Readit News> But what they cannot do is maintain clear mental models.
The emphasis should be on maintain. At some point, the AI tends to develop a mental model, but over time, it changes in unexpected ways or becomes absent altogether. In addition, the quality of the mental models is often not that good to begin with.
But in reality, the receiver knows a lot more about what he is interested in. Some people might want to get an update for the next blog post, while others may be interested in updates for the next blog post that completes a particular series, and so on.
When the sender defines the events, you can use a new protocol; however, if the receiver determines the events, all you need is a client with a rules engine (e.g., IFTTT).
Not very enlightening: just because Dropbox became big in one environment, doesn't mean the same questions aren't important in new spaces.
So every time someone comes around with a sentence like 'but if I can whittle away at a free and open source version, why should I ever consider paying for this?', the answer will be that Dropbox thread ;-)
https://github.com/arendtio/witfocus
Ultimately, it is simply a folder containing text files. The witfocus script helps manage those files.
I don't think it is for everybody, but if you enjoy having your todos in a text file, it might be for you.
It just does not look as smooth as QuakeNotch :-D
Just kidding, Chromium can handle it too; it just seems a bit heavy for Firefox. But sometimes you wonder why on earth you have to add such resource-hungry effects.
it's neither, really.
> After all, they are designed to apply logical relationships between input nodes
They are absolutelly not. Unless you assert that logical === statistical (which it isn't)
For clarification: yes, when I wrote 'logical,' I did not mean Boolean logic, but rather something like probabilistic/statistical logic.
Are there actually smartphones without an IMEI and with a Wi-Fi card only, preferrably not a Broadcom one?
The risk was that mobile networks could not handle moving many devices from one cell to another at high speeds (during takeoff and landing).