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I talk to a lot of non-tech friends and sometimes ask about AI. Most of them still use ChatGPT like it is a better Google. Most don't know it can work well with documents, PDFs, Slides, Sheets, or do advanced analytics, etc.

Much less do they know the thing can build software and maintain it, manage complex tasks daily, automate things, etc.

Then there's a handful that do follow closely AI developments and agents and who have started using them.

A friend of mine this weekend who is an award winning photographer and who has been selling photography courses online forever has told me he's used Muse to: 1) Automate chopping up his long form videos, add captions, and post them as Reels to Instagram. Several of these have gotten over a million views. 2) Automate handling DM reachouts, converting them into sales. He's up to several tens of thousands of dollars in sales from AI direct message conversions that he would otherwise not have been able to convert (too many DMs to handle, he'd have to hire/train sales people to basically just do DMs full time at scale otherwise and it would make no economical sense) 3) Automate all his customer service for handling any issues, refunds, support, etc.

And I personally think he's still just scratching the surface of what he could do.

I feel we are really at the beginning of a new era. When the internet started most people were just using it for e-mail and news, maybe a newsletter chain here and there and some early forums. Social Media didn't appear for well over a decade, popular Web 2.0 apps like Google Maps, GMail, YouTube, Netflix, etc didn't appear for a long time.

Mainstream hasn't even really begun to adopt AI.

We're gonna need a comparison chart in number of almond milk lattes and/or golf courses. Otherwise what are we even talking about?

The clear mark of someone who's never owned a business and had to find customers to sell their product.

Where are the regulations for PornHub and similar harmful websites?

China is the biggest problem. US Carbon emissions are going down, China's are exploding.

Getting 10 million people to do anything is really, really hard. Getting 10 million people to spend hours scanning a book (which takes a really long time with a home scanner) sounds impossible :(

Don't be a meat proxy.

The ruling did not say that. This has been widely misreported. The books are destroyed because it's much easier and faster to cut off the spine and use a sheet fed scanner. Non destructive scanners are much slower.

Which book is that exactly? I'm finding lots of calculus book for "Stewart's Calculus" :(

I'm not sure how I feel about this wave of US protectionism, but if it continues for long it is becoming a massive opportunity for anyone who can start a manufacturing company.

Do not use the development http server in a production setting. Use gunicorn or some equivalent.

I had the same issue with incredibly low throughput on beefy machines and it's because the dev server implementation is single threaded and does not do concurrency at all.

Switch to gunicorn.