chintan's comments

Kinda funny - agentic flight booking was the poster use case for Semantic Web Services [1] 2001-2005. The whole thing collapsed because no one could agree on inputs/outputs (RDF/XML, ontologies). Now LLMs just wing it from plain text.

1. http://ksl.stanford.edu/people/sam/ieee01.pdf

I ran XPS Developer Edition (Ubuntu) for 5+ years without any issues.

Using Framework for past year - every day I have to reboot because it freezes with 20+ Firefox tabs (Ubuntu 22.04, AMD). Tried all options (disable vGPU etc) but no luck.

The iOS Mail app has gotten so bad. It shows errors for no reason whatosover. The other day I typed a message and hit sent (and status showed all synced) but it was not sent and not even in draft.

Any recommendations for an alternative?

As per the Ramayana (Hindu mythology), Hanuman (the monkey God) had set the city of Lanka on fire. https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/questions/15588/why-did-h...

Just a strange coincidence.

What if my "AI Character" says things that are offensive or insensitive or considered rude by someone in some culture? I can see this making headlines with a <Celeb/Politician> AIs offending someone...

This is real. We got severely hit by their bots causing our service to go unresponsive.

Had the exact same experience. One of the car dealerships told me that I still have to get a 6 month "service" where they move around battery packs (why?). And secondly, I remembered how I hated talking to car salesmen.

Imagine the amount of solar they could put on the roof tops of those warehouses to offset the costs

"Google One AI Premium" - I just spilled my coffee reading this... I dont know what this is?

Happy satisfied user of your app! Love all the imagery! Thank You!

Now what could go wrong? 4 dots becomes 3 dots...[1]

1). Silicon Valley - Finale S6E7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Y77jSSHGU

What about the "profile" (i.e. the model) of me that is created based on the history? i.e. https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated?hl=en

I'd think thats more valuable - raw data would not really be necessary unless they need to re-learn things.

Great initiative! There needs to be more effort towards streamlining these trials.

At TrialX [1], we also launched Covid Labs Initiative to Hack The Pandemic [2] by bringing together hackers in Clinical Trials informatics space - Drop us a note [email protected] if interested.

We are seeing an unprecedented activity on-the-ground at various orgs[3,4,5] where we power the clinical trials recruitment. There is a huge interest in patient/volunteer community. Any effort to streamline and accelerate would be welcome.

1. https://trialx.com

2. https://trialx.com/covid-labs/

3. https://www.pennmedicine.org/coronavirus/covid-19-clinical-t...

4. https://www.centerwatch.com/covid-19-treatment-information

5. https://clinicaltrials.med.nyu.edu/clinicaltrials/?keyword=C...

It is not necessary that my billing and shipping be same. I might order to ship elsewhere

Here is my anecdata on Apple Pay and why I stopped using it altogether:

Once I used Apple Pay from my phone to pay on a third-party website, it showed a nice popover on Safari and it automagically used my address from my info as the SHIPPING address. Neat but the address was my old address, so I edited and changed the SHIPPING address to my new address. I press OK. Then Checkout.

I see that order was shipped to my old/incorrect address. The vendor said this is the address they received. I remember changing and updating the address on the APPLE PAY popover.

I called Apple as I had entered the correct address on APPLE PAY popover, they said may be the website vendor implemented it incorrectly, there are millions of websites using Apple Pay and they CANNOT/DO NOT check those integrations. This was a breach of trust. I entered my information on a pop-over shown on Apple iPhone by Apple iOS and not the third-party website.

Bottomline: Either Apple takes full responsibility of the data entry or leave it to third-party. Else consumers are stuck in limbo

Hundreds of organizations, including ours, rely on Rocket.Chat for their internal messaging. It all went down when a release was pushed and snap decided to auto-update [1] I can imagine it resulted in a huge loss of productivity at all these orgs in the Covid era.

Just learnt from this thread that apt-install will install snap! I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 + i3 (Dell Developer Edition) but will change to Debian.

[1]. https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/17628

There is an entire new class of species breeding over there: "Artificial Humans" [1]: A quantum state thing that may or may not be a real human. You can never tell. This is beyond Turing test. A real human behaving as bot or vice versa.

[1]. https://trialx.com/blog/google-play-bans-our-covid-app-built...

Our Covid app was built for a local Govt in India with all official documentation and yet it was banned and no explanation.

We got banned even after producing documentation from government - https://trialx.com/blog/google-play-bans-our-covid-app-built...

Nice. seems Deno is an anagram of Node.