speed-record/

Once you reach 35-40, leg soreness is permanent, regardless of whether you went to the gym or not.

If I said large parts of the West are stuck in a “moral stupor” does that term instantly ring true with anyone?

I’m also on TestFlight but I find it increasingly glitchy.

Just comparing iOS clients and Primal seems to be a lot smoother and slicker than Damus now.

Does anyone else get lots of scrolling glitches when using Damus? Or is it just me? It never used to be this bad.

Why is the data moot?

Here’s the paper, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0276562423000884

It’s a sample of 20,000 American’s the data is from Opportunity Insights (Chetty et al., 2018)

Rural kids move up the income spectrum faster than urban kids.

21st Century cities are just bad.

They fired Steve Jobs.

What do the following people have in common?

Philip H. Knight

Delbert W. Yocam

Mike Markkula

Arthur Rock

John Sculley

Peter O. Crisp

Good luck!

What number is it?