Peter Gabriel's "Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ" is his seminal work, IMHO. Just an amazing piece of work. Bought the original CD in 1989, and got the SACD version recently. get goosebumps when playing the tracks at DSF64 resolution via roon. the track "A different drum", is truly inspired.
agreed. using my locally hosted LLM, created a skill on OpenClaw to export data from sfdc and build my weekly sales report, complete with charts, summary of deals, meddpicc updates. some small tweaking required to be 100% production ready, but already saved about 4-5 hours of my weekly time spend on this.
this plus a whole bunch of other skills (credit card payments notification and itemization/spend tracking, utilities (power/water) anomalies monitoring, daily solar power generation tracking and solar battery health checks, homelab maintenance (apt upgrades, storage cleanups, etc), media management, UPS battery health tracking, NAS disk heath tracking, etc).
I believe OpenClaw is start of a new genre of "always on" personal assistant/agent (tied to a "skills" store) that handles all the drudgery of daily living. you get back something genuinely precious which is the headspace to focus on the work only you can do. with OpenClaw, we are currently at the "Visicalc" stage and I'm excited where this will eventually lead.
apple is basically a services company pretending to be a hardware company.
Its services business runs at roughly 75% gross margin, while hardware sits around 36 to 37%. That tells you where the real money is.
in many ways, all the Apple devices exist to feed the services engine. The hardware pulls people into the ecosystem, and the services generate the profits.
the Neo is probably a bit of a loss leader. Once you factor in manufacturing tooling capex, distribution, shipping, marketing, and all the other costs, Apple is likely not making much on the device itself. But every new Neo buyer who enters the Apple ecosystem will probably spend at least $50 or more on Apple services (icloud, music, movies, apps, etc) over time. (i have several friends who are buying neo as their personal content consumption device, abandoning their current ipads)
my estimate (which is why i'm still holding aapl): Services hits roughly $275-300B by FY2035, representing about 35-40% of Apple's total revenue (up from 26% today), with gross margins staying in the 74-76% range. At that point, Services alone would generate more gross profit than the entire company does today. that is where the real payoff comes from.
"uncrewed combat aircraft"? it is basically an autonomous drone that is trained to act like a wingman. Just a natural evolution of where military drones are heading.
Hmm, isn't manufacturing the elephant in the room here. What am I missing. The HC1 is built on TSMC’s N6 process with an 815 mm² die. TSMC’s capacity is already heavily allocated to major customers such as NVIDIA, AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm.
A startup cannot easily secure large wafer volumes because foundry allocation is typically driven by long term revenue commitments. the supply side cannot scale quickly. Building new foundry capacity takes many years. TSMC’s Arizona fab has been under development since 2021 and is still not producing at scale. Samsung’s Texas fab and Intel’s Ohio project face similar long timelines. Expanding semiconductor production requires massive construction, EUV equipment from ASML, yield tuning, and specialized workforce training.
Even if demand for hardwired AI chips surged, the manufacturing ecosystem would take close to a decade to respond.
older processes would not be feasible due to hard physics constraint: die size. The weights have to physically fit on the chip. At 6nm, an 8B parameter model already takes up 815mm², which is roughly the maximum size for any process. At 28nm, that same model would require a chip roughly 20x larger in area, which is physically impossible on a single die. So older nodes work fine for very small edge-case models (think embedded AI, IoT, voice assistants), but anything resembling a capable LLM needs at least N6/N7-class density just to fit.
Talaas' best case exit scenario is to get bought out by Intel, AMD, Qualcomm or Nvidia, and even automotive chip guys like NXP (automotive/robotics offline use will likely be major area of application for this). if the Taalas HC1 Technology Demonstrator is actually working and producing the results they are publicly claiming, I'm assuming there is a steady stream of visitors from silicon valley and elsewhere at their toronto offices.
Same. Equally comfortable on Windows, Mac and Linux. But almost almost all new hardware choices for the last 25 plus years have been mostly from Apple. The old Macs don't really die, even as I replace them with faster models, so my house is slowly becoming an Apple/Mac museum, starting with a Mac 512k, Mac CI and Mac LC, and so on, right down to a trash can Mac in the mix, and then to M series Macs. All CPU generations from Apple: 6502 (Apple ][), 68000, 68040 (NeXT) PPC, ARM (Newton, iDevices), Intel and M series. Can't get myself to throw/give/sell them away.
Coming to terms with two uncomfortable truths: I'm a hoarder, and an unapologetically incorrigible Apple fanboi.
The iPhone Halo effect will bring in the first time buyers in droves. Windoze is inherently uncool among the younger Insta demographics.
Also, the Neo is the ultimate iPhone accessory, for this crowd. Who cares if the ram size is 8GB and Tahoe is a certifiable dog, that the vast majority neckbeards here are fretting about here. The Neo is not aimed at you. For Safari, Apple Mail, Photos and iApps, and ocassional Claude/ChatGPT usage, this is plenty good
Roti Telur is basically Egg Paratha. Indian migrants brought Paratha to Malaysia and Singapore, and it underwent some "localization" to suit the local palate, including being drenched in palm oil as it is cooked on the flat griddle. Sure fire way to clog your arteries, if eaten on a daily basis.
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