jamalibrated
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@malibrated
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Just finished a long AI5 design review with the Tesla California and Texas chip engineers. It’s going to be great. And AI6 and AI7 will follow in fast succession. AI8 will be out of this world.
From 1990 to 1993, I worked on the Newton OS team. I was responsible for several networking and communications components, most notably the AppleTalk network stack that allowed Newton devices to operate on AppleTalk LANs— for example, printing to a LaserWriter. At the time, AppleTalk was a far more plug-and-play alternative to TCP/IP, which was still in its early stages. TCP/IP eventually matured and became the backbone of the Internet, but in those days it was far from the dominant standard. The AppleTalk stack was written in C++, the low-level language used for most of the OS components. C++ was so new that there was no native compiler. We used a two-pass compilation process: CFront translated C++ into C, which was then compiled into object code. In the Newton era, there were no cell phones or practical wireless data networks. GPS was just emerging and was not part of the Newton architecture. Communications were limited to the serial port. How much has changed. Today, Wi-Fi is assumed as a baseline capability for accessing network resources. Devices like the iPhone communicate wirelessly over LTE and 5G to cellular infrastructure. ncreasingly, they can connect directly to satellite networks such as @Starlink, extending connectivity to nearly any location on Earth— land, sea, or air, from New York to Antarctica. Even back then at Apple, we knew that world was coming. We experimented with in-building wireless technologies, including IR and RF approaches, but power constraints, lack of infrastructure, and the absence of standards kept them out of reach at the time. grokipedia.com/page/Apple_New…
This is amazing, LLMs can sometimes hack sites just because it's the most direct way to answer a user's question
Plasma actuators reducing drag on a car By ionizing air along the surface, plasma controls the boundary layer and cuts turbulence. The same tech can be used on aircraft wings to delay stall, reduce drag, and improve lift, reshaping aerodynamics with no moving parts.
Announcing Copilot Cowork, a new way to complete tasks and get work done in M365. When you hand off a task to Cowork, it turns your request into a plan and executes it across your apps and files, grounded in your work data and operating within M365’s security and governance boundaries.
