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Some say the digital revolution is ending. They are mistaken! #20240515" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">glacier-studio.com/blog/index.htm…

Apple Health is integral to users’ lives, and we’re expanding important features globally. I’m thrilled we offer them in 160+ countries and regions, including Hearing Aid in Italy, hypertension notifications in Taiwan, and sleep apnea notifications and Hearing Test in India!

有個重要公共政策要提一下，政府說要給小孩發錢，我建議改為具體免學雜費/餐費、發育嬰券等限制用途的方式處理，不然小孩都拿去買菸買酒怎麼辦。這筆錢不小，政府就要花下去了，我已寫信給總統，建議評估發錢還是限制用途較優。

@JoannaStern And the reflection?

I used Gemini Omni to make this but it refused to use a screen recording of Google keynote so I recorded it on my phone and then uploaded the video. That's why you see the glare.

Google I/O 2030.

@davidasinclair So there’s no stochastic randomness in biology?

Biology is not just chemistry, it is code

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Academics study great music, but rarely make great music.

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Building accessibility into our products is central to everything we do. This year, we’re proud to deliver more intuitive accessibility features with natural language powered by Apple Intelligence. #GAAD apple.com/newsroom/2026/…

Paris 古咪小日常咖啡

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Great Willie Nile concert last night. Lots of stories and content about family and life. Going to another of his concerts tonight in Felton.

HBD, Alan Kay! Kay received the 2003 #ACMTuringAward for pioneering many of the ideas at the root of contemporary object-oriented programming languages, leading the team that developed Smalltalk, and for fundamental contributions to personal computing. buff.ly/D0XVqyM

Hipsters: intelligence < computation < AI < intelligence.

@paulg A lot of people don’t know how to get very rich. Politicians exploit their ignorance.

At one point my son and his friend kept looking for shortcuts to getting rich. Over and over I told them the way to do it is just to make something people want. If this is what I tell my own kids about getting rich, why won't politicians believe this is how a lot of people do it?

Watching Krugman | Glacier Studio Blog #20260514" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">glacier-studio.com/blog/index.htm…

@Dan_Jeffries1 No quantum?

It's actually more than world models that AI is missing. It's five things: 1) Continual learning, aka the ability to update/change its weights to learn from experience and capture that experience permanently. An MD file or DB does not count because it might not read it on the next turn and context windows are limited. 2) Long term memory. If it can't continually search relevant experience then it is useless and will make the same mistakes over and over. 3) Ability to reason in embedded space. 4) Non forward pass only architecture. In other words the ability to backtrack to previous tokens and "change its mind as it goes." Right now when it says "wait" it is an illusion in its thought stream. It is not actually returning to something it wrote earlier in its thought sequence. 5) World model. This leads to this. That leads to that. If I do this then this happens. The various issues I've seen coding with AI show this super clearly. Sorry I dropped the database. I shouldn't have reverted all your git commits. These are mistakes even a junior coder wouldn't make. Even as these little wonderful machines get superhuman, and they are in many ways, they're still super idiotic on another level. Still wonderful to have them but something is missing from their understanding.

@AndrewYNg @ylecun But you don’t want to openly naming the likes of Bernie Sanders?

There will be no AI jobpocalypse. The story that AI will lead to massive unemployment is stoking unnecessary fear. AI — like any other technology — does affect jobs, but telling overblown stories of large-scale unemployment is irresponsible and damaging. Let’s put a stop to it. I’ve expressed skepticism about the jobpocalypse in previous posts. I’m glad to see that the popular press is now pushing back on this narrative. The image below features some recent headlines. Software engineering is the sector most affected by AI tools, as coding agents race ahead. Yet hiring of software engineers remains strong! So while there are examples of AI taking away jobs, the trends strongly suggest the net job creation is vastly greater than the job destruction — just like earlier waves of technology. Further, despite all the exciting progress in AI, the U.S. unemployment rate remains a healthy 4.3%. Why is the AI jobpocalypse narrative so popular? For one thing, frontier AI labs have a strong incentive to tell stories that make AI technology sound more powerful. At their most extreme, they promote science-fiction scenarios of AI “taking over” and causing human extinction. If a technology can replace many employees, surely that technology must be very valuable! Also, a lot of SaaS software companies charge around $100-$1000 per user/year. But if an AI company can replace an employee who makes $100,000 — or make them 50% more productive — then charging even $10,000 starts to look reasonable. By anchoring not to typical SaaS prices but to salaries of employees, AI companies can charge a lot more. Additionally, businesses have a strong incentive to talk about layoffs as if they were caused by AI. After all, talking about how they’re using AI to be far more productive with fewer staff makes them look smart. This is a better message than admitting they overhired during the pandemic when capital was abundant due to low interest rates and a massive government financial stimulus. To be clear, I recognize that AI is causing a lot of people’s work to change. This is hard. This is stressful. (And to some, it can be fun.) I empathize with everyone affected. At the same time, this is very different from predicting a collapse of the job market. Societies are capable of telling themselves stories for years that have little basis in reality and lead to poor society-wide decision making. For example, fears over nuclear plant safety led to under-investment in nuclear power. Fears of the “population bomb” in the 1960s led countries to implement harsh policies to reduce their populations. And worries about dietary fat led governments to promote unhealthy high-sugar diets for decades. Now that mainstream media is openly skeptical about the jobpocalypse, I hope these stories will start to lose their teeth (much like fears of AI-driven human extinction have). Contrary to the predictions of an AI jobpocalypse, I predict the opposite: There will be an AI jobapalooza! AI will lead to a lot more good AI engineering jobs, and I’m also optimistic about the future of the overall job market. What AI engineers do will be different from traditional software engineering, and many of these jobs will be in businesses other than traditional large employers of developers. In non-AI roles, too, the skills needed will change because of AI. That makes this a good time to encourage more people to become proficient in AI, and make sure they’re ready for the different but plentiful jobs of the future! [Original text in The Batch newsletter.]

AI for security: axios.com/2026/05/13/pal…

Trump-Xi Summit | Glacier Studio Blog #20260513" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">glacier-studio.com/blog/index.htm…

This is MASSIVE! The quiet community leaders (the ones behind the scenes) are getting recognition from Apple I've had the opportunity to meet a few of these people in person. Many of who have shaped my own journey and are an absolute inspiration for me Well done developer.apple.com/community/reco…