f_allwein

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Social scientist, Professor for Digital Transformation with IU International University of Applied Sciences.
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Comment · 8 days ago
Not connecting the TV itself to any WiFi/ LAN networks used to help. Is that not the case anymore?
Comment · 1 month ago
Fun fact: The iPhone Duo‘s outer display is 5.4 inch, just like the iPhone mini. Ok, with different proportions.
Comment · 4 months ago
Realistic costs of owning a car are around 1.000€ per month - see https://assets.adac.de/Autodatenbank/Autokosten/autokostenue... (pdf, German, look for Gesamtkosten (total cost))

Wherever I tell this to people here in Germany, they are good at pointing out why their car is the exception.

Comment · 4 months ago
> While critics will question the feasibility of this vision because it relies on a radical reform of global financial institutions and massive wealth taxes – both of which have long been dismissed as unthinkable by rich countries – there can be no worthwhile assessment of its value without considering the far bleaker options offered by the far right and the old left.
Comment · 5 months ago
Also, who carries a Bluetooth speaker on a plane? And for what purpose?
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
No.

Takes decades to build/ projects run over time and budget/ where would you build?/ where would you store nuclear waste (bonus points for: in your region)?/ contributes little to global energy mix atm/ uranium is limited. Where do you get it from? Etc

Comment · 6 months ago
I have another one:

What is lost when you put any of these in an LLM?

Yes, we can get plausible sounding answers generated algorithmically. But these are great starting points for humans to develop their own thinking.

My university, LSE, asked all students to write exam essays by hand ~10 years ago. Wonder how it is done at Oxford today.

Comment · 6 months ago
maybe “The Only Way to Win is Not to Play”
Comment · 6 months ago
> Jobs saw the Apple Store not so much as a retail outlet but as a church for evangelizing to the unconverted. He wanted the world to know that Apple’s simple but powerful tools would give people access to whatever stirred their passions—photos, songs, movies—and help them create these things on their own.
Comment · 6 months ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing! I really want to like the Vision Pro, but haven’t even tried it yet. Hope it will evolve into something good.

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