March 15, 2024

The news you need to know. The week of March 16, 2024

My human-curated roundup of this week’s news.

Job opening: Clerk at Antarctic post office. Duties includes stamping post cards from passing cruise ships and counting penguins.

John Hinkley, (Reagan’s would-be assassin) now a folk musician and painter. Wonder how many songs about Jody Foster he sings.

New message to aliens about humans will be on side of spacecraft headed to Europa. And it says “We have COVID, stay away.” OK, maybe not. Speaking of…

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March 15, 2024

The Rabbit R1 chronicles.

Chapter 10: Learning you.

Rabbit will bring about a big shift in how we communicate with technology. The previous model was that humans had to communicate with computers like the technology wanted. First you had to learn to type. Then you had to name files a certain way. Then you had to follow a file structure to organize things. You even had to use strange characters to tell the computer what to do. The change with Rabbit is that you can communicate in human language. That’s a leap over our current digital assistants that don’t quite understand what we’re saying, know what we really want them to do or even have the capability to do something.

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March 14, 2024

The Rabbit R1 chronicles.

Chapter 9: Journaling without a journaling app.

For years I’ve kept journal entries, first on paper, then on an iPad. And I’ve alway hoped that someday there’d be a journaling system that was automatic: One that tracked your day for you and allowed you to add personal comments. For a while I used Momento, an iPhone app that collected photos you shot for the day, your social postings and even mapped out where you’d been. Very cool, but over the years some really useful connections were cut off and it hasn’t really grown. But the developers certainly had the right idea.

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March 13, 2024

The Rabbit R1 chronicles.

Chapter 8: Decorum in the age of AI.

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March 11, 2024

The Rabbit R1 Chronicles.

Chapter 7: When is a camera not really a camera?

My iPhone 15 Pro Max can do 48mp images and 4K/60fps video and do it nearly as good as professional photo and video equipment. That’s what it was designed for. Rabbit R1’s Eye is rated for 1090p/24fps video and 8mp photos. So why would a bleeding-edge, new-tech device be so far behind the spec curve? Simple: The main purpose of the camera is not to take photos or video. It’s an input device, just like the microphone. What does that mean? I’ve give two examples.

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