> Last weekend I tried building an iOS app for pet feeding reminders from scratch.
Just start smaller. I'm not sure why people try to jump immediately to creating an entire app when they haven't even gotten any net-positive results at all yet. Just start using it for small time saving activities and then you will naturally figure out how to gradually expand the scope of what you can use it for.
Regarding the window manager and Finder; I had a better experience with the Windows equivalents way back on Windows 2k or even Windows 98 more than quarter century ago. Truly baffling.
Yes, even the Windows 98 Explorer with IE integration (let's load a JPG of clouds to the left of the file detail pane) was better than modern equivalents. In Windows 10 (or was it 7?) they introduced a stupid column view in detail view that became focused with tab, so you couldn't just tab between the 3 places of directory list, file pane, address bar.
They also added stupid "quick launch" areas with places nobody went, like "3D Objects", and reduced the menu area to a "grope and find a button" ribbon.
The older Explorers were usable like File Manager on Windows 3.11 was: address bars that were usable from the keyboard and mouse (no subdivision buttons for parts of the path), acceptable launch speed, and no extra "features" that were unnecessary (like it ignoring "use same view for all folders" when your directory happens to have MP3s in it - it'll switch to showing rating / bitrate etc.)
I believe all developers should use older versions of the software to see how usable they were in comparison to the modern "improvement".
> Quantum computing-enhanced NMR could become a powerful tool in drug discovery, helping determine how potential medicines bind to their targets, or in materials science for characterizing the molecular structure of new materials like polymers, battery components or even the materials that comprise our quantum bits (qubits)
There is a section in the article about future real world application, but I feel like these articles about quantum "breakthroughs" are almost always deliberately packed with abstruse language. As a result I have no sense about whether these suggested real world applications are a few years away or 50+ years away. Does anyone?
> As a result I have no sense about whether these suggested real world applications are a few years away or 50+ years away. Does anyone?
not really. but that doesn't mean it's not worth striving for. Breakthrough to commercial application are notoriously hard to predict. The only way to find out is to keep pushing at the frontier.
> Can you imagine trying to talk to someone face to face, but they are giving you a blank stare as random notifications and tiktok videos are being beamed inbetween their eyeballs and you.
It would be just like in the Dungeon Crawler Carl books (and probably other scifi/fantasy books)
Agree... this is an important blog. People need to press pause on MCP in terms of adoption...it was simply not designed with a solid enough technical foundation that would make it suitable to be an industry standard. People are hyped about it, kind of like they were for LangChain and many other projects, but people are going to gradually (after diving into implementations) that it's not actually what they were looking for..It's basically a hack thrown together by a few people and there are tons of questionable decisions, with websockets being just one example of a big miss.
The Langchain repo is actually hilariously bad if you ever go read the source. I can't believe they raised money with that crap. Right place right time I guess.
Yeah agree. I spent a few hours looking at the langchain repo when it first hit the scene and could not for the life of me understand what value it actually provided. It (at least at the time) was just a series of wrappers and a few poorly thought through data structures. I could find almost no actual business logic.
I made an error trying with aws bedrock where I used "bedrock" instead of "bedrock-runtime".
The native library will give you an error back.
Langchain didn't try and do anything, just kept parsing the json and gave me a KeyError.
I was able to get a small fix, but was surprised they have no error like ConfigurationError that goes across all their backends at all.
The best I could get them to add was ValueError and worked with the devs to make the text somewhat useful.
But was pretty surprised, I'd expect a badly configured endpoint to be the kind of thing that happens when setting stuff up for the first time, relatively often.
There’s a difference between intellectually understanding it, versus actually seeing yourself tossed aside and cast out, while knowing that all the other cogs are already back in motion and pretty much fully adjusted to your absence.
Maybe I missed it, but are there any instructions on how to create them...e.g. how/where to draw the circles? It would be a fun activity with the kids.
"I do not wear my glasses while at the screen, as it's close enough that I don't have any issues."
This could be the problem, especially if you are close to 40 years old. You may be starting to develop presbyopia, which is typical. In the early stages you can still read and focus on closeup things fine, so you may not realize it is starting, but in the background your eyes are, in fact, straining a lot and causing headaches.
> For a group that applies rationalism, they appear to have ended up committing very horrible and irrational acts.
Yes, also ironic how they were, per the article, very intrigued by the concept that ideas themselves could be like viruses but were unaware of how they seemed to be heavily impacted by that very thing, many times over.
Just start smaller. I'm not sure why people try to jump immediately to creating an entire app when they haven't even gotten any net-positive results at all yet. Just start using it for small time saving activities and then you will naturally figure out how to gradually expand the scope of what you can use it for.