Pretty much every sportsperson who wears a helmet is an athlete, no?
It's not the golfers or bowlers who are wearing helmets. It's the American football and ice hockey players. Even F1 drivers need to be in top athletic condition.
As a general rule not all sportspeople are athletes, but for this article "athlete" does feel like the more natural word.
5.5% is still historically reasonable. Look at what rates were in the 70s and 80s. The issue is so many people got used to the ridiculously low rates over the last 10 or so years.
- iOS keyboard autocomplete using LLMs. I am bilingual and noticed in the latest iOS it now does multi-language autocomplete and you no longer have to manually switch languages.
- Event detection for Calendar
- Depth Fusion in the iOS camera app, using ML to take crisper photos
- Probably others...
The crazy thing is most/all of these run on the device.
I just wish you could turn the multilingual keyboard off—I find that I usually only type in one language at a time and having the autocomplete recommend the wrong languages is quite frustrating
That's true, I have found that mildly annoying sometimes. But most of the time it's a win. It was really annoying manually switching modes over and over when typing in mixed-language, which I do fairly often. It'd be great if there was a setting though.
I had the opposite problem, the languages I usually typed in(Romanian + English) didn't have a multi language mode on iOS. So it was a constant pain to switch btw them when I needed to insert some English terms in Romanian sentences. IOS didn't support multi language for this language pair. On Android it always worked like a charm.
Hey I'm Romanian, too. The latest iOS does what you want -- it has multi-language support and typing mixed English + Romanian is seamless now. Yeah it was a total pain to keep switching languages before iOS 17.
To be honest I distrust Microsoft with swift key, but the it recognizes the change in language just smooth. I could switch languages in one sentence and it would understand what I am writing just fine, no Sill suggestions
Apple recommending wrong words when you write in mixed-language was the case in iOS 15, so much I always needed to manually change my keyboard language. But it’s no more in iOS 17. As an example I just typed this entire comment in Turkish keyboard with English autocorrect and suggestions working.
Maybe the (most likely) AI-based thing requires some training though. I got my new iPhone a month or so ago.
SwiftKey is great and if someone distrusts Microsoft for it...then fine, but various different companies "control" various different parts of my phone.
With an iPhone, it's only one company, that controls every little thing, and we have no insight into Apple at all. They can basically do whatever the hell they want.
Yeah face id is pretty good, no android phones seem to use the ir dot camera which makes me think Apple has a "patent" on it
...lame considering the dot projector is ripped straight out of kinekt.
Google does the memory photo thing too, but only if you use their app which I don't.
Android has had multi language keyboard support for the longest time, in addition to being able to install whatever keyboard I like (I use SwiftKey, it's brilliant) I can also install an llm based one as I please.
Android/my keyboard already does event detection/suggestion in text and has been doing for as long as I remember.
None of these are reasons to buy an iPhone...just reasons to buy a phone, lmao.
But that doesn't matter. Cars are supposed to be able to make it through some difficult situations without being totaled. I drive over steep driveways at least once a year where my car scrapes the pavement. This sort of thing is to be expected. I can't think of anything I could run over that would total any petroleum powered car besides an actual cliff that would cause more damage than the vehicle is worth.
Agreed. Writing a reference is not just a matter of respect for the author who put in the work, but also a matter of material importance, as the practice can help both the author and the reader.
For the author, a reference to their original work can help the rest of their work (such as their website) become better-known. Their corpus of work (whether a book series or a website) can be a source of income. In this case, it appears that the author is able to use his blog to gain clients for his company—he describes his background, clientele, and company below the article, and includes a method of contact via the menu.
For the reader, a reference to the source material helps them find similar content by the author that may be relevant and interesting, as well as possibly a way to subscribe to notifications for future work released by the author.
Though online discussions don't require linked references—unlike more formal environments such as in academia or in ethical journalism—it's a good habit to link to references whenever possible (especially when quoting word-by-word): it can only help both the author and the reader.
If they were just developing software that would be way too many, sure.
But if you count streetview car drivers trying to drive every street in the entire world every few years, people manually moderating crowdsourced contributions, people updating the map for all new construction worldwide, people working to maintain business listings for every business with a physical location (including those without much web presence), people dealing with adversaries who want to list their fake '24 hour emergency locksmith' all over every city, people parsing train and bus timetables in every city worldwide no matter how awful their websites are, an advertising sales team specifically targeting smaller businesses who are interested in local advertising...
Nokia Maps (I used to work there) when they acquired Navteq back in 2006 or so was something like 7000 people or so, most of them in Navteq. Navteq had employees and people in most countries in the world to be able to gather mapping data and work with local authorities. It's now called Here and they still have 9000 employees or so (in 2019 according to wikipedia). That's after years of decline and layoffs.
The Navteq acquisition is what prompted Google to create their own maps. They were licensing Teleatlas (now Tom Tom) and Navteq maps before that. Apple made the same move a few years later. I think Steve Jobs was still around. I bet Apple has a few thousand people working on this topic as well.
That's just what it takes to build and maintain a world map and assorted geospatial technologies, datasets, etc.
