Apple might remove the USB-C port from future iPhones. Why, Apple, why? Is it just for to continue the thinness effort? Does anyone really want a paper-thin phone? I guess Tim Cook couldn't cram any more pixel into the screen, so he's just going for thinness. And emojis – Tim loves emojis for some reason. There's always a few more with each release.
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Tao of Mac weighs in on the Apple Intelligence fiasco. It doesn't look like Siri will ever be the Jarvis we were hoping we'd have.
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Resentment. Nice commentary on all the "kill the billionaires" protests we've been seeing lately. But the solution that is offered to fix this isn't going to work. Because there will always be someone who has a grape. (Read the essay to understand what I mean.)
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Maybe you don't need a fancy foundational model to help you make a diagnosis. An open source model performs just as well, and it's the Llama 3.1 405B parameter model, which means that Llama 3.3 70B parameter model might be just as good. But here's the catch:
Both open-source and closed-source AI algorithms are trained on immense datasets that include medical textbooks, peer-reviewed research, clinical-decision support tools, and anonymized patient data, such as case studies, test results, scans, and confirmed diagnoses.
These models were fine-tuned. What busy physician has time for this?
And even so, they weren't perfect. So you wouldn't want to trust them completely. The point of this article is that it's the data and the training, not necessarily the size of the architecture.The open-source model exhibited genuine depth: Llama made a correct diagnosis in 70 percent of cases, compared with 64 percent for GPT-4. It also ranked the correct choice as its first suggestion 41 percent of the time, compared with 37 percent for GPT-4. For the subset of 22 newer cases, the open-source model scored even higher, making the right call 73 percent of the time and identifying the final diagnosis as its top suggestion 45 percent of the time.
Uh-oh. Chronic exposure to too much heat can age you. I know that long-term sun exposure can make you look wrinkled and old. But it appears that heat accelerates the aging process genetically, too. But if you look at the data table, you see that the differences are really slim, and barely make statistical significance.
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Another one bites the dust. Forever XXII is shutting down all stores. This is going to leave a gaping hole at Washington Square.
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Oregon's SB 611 hopes to give free food to illegal aliens.
Oregon lawmakers, ladies and gentlemen.As for Oregon, SB 611 is being put forward as the state is confronting potential federal funding cuts, everybody and their brother seems to want higher spending on schools, affordable housing, transportation and healthcare, Trump tariffs could lead to a trade war that hurts export-heavy Oregon and fears of a national recession are growing.
But what stands out even more in the current debate over the bill? All of its enthusiastic supporters haven’t the faintest idea what it would cost the state.
Doom loop. Plummeting property values in downtown Portland are costing the city millions of dollars in tax revenue that would otherwise go to vital city services, as the city looks at a $92.8-million budget shortfall in the upcoming fiscal year. This is not a good time to be a Blue city or Blue state.
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