Motion is also really useful for capturing security camera footage. It’s more specialised for this task than ffmpeg so could work here

I’m excited to see what people do with the Moments button, because at the moment I barely use it. It’d be great to find an imaginative use for it

Cue 8 paragraphs of “I first learned to cook potatoes with my grandfather back in…” and every reader screaming “Oh my god just get to the recipe…”

The Spectator is a terrible news source, and this article is a good example of why. What domestic car industry do they think we have in the UK that is threatened by Byd selling EVs here? Indian-owned Land Rover (who don’t make EVs anyway)? German-owned Mini?

Should scale their worries around… once they reach a certain age, given everyone dies eventually. Younger people should worry about those cars and guns. And Americans’ baffling tendency to poison themselves, it seems

You’re right. I could believe these data might be explained by a lot of businesses being in a “wait and see” phase, hiring conservatively while they see how the AI thing shakes out

Air travel is heavily subsidised, especially through very very very favourable tax rates on aviation fuel

TBF other country’s politicians* don’t tend to go around pushing the interests of the car industry quite so much

*except America, obvs

This is a good point, but the issue is that vendors have abused this need by not just pushing security updates, but also regular rewrites that make the products more invasive/full of language model shit - Exhibit A being anything at all from Microsoft

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For context, UK domestic energy suppliers don’t actually do any generation or distribution - they just retail electricity produced and distributed by others. So they can buy wholesale energy and attempt to compete on price, customer service, or other innovative products (eg Octopus’s dynamic pricing).

Normally I’d expect Tesla to do an Uber-style approach of subsiding the prices for the first couple of years to try to capture market share, as well as the more obvious vertical integration with their cars. But in this market, switching suppliers is too easy to make that worthwhile

Yep. I’m using a used ThinkPad X1 Carbon. 8 years old and running Linux like a dream

Hi-viz, you say?

I was questioning the use of the word “prolly”

“Prolly”

One reason I’d like to see Germany held to account is their long-term efforts to push the interests of their car industry, even as it filled the world with overly polluting (and, recently, increasingly over-sized) vehicles

The idea of general intelligence (g) is that you’ve got some overall capacity that can be turned to any task. Human intelligence is probably much more like a big toolbox of skills, though, and I can’t see a version of computer “intelligence” that’s any different to that. I worry that people who get excited about AI are kidding themselves a bit as it isn’t going to be general - it’s going to be a toolbox at best: an LLM for writing, a totally different system for drawing, another for identifying birdsong, and and yet another for maths… And at that point you’ve not got some special interesting AGI - you’ve just reinvented the idea of apps

If AGI is made of components, you could argue that it isn’t “general”. Which would be fine, as most psychologists would say the same about human intelligence

I’m guessing there were three authors on this study, based on the “human” dots

Oh, this looks good! Thanks