@bituur_esztreym That’s above my pay grade to certify.

I’d like to order a plateful of homemade occult, please.
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“…[Few-Step Discrete Flow-Matching] was able to write full-length passages with just eight quick refinement rounds, matching the quality of diffusion models that required over a thousand steps to achieve a similar result.”

Head should roll at Cupertino!

https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/13/apples-new-language-model-can-write-long-texts-incredibly-fast/

@codinghorror Retail customers don’t buy chips, they buy phones/ecosystems, don’t they?

2010: We were instructed by myopic fanboys of linear investment thinking to worship the status quo.

2025: Adobe Premier.
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@wklj Given and not-given, a veritable superposition.

@wklj Avoidable problem if you read the bottom of the ALT photo description I provided. :)

@Gte Should Aperture have been called Photos Pro?
Is there a Final Cut app?
Will there ever be a product named Vision?
Apple’s unserious at this.

“While the city hurtles past in a blur, Brandon Stanton has stopped to write it a love letter—on the walls of Grand Central itself. For the first time, the terminal and its subway station have been completely cleared of flashing advertisements and replaced with art.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/91419600/why-grand-central-station-just-replaced-all-of-its-ads-with-art

Congrats to John Martinis!

However, this should be a warning to all the young physicists out there who want to get into quantum mechanics research: it’s all big smiles now but, remember Peter Parker, you too will become a giant.
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“Finally, we look ahead-10 years, 20 years into the future - and ask: What does the world look like when Bitcoin reaches $1 million?”

(Why stop at $1million?)
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"We're living through the greatest software quality crisis in computing history."

https://techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-software-quality-collapse

“Windows 2030 sounds like Windows 8 all over again—misguided and destined to be a flop.”

“Voice First” is the new “Touch First”

“Even AI enthusiasts don’t want this!”

(Heads should roll at Cupertino.)

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2889318/i-dont-need-ai-in-windows-i-need-an-operating-system-that-works.html

The Real CEOs of Cupertino.

https://www.yankodesign.com/2025/10/10/apple-had-7-ceos-only-2-really-mattered-and-one-nearly-killed-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=apple-had-7-ceos-only-2-really-mattered-and-one-nearly-killed-it

@knwlkr More HW/SW Apple cloning experience than anyone else?

Speaking of Jony Ive and John Ternus, odds of Panos Panay joining Apple as SVP of Design?
a) 5%
b) 25%
c) 50%
d) 75%
e) 0%

Heads should roll at Cupertino!

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/people-regret-buying-amazon-smart-displays-after-being-bombarded-with-ads/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@Gte So a stand-up guy would have politely declined to receive it, citing at least the timing, instead of grabbing it for his legacy?

You can’t just Zoom your office in the middle of the business class hoi polloi, can you!
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I don’t know how you plebs still insist on going to the office to get things done. Expand your horizon!
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