For years I have told #Siri to text “my wife” and it has worked perfectly fine. For years
This evening it suddenly breaks. On Watch and phone
How
How is Siri still this incompetently awfully wholly and astoundingly fucking broken and pathetic that something as simple as this can break. How in the goddamned fucking shit can #Apple fuck this the fuck up
“Bill Atkinson may well have been the best computer programmer who ever lived. Without question, he’s on the short list. What a man, what a mind, what gifts to the world he left us.” #Apple #tech https://apple.news/ANqS_GrS-SqWsNmugAcCXDQ
"These insights challenge prevailing assumptions about LRM capabilities and suggest that current approaches may be encountering fundamental barriers to generalizable reasoning."
While it's a bit of a "Well, I could have told you that" style of hypothesis, still interesting to read: #AI #Apple
https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf
Apple’s research reveals LRMs’ limits: excel at medium complexity, fail at high complexity, and struggle with exact computation. 
Source: The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity (@apple machine learning) {https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking{
Thank you Bill for all you’ve done. We’re running MacPaint today at the computer museum.
Jony Ive: *leaves Apple and partners with Sam Altman*
Apple: *releases research paper taking down complex AI reasoning entirely with empirical evidence*
The timing is impeccable, their developer conference starts tomorrow.
Love to see it.
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking
Bill Atkinson's passing the week before WWDC is an unfortunate coincidence, but maybe it'll help reframe the company's enduring legacy on modern computing at a time when the company's leadership has, without question, lost the fucking plot.
Two years ago, I live-posted the WWDC keynote on Mastodon. I was excited to see what the Vision Pro would be.
Last year I sat it out. I had a scheduling conflict and the focus was going to be on AI, about which I couldn’t imagine anything that exciting being shown.
This year? 
There’s a creeping inevitability to most of the things happening around us. Pay attention.
Sunday Morning Reading
with writing from @_Davidsmith
@mathewi
@joshtpm and more.
#SundayMorningReading #politics #tech #Apple #writing #AI #KentState #CSNY
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/06/08/sunday-morning-reading-106/
Ich hasse es, dass #Apple seit #MacOS #Sequoia die #TimeMachine kaputtgemacht hat, aber sie bis jetzt nicht fixen will/kann...
> The last 12 or so years, Apple has given speeches about how much they love developers and then gone on to make changes that felt like they were meant to kill my apps, make them harder to use and harder for customers to discover, and drown us all in rising sea of bugs.
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https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/06/07/wwdc-2025-preview/
#apple #wwdc
How it is possible that #Apple is faster approving my distribution version than the #TestFlight one (same build version)?
Il faut une étude de #Apple pour convaincre la communauté #LLM (en tout cas sur Linkedin) que les LRM ne scalent pas parce qu’ils... n’arrivent pas à résoudre les tours de Hanoï passé une certaine taille.
Si vous ne savez pas, les tours de Hanoï c'est un problème qui sert d’exercice aux étudiants en info. Des solutions informatiques, y en a des chiées sur le net. Mais si on augmente la taille du problème (en nombre de disques), les performances baissent jusqu'à atteindre un 0 flat, même quand on leur donne l’algorithme solution. Apparemment ils abandonnent, c'est trop compliqué.
Un bon résumé (en anglais) par Gary Marcus est donné ici: https://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/a-knockout-blow-for-llms Je partage la conclusion générale: les LLM ne sortent pas de leur données d'entraînement, et on a un argument supplémentaire pour justifier qu’ils ne "résonnent" pas.
On est donc encore loin de l’#IA génerale.
RIP #BillAtkinson (1951–2025). During his time at #Apple, he was central to the development of the graphical user interface of the Lisa and later the Macintosh, and is best known for creating MacPaint, QuickDraw, and HyperCard.
Atkinson is also credited for designing Venice, a chancery script bitmap font. Along with #SusanKare’s designs, it was one the “City” fonts that came with the original #Macintosh. https://fontsinuse.com/type_designers/6337/bill-atkinson
Sad to read that Bill Atkinson has passed away. I was a Commodore kid in those early years of the digital revolution, but my all-time favorite pixel editor, the Amiga's Deluxe Paint ("DPaint"), was inspired by Bill's MacPaint.
If you'd like to (re)try DPaint, there's a great resurrection of it in the shape of @PyDPainter
Ich habe #Thehateugive geschaut und Starr benutzt ein #Samsung Handy. Ist es in #hollywood nicht so dass in #filmen nur die Protagonisten #Iphones benutzen dürfen. Ich glaube aber jemand anders im Film hat ein iPhone genutzt, also kann es ja nicht sein, dass #Apple bei dem #Film einfach nur nichts hu sagen hatte
One of the great heroes in not just Apple history, but computer history, Bill Atkinson, has died at 74 from pancreatic cancer. #obit #RIP #ComputerScience #CS #IT #Technology #ComputerHistory #Apple
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/07/bill-atkinson-rip
Warning. It comes as a text message.
Apple Insider: A new scam is targeting iPhone users with fake traffic fines https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/06/06/a-new-scam-is-targeting-iphone-users-with-fake-traffic-fines @appleinsider @andrewornot #Apple #scam #cybersecurity #Infosec #phishing
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