I’ve been reading a lot this week. Not the usual shower of shit. Twitter lists, Facebook drama, clickbait on the Apple News reader. Nope. I got me the new Stephen King and I am, of course, loving it. My Netflix stack o’ shame grows every day while I progress through Holly, the King’s latest horror/crime mash up.
Mostly crime but. There’s no supernatural element to the story in Holly. The book follows on from his previous crime outings Mr Mercedes, Finders Keepers, End of Watch and The Outsider.
GPT-4o hot take:
• The speech synthesis is terrific, reminds me of Google Duplex (which never took off).
but
• If OpenAI had GPT-5, they have would shown it.
• They don’t have GPT-5 after 14 months of trying.
• The most important figure in the blogpost is attached below. And the most important thing about the figure is that 4o is not a lot different from Turbo, which is not hugely different from 4.
Reader Josie M. asks:
I started a new job and I need to talk to LOTS of new people. These are coworkers I want to bond with, but I’m having trouble connecting, especially since most conversations are short. I don’t want to come off as too intense, or ask intrusive questions - but, when I stick to small talk, it gets boring quick. Is there an easy way to quickly connect?
Summary: Jakob Nielsen’s 10 usability heuristics were defined from a factor analysis of the use of a much larger set of usability principles to explain a database of usability problems in development projects. The 10 heuristics in the final list from 1994 had the greatest explanatory power in this analysis, which is why they are still useful today.
2024 marks the 30-year anniversary of the 10 usability heuristics. (See the infographic at the end of this article for a summary of the heuristics, if you can’t recall them.
On the evening of Sunday, April 7, Baylor coach Scott Drew was sitting on an airplane in Phoenix, site of the Final Four, waiting to take off for home. He scrolled through Twitter on his phone and came across reports that Kentucky coach John Calipari was on the verge of becoming the new head coach at Arkansas. Just two days before, Drew had been counseling his former assistant, Jerome Tang, who just finished his second season at Kansas State, about whether he should take that same job.