If Apple released an M-Series AppleTV 4K with sufficient RAM, it would be an AppleTV with Apple Intelligence. It could also be designated as an Apple Home Preferred Home Hub.
The groundwork would then be laid for HomePods and HomePod minis to receive voice queries and respond with Apple Intelligence-powered answers.
My family and I moved to a house with 3/4 acre of land in late 2020. I knew I needed a chainsaw, so I bought a Makita 36V 16-inch saw with four 18V lithium ion batteries.
When I am not using the chainsaw, those batteries power 9 or 10 other tools that are necessary around my house and perform very well. The charger I got with the chainsaw package charges two 18V batteries as fast as they can be safely charged.
Around this same time, I bought a Honda gasoline-powered mower. The reason I went with a gasoline-powered mower and lithium ion power tools for other purposes was running time.
At the time, the gasoline powered mower was the only one available that would run for the time I need to cut the entire lawn.
Now, most of the lithium ion-powered tool brands have 40V/80V systems that are more powerful than their 18V/36V product line. If I needed to replace the Honda gas-powered mower, I'd probably consider an 80V lithium ion mower.
But most of the tools I already own couldn't use the 40V batteries, so I'd want to consider buying at least one other tool that powerful in order to capture greater value in the new battery and charger investment.
>Around this same time, I bought a Honda gasoline-powered mower.
Get a robot, it trashes pretty much any other mowing equipment if the terrain allows it. Extremely low maintenance (time), virtually no noise whatsover. You also get perfectly even lawn at all times.
Based on personal experience having: a gas mower, gas a brushcutter, a battery strimmer, and the robot. Since the property is not that large, you would not need a riding mower or a zero-turnaround.
I think a lot of tech companies are getting lost in a situation where Venture Capitalists ideally want to invest in companies that will eventually fit in the large capitalization growth stock category. But many tech companies will never fit that model.
Squarespace is an example of a company that was never going to fit that model, for a host of reasons.
Furthermore, if a company is highly unlikely or never going to become a large cap growth stock, providing extra working capital, acquiring ancillary services, funding additional advertising and marketing, will not change those prospects. Only revolutionary increases in functionality will.
I have used both SQL and NoSQL databases in the cloud. My sense of the situation at the moment is that some NoSQL databases have begun to focus on AI and LLM applications, apparently in order to provide scalable storage to these applications, which can be used for things like the persistence of state across many interactions.
However, there are always going to be legions of use cases for traditional database use, and the question continues to be, should everything that could need to scale massively use a NoSQL backend, or can some applications get by with something that looks like a traditional SQL architecture in 99+% of cases?
I think that many applications could be constructed with a NoSQL database as the backend for applications that are primarily reading content, while the applications that require the greatest access to CRUD functionality could interact with a SQL database using connection pooling to minimize resource utilization or latency at scale.
With this in mind, I could see applications where editing the backend is done in a SQL-based version of the database, while rendering content from the backend is done against a NoSQL version of the same database. There would probably be some momentary differences between the two, but the interface between the SQL and NoSQL version of the database could be a pipeline and therefore, could be optimized.
The reason I subscribe to Sirius/XM is for simulcasts of news and business channels, listening to live sports events (while driving or not in front of a TV), and some of the music genre channels that are hosted by DJs, in that order.
I am switching my subscription from satellite to streaming because I will save a pretty significant portion of the monthly fee, I stream everything else I listen to or watch at home, in the office, or in the car, and the CarPlay experience is much better when you are using 100% streaming audio.
Wouldn't this cover the situation where a lawyer who worked for a firm who brought suit on Madison Square Garden Entertainment was prohibited from watching a show at Radio City Music Hall because she was identified by facial recognition?
One thing that appears to be unmentioned in this journal article is the explosion of nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other medical professionals with "different" educational and training standards.
The impact that these people have had on primary and specialty care disciplines in the United States is huge, with both good and bad implications for cost control and quality of care.
One could argue that the explosion of nurse practitioners has had a greater recent impact in these fields than the near tripling of osteopathic medicine graduates over the 25 years covered in the article.
The cost aspect is overblown. NPs and the other alphabet soup of primary care providers charge almost the same as an MD. And the quality of care isn’t the same. You end up getting the general “pop a Tylenol” or “I’ll give you a referral to a specialist” for the money you pay, which either makes the problems worse and/or expensive anyway.
Speaking as an MD, I think a distinction should be drawn between specialist and generalist midlevels. Specialists, and I include midwives here, do an actual residency and are usually excellent on the practical aspects. As a resident I learned a lot of my orthopedics from PA orthos, who were sharp cookies and in their field were highly useful adjuncts to the ortho surgeons for the bread and butter like uncomplicated fractures and surgical assists.
On the other hand, generalist midlevels have no explicit residency and even long-time midlevels who never really got any proper oversight can be nightmares. On internal medicine hospital call we used to groan when the urgent care paged us because we were always cleaning up their messes. I can't see how that saved any money or yielded equivalent outcomes.
I generally agree. There are some scenarios where NPs or PAs are useful. Some may even be good. My personal experience has found them lacking... multiple times. And the charge has been the same since the practice is the one billing and charges the same whether you see a doctor or other provider.
That has been my experience too. The only time I book appointments with NPs is when I know I need a specialist and want to skip the whole dance of “let’s do some tests and then determine that you need a specialist who will order the same tests”. It’s a cheat code to get better healthcare by working with the system.
That's something interesting I've found over my much time sitting in hospitals. It seems like NPs are just Drs lite edition. But I question if we need all the training we currently have for doctors I remember reading a SSC article about how they don't require undergrad degrees in many countries and their drs. perform at the same levels.
Seems like in the US we just brought in NPs to fill the gaps instead.
The groundwork would then be laid for HomePods and HomePod minis to receive voice queries and respond with Apple Intelligence-powered answers.