You could cut out the chip from a debit card and glue it to the back of the pebble?

It's not quite that easy since the NFC antenna extends beyond the chip.

Still doable though, as demonstrated by Bobby Fingers: https://youtu.be/NF4VJJKTjy8?t=825

haha thats too funny. i wonder if his eye starts to heat if he buys too many drinks

How would one know that the translation of the Italian text (that he gives as an example) was not just already baked into the model’s training data?

My thoughts: just because you can ingest everything at super speed it doesn’t mean you should!

Some things are richer for slowly taking them in and syncing up with the vibe and the experience.

Learning to truly focus on something seems to be a vanishing life skill!

I would like to be able to feed my pets, ideally feeding them obsolete parts of my code.

Finally, I can claim the dog ate my merge request, when being asked what's taking so long?

Would that make them sick?

"Your pet feed on comments so be aware of that!"

> If you want to try it, be aware that it requires Intel Pentium 166MHz or above.

:-D

Looking back, it’s astonishing how long it actually took the competition to catch up in terms of developing an equally responsive touchscreen that felt anything like as intuitive.

To be fair we now live in a world where Sam Altman is lauded and given billions for doing exactly this.

And Aaron Swartz is dead.

I’m on paid Google Workspace for my one-man business : I paid for a month of the separate AI add-on but I stupidly agreed to an “annual commitment” which means that, even though I don’t use the AI stuff (it’s not particularly useful) I have to keep paying for it every month for a whole year! :-(

Anybody know if this means they’ll let me off my annual commitment now that it’s included in the base price?

> If you previously purchased Gemini for Google Workspace, you won't be charged for it after January 31, 2025.

See https://support.google.com/a/answer/15400543#zippy=%2Cwhats-...

Amazing. Thanks!

Glad to help!

Ask support.

What’s the worst they can do? Say no?

Yeah fair point - I think I’m just scarred from experiences of interacting with Google “support” over the years!

My guess is that they’ll just stuff a few daily headlines into the prompt so that queries about current affairs have some context, rather than re-training the model. Total guess obviously.

RAG isn't re-training. You can have vector embeddings of all AP news in a vector DB, then when prompted, find related news via similarity search, and add the most similar (and thus related) ones to the context.

Here's some simple example code in Go, for RAG with 5000 arXiv paper abstracts: https://github.com/philippgille/chromem-go/tree/v0.7.0/examp... (full disclosure it's using a simple vector DB I wrote)

Good point - possibly just a limited version of this, although I don’t know how they’d handle a rolling time window in the vector DB to limit results to just recent stories?

Wow, thanks so much for the succinct and informative summary. I’m an owner of multiple SONOS speakers and am enraged by how these changes have effectively crippled my devices that I spent much hard-earned cash on. I am beginning to despair. I hope and pray they can just roll back half of them.

I suspect it’s all related to centralisation and control and subscriptions to radio services and profit however so I won’t hold my breath. Most enshittifcation has profit at its root. :-(