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The Flatirons are such a unique foothills, they're instantly recognizable.

Over the holidays I intend to build (or fork NetNewsWire TBH) an RSS reader app that uses the Apple on-device models (or BYOK) to summarize and prioritize articles - my very own personalized algorithmic feed. Curious to see how it turns out.

Anyone else already tried something similar?

My takeaway from the demo is less that "it's different each time", but more a "it can be different for different users and their styles of operating" - a poweruser can now see a different Settings UI than a basic user, and it can be generated realtime based on the persona context of the user.

Example use case (chosen specifically for tech): An IDE UI that starts basic, and exposes functionality over time as the human developer's skills grow.

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I’ve built something for a solution that takes you most of the way there, using Semgrep’s SARIF output and prompted LLMs to help prioritize triage.

We’ve used this for the past year at Microsoft to help prioritize the “most likely interesting” 5% of a large set of results for human triage. It works quite well…

https://github.com/247arjun/ai-secure-code-review

As part of solving a code review exercise in a large inventory of code, I resorted to using Static Analysis + LLMs to capture and summarize, analyze code. The approach yielded useful results, and made me rethink SAST rule patterns.

Does anyone know where it stores GGUFs on macOS?

I just read the entire Chapter 3 of your O'Reilly book "TinyML" and LOVED how you've made the big-picture of ML training and inference approachable.

I will likely not read any further (since this isn't my area of expertise), but am grateful for the knowledge gained from that chapter. Thank you for putting in the time and energy in sharing this. Much appreciated!

The AppleTV remote exists. That currently uses a Lightning port.

Microsoft has a “Democracy Forward” team (previously called “Defending Democracy”) that aims to protect government officials and systems from adversarial state actors. It’s been ongoing for a few years now.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/dem...

Check out “Fenix” (3rd party client on Apple platforms) - it mimics the multi-column view, but is more flexible; a list can be a Twitter list, a search query etc.

TOO SOON!

"... friction for those few people who aren't always connected to their e-mail system."

I'm not sure the size of this population is well understood to be able to label them as "few" - it may be few for a given set of services, but may be many for a different set of services.

Except, that doesn't happen like you described it. A process can "prevent sleep", at which point closing the lid will still leave the laptop running (you can view apps/processes that do this in Activity Monitor - there is a separate column titled "Preventing sleep").

http://www.chriswrites.com/mac-refusing-sleep-figure-whats-k...

Whoa! You seem like a very enthusiastic person interested in sharing your knowledge and expertise, and watching said knowledge blossom, manifested in new ideas. That's pretty neat!

Have you tried looking for any meetups that draw people of a similar mindset? Microsoft has a "Maker Garage" which may have some openings to get 'tinkerers' in to teach to youngsters. What about schools? Have you tried asking if you can present to a class or two about Electronics as a future career path?

What about electronics do you like? What is your "formal education" (not that it matters, but I'm curious as to where you found your love for electronics).

Hi Alan. What are your thoughts on how rapidly GUIs are evolving nowadays? Many apps/services revamp their UI fairly often and this oftentimes hurts muscle memory for people who have just about gotten a workflow routine figured out.

Also, what big UI changes do you foresee in the next 10 years - or would like to see. Thanks.

Wouldn't an example of a truly random number generator be to open up a pseudo random webpage (say something like www.engadget.com/page/<pseudo_random_number>) and do a modulo count of the number of whitespace separated words/tokens?