Scoring books – Manu

I think Netflix got it right with its thumbs-up, thumbs-down system, with the extra option to give something two thumbs up if you really liked it. Anything more complex than that feels a bit like overkill to me because what’s the difference between 3-star and 3.5-star books? I’m asking because I genuinely don’t know.

I did not put a rating system on my bookshelf for the same damn reason. If I don’t like a book I simply will not finish it. There are far too many books in the world to spend your time on one you are not enjoying. I think I will implement this system.

Meta AI funnels AI videos from creators into new ‘Vibes’ feed by Elissa Welle

On Thursday, Meta AI launched a new feed of short-form, AI-generated videos called Vibes. The feed is designed to encourage users to remix AI-generated videos that come from “creators and communities,” the company said. Users can post their own AI-generated videos to Vibes or cross-post the videos across Meta’s platforms for friends and followers to see.

This has never sat well with me.

Would you watch robots play football?

What’s the point of this? This just cements my views on the quality of things on Meta’s platforms. There’s no value.

Also I hate the word content.

Humanoid robots are Meta’s next ‘AR-size bet’ by Alex Heath

He said that Meta’s new Superintelligence AI lab is collaborating with the robotics group to build a “world model” that can “do the software simulation required to animate a dexterous hand.” (Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis has also talked frequently about his goal of building a world model that brings spatial awareness to AI.) The “sensor loop doesn’t exist” for a humanoid to be able to gingerly fetch a set of keys out of a jeans pocket like a human could, Bosworth explained. “So you have to build that data set.”

But why?

“The Funeral”

I wondered if my cousins thought my mother was dramatic as she cried, after all, she had not seen them in years. Perhaps she was sad for herself, or sad in the way people are when they realize the end is coming and all the people they have known in their lives are marching in a line toward the edge of the cliff, falling off one by one.

I enjoyed reading this. This is not a fantastical story. You don’t see stories like this so much these days.

Microsoft says this new cooling method could enable more powerful chips and efficient data centers by Justine Calma

With microfluidic cooling, liquid flows through channels etched onto the back of a chip. The trick is making sure the channels, about the width of a human hair, are deep enough to prevent clogging but not so deep that the chip becomes more likely to break.

Two things here -

1. Since the coolant does not need to cool the metal stuck to the chip, it does not need to be as colder. So less energy.
2. During spike in demands, you could overclock, instead of scale so less machines, possibly.

OpenAI has added a new feature (or new to me) called previews. For me, what it shows is a web preview of my website, a snapshot of the changes I could expect to see on the page it is working on.

It’s excellent. Now I don’t have to wait for the build to complete. Even though the build overall is pretty fast.

Ghost of Yōtei is exactly the kind of game PlayStation needs by Andrew Webster

Things have been weird for PlayStation of late. After years spent cultivating an image akin to the HBO of video games through single-player franchises like The Last of Us, God of War, and Horizon Zero Dawn, the company shifted focus, jumping on the live-service bandwagon to mostly disastrous effect. Aside from a few standouts and a number of remasters, those beloved single-player games have slowed to a trickle: which is what makes Ghost of Yōtei so notable. Like its predecessor Ghost of Tsushima, it’s an attempt by studio Sucker Punch to merge the freedom of an open-world game with the style and drama of a classic samurai movie. More importantly, it’s exactly the kind of game that PlayStation needs more of.

This release snuck up on me.

For this year, I had two titles to play - DS2 and Ghost of Yotei.

I have started playing DS2. But progress is slow. I just don’t have the time. Once DS2 is done, I will start with Ghost.

I had thought I would finish DS2, by the time Ghost released, but here we are!