Episode Details

Table of Contents

• AI and Machine Learning Breakthroughs
  • The universal weight subspace hypothesis
  • Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
  • Epsilon: A WASM virtual machine written in Go
• Design and User Experience
  • Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help
  • No ARIA is better than bad ARIA
• Retail and Robotics
  • Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far
  • IBM to acquire Confluent
• Historical and Cultural Insights
  • The Lost Machine Automats and Self-Service Cafeterias of NYC (2023)
  • A thousand-year-long composition turns 25 (2024)
• Industry Trends and Perspectives
  • Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
  • Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?