Probstisms

Category: Technology

  • The video and audio sync between Marquee and WSCR on MLB.TV is exceptional tonight. Always great to be able to watch the game while listening to Pat and Ron and hearing the ball hit the catcher’s glove in perfect harmony.

  • I haven’t seen too many banks go down the Google path. Very interesting.

    Lloyds Banking Group accelerates AI development with Google Cloud

  • The NBC Sports apps on iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS have had an incredibly frustrating bug for years, and it is beyond me how they have not fixed this yet.

    All of the apps consistently lose their connections to our TV provider and throw an error requiring me to re-authenticate before watching content. None of the other apps that use our TV provider have this issue so I know it is a problem with the way NBCUniversal has implemented the connection. This seems like something that can easily be fixed with a bit of effort.

    Perhaps NBCUniversal Media can borrow some resources from Peacock TV to improve the user experience of the NBCUniversal apps.

  • It seems a bit short-sighted on Apple’s part to only provide support for the excellent Apple Sports app on the iPhone. With their larger screens, there is massive potential for incredible user experiences on the iPad and Mac, and it seems logical to add similar experiences to the TV app on the Apple TV. It would be great to filter down for My Teams, My Leagues, or specific conferences or leagues when trying to find a game or tournament.

    With these features being so seemingly obvious, I can only assume they are on Apple’s roadmap or backlog. Let’s hope so anyway.

  • Very thankful for archives like the Internet Archive and all of the other repositories of human knowledge that have made it possible to learn from and understand history.

    A peek inside the busy home of the Internet Archive : NPR

  • As a product professional, I will never understand the decisions Netflix has made in its support of each streaming platform. Go to where the users are. Embrace the platforms they’ve chosen for their homes. Provide a comfortable, consistent, predictable experience.

    I know my family would discover and watch a lot more Netflix content if it integrated with the Apple TV app. www.macrumors.com

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    I haven’t changed my blogging platform in 20 years, but my patience is running thin. It might be time to resurrect my @RapidWeaver@indieapps.space site!

  • For all of you desperately waiting for Apple to bring smart cameras and smart doorbells to market, you’re going to be disappointed. Apple entering these markets makes very little sense especially if the reasoning is to get more people to use HomeKit instead of Amazon or Google. The obtainable market is just too small to invest enough capital in creating the best products in their respective categories.

    The more likely play, in my opinion, is that Apple will license their technologies like Face ID and Siri to vendors already in these markets. It is not much of a stretch to expect acquisitions of some top vendors like ecobee that already embraced HomeKit.

    The one thing we know for sure is that Apple will find a way to surprise and hopefully delight us with whatever they do.

    Apple’s new Home products will challenge a long-standing Apple rule, here’s why

  • In my experience working on AI, ML, and GenAI experiments in the financial technology context, the most difficult challenge to overcome is providing the human end user with an evidence package that fully explains how and why the AI/ML/GenAI agent came to its conclusion.

    Especially in the lending space, bankers have been unwilling to implement models they cannot fully explain to their regulators. There has to be a level of certainty that the borrower is a good risk when committing to lending money. Makes sense, right?

    It seems to me that the Israeli military is being less conservative in their use of AI in life and death situations than banks are being in using the same technologies in lending money. This is a serious problem.

    I strongly believe AI technologies will fully transform the way humanity interacts with machines, but this should be a cautionary tale for all militaries and companies looking to implement solutions with AI. We need to be able to explain what these agents are doing before we turn over too much of the decision-making responsibilities to machines.

    Israel built an ‘AI factory’ for war. It unleashed it in Gaza.

  • Well, this is completely insane and amazing all at the same time. It’s like science fiction, but it is freaking real. If we can fly a spacecraft 3.9 million miles from a star, we can do anything.

    Seriously, everything is possible!

    On Christmas Eve, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe got closer than ever to the sun