Some Costcos still have them. Used to send checks and cash to the back office once they hit a limit. Guessing not so much any more.
Some Costcos still have them. Used to send checks and cash to the back office once they hit a limit. Guessing not so much any more.
Phones have had accelerometer/gyros for a while now. Problem with pinpointing one’s location is how to get a starting fix and how to deal with drift and loss of signal.
The way devices have dealt with it is to periodically confirm and baseline with a satellite fix.
If this method does away with all that, it could remove the reliance on overhead signals and those trying to jam them in hostile zones.
Pretty cool. Lots of potential.
Somebody will take a sip.
Was waiting for Nio to make it state-side. Now, not so sure they will be allowed.
Reminds me of project CHIP: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP_(computer)
Hooefully, with better economics.
I bet they forgot to rig the webcams, microphones, seat weight sensors, and infrared desk presence trackers.
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Is this like people offering to pay artists with ‘exposure?’
They could make Siri change its voice and Genmoji based on the degree of certainty of the response:
They could sell different voice packages. Revive the ringtone market.
My needle on my BS-meter just snapped off.
Somebody starts streaming VR porn on the same cell network. Latency drops to a second. Patient flatlines.
The future is here.
Wait. Am I getting this right? They want to inject high-pressure steam and chemicals into a massive underground natural gas reservoir. Then set off a big fire + explosion.
Surely, nothing can go wrong.
I just met someone who was going through the same question. They decided to take a two-year course and become a Physical Therapist, focusing on the elderly.
Said options were working with a medical group, at a nursing home, visiting people at home, or opening an office. Maybe a combination.
Their thinking was there was no way to get ‘disrupted’ and there would be endless demand. Made a lot of sense.
This is as useful as polling relatives on whether a couple should go through with a divorce.
Given the amount of money they’re looking for, guessing it’s for the unreleased products in the pipeline and their patents. Anyone who buys them is not purchasing their v1 product.
You still need a massive fleet of these to train those multi-billion parameter models.
On the invocation side, if you have a cloud SaaS service like ChatGPT, hosted Anthropic, or AWS Bedrock, these could answer questions quickly. But they cost a lot to operate at scale. I have a feeling the bean-counters are going to slow down the crazy overspending.
We’re heading into a world where edge computing is more cost and energy efficient to operate. It’s also more privacy-friendly. I’m more enthused about a running these models on our phones and in-home devices. There, the race will be for TOPS vs power savings.
Chocolate Stout beer and a scoop of vanilla ice cream (gently lowered – otherwise it’s all foam gushing about).
I take no credit. A deadhead, traveling beer blogger in a Winnebago (how he described himself) told me about it years ago.
Beer float.
I remember Samsung trying to run a WWDC-like conference in San Francisco many years ago. They were offering free Tizen watches as enticement for developers to show up (AppleWatch devs had to buy their own). None of the professional mobile devs I knew back then said they would go.
As Microsoft found out with WindowsPhone, it’s really hard to get traction if you’re third.
'Last thing I remember
I was running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
“Relax,” said the night man
"We are programmed to receive
You can check-out any time you like
But you can never leave!"’