Appreciate this article...shows some interesting insights on how humans "behave" vs agents.

In case anyone is interested, here is a paper on how they implement this.

https://arxiv.org/html/2504.10035v2

Sure? The website points to an article in Nature with different authors. They seem to refer to the people from Tübingen, though.

How is this supposed to improve productivity? I'm still struggling with the framing of the business productivity gained from this?

I will say that I feel for the folks who work at Meta...I can't help but to feel they have long jumped the shark.

I commend Apple for hiring someone internally...someone who climbed up the ranks and understands the DNA of the company.

Also think it's cool that John Ternus has only a bachelor's degree with a very down to earth presence. I completely dig his LI page being really bare bones.

I suspect Apple is about to experience another Renaissance era...

> only a bachelor's degree

That people are still judging someone by their school performance (or, less charitably but how I experienced the difference between "poor" and "good" students in about half of the cases: their willingness to deal with arbitrarily set requirements) after being in the workforce for this long says a lot about society. I'm not sure it's a factor when one is comparing devices in a store, which ultimately is what they created right? Shouldn't we judge them by their work?

Also considering this is HN

> Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture

I assume they mean "good that Apple's new CEO doesn't have an MBA".

Plus his degree is in mechanical engineering. I wonder how he climbed up the ranks of hardware engineering with a degree in mechanical engineering. Quite amazing.

> I wonder how he climbed up the ranks of hardware engineering with a degree in mechanical engineering. Quite amazing.

Given the level of mathematics I’ve seen involved in hardware, I’d assume the average mech eng. has a better chance than the average software eng.

What would mathematics have to do with internal company politics, a soft/people skill demanding job?

People skills are primarily learned through observation, interaction, and modeling the behavior of others who have already have cultivated social skills. You know, from being around and interacting with people. It's not like studying a certain discipline, such a mathematics, forbids you from ever cultivating these abilities.

Mech E. on the other hand, is perhaps the broadest engineering discipline in terms of foundational principles, application variety, and transferable skills. So shouldn't be all that surprising when it comes to hardware engineering.

What an odd article and release statement. It’s almost as if they’re signaling w-out literally signaling the parties of interest.

Surprised the doj didn’t issue any gag orders.

One gets the impression that this was an artfully crafted way around the specifics of the gag order, to disclose whatever wasn't specifically prohibited by it. IANAL.

To make things worse, the neighborhood crack heads have discovered that the charging cables can bring in some decent money.

Neighborhoods are having problems with theft, and from what I've been told, those charging cables aren't exactly cheap to constantly replace.

In Europe we bring the cable to AC chargers. DC cables are stolen once in a while but it’s a lot more rare, it’s not that much copper in them now that they are liquid cooled.

Unfortunate, an opportunity to further enlighten others, but the author took a dismissive and antagonistic perspective.

I enjoyed this blog...not so much about the topic regarding legos or even YouTube. I appreciated the way the owner used analytics to quickly better understand his demographics and did some very high-level marketing/product analytics.

I really appreciated this blog.

I walked away with a lot more insight (no pun intended) on what is being considered as leading now of days. I admittedly started to become numb when it started to feel like a race to the bottom on who has the biggest pockets and largest datasets.

Absolutely...between this and Twitter, I think I'm going to put the old classic Xmas movie on repeat and go enjoy nature with the family.

Tend not to parse all the generated content for meaning. Back into the analog, happy time!