Huge respect for her. I consider myself a talented software engineer. I can’t get anywhere close to this accomplishment.
Readit Newsmrcwinn commented on Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-... · Posted by u/alsetmusic
I can't unsee nano-texture on MacBook Pro (for the better), and so any other display drives me crazy now -- including Apple's own MacBook Air. Wish more companies would offer this!
the president unilaterally extorting 10% ownership out of a company isn't going to build the kind of system that competes with anyone. Big business can't really thrive under this kind of thing any more than corner stores can thrive under a protection racket.
Why take issue with Trump alone then? Go ask Bernie Sanders. This is a peak at what socialism looks like in America. The country taking a stake is the people taking a stake. Strange bedfellows, perhaps, but anyone far anti-Trump should actually take this as a model of sorts.
Seems like a useful way around Google gating API functionality for Gemini.
mrcwinn commented on Apple 2016 Stand Was Never About One Case hugston.com/articles/Appl... · Posted by u/trilogic
I clicked through this link and the writing reminds me of the early days of GPT-3.5. What is this?
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You know, never once in my life have I ever subscribed to anything or agreed at checkout to receiving marketing communications. Ever. And yet my inbox is flooded at all times with retailers I’ve interacted with. I literally don’t care about Gemini because I’ve just given up on using Gmail. If you need to reach me, you probably won’t.
mrcwinn commented on Claim: GPT-5-pro can prove new interesting mathematics twitter.com/SebastienBube... · Posted by u/marcuschong
Gamechanger! And worrisome for us laymen.
Before AI, but while you (and I) were still unable to contribute anything meaningful or novel to discussions of mathematics, did you feel threatened?
I really like their AI strategy. It’s much stronger than Apple’s, which seems to be nonexistent. The problem I have is I really like my Apple Watch Ultra. There is nothing like it in the android space and I can’t rely on Google. Actually caring about building a great product the way Apple does. Googles hardware products always seem to be some strategic wedge play to keep the ecosystem in check. They don’t seem to exist because they really care about building the very best watch, or phone, or whatever and at any point they might just cancel the effort.
mrcwinn commented on Apple and Amazon will miss AI like Intel missed mobile gmays.com/the-biggest-bet... · Posted by u/gmays
I think this analysis is directionally right but the supportive arguments are quite weak. Maybe the iPhone is the wrong form factor, but do we really doubt Apple's ability to create a new hardware device and tightly integrate software?
The deeper issue, in my view, is that Apple is violating its own philosophical belief, articulated by Steve Jobs himself: that Apple should always own the primary technology behind its products (i.e., multi-touch, click-wheel). This is central to Apple's "we need to make it ourselves" approach.
Camera lenses are commodities. AI models are foundational. Apple's own executive leadership likened models to the internet, and said, well surely we wouldn't try to build and own the internet! This misplaces AI as infrastructure when in fact it's foundational to building and serving useful applications.
They further see "chat" (and by extension) as an app, but I think it's more like a foundational user interface. And Apple's certainly always owned the user interface.
When Siri was first announced, there was excitement that voice might be the next paradigm shift in user interface. Partly because Siri is so bad for a decade now, and partly because people didn't feel like talking to their screens, Apple may have learned a very unhelpful lesson: that Siri is just a feature, not a user interface. In this age though, chat and voice are more than features, and yet Apple doesn't own this either.
Apple should not buy Perplexity. Perplexity is smoke and mirrors, and there's nothing defensible about its business. Apple cannot get the talent and the infrastructure to catch up on models.
So what then?
OpenAI is not for sale. Anthropic is likely not for sale, but even if it were, Apple wouldn't buy it: Anthropic is very risky to Apple's profit margin profile and Apple can't unlock Anthropic's bottleneck (capacity).
In fact, to Apple's advantage, why not let the VCs and competitors like Microsoft and Amazon and Google light their money on fire while this industry takes shape, provided you have an option in the end to sell a product to the consumer?
The best option, in my view, is Search Deal Redux: partner deeply with Google and Gemini. Google very obviously wants as much distribution as possible, and Apple has more hardware distribution than any company in history.
Partnership is the only path because, yes, Apple missed this one badly. There is one area where I agree with Tim Cook, though: being late doesn't guarantee you lose, even in AI.
https://genai-showdown.specr.net
This model gets 8 of the 12 prompts correct and easily comes within striking distance of the best-in-class models Imagen and gpt-image-1 and is a significant upgrade over the old Gemini Flash 2.0 model. The reigning champ, gpt-image-1, only manages to edge out Flash 2.5 on the maze and 9-pointed star.
What's honestly most astonishing to me is how long gpt-image-1 has remained at the top of the class - closing in on half a year which is basically a lifetime in this field. Though fair warning, gpt-image-1 is borderline useless as an "editor" since it almost always changes the whole image instead of doing localized inpainting-style edits like Kontext, Qwen, or Nano-Banana.
Comparison of gpt-image-1, flash, and imagen.
https://genai-showdown.specr.net?models=OPENAI_4O%2CIMAGEN_4...