Arc’teryx’s exo-underpants and a bright future as I get old
I keep telling my wife that when we’re broken down oldies (coming soon) we’ll have self-driving cars and exoskeletons to help with our mobility issu...
Author: charlie
Instructions on how to use a phone one-handed bring back memories of the same idea years ago
This triggered an old funny memory (tho I might have the timing wrong). As phones got bigger, they got harder to handle with one hand. But there are some ways t...
Meta releases their Llama AI model as open source: what should we think of that?
Llama 3.1 outperforms OpenAI and other rivals on certain benchmarks. Now, Mark Zuckerberg expects Meta’s AI assistant to surpass ChatGPT’s usage in the coming m...
How many people were affected by the CrowdStrike meltdown?
How many billion people do you think were affected by this? Microsoft said 8.5 million PCs (no Macs of course). A tiny 42KB file took down 8.5 million machines....
Phone mirroring – something I did on my Nokia S60 almost 20 years ago
[sarcastic clap clap clap] OK, I truly don’t know if this is a new thing or if Apple is Sherlocking some poor developer. But, congratulations Apple for re...
Ford chief says Americans need to fall ‘back in love’ with smaller cars – duh
Jim Farley says country is ‘in love with these monster vehicles’ but big cars are not sustainable in the age of EV Source: Ford chief says Americans need to fal...
AI in the physical world
I’ve always been straddling the physical and the digital – thinking of how the two worlds interact and complement each other, and what it means for ...
Now that genAI remembers so well, I’d like a bit of forgetfulness
When I started using genAI tools like ChatGPT (whom I call Geoffrey), the tools could not remember what was said earlier in the thread of a conversation. Of cou...
Whimsey, whimsey, whimsey: I love this
Life is too short. I love seeing folks mixing things up like this. I am a simple midwesterner living in the middle of New York City. I put my shoes on one at a ...
What’s the fascination with humanoid robots?
I was reading an interesting article on the fusion of robots and LLMs (see link below). One concept in the article that caught my attention was ’embodied ...