The privacy buffer between the LLM providers and the user is a large part of the appeal. Having it hooked up to a search engine outside of the data broker space makes it uniquely attractive.
Given that window dressing, having toasted bread in a kitchen that isn't selling my data is something I want.
Well, no... I use maybe 1/5 to 1/3 of may month allowance on Assistant. It's nice to have. And I subscribed to Kagi also because of it. So, the Assistant going away would mean my expensive Duo subscription going away as well.
I've been struggling to get Claude or Gemini to make a project enclosure. I've got it down to a decent set of requirements and have been trying FreeCAD Python output, OpenSCAD, and Build123d. Most attempts fail to generate output (after several minutes of thinking and getting a good way there). When attempts don't fail they get aspects wrong. At this point I think my workflow needs to be breaking up the request into a series of functions for each feature then iterating on the overall model.
Yeah the ETFs have sold off their trust quite a bit in the past year. No longer can anyone with skin in the game trust the stewardship of the fiduciaries. They are simply showing that they are bad at what they do and people should not entrust their future to them.
Pull your money out of the target date funds and into a responsible mix of indexes.
I think you have it backwards. Many (most?) funds underperform the market as a whole, showing they really don't know anything. ETFs that mirror indexes exist exactly because of this... their managers don't make trades based on their insight of the market, they are contractually obligated to mirror the index, period.
The article shows that at least some ETFs -- NASDAQ index funds -- will now be undermined by this SpaceX scam using those contractual obligations to extract money from ETF investors.
Meta's entire business model lives on ad deals that are not on the frontend. They are in the data business and this campaign is to get access to more data without an option to opt out. Who takes the data doesn't really matter.
that's true, but there are also like 200 sock knitting machine designs for FDM printing out there , maybe they're just slowly walking through all of the printable textile methods .
loom is probably more satisfying to get working right, but the knitting machines are a joy to just stare at while they're working. Hypnotic.
Warping a loom by hand is a nightmare of repetitive tweaking, drawing each warp end through a heddle and adjusting the tension, one by one and back again. It's like restringing and tuning a guitar with hundreds of strings.
Even hand knitting is slightly better -- cast 250 stitches on to a circular needle then start the next row, only to find 10 rows later you've twisted it and are now knitting a Moebius sweater. Rip it out and repeat (sometimes referred to as "frogging" or "tinking").
Yeah, knitting machines are satisfying in many ways.
The author shouldn't have discussed inventions when the nugget is about "original thought".
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