Brian McCullough

A look at the fundamental questions facing OpenAI: its models have a very large user base but very narrow engagement, incumbents are matching its tech, and more From Benedict Evans. View the full context on Techmeme.

This is 1) the best essay I’ve read in a while on OpenAI’s situation specifically, and 2) the whole question around LLMs as a new flavor of compute. Act accordingly. www.techmeme.com/260221/p5#a2...

“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.”

@pcgamer.com #DRAM
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You do realize you won’t have to post here anymore soon right? AI will do it for you. The thing is: you’ll still scroll as much as you ever did and won’t notice the difference.

Winner.

Am I wrong or does Apple need to release Macs that are like total beasts for doing AI very soon?

Press a button and make one? Oh and the plot can be exactly the way I want it? How many people would take that choice?

Listen, I want it NOT to be true. But I also don’t like the fact that most people spend 2 hours a day watching algorithm delivered 10 second videos either. Plus there’s the Napster/on demand example. I feel like watching a new James Bond right now. There isn’t one. But you’re saying I could

I agree with you. But I’m not sure it’s going to matter to 90% of people.

I've actually been to the desert on a horse with THREE names: "Filly Michael Thomas." The original owner was a huge Miami Vice fan.

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That's not how you say it? It's MATE-or?

the time it takes them to do the swap out as well, which you have kind of just proven to me. So the bottom line is, if you download the show within an hour of me hitting publish, you probably get the ads. If you download it, say, 3 hours after I hit publish... no ads. Stupid Apple.

file. So, one feed, but they replace the files. Problem is... Apple doesn't refresh the feed immediately. I've had to wait for as long as an hour before they refresh the RSS feed so I can upload the ad free file and they swap it out. Because they have this lag, I've SUSPECTED that there's a lag in

Supercast, has a totally separate feed, where I upload a DIFFERENT mp3 file of the show without the ads. Apple doesn't do it that way. Apple needs to see the WITH ADS show show up in the main feed first, THEN you have to upload the AD FREE file so that Apple can replace the AD file with the AD FREE

Well, there's not a "good" reason for it, but you've proven something is happening that I suspected was happening. So... stick with me for a second. There's the "main" rss feed hosted on Megaphone. I upload a file that has the ads in it, and hit publish. Then, the other subscription service....

Hold on. In a meeting. I’ll explain. But check yesterday’s episode. Redownload it. Does yesterday’s have ads?

CES week or any time I go out of town is always stressful. Been waking up at 4am local time just to do the show and even then I’ve been late every day so far. :(

You and me both! Sometimes I can’t be bothered to look it up or sound it out. You probably didn’t notice but every show this week has been late cause: CES. :) but I do try when I can.

Remind me to mention this!

hoobastink, stank, stunk

so very true

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

yeah. Like my Rad History episodes. Just posted the history of Toys-R-Us. Anyway, if I forget to mention this, SERIOUSLY... please remind me.

OMG! This is amazing! I hope I remember to talk about this on Monday! If I don't, ping me and remind me. And is there anything you want me to shout out as thanks for doing this?

lol www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UvLHp5/

Bjork in the 1990's

Here's Bjork again for no reason at all.

Well… and that comes down to the simple question of time. As I say sometimes, I try hard to present all sides of an argument. In this particular case I just didn’t. But, again, I try. :)

Ooohhh... interesting. Except reading things (quoting) is like 90% of the show. But that's an interesting idea.

That's the attempt I make, anyway...

One of the frustrating things of this job is, sometimes I have to talk about things that drive me crazy. Sometimes I have to quote things I personally disagree with. But my JOB is to tell you what I think is happening. My opinions should hopefully come into it as little as possible.