“Just over half of Amazon Fresh stores are equipped with Just Walk Out. The technology allows customers to skip checkout altogether by scanning a QR code when they enter the store. Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped.”
I know we've all decided as a society that we don't like phone calls anymore. And I get it. I don't make a lot of calls anymore either. But I've made a ton of calls over the past two days as I prepare to lease a new apartment. And it turns out that sometimes a phone call can be way more efficient than emails, texts, or poorly designed websites.
Pro tip: If you’re giving a half day presentation at a fancy Microsoft tech center, the time to tell the attendees that your app requires Chrome, and in fact is seriously broken in Edge, isn’t halfway through the lab session.🙄
On this week's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, one of the limericks rhymed "doll" with "haul". I think I speak for all Philadelphians when I say a) I don't have an accent and b) those words don't rhyme. #philly
@wordshaper@pdcawley Lightning cables are inexpensive and light, and I've already got a bunch. As long as there are no other technical differences, I've got no problem at all carrying 2 cables around instead of one.
@waltman@pdcawley Eh, it's easier when traveling to have fewer types of cables to deal with. And I have cables scattered around the house, as one does, and if I could pare back on the different kinds of connectors that'd be great.
Not enough reason to do much past grumble, of course. The transition will happen eventually, just maybe a year later than I'd hoped.
Whenever somebody describes an LLM getting something factually but convincingly wrong as “hallucinations”, I would like the ability to send them a painful electric shock. That should be doable, right? ⚡️ ⚡️ ⚡️