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GeeksPub – Quantum Breakfast Club

Tim and David start off with The Breakfast Club music, then discuss the plethora of Lord of the Rings content coming. Features a spoiler-filled

Let’s Talk Photography 113: AI Part 2 — Pros & Cons with Antonio Rosario

In part 1 Bart described AI’s evolution from a photographer’s point of view — first came classifiers (this is a photo of a dog

What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram (via Hacker News): And the remarkable thing is that when ChatGPT does something like write an essay what it’s essentially doing is just asking over and over again “given the text so far, what should the next word be?”—and each time a…

Quora’s Poe

Sarah Perez (via John Gruber): Q&A platform Quora has opened up public access to its new AI chatbot app, Poe, which lets users ask questions and get answers from a range of AI chatbots, including those from ChatGPT maker, OpenAI, and other companies…

Google’s Bard

Sundar Pichai (via John Gruber, Hacker News): We’ve been working on an experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, that we’re calling Bard. And today, we’re taking another step forward by opening it up to trusted testers ahead of makin…

ChatGPT in Bing and Edge

James Vincent (Hacker News): In demos today the company showed what it’s calling “the new Bing” working in various configurations. One of these shows traditional search results side-by-side with AI annotations (above), while another mode lets users …

ChatGPT Is Ingesting Corporate Secrets

Noor Al-Sibai (Hacker News, Bruce Schneier): After catching snippets of text generated by OpenAI’s powerful ChatGPT tool that looked a lot like company secrets, Amazon is now trying to head its employees off from leaking anything else to the algorit…

ChatGPT for Apple Platforms Development

Steve Troughton-Smith: At this point, I really would appreciate a tool that just parses an Xcode SceneKit .scn scene and spits out a built-in-code representation of it. Xcode’s SceneKit editor has been a liability for years, and it exhausts all my e…

“Volume contains a macOS or OS X installation which may be damaged”

I was recently setting up a High Sierra test partition, and this error popped up after the installer had rebooted the Mac to complete the installation. At first, I thought it was another variant of the “This copy of the Install OS X El Capitan appli…

Feedbro

Nodetics (via Jason Pester): With Feedbro you can read RSS, Atom and RDF feeds and thanks to built-in integration also content from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, VK, Telegram, Rumble, Yammer, YouTube Channels, YouTube Search, LinkedIn Groups, Linked…

Wi-Fi Sync Spyware

Certo: There is a little-known feature on all iOS devices called ‘WiFi Sync’, which essentially allows for a backup of the device to regularly be downloaded onto a nearby computer over a WiFi connection. […] Unfortunately, this ease of set up and la…

macOS 13.2.x and Recovery, a Sad Tale

Robert Hammen: Apple’s latest updates to macOS Ventura can lead to your FileVault-encrypted Mac booting into Recovery, and, potentially, prompts to enter one or more of […][…]As far as what’s happening, without having intimate knowledge (and logs/bu…

Speeding Up Scanner in Swift

My first tip goes back to when I started using NSScanner in the Puma days. In short, you should never call scanCharacters(from:into:) in a loop because every time it’s called it creates an inverted copy of the character set. It then delegates to sca…

The Making of Ice Cubes

Thomas Ricouard: With Mastodon it was time, I could finally make my own social network app, and with iOS 16 and all the great new SwiftUI API that came with it, it was the perfect timing. […] The pinning and reading remote timelines feature was ship…

The Story Behind Apple’s Newton

Tom Hormby (in 2010, via Dave Mark): Steve Jobs hired Sakoman in 1984 to help work on a laptop version of the Macintosh after the successful release of the HP Portable. When Jobs left Apple, these laptop plans were scrapped, and Sakoman helped lead …

Solving Common Problems With Kubernetes

Adam Chalmers (via Jim Rea): My computer science degree had taught me all about algorithms, data structures, type systems and operating systems. It had not taught me about containers, or ElasticSearch, or Kubernetes. I don’t think I even wrote a sin…

Why Not a Smaller MacBook, Too?

Dan Moren: Once upon a time, Apple offered its lightest notebook in two sizes: the 13-inch it sells today and a smaller 11-inch model. Alas, only the good die young, and the 11-inch Air was discontinued in 2019—the same year that Apple discontinued …

The Limits of Computational Photography

Will Yager: Every time I tried to take a picture of the engraved text, the picture on my phone looked terrible! It looked like someone had sloppily drawn the text with a paint marker. What was going on? Was my vision somehow faulty, failing to see t…

Monoprice Stage Right Complete Podcasting and Streaming bundle

Stage Right by Monoprice Complete Podcasting and Streaming Bundle Monoprice Podcast Bundle $75.99 (frequently on sale) Microphone tested on an M1 Mac Mini with