New estimates have ChatGPT using 10x less power than previously thought - ”it would actually be more energy efficient for you to have an LLM turn off your furnace than to walk across the house to manually turn the dial.”
[Learning from my mistakes…](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisduncania/p/learning-from-my-mistakes?r=2d4o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false) - It’s tough to monetize content that has near zero value or originality, and be easily pirated. This especially true if the price is wrong. That sort of applies to every product. // “In the end though, you can’t optimise your way out of a black hole, the gravity is too heavy. We were marketing a product at a price point that was material to our customers, and giving them content which was largely available from our competitors for free. All the tweaks in the world couldn’t change that."
One Year With the Vision Pro - Basically, not enough ROI for $3,500.
The Tyranny of Now - ”What Innis saw is that some media are particularly good at transporting information across space, while others are particularly good at transporting it through time. Some are space-biased while others are time-biased. Each medium’s temporal or spatial emphasis stems from its material qualities. Time-biased media tend to be heavy and durable. They last a long time, but they are not easy to move around. Think of a gravestone carved out of granite or marble. Its message can remain legible for centuries, but only those who visit the cemetery are able to read it. Space-biased media tend to be lightweight and portable. They’re easy to carry, but they decay or degrade quickly. Think of a newspaper printed on cheap, thin stock. It can be distributed in the morning to a large, widely dispersed readership, but by evening it’s in the trash.”
The Great AI UI Unification - What’s going on here is a classic power user versus normal user UX problem. I’m probably more power user than normal user. I don’t mind the UX, it’s easy access to docs that explain features that I find annoying. For example, try to do a deep explanation of what’s currently in ChatGPT Pro. There really isn’t. Even more so, last I looked the help page doesn’t list new features like Deep Search. And most ironically of all, if you ask ChatGPT itself, the answers are not great, or accurate. E.g., I asked about using its reminders and it didn’t even know it had them until I fed it to blog post on it. The naming of things is not helpful as well. // Tech companies are terrible about documentation. While obscure, Apple Short Cuts is a great example. Docs for that are terrible, usually non-existent.
Tech continues to be political | Miriam Eric Suzanne - ”I don’t know how to attend conferences full of gushing talks about the tools that were designed to negate me. That feels so absurd to say. I don’t have any interest in trying to reverse-engineer use-cases for it, or improve the flaws to make it “better”, or help sell it by bending it to new uses.”
AI Alone Won’t Drive Revenue - What Are You Missing? - Some light ROI talk.
Why are big tech companies so slow? - Because they build, sell, and support a lot features.
How to add a directory to your PATH - Computers are easy, they said. You just need to read the manual, they said. It’s so intuitive!