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624: Do Less Math in Computers

Accidental Tech Podcast

Jan 30, 2025•2 hr 53 min•Transcript available on Metacast

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🗣️ New ATP Movie Club Special! Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Follow-up:
- Honda Prologue vs. GM equivalents (via Matt Rigby)
- Apple insists it’s still going to make fetch happen ship next-generation CarPlay
- Handheld gaming PCs are having a moment
  - Lenovo Legion Go S
- Ryan London is trolling John
  - Black
  - Brown
- John has so much RAM, he can’t even remember how much he has
- Hyperspace scrolling updates
  - AppKit vs. WebKit
  - NSCell vs. NSTableViewCell
  - Every UUID
  - Writing down every UUID
- Not all phone jacks are created equal (via John Haydon)
- Casey’s notification/LED project
  - Garage door ↔ home assistant was already sorted
    - Home Assistant Nice G.O. integration
    - ratgdo
  - ESP32
    - ESPHome
  - Did you know you can just straight-up cut some LED strips‽ (via Kiel Olesen)
    - WS2812B
    - Candy buttons
  - Historical commission application process
  - Switch replacement options:
    - HomeSeer HS-WX300 (via Drew Stephens)
    - Inovelli Smart Dimmer (via everyone, including Drew Stephens)
DeepSeek causes a tech stock sell-off
- Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber
- Ben Thompson’s FAQ
- DeepSeek-V3 paper
- DeepSeek distilled GPT-4o?
- R1 is more open than OpenAI
  - OpenAI’s justification for hiding chain of thought
- Interview with DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng
- R1 censorship
  - Example 1
  - Example 2 (via Greg Pierce)
  - Example 3 (via Gruber)
  - Prompt engineering
  - The Questions the Chinese Government Doesn’t Want DeepSeek AI to Answer
  - Self-hosted doesn’t seem to censor
Post-show: Marco wants to do some local web development
- x86 images on Apple Silicon
Members-only ATP Overtime: Sonos Shakeup

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