624: Do Less Math in Computers

30/01/2025 1h 52min Episodio 624

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🗣️ New ATP Movie Club Special! Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Follow-up:


Honda Prologue vs. GM equivalents (via Matt Rigby)
Apple insists it’s still going to make fetch happen ship next-generation CarPlay
Handheld gaming PCs are having a moment


Lenovo Legion Go S

Ryan London is trolling John


Black
Brown

John has so much RAM, he can’t even remember how much he has
Hyperspace scrolling updates


AppKit vs. WebKit
NSCell vs. NSTableViewCell
Every UUID
Writing down every UUID

Not all phone jacks are created equal (via John Haydon)
Casey’s notification/LED project


Garage door ↔ home assistant was already sorted


Home Assistant Nice G.O. integration
ratgdo

ESP32


ESPHome

Did you know you can just straight-up cut some LED strips‽ (via Kiel Olesen)


WS2812B
Candy buttons

Historical commission application process
Switch replacement options:


HomeSeer HS-WX300 (via Drew Stephens)
Inovelli Smart Dimmer (via everyone, including Drew Stephens)



DeepSeek causes a tech stock sell-off


Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber
Ben Thompson’s FAQ
DeepSeek-V3 paper
DeepSeek distilled GPT-4o?
R1 is more open than OpenAI


OpenAI’s justification for hiding chain of thought

Interview with DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng
R1 censorship


Example 1
Example 2 (via Greg Pierce)
Example 3 (via Gruber)
Prompt engineering
The Questions the Chinese Government Doesn’t Want DeepSeek AI to Answer
Self-hosted doesn’t seem to censor


Post-show: Marco wants to do some local web development


x86 images on Apple Silicon

Members-only ATP Overtime: Sonos Shakeup


Sonos CEO Patrick Spence exits ✌️
…and also Chief Product Officer Maxime Boulat-Merlin ✌️
…and also Chief Commercial Officer Deidre Findlay
Wall Street Journal coverage
The Last King of Scotland



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