TechpadinTech News Geoffrey Hinton Won a Nobel and It's Weirder Than It Sounds Geoffrey Hinton just won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the neural network work he now spends most of his public life warning people about, and that contradiction is the whole story. October 21, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTutorials Running Llama 3.2 on My Laptop (And Nearly Cooking It) I got Meta's small Llama 3.2 model running locally with Ollama, roasted my fanless MacBook Air in the process, and thought about whether a cheap VPS would be a saner place to run it. October 15, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Booster Catch, Watched Through a Buffering Stream Watching SpaceX catch the Super Heavy booster with the launch tower's arms yesterday, buffering livestream and all, and why the no-legs decision is the sane engineering call, not the crazy one. October 14, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Watching a Rocket Get Caught by Chopsticks Before My Coffee Went Cold I watched SpaceX catch a Starship booster with giant mechanical arms this morning and let my coffee go stone cold in the process. October 13, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTutorials A Weekend With OpenAI's Realtime API I spent the weekend hooking my home voice assistant project into OpenAI's new Realtime API from DevDay, and it's fast, a little unsettling, and not cheap. October 6, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal I Preordered the Color Kindle I preordered Amazon's new color-screen Kindle Colorsoft for $279.99 and have complicated feelings about the price, the color, and eight years of "almost here" E Ink promises. October 4, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Talking to My Phone Like It's a Person Now Advanced Voice Mode finally hit my ChatGPT app this week — first impressions from a morning of talking to it while making coffee, plus the one big thing it still can't do. September 26, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News iOS 18's Photos App Redesign Is Not It A few days into iOS 18, the new Photos app redesign is driving me up the wall even though RCS finally showing up for green-bubble texts almost makes up for it. September 18, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Spacewalk Nobody Built An Airlock For SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew did the first commercial spacewalk today, and Crew Dragon doesn't even have an airlock. Some notes from watching the livestream instead of working. September 12, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Ad Tech Trial Nobody Watched This Week While everyone was watching Apple's iPhone 16 event, the DOJ's ad tech antitrust trial against Google quietly opened in a Virginia courtroom, and the plumbing it's exposing is wilder than another camera bump. September 10, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The AirPods Feature Nobody's Talking About Apple's September 9th event invite dropped this week, but the part actually worth talking about is the AirPods Pro 2 hearing aid feature buried underneath it. September 4, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Cleaning Out the Drafts Folder A Labor Day spent cleaning out a decade of abandoned blog drafts, plus some scattered thoughts on Apple's "Glowtime" invite and the astronauts still stuck up on the ISS. September 2, 2024·4 min read
